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C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet 235

Posted by CowboyNeal from the taking-some-heat dept.
sgt_doom writes "The C.I.A. announced it was going to reveal "skeletons" by declassifying hundreds of pages of documents detailing illegal abuses over the years. As a preamble, the National Security Archive at George Washington University released a separate set of documents covering internal government deliberations of the abuses from January 1975. Mandatory reading for all those history-challenged individuals who believe government knows best!"
Debian

Submission + - Red Hat cluster suite in Debian 4.0 Etch (techforce.com.br)

Submitted by
Andre Felipe Machado
Andre Felipe Machado writes: "The Red Hat cluster suite packages in Debian 4.0 Etch are partially broken.

See how to patch them to get your cluster up and running.

I presume you are an experienced system administrator if you are going to get a high availability cluster running.

Red Hat cluster suite is intended for High Availability clustering, and load balancing of virtual servers.

Read about some obscure and silent quirks, freezes and data corruptions when you push your hardware and network to their limits under heavy loads.

Learn about their work arounds to avoid them, resulting from real hands on experience.

http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_b log/red_hat_cluster_suite_debian_etch"
Your Rights Online

ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages 434

Posted by CmdrTaco from the now-thats-just-slimey dept.
TheWoozle writes "Some ISPs are resorting to a new tactic to increase revenue: inserting advertisements into web pages requested by their end users. They use a transparent web proxy (such as this one) to insert javascript and/or HTML with the ads into pages returned to users. Neither the content providers nor the end-users have been notified that this is taking place, and I'm sure that they weren't asked for permission either."
The Internet

Submission + - Driving on fumes? ... How far?

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "How far can you drive after the the fuel-tank warning light has come on? The question has dogged car owners since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Now a new crowdsourcing Web site hopes to harness the input — as well as the courage — of the masses to get a good answer for every make and model.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1663 2"
The Internet

EU Broadens Probe of Search Engines and Privacy 35

Posted by kdawson from the 30-year-cookies-need-preservatives dept.
Raver32 sends in word of a PC World article reporting that EU officials are looking beyond Google in their examination of the impact search engines have on privacy. Quoting: "A panel of European data protection officials called the Article 29 Working Group decided Wednesday to request information from Google's rivals amid concerns that search engines are holding onto information about the people who use them for too long, Hustinx said. Hustinx... declined to name the companies. However, they are believed to include Yahoo Inc., Lycos Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live.com."
Robotics

Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers 409

Posted by kdawson from the beats-getting-offshored dept.
Vicissidude sends us to Wired for a look at a fruit-harvesting robot being developed in California. Its development has been funded entirely by agricultural associations, concerned by the uncertainty surrounding migrant immigrant labor. Quoting: "As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it. Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit from the trees. In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season."
The Media

Submission + - James Lileks on Videogame Addiction (instapundit.com)

Submitted by YIAAL
YIAAL writes: We're hearing more talk about videogame addiction again, but Star-Tribune columnist James Lileks isn't having any of it: "If everyone who was addicted to games spent six hours in front of the TV every night, what would we call them? Right: normal. . . . Every kid has a misfit stage, unless they're a pearly-toothed Class President type. Every kid spends some time in a fantasy world. In the 50s they worried terribly about comic books, and the effect they had on tender minds; kids were getting hooked on the gore and horror. It's always something. The difference today: we develop names and syndromes and diagnoses, which somehow makes basic human behavior seem like a mechanism we can fine-tune back to perfection." How about less social-engineering and more leaving people alone?
Biotech

Submission + - Sex in the MRI (scienceblogs.com) 1

Submitted by ferespo
ferespo writes: The paper is all about visualizing the arrangement of organs during coitus. People have tried to figure out how the pieces all fit together internally using cadavers and their imagination, by using a speculum and poking around with their fingers, and by clever tools, like hollow glass tubes shaped like a penis. This paper tries something different: the investigators had people have sex in an MRI tube, and snapped a few pictures while they were at it.
Portables

Submission + - OLPC's trickle-down effect (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
Diomidis Spinellis
Diomidis Spinellis writes: "PCPRO runs a story regarding the $189 laptop that Asus revealed at the Computex 2007 trade show. The laptop, in common with the hardware of the one laptop per child initiative, uses solid state memory for storage and runs Linux. It weights 900g (2 lb) and measures 120 * 100 * 30mm (4.7 * 4 * 1.2"). I'm currently using an actual OLPC for localization work and experiments with educational applications, and I was dreaming being able to buy similar machines to use as cheap and cheerful terminals around the house. With Quanta having made a similar product announcement it seems that the Star Trek nirvana of a computer in every room can become an affordable reality."
Privacy

Submission + - Google Street View sparks privacy concerns (lawbean.com)

Submitted by
Spamicles
Spamicles writes: "Google launched its new Street View feature this week for Google Maps. This new map feature offers panoramic views at street level. Street View was launched in Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, and Google touts the benefits of easily finding places and understanding neighborhoods. Blogs and Internet sites such as Wired and Streetviewr are full of images from Street View revealing people in potentially embarrassing positions: Stanford University coeds sunbathing in bikinis, men leaving strip clubs, a woman bent over exposing her thong, a man picking his nose. These candid photos highlight a growing concern over privacy issues surrounding this new service."

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