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UQ researchers break the law -- of physics-> 0

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on Monday July 06 2009, @10:25PM

BountyX writes "Dr Tony Roberts and PhD student Christophe P. Haynes, from the School of Maths and Physics, showed the fractal-Einstein and Alexander-Orbach laws can fail in some instances, and have derived a new law to replace them. Dr Roberts said this new discovery had implications for predicting material properties; how disease spreads through society; mapping how wild animals forage for food; and improving the internet. "We demonstrated unequivocally that two 'exact' foundational laws of fractal science, which have been cited over 2000 times in the scientific literature, can fail for a class of fractals," he said. "These are the first definitive counter examples to these laws. "Given that our key equation solves a number of old and new problems, we believe we have discovered a 'missing' equation from fractal physics that will have important implications.""
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ISPs Join RIAA's Fight Against Piracy-> 0

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on Thursday March 26 2009, @05:25PM

BountyX writes "The Recording Industry Association of America's plan to recruit Internet service providers in its battle against illegal file sharing is now underway. AT&T and Cox both confirmed to PC World that they have begun cooperating with the RIAA in some form. Comcast did not say it was working with the RIAA, but did say it was forwarding messages on the behalf of the recording industry to customers. Still a mystery is to what extent ISPs are cooperating with the RIAA and what it takes to get booted from your ISP for illegally swapping copyright protected content online. The RIAA announced the shift in its strategy last December: Instead of targeting individual file sharers with lawsuits, as it had done in the past, the organization would work with ISPs to find suspected offenders and — after a series of warnings — potentially cut off their Internet access altogether."
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Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner-> 1

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on Tuesday March 24 2009, @11:10PM

BountyX writes "First and foremost, wikileaks.org is back up after downtime due to server load; however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, police have raided the home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over internet censorship lists that were leaked two weeks ago. What the Australian government's secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist has anything to do with Germany is a mystery. This case is a prime example of multiple governments collobarating in support of censorship."
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Godaddy Site Certificate Invalid 0

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on Friday February 27 2009, @04:07PM

BountyX writes "Just noticed that Godaddy's site certificate is not valid. I find it slightly amusing that a service selling SSL certs is having a problem with their own certificate. Then again, the plumber's house always has a leak...Be aware, for those accessing your account, the encryption on the login and the site authenticity may be temporarily compromised. I hope that the majority of /. steers clear of Godaddy, but for those who have to work with Godaddy for their clients or work, just a note of caution."

Opera 10.0 alpha available-> 0

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on Saturday December 06 2008, @03:28PM

BountyX writes "Opera has been touting it's Acid 3 results for their upcoming browser and the proof is finally in the pudding. Opera 10.0 alpha version is available for download sporting the newest rendering engine (Presto 2.2) for the Opera browser. It provides significant improvements in speed, performance and security. Opera 10.0 boasts 30% faster performance, web fonts, svg, opacity through RGBA and HSLA, improved Dragonfly, and more. Although in alpha, it's been stable for me so far."
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Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live-> 0

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on Wednesday October 08 2008, @05:24PM

BountyX writes "While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications Office (NAO) "will proceed with the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance program, even though an independent review found the department hasn't yet ensured the program will comply with privacy laws." NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and "disaster relief" agencies such as FEMA use satellite imagery intelligence (IMINT) generated by U.S. spy satellites. Based on available evidence, hard to come by since these programs are classified "above top secret," the technological power of these military assets are truly terrifying."
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Program brings Web's collective wisdom to patents-> 0

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on Monday September 15 2008, @12:24PM

BountyX writes "Well, it seems like all that complaining online might pay off. The Patent office is trying to figure out a more efficient way to handle prior art search by tapping into the IT industry for help. The article suggests there are too many lawyers in the process and not enough inventors. I like the sound of this."
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