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by Glasswire on Thursday July 24, @09:03AM (#24312493)
Attached to: Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live

Knol on Wikipedia is pretty empty. Whereas
Wikipedia on Knol is very informative.
Is that an indicator?

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  "Series of Tubes" Stevens fights child por[->] 2008-06-05 16:12 TFer_Atvar

Submitted by TFer_Atvar on Thursday June 05, @04:12PM
TFer_Atvar writes "Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) (Series of Tubes) recently introduced S. 1965, a bill that would increase fines for child pornography on the Internet. Some have interpreted the bill as a move to reduce privacy on the Internet in an effort to protect children. Stevens says the bill is necessary to keep kids safe from cyberbullying in the wake of Megan Meier's suicide. What do you think?
Incidentally, Stevens faces his toughest opposition in over 40 years in this fall's elections."
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/jun/05/cyberbullying-bill/
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  iPhone SDK "Pwned"[->] 2008-03-14 20:19 I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

Submitted by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property on Friday March 14, @08:19PM
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The iPhone SDK has reportedly been pwned by the team that brought you AnySim. The new 'Pwnage' utility uses flaws in low-level iPhone functions to run unsigned code. Once the phone has been pwned by the utility, though, you can simply install custom .ipsw files via iTunes. Downloads should be available soon."
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/03/iphone-dev-team.html
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  AOL, Netflix and the end of open research[->] 2007-11-30 13:54 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2007, @01:54PM
In 2006, heads rolled at AOL after the company released anonymized logs of user searches. With last week's announcement that researchers had been able to learn the identities of users in the scrubbed Netflix dataset, could the days of companies sharing data with academic researchers be numbered? Shortly after the AOL incident, Google's Eric Schmidt called the data release "a terrible thing," and assured the public that "this kind of thing could not happen at Google." Will any high tech company ever take this kind of chance again? If not, how will this impact research and and the development of future technologies that could have come from the study of real data.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9826608-46.html
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  Piracy Can Be Good: in non-geek language[->] 2007-11-30 13:32 crazybilly

Submitted by crazybilly on Friday November 30 2007, @01:32PM
crazybilly writes "Explaining why piracy isn't bad for businesses can be difficult, especially when talking to nontechnical people. Globeandmail.com provides an article explaining not only why piracy isn't necessary bad for business buy how piracy has benefited buisnesses and artist (including Hollywood) in the past. Using historical examples, ranging from Daniel Defoe to the VCR, they make a strong case for why the RIAA and company ought to relax."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071127.wtq-1107pirates/BNStory/GlobeTQ/?pageRequested=all#
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  Motherfucker!! 2007-11-27 13:44

Journal by Sloppy on Tuesday November 27 2007, @01:44PM

I work at a place that runs a fairly (locally) popular website. We sometimes get orders for ads from a company who just gave us one of these to run. I gather that the behavior in question is intermittent, so it was just dumb luck that it happened to me, so that I realized WTF was going on and killed it.

So they aren't screening this stuff, huh? That means I have to? Shit. I don't know how to screen for this. I hate Flash. I hated it before, but now I really fucking hate Flash.

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  TV Hack vs. Hackers[->] 2007-11-20 13:24 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2007, @01:24PM
An anonymous reader writes "TV news just doesn't understand the hacker culture. Or, at least, that's Jeff Moss' claim in his column "Deconstructing the Hacker Community." Moss, the founder of DEFCON, details the embarrassing flight (run away!) of Dateline NBC "reporter," Michelle Madigan, from DEFCON 15. Madigan had showed up at DEFCON, a highly publicized event held in a casino, in hopes of exposing the hacker community. She instead ended up fleeing the scene, becoming fodder for laughs on YouTube. The irony is, according to Moss, while these reporters are hell-bent on "outing" the already public hacker community, they are missing the opportunity to get the scoop on some huge and relatively unpublicized Web security stories — such as Fast Flux DNS and commoditized Web exploit packs."
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=554&doc_id=139509&
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  Telecommuting is good for all of us 2007-11-20 13:21 Roland Piquepaille

