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Submission + - Paypal Remains Online Despite Explosion

Submitted by

feamsr00

on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @11:21AM

feamsr00 writes: "from Netcraft: An explosion at online payment processor Paypal caused property damage, but resulted in no injuries. The company's web site, one of the Internet's busiest e-commerce sites, remained online throughout the incident.

The explosion Tuesday night at Paypal's network operations center in San Jose shattered a window and forced the evacuation of 26 employees, according to local media reports. Law enforcement officials said they "have suspicions" about what may have caused the blast, but did not detail them. The investigation team included members of the local police bomb squad."

Submission + - Classified Wiki for U.S. Intelligence Community

Submitted by CortoMaltese on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @08:05AM

CortoMaltese writes: The U.S. intelligence community has unveiled their own classified wiki, the Intellipedia. From the Reuters article:

The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web.

A "top secret" Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for "secret" and "sensitive but unclassified" material.

Intellipedia uses MediaWiki as the wiki engine. Wikipedia also has a page on Intellipedia.

Submission + - Dual booting cellphones

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @08:04AM

An anonymous reader writes: DoCoMo has published the first revision of its OSTI (open and secure terminal initiative) specification, allowing for the dual booting of operating systems on handsets. telecoms.com has the story [reg.req.]. "The platform uses a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) to allow one domain to run in the background and the other to run in the foreground, while allowing instant switching between the two." Each domain could be installed with a different OS. Looks like it may only run on Intel hardware though.

Submission + - E-Voting machines suspect in early Florida poll

Submitted by

QuatermassX

on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @07:23AM

QuatermassX writes: "With less than a week to go until elections in the United States, it seems like electronic voting machine weirdness is already afoot in Florida according to the Miami Herald. Is this the canary in the coal mine we all need to prevent chaos on Election Day — or is it inevitable at this point?

From the article: Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot — essentially, to realign the video screen with the electronics inside. The 15-step process is outlined in the poll-workers manual.

I take it these 'poll workers' who 'correct' faulty machines are trained and explicitly non-partisan technicians? Or not."

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