Comment: FDL's chart covering Manning, Lano, and wikileaks (Score 1) 381
This chart was compiled by FDL and readers. Covers the whole timeline of what happened when and by who.
Comment: Re:Fallout... (Score 1) 381
According to Glen Greenwald in this statement, Poulsen chose to voluntarily withhold the full logs. Nowhere is any mention of national security or other sources mentioned by Poulsen or Greenwald.
We should not have to guess at Poulsen's reasons for not disclosing the full logs when he could state right out why.
Comment: Already been disproven (Score 1) 2
See http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/27029/ about halfway down, a post by 'thenixedreport' at Mar 31, 2008 11:11 AM (EST my time, no clue their time). In short their forums verify your email when you register, but allow you to change your email address without verifying that you own the second email address.
FIghting .NET & Silverlight FUD
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StarViper writes "As a member of IT I work for a mid-sized company who has recently decided to revamp our current CRM web application. Our primary developer is critical of all technologies except Microsoft. The developer also consistently spreads inaccurate information to top level management about MS technologies, namely Silverlight and .NET and criticizes other technologies (PHP, MySQL, etc.) as providing "inferior performance in enterprise environments". As the only party voicing concern and advocating open standards I have been slated to lead the opposition. I only have development experience in school and small company projects and lack the clout and experience to mount an effective argument. Can enterprise developers weigh in and help me with the resources to combat this MS fanboy's FUD?"
Iraq Centcom computers hacked?->
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OptimacyCorp writes "Glenn Greenwald reports in "A bizarre, unsolicited email from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman" that Col. Steven A. Boylan, the Public Affairs Officer and personal spokesman for Gen. David G. Petraeus denies writing a snarky email and claims that he is the victim of identity theft; however, it looks as though the email came from Centcom computers. The strange thing is that Col. Boylan does not seem to be concerned. Is someone hacking into the Centcom SMTP server, or did Col. Boylan have too much to drink last night?"
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Intel's 45nm patch machinery exposed->
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Roboticles writes "Tweakers.net has paid a visit to Intel's laboratories in the Californian town of Folsom, the birthplace of the 45nm CPU. We spoke to lead architect Stephen Fisher about the development of the Penryn chip and the day the first A0 version arrived. We were shown the machinery used to test and patch the 45nm processor, which is currently being manufactured in Arizona for release next month."
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Wikimedia Foundation releases preliminary budget->
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An anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, has released the preliminary budget for 2007-2008. At approximately $4.6 million, this is considerably more than the 2005 budget, which amounted to $739,200. Expectedly, the largest amount of the budget, 57%, is spent on bandwidth and hardware. Currently the Wikimedia Foundation is holding a fundraiser; perhaps you'd like to know what you're paying for?
Additionally, Wikipedia will re-enable page creation by anonymous contributors on the English Wikipedia on November 9, following suggestions that the article growth rate has been hindered by the change. The enabling of page creation by contributors without usernames will last for one month, in order to better examine its effect. Page creation by contributors without a username was disabled following a controversy with the biography of John Siegenthaler, Sr. in December 2005.
In contrast, a project was announced earlier this month that seeks to collect Wikipedia articles viewed as reliable and well-written, and protect them from vandalism. The project, called Veropedia, was announced earlier this month, but it already has over 3,500 articles. Contributors work on the project by editing Wikipedia and then copying the information to the separate website."
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Additionally, Wikipedia will re-enable page creation by anonymous contributors on the English Wikipedia on November 9, following suggestions that the article growth rate has been hindered by the change. The enabling of page creation by contributors without usernames will last for one month, in order to better examine its effect. Page creation by contributors without a username was disabled following a controversy with the biography of John Siegenthaler, Sr. in December 2005.
In contrast, a project was announced earlier this month that seeks to collect Wikipedia articles viewed as reliable and well-written, and protect them from vandalism. The project, called Veropedia, was announced earlier this month, but it already has over 3,500 articles. Contributors work on the project by editing Wikipedia and then copying the information to the separate website."
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Windows Server share growing at Linux expense? ->
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WirePosted writes "An IDC report on new x86 server shipments in the US has created waves of joy at Redmond and howls of protest in open source circles. According to IDC, Windows is now growing its server market share at the expense of Linux, which has picked all the low hanging Unix fruit."
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whois privacy->
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An anonymous reader writes "Whois taskforce calls for OPOC ("Operational Point of Contact") adoption but large intellectual property owners and business organizations oppose it.
Under OPOC, every registrant would identify a new operational point of contact and the registrant's postal address, city, and postal code would no longer be displayed. The operational point of contact's name and contact information would be displayed instead, and it would replace the administrative and technical contacts.
More info at http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#whois-comments-2007 and the comments list here http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007
(on the list you get comments from BSA, RIAA, IFIPI, MPAA and others)
One pro view is found here: http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/msg00165.html"
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Under OPOC, every registrant would identify a new operational point of contact and the registrant's postal address, city, and postal code would no longer be displayed. The operational point of contact's name and contact information would be displayed instead, and it would replace the administrative and technical contacts.
More info at http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#whois-comments-2007 and the comments list here http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007
(on the list you get comments from BSA, RIAA, IFIPI, MPAA and others)
One pro view is found here: http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/msg00165.html"
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Has Google Changed PageRank Algorithm?->
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Tech.Luver writes "It appears from the buzz in blogosphere that some time in past week search giant Google has changed its PageRank algorithm to punish its critics, internal linking networks and illegitimate webmasters.
Forbes, CNET's News.com, The Sydney Morning Herald and many others writes on the Google changing its PageRank calculations.
SMH writes, "In the brave new world of online media, fortunes can be won and lost on the whim of Google's key search algorithm. And when, without warning, Google tweaked that mathematical formula this week, there was panic on the world wide web.
( http://techluver.com/2007/10/28/has-google-changed-pagerank-algorithm-to-punish-critics-internal-linking-networks/ )"
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