Comment Re:OSS Textbooks kick serious... (Score 3, Informative) 226
You obviously don't live in Indiana where we have to pay a book rental fee. $73 for my first grader, and rising prices as you get older.
Submission + - uk iphone to cost £269 / $540
ken-doh writes: why does the US get everything cheap — why why why do we get ripped off all the time
dammit
Submission + - Google is introducing Pay Par Action Ads -- beta
DemoFish writes: ... And they are likely to become a new spamming technique. These ads will show up as normal links on a website and the only way to identify them will be to look at the anchor title by holding your mouse over them for a few seconds.
So much to the "Do no evil" motto...
Submission + - Microsoft patents tech to lock down DRM-free music (infoworld.com)
InfoWorldMike writes: "Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without DRM protection. The technology, called "stealthy audio watermarking," inserts and detects watermarks in audio signals that can identify the content producer, "providing a signature that is embedded in the audio signal and cannot be removed," according to a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trade Organization (USPTO). Microsoft declined to comment on how it plans to use the watermark technology it has patented. However, Microsoft Research already has licensed similar yet non-forensic watermarking technology to a company called Activated Content, which is using the technology to insert and extract non-secure data into audio files."
Submission + - German BundesTrojan on the move.
nachtkap writes: A lot of conservative politicians have been going nuts since the terrorist cell was busted last week in Germany. They have been trying to 'explain' the merits of the so nicknamed 'Bundestrojan' to the public. The ZDF (2nd German Television) hosted a short discussion last sunday (Google translation) with left leaning Jürgen Trittin from the German Green Party and the conservative Wolfgang Bosbach from the Christian Social Union.
The conservative demonstrated a serious lack of understanding, for what is and what is not possible with a Trojan or data in general.
Tritin: "We are today in a situation, where the search in the end — in the sense of the execution — can't be controlled anymore."
Bosbach: That is simply wrong. Every time the forensic software (read: Bundestrojan) is employed a protocol is created. It can be exactly traced back what data was accessed. The data itself can not be manipulated, because the use of malware is explicitly forbidden.
I find his ignorance and the fact that to ordinary people he sounds like he knows what he is talking about disturbing.
The conservative demonstrated a serious lack of understanding, for what is and what is not possible with a Trojan or data in general.
Tritin: "We are today in a situation, where the search in the end — in the sense of the execution — can't be controlled anymore."
Bosbach: That is simply wrong. Every time the forensic software (read: Bundestrojan) is employed a protocol is created. It can be exactly traced back what data was accessed. The data itself can not be manipulated, because the use of malware is explicitly forbidden.
I find his ignorance and the fact that to ordinary people he sounds like he knows what he is talking about disturbing.
Submission + - Computers stolen from Romney's Campaign HQ
snowpunter writes: "The campaign headquarters of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney were burglarized earlier today. From the AP release: "Several laptops and a TV were stolen," said campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. "All the computers are password-enabled and the hard drives are encrypted. The only thing they're good for is parts."
How many other politicos are technically savvy enough to have thought ahead about stolen laptops?"
How many other politicos are technically savvy enough to have thought ahead about stolen laptops?"
Submission + - New 1 TB PCs can store 16 days of DVD-quality porn
An anonymous reader writes: Starting today, Dell and Alienware customers purchasing select XPSTM , AuroraTM and Area 51 gaming desktop computers can super-size their storage space by adding the world's first consumer one terabyte ( TB ) hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
The hard drive of terabyte capacity provides enough space to store an incredible amount of data such as a million photos, a million minutes of music or 16 days of DVD quality video (which COULD be porn)!
The hard drive of terabyte capacity provides enough space to store an incredible amount of data such as a million photos, a million minutes of music or 16 days of DVD quality video (which COULD be porn)!
Submission + - Buy a zero-G flight with Stephen Hawking
invader_allan writes: A charitable organization, starlight starbright, will be receiving the proceeds from an auction to accompany
Stephen Hawking on his zero-G flight. From the auction:
"You and a guest can fly weightless with Prof. Stephen Hawking on The ZERO-G Experience(TM)! The flight will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida on April 26, 2007. The package will also include a three night stay at the JW Marriott Hotel Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida, from April 24-April 27!"
