Comment Law Enforcement Forensics (Score 1) 601

by Mextrus on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @10:22AM (#38434024) Attached to: Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email?

Sadly, part of the reason for people not encrypting their email is that they believe all encryption standards to be broken. Having seen several forensic analysis software suites with options to decrypt PGP, I doubt PGP's effectiveness in keeping out unwanted eyes. I wish this were not the case. I am aware of the many news stories where encryption was hailed as preventing evidence from being gathered but I doubt that just the encryption was the problem. On the one hand you have the fact that encryption is not integrated into email for everyone, and the other you have the lack of trust in a truly unbreakable encryption standard. You'd need both to happen to convince the masses to switch to encrypted emails.

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 20, 2009 @01:01AM from the say-goodnight-folks dept.

lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

Journal SPAM: CNN accidentally interviews a Ron Paul supporter 8

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday August 27, 2007 @05:59PM

Listen to the very beginning of the tape, when Ms. Morales states she favors Ron Paul the newsman says "whoa" as if he was suprised that the censors hadn't weeded Ms. Morales out prior to the interview! [spam URL stripped]

Submission + - Rural broadband crisis hurts residents & compa (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Monday August 27, 2007 @02:20PM

Ian Lamont writes: "Thanks to profit-oriented telco industry in the U.S., rural residents don't have as much access to broadband services as those who live in urban or suburban areas. According to the federal government, just 17% of rural U.S. households subscribe to broadband service. But the problem is more than a conflict between Wall Street and small-town residents wanting to surf the 'Net or play Warcraft — the lack of broadband access prevents many businesses from growing and diversifying rural economies, as it's expensive or impossible to get broadband:

Soon after moving to Gilsum, N.H. (population 811), [Kim] Rossey learned that he couldn't get broadband to support his Web programming business, TooCoolWebs. DSL wasn't available, and the local cable service provider wasn't interested in extending the cabling for its broadband service the three-tenths of a mile required to reach Rossey's house — even if he paid the full $7,000 cost. Rossey ended up signing a two-year, $450-per-month contract for a T1 line that delivers 1.44Mbit/sec. of bandwidth. He pays 10 times more than the cable provider would have charged and receives one quarter of the bandwidth.
The author also notes that larger businesses are being crimped, from a national call center to a national retailer which claims 17% of its store locations can't get broadband."

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