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  Your Rights Online: Gates Says Microsoft Will Support OpenID 2007-02-06 19:23

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 06 2007, @07:23PM
from the who-i-am dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In his RSA conference keynote today, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will support the decentralized OpenID digital identity protocol, in addition to WS-* and CardSpace (transcribed notes, video). From its roots in LID, i-names, and Sxip, the first major deployment in LiveJournal, and now with support from Techorati, Magnolia, Symantec, a suspected mass-deployment by AOL, and a number of startups — using URLs as digital identities has caught hold."
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 [+] story, yro, internet, microsoft, openid, privacy, identity,

  BitTorrent, Inc. Acquires µTorrent 2006-12-07 14:56 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2006, @02:56PM
An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is reporting the BitTorrent, Inc. has acquired the very popular BitTorrent client uTorrent (microTorrent.) From the article "Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and Torrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired Torrent as it recognized the merits of Torrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together Torrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.""
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 [+] submission, networking
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  Politics: Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported 2006-11-07 14:38

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 07 2006, @02:38PM
from the go-vote dept.
Neovanglist writes "CNN, FOX, and MSNBC are reporting that voting machines in three states (Ohio, Indiana, and Florida) have already been showing issues, both in the machines themselves and in the training of poll attendants, causing many districts to switch to paper ballots." From the article: "Voters put the Republican congressional majority and a multitude of new voting equipment to the test Tuesday in an election that defined the balance of power for the rest of George W. Bush's presidency. Both parties hustled to get their supporters out in high-stakes contests across the country, Democrats appealing one more time for change, and appearing confident the mood was on their side. Republicans conceded nothing as their vaunted get-out-the-vote machine swung into motion." If you're in the U.S., and you haven't voted already, go do it!
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 [+] story, politics, usa, voting, !itsatrap, votingmachines, vote, diebold

  How To Make Your Friends Call You More 2006-10-29 17:25

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 29 2006, @05:25PM
from the not-funny-mcgee dept.
B0bReader writes, "Simply sign up to something called jajah (a VOIP service that connects real telephones) using your friend's number (mobiles included), then log in and dial your own number. Your friend's phone will ring and after they hear a brief 'Jajah is connecting your call' they will be calling you and incur all charges. As an added bonus you will quite probably receive your friend's latest voice-mail message as your own (at least on Irish networks), which you may or may not wish to hear. There is even a Jajah Firefox extension — which at the time of writing is the Firefox featured add-on — so you can do it right from your browser.

This is about the best example of a bad idea, with terrible implementation, that I have seen all day. And with the wonderful publicity the Firefox page offers it should reach a wide audience in no time."
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 [+] story, communications, wrong, voip, security, firefox, fud

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