Submitted by Roland Piquepaille on Tuesday November 20 2007, @01:21PM
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to two Penn State researchers in management, telecommuting is good both for workers and their employers. The two psychologists looked at 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements, covering 46 previous studies of telecommuting involving more than 12,000 employees. And they found that 'telecommuting is a win-win for employees and employers, resulting in higher morale and job satisfaction and lower employee stress and turnover.' One of the major factors in employee satisfaction is autonomy, and telecommuting brings that to individuals. This large meta-study also reveals that people who often work at home think their careers don't suffer from telecommuting. But read more for additional references and a figure summarizing the themes which play a central role in the telecommuting experience."
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Submitted by mcwop on Tuesday November 20 2007, @01:07PM
Maryland passed legislation to apply a new six percent sales tax (more) to "custom computer programming" and other computer and hardware related services. As a purchaser of these services, it will be interesting to see what the impact is. In-house IT and buying out of state may have become attractive options, as well as the extra money cutting into other projects.
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  The Majority of US Students Cheat[->] 2007-10-29 14:49 rev1941

Submitted by rev1941 on Monday October 29 2007, @02:49PM
rev1941 writes "OXNARD, Ca. (KoeppCorp.com) — Recent survey results from the Educational Testing Service and the Ad Council suggest that 75 percent to 98 percent of students cheat in high school, compared to just 20 percent of students during the 1940s. Indications are that just as many students cheat in college and graduate school too."
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=41489
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Submitted by Talen317 on Monday October 29 2007, @02:39PM
Talen317 writes "For the second year in a row forcasters have failed to predict the hurricane activity for the season.
In fact acording to NOAA's claims, there was only a 5% chance that this year would be a below-normal season.
Florida State University COAP reports that 2007 may be one of the least active hurricane seasons in the last 30 years!

If we can't trust the predictions for the next 5 months how can we be sure about the predictions for the next 50 years?

From NOAA: (http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml)
"NOAA is predicting a very high likelihood (85% chance) of an above-normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, a 10% chance of a near-normal season, and only a 5% chance of a below-normal season, according to a consensus of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Research Division, and Hydrometeorological Prediction Center."

From Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical)
"Unless a dramatic and perhaps historical flurry of activity occurs in the next 9 weeks, 2007 will rank as a historically inactive TC year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January-TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy).""
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
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  Jack Thompson in GTA IV? 2007-09-18 12:21 gzerphey

Submitted by gzerphey on Tuesday September 18 2007, @12:21PM
Jack Thompson has decided that a representation of a 2nd amendment lawyer in GTA IV is him. He has declared that if the representation is not removed he will block the release of the game.

Excerpt from GamePolitics:

The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the "hero" of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer's office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer who says, "that the firm supports the second amendment and that 'Guns don't kill people. Video games do.'"

You have until five o'clock P.M. this Friday... to inform me that you are going to delete the above references and any other references that could reasonably be construed to be references to me in Grand Theft Auto IV and any other video games that are pending release...
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  CNET Author displays his pirated films 2007-09-17 15:07 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2007, @03:07PM
An anonymous reader writes "http://reviews.cnet.com/portable-video-players-pvps/archos-605-wifi-160gb/4505-6499_7-32477557.html I just noticed this when watching a video review of the Archos 160GB player. Check at 1m 37s, and you can clearly see the file "dmd-aquarp" which is a Diamond release [warez group] of Aqua.Teen.Hunger.Force. Whoops!"
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From feed by nsfeed on Wednesday August 08 2007, @04:32PM
The storms that threatened to kill NASA's Mars rovers have abated somewhat - but the rovers are not out of the woods yet

http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=d11c1e45b0c412a6b46b0a342d978857
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Submitted by HiddenL on Wednesday August 08 2007, @03:27PM
HiddenL writes "According to TorrentFreak.com:

Google has been filtering its search results for years. That's proven very useful for the Chinese government, and of course content owner representatives like the MPAA and RIAA. According to Google, the filtering of torrents from the search results is a response to the DMCA complaints they receive. The owner of SumoTorrent told TorrentFreak that he discovered that A search on Google for sumotorrent now triggers the following message at the bottom of the results page:

In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
A search for other BitTorrent sites like Torrentspy and Torrentreactor comes up with the same message (note. the sites are still indexed but some results are removed).
Apparently "Do No Evil" includes mass filtering of legitimate content."
http://torrentfreak.com/google-filters-torrents-from-search-results/
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