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Submission + - Twitter hacked by "iranian cyber army" (wordpress.com)

Submitted by kaulike
kaulike writes: http://twitter.com/ and several other sites are being hacked tonight by "iranian cyber army", who have posted a message there that reads in broken engrish something along these lines:
"U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples"
(thanks to one of the commenters on techcrunch for the translation). More on the situation as it... fizzles out, like all other hacks of major sites.
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The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture 278

Posted by Soulskill from the sanity-optional dept.
An anonymous reader writes "James Boyle, professor at Duke Law School, has a piece in the Financial Times in which he argues that a 'copyright black hole is swallowing our culture.' He explains some of the issues surrounding Google Books, and makes the point that these issues wouldn't exist if we had a sane copyright law. Relatedly, in recent statements to the still-skeptical European Commission, Google has defended their book database by saying that it helps to make the Internet democratic. Others have noted that the database could negatively affect some researchers for whom a book's subject matter isn't always why they read it."

The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop 555

Posted by CmdrTaco from the look-what-i-can-do dept.
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton's essay this week is about "A Tennessee man is arrested for possessing a picture of Miley Cyrus's face superimposed on a nude woman's body. In a survey that I posted on the Web, a majority of respondents said the man violated the law -- except for respondents who say they were good at math in school, who as a group answered the survey differently from everyone else." Continue on to see how.

Comment Re:People just don't understand Linux (Score 1) 833

by kaulike (#27553627) Attached to: Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story

It's not features, it's workflow. Seriously. I can get more done with photoshop 7 than with a with a current spanky version of gimp simply because my fingers know what they are doing and the UI provides no surprises. Workflow is the king behind what people refer to as "features".

Can my fingers learn a new game? Sure. But it is harder to learn a similar game than one that is truly new, and there must be motivation present. It's a mental game, not a technical one. Putting the responsibility on me as a user to resolve workflow issues is what keeps Linux in the Desktop doghouse.

FWIW, yes, I still use Photoshop 7. t is one of 3 remaining windows apps that bind me to a dual-boot system. I use Gimp when I can, but in a pinch, it is often faster for me to boot into windows and Just Do It. I am willing to go the extra mile to learn a new interface, but not to sacrifice productivity if it is necessary for my job.

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