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NYPD Cop posing as 14-year-old girl online catches NY Police Sergeant->

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McGruber writes "The Albany, NY Times Union has a story that you are not likely to see on "Cops", the Fox television show: "A sting operation involving a New York City police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl" that resulted in the arrest of a 26-year veteran police sergeant, on charges accusing him of committing computer crimes dangerous to minors. The sergeant was arrested Friday morning when he arrived for work at police headquarters and was handcuffed while in uniform."
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Geezers (over 55 years) pick stronger passwords than youngins (under 25)->

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McGruber writes "Joseph Bonneau, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge, calculated the password strengths of nearly 70 million Yahoo! users. He compared the strengths of passwords chosen by different demographic groups and compared the results.

People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old."
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Mlogica wins $1.56 million lawsuit over online defamation->

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McGruber writes "The Orange County Register has the news (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/internet-354727-case-million.html) that Anaheim, California technology company Mlogica (http://www.mlogica.com//) and its top executive Amit Okhandiar have won $1.56 million in an Internet defamation case.

An Orange County Superior Court jury awarded actual and punitive damages and also issued an injunction prohibiting the defendant, Dr. Pankaj Karan, from repeating libels against mLogica and Okhandiar.

"The breakdown of the award is $492,000 in past economic damages, $738,000 in future economic losses, $282,000 to Okhandiar for additional and punitive damages and $50,000 to mLogica for loss of reputation."

Dr. Karan emailed allegations to mLogica's clients and business partners that "damaged mLogica so much that major projects it was working on were cut off and the company had to lay off employees.""
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The Big Lie of the Facebook IPO-> 1

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McGruber writes "American financial news and services website thestreet has posted a piece titled The Big Lie of the Facebook IPO (http://www.thestreet.com/story/11543996/1/the-big-lie-of-the-facebook-ipo-opinion.html) by business journalist and futurist Dana Blankenhorn (http://www.thestreet.com/author/1258529/DanaBlankenhorn/all.html).

In the piece, Dana Blankehorn argues that that the only gains to be made on the Facebook stock offering were made by insiders and that the mainstream media helped pump up the insiders' gains.

A few of Mr. Blanenhorn's past articles have been featured on slashdot, including "Open Source Complaint Against IBM Gets Support" (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/149228/open-source-complaint-against-ibm-gets-support) in June 2010; The War Is Over, and Linux Has Won (http://slashdot.org/story/06/11/10/2336218/the-war-is-over-and-linux-has-won) in November 2006; and "Does It Matter Where Open Source is Based?" (http://slashdot.org/story/06/07/07/2112250/does-it-matter-where-open-source-is-based) in July 2006."
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Northrop Grumman sues US Postal Service over automated snail-mail sort contract->

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McGruber writes "The Federal Times is reporting that (http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120513/DEPARTMENTS02/205130305/1001) Northrup Grumman has filed suit against the US Postal Service (USPS), accusing the USPS of violating the terms of the 2007 fixed-price ($875 million) contract to produce 100 massive automatic sorting systems, each capable of handling millions of magazines, catalogs and other pieces of flat mail.

The Postal Service embarked on the project just as mail volume was beginning to nosedive, cutting into anticipated efficiency gains. The sorting machines' performance has been uneven, according to a series of reports by the Postal Service's inspector general."
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Honda's introduces Uni-Cub, a Segway competitor that looks strikingly like Tux!->

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McGruber writes "The Wall Street Journal's Driver's Seat blog has the news of Honda's newest electric vehicle, the Uni-Cub, a personal mobility device intended to compete against the Segway. Author Yoshio Takahashi describes it as a "single-seat, unicycle-like vehicle [that] looks something like a vacuum cleaner with a bicycle saddle mounted on top. Indeed, viewed from the side, its black-and-white color scheme makes it look strikingly like a penguin.""
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Google

Search engines are releasing biggest changes in years->

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An anonymous reader writes "Google and Microsoft are battling to make a better search engine — and you stand to reap the benefits. Search engine giant Google has spent the past few years building a vast database of real world things — the Eiffel Tower, San Francisco, Leonardo DiCaprio and more. The company calls it the Knowledge Graph, and it has more than 500 million such things, with 3.5 billion connections between them.

Starting today, the company will begin an update that routes search queries through the database, presenting far more relevant bits of information to users. Google isn’t the only search engine getting smarter, however.

On May 15, Microsoft announced that a new, smarter version of the Bing search engine had gone live, which tightly integrates information from all of your social networks — such as Facebook and Twitter — into a darker-shaded right-hand sidebar."
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