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Comment Re:Fallout... (Score 1) 381

by pacergh (#34694572) Attached to: Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning?

Hogwash.

News organizations have a right to publish information. The government cannot chill free speech by declaring some things 'publishable' and other 'non-publishable.' The Supreme Court dealt with this in the Pentagon Papers case.

And how much legal trouble is Wikileaks in? No one with Wikileaks has been charged with a crime related to the disclosure of top secret information. Julian Assange's only charge is under some Swedish law for sexual misconduct of some kind. It has no legal relation to the Wikileaks disclosures. (Now, political relations are quite different than legal. Those charges may be a legal tool to reach a political end, but that's different than they being a legal tool based on the disclosures themselves.)

Compare with Bradley Manning. He is charged with espionage because he violated his oaths as a soldier and someone who deals with confidential, top-secret information. He cannot, legally, disclose this information. This is because of his relationship with the U.S. government — a relationship most U.S. citizens do not have. (I certainly don't have top secret clearance of any kind; I also don't have a duty to not disclose top secret information.)

Finally, how much trouble have these leaks really caused? Has anyone really learned anything they didn't know?

The saddest thing is the reaction from the U.S., the world champion of free speech, to someone's exercise of free speech.

Comment Look for Exchange Alternatives (Score 1) 222

by pacergh (#33978782) Attached to: Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office?

Some Exchange alternatives may work with ActiveSync. This opens up your options to Palm Pre, Android, and iPhone. They may also work with Blackberry Enterprise Server. (Novell may have a solution that runs on Linux.)

It has been a while since I've looked for these kinds of solutions. The one thing that has likely not changed, however, is the fact you'll have to pay for the connections between your computer/server and the phones.

Email is going to be the easiest solution. Calendaring will be the hardest.

You say you cannot use the cloud -- but can you use off-site management for anything? If so, use a hosted Exchange server or something of that kind.

If you are hosting everything yourself, then over the air syncing with your calendar may be accomplished with some WebDav solutions. I think Palm/HP's WebOS does CalDav; perhaps the iPhone and Android as well.

Finally, contacts are going to also be difficult. An Exchange replacement will work best for that as well.

Good luck!
Desktops (Apple)

'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th 349

Posted by samzenpus from the look-at-the-new-kitty dept.
Kildjean writes "Engadget reports that Apple has issued invitations for a special media event to be held next Wednesday, October 20th at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. The invitation for the event, which is to be held at the company's campus in Cupertino, California, carries the tagline 'Back to the Mac.' The invitation also contains an image of what appears to be a lion peeking out from behind the Apple logo, hinting at discussion of Mac OS X 10.7. 'Lion' has been one of the most commonly-suggested 'big cat' names for the next-generation operating system. Much of Apple's notebook line with the exception of the entry-level MacBook is due for a refresh, and Apple has refreshed at least a portion of its notebook line each October or November for the last several years. Apple's desktop offerings have all been updated relatively recently, suggesting that the company's media event may focus on notebooks if new hardware is included on the agenda."
Games

Submission + - EA Stock Takes a Plunge After MoH Reviews

Submitted by lbalbalba
lbalbalba writes: The Electronic Arts stock took a plunge of roughly 6% after the reviews for Medal of Honor were published yesterday. The stock was previously “inflated” the amount of hype that EA has been putting into the Medal of Honor series reboot, but none of that hype can make up for a mediocre game. While the game has received generally positive reviews across the boards, the scores don’t quite match up to the hype surrounding the game or our expectations.

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Earth

Submission + - VA AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues (thehill.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: A letter from Representative Edward Markey outlines Ken Cuccinelli's (Virginia Attorney General) latest civil investigative demand targeting 39 people instead of just Michael Mann. You may recall that the original investigation was quashed by a judge but the latest request demands records from people seemingly unrelated to Mann including an Indian glaciologist. Cuccinelli seems to be confused about the names of some of his own targets, demanding data from either Dr. Vincent GrEy or Dr. Vincent GrAy. The Bad Astronomer calls Cuccinelli out in a similar manner and lists Cuccinelli's doubts about Mann's papers saying 'Specifically, but without limitation, some of the conclusions of the papers demonstrate a complete lack of rigor regarding the statistical analysis of the alleged data, meaning that the result reported lacked statistical significance without a specific statement to that effect.' Mann responded by saying, 'I find it extremely disturbing that Mr. Cuccinelli has sought to continue to abuse his power as the attorney general of Virginia in this way, in the process smearing the University of Virginia and me and other climate scientists. The people of Virginia need to be extremely disturbed that he is using their tax dollars to pursue this partisan witch hunt.' The school that hosted the research announces the new investigation and the Union of Concerned Scientists accuses him of harrassing scientists.

