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High School Student Cracks $84M Porn FIlter 1

Submitted by kylus on Friday August 24 2007, @07:38PM

kylus writes "According to news.com, a 16 year old high school student cracked the Australian government's new porn filter. It apparently took only about 40 minutes for the student to crack the $84M filtering system. Just goes to show nothing will stop teenagers in the quest for porn!"

Should IT automate programmers out of work 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2007, @04:36PM

An anonymous reader writes "I just finished reading an article about how automation software can be used by non-programmers to create and maintain rich Web applications without the need for hiring central IT software developers. Apparently, to my shagrin, this is becoming a popular strategy to lower IT development costs, along with moving jobs out of the US to cheaper labor in India. Does anyone have any experience with being automated out of a job and should this be a major goal for our culture?"

Blizzard Sued for Illegal Font Use-> 0

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eldavojohn

on Friday August 24 2007, @02:36PM

eldavojohn writes "Blizzard is being sued for illegal use of Chinese fonts in the Chinese version of World of Warcraft. The Chinese company (Founder Group) is seeking $13.2 million in damages."
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Impossible is Possible - Classic Shooters on Apple-> 0

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a_skripko

on Monday August 13 2007, @05:37PM

a_skripko writes "Idea, of course, is very good, but how we will strafe on iPhone, or how we will do roket-jumps and many other things? For me, Apple iPhone mostly suits for logic games and strategies. And every game, that demands hand-job, leave to desktop computers."
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Thieves in U.K. steal police data server-> 0

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mytrip

on Monday August 13 2007, @05:22PM

mytrip writes "One of the private companies that helps police use mobile-phone networks to track terror suspects confirmed on Saturday that a server had been stolen from its office in Sevenoaks, England.

According to police, the data stored on the stolen server was of little value. The company involved, Forensic Telecommunication Services (FTS), says that the data was encrypted.

But Shadow Home Secretary David Davis told The Mail on Sunday that the government considered the case to be "extremely serious.""
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Open Source Global Server Load Balancing-> 0

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Anonymous Coward

on Monday August 13 2007, @05:14PM

Anonymous Coward writes "Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a Global Server Load Balancing solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars. Issue 6 of o3 magazine, the free open source / enterprise digital magazine has end-to-end coverage on deploying Global Server Load Balancing with open source projects. This is not Linux Virtual Server, its not heartbeat or netfilter, this is a brand new Layer 7 solution using Nginx, Mongrel, Varnish Cache and OpenVPN. Find out all the details, including the configuration by visiting o3 magazine."
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Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found! 0

Submitted by drxenos on Monday August 13 2007, @05:05PM

drxenos writes "I don't know how many of you are fans of old-school text adventures (interactive fiction), but Will Crowther's original Fortran source code has been located in a backup of Don Wood's old student account. For fans like me, this is like finding the Holy Grail. link: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fictio n/browse_thread/thread/607acaf1a279d4dd/bd53b672a1 85d177#bd53b672a185d177"

How our broadband future was stolen 0

Submitted by teutonic_leech on Monday August 13 2007, @04:48PM

teutonic_leech writes "Cringely's final part of a three-part article series explains how Americans were deceived and defrauded by many of their telephone companies to the tune of $200 billion — money that was supposed to have gone to pay for a broadband future we don't — and never will — have."

How do you wean people off the car? 3

Submitted by Planetes on Monday August 13 2007, @04:39PM

Planetes writes "The state of Washington and Seattle metro areas have inadvertently found a possible clue regarding how to begin weeding Americans off their addiction to the car. The answer? promote mass transit. Obvious you think? How about throwing in a twist: Close several lanes of I-5 Northbound (the main North-South artery between Seattle and points south) just south of downtown Seattle. Not for hours, but for weeks. The result: light rail ridership doubles along with most other forms of mass transit in the area. So, to repeat: how do you wean people off the automobile? Make it useless."

College Orientation, Online-> 0

Submitted by

langelgjm

on Monday August 13 2007, @04:37PM

langelgjm writes "Not content to wait until arriving at college to start meeting friends, some recent high-school graduates are coordinating furniture, meeting significant others, and rejecting roommates based on sexual preference with the help of Facebook. "Last week, College Park had just sent out roommate assignments to about 3,800 entering freshman when university official Brian L. Watkins received his first phone call of the season from an upset mother. The woman said a Facebook profile of her son's freshman roommate "indicated that the roommate was into the same sex, so that threw up all kinds of red flags from their perspective," said Watkins, UM's director of parent and family affairs. "My response was that real or perceived sexual orientation is not a valid reason for a roommate change and that in our eyes that is like saying, 'I'm rooming with a Muslim, you need to move me,'" he said." Perhaps both the media covering Giuliani's daughter's Facebook profile and this mother could stand to learn a lesson: not everything you see online is necessarily true."
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