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Comment Still at it... (Score 2, Interesting) 160

by gm0e on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @02:01PM (#23406706) Attached to: MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace

This guy supposedly turned over a new leaf years ago when he opened a sketchy dance club near my school, U. of New Hampshire. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/10/60714

Before UNH caught on, the school's entire email directory was publicly accessible. Obviously the work of Wallace, there were a bunch of spam emails poorly disguised to look like some girl's conversation about the club that she mistakenly forwarded to the whole school.

Submission + - Wall Street funding Spyware?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29, 2007 @10:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: This past Wednesday, ComScore raised $82 million in an IPO that jumped 42% in its first day of trading. Some investors clearly like ComScore's business, but I wonder whether they fully understand ComScore's business model, privacy implications, and poor track record of nonconsensual installations.

The privacy policy for ComScore's RelevantKnowledge tracking program purports to grant ComScore the right to track users' name and address, browsing, shopping, and even "online accounts ... includ[ing] personal financial [and] health information." ComScore pays independent distributors to install ComScore software onto users' computers. Predictably, some of these distributors install ComScore software without getting user consent.

Submission + - AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Conte

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @09:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: The LA Times reports that AT&T has announced plans to work with the Hollywood movie studios and major recording labels to implement new content filtering systems on their network. The plans raise many troubling legal issues including privacy concerns, false positive filtering, and liability for failure to filter.

Submission + - Engineer Discovers 'Thermal Noise' Encryption (pcworld.com)

Submitted by

techitout

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @02:17PM

techitout writes: "PC World ran an article that Laszlo Kish of Texas A&M University devised a way to encrypt messages using the natural noise caused by electrons flowing along a wire. When data is sent intermittently (using a $100 device), it can be camouflaged by this 'thermal noise.' To snoopers eavesdropping on the line, it just appears that the thermal noise level varies randomly. It has an edge over another proposed encryption solution, quantum key distribution (QKD) technology, with a lower cost, a 99.98 percent message reception accuracy, and 2,000 km delivery distance."

Submission + - Dell PCs with Ubuntu are Less Expensive

Submitted by

Chandon Seldon

on Thursday May 24, 2007 @09:07PM

Chandon Seldon writes: "Contrary to many earlier expectations, it turns out that Dell's prices for its Ubuntu PCs are cheaper than similar Windows Vista PCs for all three Models. With the savings for skipping the Microsoft Tax ranging from $50 to $140, it looks like kickbacks for pre-installed software weren't that big a deal after all."

Submission + - 5 Tips to defend against SSH Brute-force attacks

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @10:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Security-Hacks blog has published 5 tips to defend against SSH brute-force attacks. They list configuration options as well as a list of automated anti brute-force utilities. The tips are intended as an aid for all Linux users.

Submission + - Implications of Peak Oil for Atmo CO2 and Climate

Submitted by

Prof. Goose

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @11:24AM

Prof. Goose writes: "James Hansen is a physicist, adjunct professor: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and director: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science. Outside the scientific community Hansen is probably best known for accusing the Bush administration of trying to silence him after he gave a lecture in December 2005 calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

In this paper Hansen and Kharecha consider "realistic" (they use EIA data) reserves for oil and gas and conclude that due to approaching peaks it is feasible to keep atmospheric CO2 from exceeding approximately 450ppm as long as coal and unconventional fossil fuels are used responsibly. This article is a discussion of their findings.

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2559"

Submission + - Checkers has been Solved

Submitted by

r55man

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @12:23AM

r55man writes: "The Chinook project recently announced that checkers has been solved. Perfect play from both sides results in a draw. From their website:

On May 8, 2007, we were pleased to announce that checkers is now solved. From the standard starting position, Black (who moves first) is guaranteed a draw with perfect play. White (moving second) is also guaranteed a draw, regardless of what Black plays as the opening move. Checkers is the largest game that has been solved to date.
"

Submission + - Mobile phone call made from Everest

Submitted by

Chris Paton

on Monday May 21, 2007 @11:38PM

Chris Paton writes: "The BBC reports that a British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. The climber also claimed the record for sending the highest text message. The article goes on to say that the call and SMS were made possible by a base station set up by the Chinese, talking to a regular Motorola handset (albeit with the batteries strapped to the climber to keep them warm). With mobile phone coverage now available on Everest, is there anywhere that we are free from the seemingly unstoppable march of the mobile telephone?"

Submission + - SPAM: Cure for Hepatitis C announced!

Submitted by

FiReaNGeL

on Monday May 21, 2007 @08:30PM

FiReaNGeL writes: "The use of peginterferon alone, or in combination with ribavirin, points to a cure for hepatitis C, the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer and the need for liver transplant, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher said today. Nearly all — 99 percent — of patients with hepatitis C who were treated successfully with peginterferon alone, or in combination with ribavirin, had no detectable virus up to seven years later. Researchers say this data validates the use of the word "cure" when describing hepatitis C treatment as successful treatment is defined as having undetectable hepatitis C virus in the blood six months following treatment."

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