Submission + - Newspaper Endorses Same Candidate It's Suing (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Remember Righthaven? The copyright troll owned by the owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal? You may remember, then, that Righthaven had sued Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting LVRJ stories on her site. At the same time, LVRJ has been having its execs talk about how copyright infringement is no different than garden variety theft. So... doesn't it seem a bit odd that the LVRJ is endorsing the very same candidate that it sued for such "theft"?
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Why virtual property is really about privacy (ssrn.com)

Submitted by pacergh
pacergh writes: A number of legal commentaries on virtual worlds argue that property laws should extend to the accounts, characters, and virtual stuff in these worlds. The rational is that these virtual resources are valuable and should be protected.

Yet none of these legal commentaries step out of the virtual world metaphor. Each pre-supposes that a property-centric view is the only way to look at these resources.

In a follow-up to The Virtual Property Problem, the article A Virtual Property Solution steps out of the property-metaphor for virtual worlds and examines them for what they are – playgrounds of the mind where harms are not visited upon a gamer’s waller, but rather on a gamer’s mind.

From the abstract, “Privacy laws can protect virtual worlds and their users where property law cannot.” The article goes on to argue that “[t]he very foundation of the virtual is the imagination of each individual player” and that “[v]iewing these harms through the lens of privacy will help lay a framework for the creation of future laws that will work alongside the imagination of the virtual rather than forcing themselves into a virtual world and destroying that world’s very value—the ability to pretend, to imagine, and to escape the real.”
United Kingdom

Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves 130

Posted by samzenpus from the card-catalog-of-the-gods dept.
Oxford University's Bodleian Library has purchased a huge £26m warehouse to give a proper home to over 6 million books and 1.2 million maps. The Library has been housing the collection in a salt mine, and plans on transferring the manuscripts over the next year. "The BSF will prove a long-awaited solution to the space problem that has long challenged the Bodleian," said its head librarian Dr Sarah Thomas. "We have been running out of space since the 1970s and the situation has become increasingly desperate in the last few years." The 153 miles of new shelf space will only be enough for the next 20 years however because of the library's historic entitlement to a copy of every volume published in the UK.

Submission + - U. S. Healthcare Industry Claims Debunked (reuters.com) 1

Submitted by Rambo Tribble
Rambo Tribble writes: We've all heard the claim that the U. S. healthcare system is "the best in the world". While mortality statistics have called that claim into question many times, the industry has countered that factors such as obesity and smoking accounted for the statistical results. Now, a study at Columbia University has put the lie to the healthcare industry's defenses.
Apple

Submission + - Apple TV Review 1

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: After two years of radio silence, Apple has completely redesigned its "hobby" product and the result is a more feature-driven, streamlined Apple TV. The hard drive is gone, along with the bulky design and the hefty price tag. The new Apple TV costs only $99 direct, offers 99-cent television show rentals, has integrated Netflix and streams content not only from your computer's media library, but from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch via AirPlay. Measuring 0.9 by 3.9 by 3.9 inches (HWD) and weighing less-than 10 ounces, the new Apple TV is considerably smaller— about 75 percent. The connections on the back are minimal and include an HDMI video and audio output, an optical audio output, a micro-USB port (for "service and support"), an Ethernet port, and the cable connection for the built-in six-watt power supply. Inside, the Apple TV is powered by the usual A4 chip. The box can stream over any 802.11b, g, or n Wi-Fi signal, and requires iTunes 10 or later to stream from a computer. File support is fairly typical for an Apple product, it can handle HE-AAC (for streaming audio), AAC, MP3, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV for audio; JPEG, GIF, and TIFF for photos; and H.264 (up to 720p30), MPEG-4, and Motion JPEG for video. Dolby Digital 5.1 surround pass-through is also supported. The highest playback resolution offered is 720p for both movies and TV shows. The upcoming Boxee Box and Google TV, and even the already-released Roku XDS have their work cut out for them.
Games

Submission + - Ultima IV recreated in Flash for online play (phipsisoftware.com)

Submitted by snarfies
snarfies writes: Despite the fact that Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software recently declared that Ultima IV is a terrible game, Phi Psi Software has ported this classic to Flash for online play. The original game data has been completely transferred into XML making the game almost completely data driven, and progress can be saved in your browser.

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