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Journal by anaesthetica on Sunday January 07 2007, @01:45AM

The Quaero project, a French initiative to build a European rival to Google, has lost the backing of the German government. The search engine was announced in 2005 by Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, but the German government under Merkel has decided that Quaero isn't worth the $1.3-2.6 billion commitment that development would require. Germany will instead focus on a smaller search engine project called Theseus. From the article:

According to one French participant, organizers disagreed over the fundamental design of Quaero, with French participants favoring a sophisticated search engine that could sift audio, video and other multimedia data, while German participants favored a next- generation text-based search engine.
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 [+] journal, google

  Article: Writing Software Security Test Cases 2007-01-07 00:09 CGISecurity.com

Submitted by CGISecurity.com on Sunday January 07 2007, @12:09AM
CGISecurity.com writes "QASec.com has just released an article titled Writing Software Security Test Cases: Putting security test cases into your test plan. "Unlike typical penetration testing QA has access to internal documents and insider information giving them advantages to aide in the testing of an application. In addition to documenting customer use cases it's important to begin the process of documenting what an attacker may attempt against your application as well and incorporating these attacker 'use cases' into a security section of your standard test plan.""
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 [+] submission, it, security
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  Your Rights Online: YouTube Blocked in Brazil 2007-01-06 23:47

Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 06 2007, @11:47PM
from the down-with-love dept.
keeboo writes "The popular video sharing site YouTube is now blocked in Brazil due to a local court decision last Thursday. The site was ordered to block the uploaded sex videos of Brazilian media starlet Daniela Cicarelli and, although it complied, many users kept re-uploading it to the site. After the failure of YouTube to keep the video off of the site, the domain was blocked nationwide at a DNS level. Predictably, many Brazilians are annoyed and I've started to receive even SPAMs protesting on this blocking. From the article: 'The case now goes automatically to a three-member panel of judges who will decide whether to make the order permanent and whether to fine YouTube as much as US$119,000 (euro91,000) for each day the video was viewable, said Rubens Decousseau Tilkian.'"
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 [+] story, yro, internet, censorship, brazil, youtube, internetisforporn, idiots

  Google, consortium to build "movie" telesc 2007-01-06 23:37 TravisW

Submitted by TravisW on Saturday January 06 2007, @11:37PM
TravisW writes "Google announced a partnership with a public-private consortium to create a "moving picture" database of the universe using data collected from the 3.2 billion-pixel reflecting Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated for completion in 2013. The project, whose planned uses will include studying dark matter and near-Earth asteroids and mapping the Milky Way, will generate some 30 terabytes of data nightly."
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 [+] submission, science, space
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  Just Cancel the @#%$* Account! 2007-01-06 23:05

Submitted by on Saturday January 06 2007, @11:05PM
An anonymous reader writes "PC World Senior Editor Tom Spring signed up for 32 online accounts. Then tried to cancel all of them. The most difficult to cancel: NetZero. The easiest to cancel: Consumer Reports Online and The New York Times TimesSelect. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128206-page,1/ar ticle.html"
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  DIY Laptop Repairing/Modding 2007-01-06 21:04 Inverted Intellect

Submitted by Inverted Intellect on Saturday January 06 2007, @09:04PM
Inverted Intellect writes "I've got an old (relatively speaking) AOpen P4 laptop which died on me for what was then an unknown cause, but turned out to be an HDD failure. Seeing as how the LCD had already begun to crap out on me, I took it apart, hoping to be able to mod it into an acceptable DVR, most likely with a simple custom-constructed case. However, I've been hampered by a lack of understanding when it comes to the various connectors found on the motherboard, as I have had no experience what-so-ever with laptop motherboards. Despite repeated searches, I have thus far been largely unsuccessful in finding out what standards apply to its connectors, what purpose a few of them are supposed to serve in the first place, and what exactly my options are with regards to components.

What would be a good source for finding out about the connectors in question? Exhaustive repositories of connectors standards, practical explanations of their use, or any other related sort of book or website would be helpful."
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 [+] submission, askslashdot, hardhack
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  Wii suspectible to Opera vulnerability 2007-01-06 21:01 Thor Larholm

Submitted by Thor Larholm on Saturday January 06 2007, @09:01PM
Thor Larholm writes "Opera 9.10 was released in December, silently fixing a critical security vulnerability. Now it appears that the Nintendo Wii version of Opera is also suspectible to the same SVG createSVGTransformFromMatrix vulnerability.

Unlike Opera for the Windows and Linux platform, Opera for Devices has not seen a security update for this issue. The vulnerability, originally discovered by iDefense Labs, allows you to control a pointer that is used for virtual function calls, and could spark renewed interest in the Wii for homebrew and media center applications, much as security vulnerabilities in games for other consoles have enabled users to install unsigned software."
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  Blurring images to hide information is not secure 2007-01-06 20:25 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2007, @08:25PM
An anonymous reader writes "Dheera Venkatraman explains in a webpage how an attacker might be able to extract personal information such as check or credit card numbers, from images blurred with a mosaic effect, potentially exposing the data behind hundreds of images of blurred checks found online, and provides a ficticious example. While much needs to be developed to apply such an algorithm to real photographic images, he offers a simple, yet obvious solution: cover up the sensitive information, don't blur it."
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  Apple: Apple and Google to Blog the World 2007-01-06 19:28

Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 06 2007, @07:28PM
from the look-where-i-am-ma dept.
Zrop writes "AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has been working on OS-level integration of an geographical mapping technology as an integral part of Leopard, its next-generation OS. The technology is rumoured to employ GPS functionality. Will GPS chips make Apple iPod phones and MacBooks location aware? Users would be able to post information at a location, hanging in the air, ready to be browsed by people passing by. Imagine getting highly relevant messages, without even pressing a button, simply because you are in the vicinity and your preferences match the content of the post."
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 [+] story, apple, google, minorityreport, gps, tinfoilhat

  scientific basis for race: genome Hamming distance 2007-01-06 18:50 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2007, @06:50PM
An anonymous reader writes "Physics professor describes how genetic clustering corresponds to racial identity. Individual genetic data, when plotted in an abstract genome space, tends to cluster into groups corresponding to traditional continental ethnic groups (Europeans, Africans, Asians, etc.). Race is more than a matter of pigmentation or other superficial traits: it determines the likelihood an individual is carrying a particular gene variant."
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  Ask Slashdot: Do Syndicated Columnists Have a Future? 2007-01-06 18:38

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 06 2007, @06:38PM
from the there's-always-weblogs dept.
DrMrLordX writes "With declining circulation numbers looming over the heads of major newspaper publishers, what fate awaits syndicated columnists? I am not syndicated, but I do write for a local independent paper with the ultimate goal of becoming successful (financially and otherwise) as a columnist. Every time I contemplate the possibility of seeking syndication, bleak future newspaper circulation forecasts make me question my own motives. Is it even possible to break into the editorial world with a shrinking reader base? Would it be better to get into socio-political blogging and rely on ad/referral revenues?"
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 [+] story, askslashdot, internet, yes

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