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Submission + - Mapping Deceptive Systems (sciencenews.org)

Submitted by cedarhillbilly
cedarhillbilly writes: CMI researchers have mapped the networks of email contacts in 6 Enron projects to show that projects that were based on deception were hub-spoke networks and legitimate projects were more cloudlike 'webs'. Probably a bigger breakthru for network science than for social scientists who work with groups and organizations, but a nice mathematical 'indicator' of when a system is behaving badly. Predictive? Still need to develop markers to give an early warning rather than a post mortem.
Government

Submission + - Microsoft in DC, lessons learned (politico.com)

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cedarhillbilly
cedarhillbilly writes: "Michael Kinsley writes in Politico about Microsoft's introduction to the wacky world of DC. Lessons to be learned. Kinsley writes: "As the Microsoft example suggests, the Washington culture of influence peddling is not entirely, or even primarily, the fault of the corporations that hire the lobbyists and pay the bills. It’s a vast protection racket, practiced by politicians and political operatives of both parties. Nice little software company you’ve got here. Too bad if we have to regulate it or if Big Government programs force us to raise its taxes. Your archrival just wrote a big check to the Washington Bureaucrats Benevolent Society. Are you sure you wouldn’t like to do the same?""
Linux

Submission + - Linux development to get high availability push (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: The Linux Foundation has formed a new working group to speed development within the Linux ecosystem that would make the operating system kernel more suitable for building high-availability (HA) systems, the Foundation announced Wednesday. The High Availability Working Group will define a software stack for running Linux in clustered, mission-critical environments. It will also prioritize development work that still needs to be done, based on feedback from developers, vendors and customers. Engineers from Novell, Oracle and Red Hat, among other companies, will participate in the working group, as well as leaders from Linux distributions such as Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu.

Submission + - Nokia Confirms Symbian is No Longer Open Source (h-online.com) 1

Submitted by theweatherelectric
theweatherelectric writes: The H reports that Nokia has confirmed that Symbian will no longer be open source. They write, 'Nokia has confirmed that it has closed the source code for the Symbian smartphone operating system. It says that despite it describing its new model for Symbian smartphone operating system development as "open and direct" the "open" part did not refer to "open source" but to being "open for business". The "open and direct" model is designed, according to Nokia, to "enable us to continue working with the remaining Japanese OEMs and the relatively small community of platform development collaborators we are already working with".'

Submission + - Elderly Georgian woman cuts Armenian internet (guardian.co.uk)

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welcher
welcher writes: "An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper with a spade when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to nearly all of neighbouring Armenia.

The fibre-optic cable near Tiblisi, Georgia, supplies about 90% of Armenia's internet so the woman's unwitting sabotage had catastrophic consequences. Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours. Large parts of Georgia and some areas of Azerbaijan were also affected.

Dubbed "the spade-hacker" by local media, the woman is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property. She faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted."
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony (ibtimes.com) 1

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon.

The attack is revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3. Sony Computer Entertainment America filed suit against George Hotz, also known as Geohot. Hotz had released a firmware modification that allowed a Sony PlayStation 3 to run other operating systems. Sony had removed that functionality some months before. The suit is still pending.
Google

Submission + - Can The U.S. Government Keep Up With Google? (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "It's safe to say that Google has achieved a place of dominance in the tech industry that Microsoft held in the late 1990s — and, like Microsoft, may soon face investigation on anti-trust charges from the U.S. government. The rumors have been swirling for a while, but investors seem to be giving them new credence, with shares plummeting yesterday — although the Obama administration may be holding off because it fears being tarred as anti-business. Meanwhile, newly anointed CEO Larry Page wants to move faster and make big things happen."

Submission + - The Next Wave? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by cedarhillbilly
cedarhillbilly writes: From my perspective as a non-developer, Matt Asay consistently delivers way more insight into the emerging digital culture than anyone I customarily read. Today's essay in the Register takes on Google Wave from the perspective of visionary change versus incremental change and suggests that visionaries should be transforming the todayness of our lives rather than leapfrogging. Wondering if Google sensed this when they famously said they were worried about having too many geniuses http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/google_hiring_practrices/ Asay re-makes the point that the open source development model necessarily builds on a community of contributors and users and not the mad scientist in an ivory tower.
Wikipedia

Submission + - it's there but you can't see it

Submitted by cedarhillbilly
cedarhillbilly writes: Wikipedia is featuring a story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_henge_at_Stonehenge on a new neolithic wooden henge identified by ground scanning radar and magnetometers adjacent to the more obvious (big stones in the ground) Stonehenge. Scientists are reporting this find in July 2010. Wikipedia cites a press release, a BBC article and an article in the Guardian. Wait, is Wikipedia almost breaking news?

Comment who wouldn't want that... (Score 1) 197

by cedarhillbilly (#32474126) Attached to: OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids
The Ohio Senate has not succumbed to the stupidity pandemic sweeping the state. This is a conscious strategy to avoid voting the apportionment reform bill. "In the last few elections, an almost equal number of voters statewide voted for Republicans and Democrats. Yet our state Senate has a 2-1 Republican tilt. And that enables them to rush through legislation prior to recessing banning the development of human/animal hybrids — a problem that, you know, doesn't actually EXIST in Ohio right now." Anastasia Pantsios in Ohio Daily Blog http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/

Submission + - Demythologizing ACTA (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by cedarhillbilly
cedarhillbilly writes: Andrew Orlowski's article "Lizard People drop ACTA draft from Black Helicopter" in The Register is a nice response to the ACTA paranoia. Most importantly, Orlowski presents a tutorial on 'the real world' of public decision making. On conspiracies, Orlowski notes: "The problem with this sub-adolescent view of the world, is that in the end, it really does leave you powerless." Check out the article, then get engaged.

Submission + - chaos in multiprocessor computers? (sciencedaily.com) 2

Submitted by cedarhillbilly
cedarhillbilly writes: Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command, you should get back the same result.

Maybe this why OpenSUSE periodically detects a new monitor on my laptop which runs a dualCore processor?
Censorship

Submission + - China Warns Google: Obey or Leave (google.com) 3

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking.

"If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences," Li Yizhong, the minister of Industry and Information Technology, said on the sidelines of China's annual legislature.

"Whether they leave or not is up to them," Li said. "But if they leave, China's Internet market is still going to develop."

Li insisted the government needs to censor Internet content to protect the rights of the country and its people. "If there is information that harms stability or the people, of course we will have to block it," he said.

AP: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKrY51vO2V86xiICf35Q05J0FIEAD9ED1NF80

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