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Comment: Geocentric?!? (Score 1) 2

by zentechno (#30753808) Attached to: Google.cn Attack Part Of A Broad Spying Effort
"The world's largest Internet market" -- perhaps geographically, but more-so for China because China isolates itself, and because most people still think of the world geo-politically. The internet's financial picture is mostly based on social demographics, such as age-markets, and if China were treated that way then it's citizens may make up the largest portion of each social demographic, but there'd be more that could be done independent of geographic politics. Sending "explain yourself" letters works between governments, but not as directly for businesses (e.g. Google sending the same letter essentially makes no difference), so the decision from a business perspective is keep doing business in that environment, or stop.

Comment: Got that in Norway (Score 1) 434

by akselsm (#30228974) Attached to: Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids

Here in Norway, the police is present, and has a big, red "POLITI" button on Facebook, Twitter as well as in Windows Live Messenger, and on Norwegian social networks (biip.no, nettby.no). The button is linked to a chat service with officers from Kripos (National Crime Unit). Apparently, children have reported abuse (violence by parents) as well as bullying, enabling Social Services to react.

Comment: Re:Stop Crap Intel Graphics! (Score 1) 440

by calmofthestorm (#29625063) Attached to: "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit

I've had no problem with IG chips, they run all my software just fine and can even play Oblivion. Unless you're gaming or running some eye candy OS, I don't see why you'd need more.

Then again, I suppose I'm judging a discrete graphics card vs integrated as two very different things. If I have a discrete graphics card I expect it to do more than "even play Oblivion".

Transportation

Frankfurt motorshow has cars with plugs, no hydrog->

Submitted by savuporo
savuporo writes "This years Frankfurt Motorshow has many automakers presenting their plug-in electric vehicles, while previous focus on hydrogen fuel cells is notably absent.
Amongst the cars on show are VW e-Up, Audi e-tron, REVA new lineup, Renault four different electric models and quite a few others, summarized in PDF here."

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Security

Health care exemption on data breeches->

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Combat Wombat
Combat Wombat writes "New data breach rules for US healthcare providers have come under criticism from a security firm that specialises in encryption. As part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which comes into effect from 23 September, health organisations in the US that use encryption will no longer be obliged to notify clients of breaches."
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United States

How to Make Science Popular Again?

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An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica has an interesting look at the recent book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, a collaboration between Chris Mooney, writer and author of The Republican War on Science, and scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum. While it seems the book's substance is somewhat lacking it raises an interesting point; how can science be better integrated with mainstream culture for greater understanding and acceptance? "We must all rally toward a single goal: without sacrificing the growth of knowledge or scientific innovation, we must invest in a sweeping project to make science relevant to the whole of America's citizenry. We recognize there are many heroes out there already toiling toward this end and launching promising initiatives, ranging from the Year of Science to the World Science Festival to ScienceDebate. But what we need--and currently lack--is the systematic acceptance of the idea that these actions are integral parts of the job description of scientists themselves. Not just their delegates, or surrogates, in the media or the classrooms.""
Announcements

Opera - Back to the future->

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fudreporter
fudreporter writes "The Register is reporting that... Opera raised the browser feature ante today by announcing Opera Unite — placing a web server in every client and encouraging end users to share content from their own desktop with the world. Rather than compete with the cloud-based services that are currently so popular, Opera is proposing, and enabling, a return to how the internet used to work: everyone runs their own host device, with their own applications running on their own hardware, which can then be accessed from anywhere using any web browser. All this functionality is intended to be rolled into the Opera browser, and is currently available in a Beta release, along with a few applications to demonstrate the kind of functionality Opera thinks could become standard fare.

More from the Opera site
Opera Unite: a Web server on the Web browser With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today's fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way we interact on the Web on labs.opera.com."

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The Internet

Opera Unite

Submitted by popeyethesailor
popeyethesailor writes "With the introduction of Google Wave, Live Mesh etc, web technology seems to be heading into a different direction; the action is moving to a more familiar place — your computer. Instead of a central aggregator providing an interface for people to collaborate on, the next generation is all about federation; your computer talks to your peers directly, and also hosts the interface with your peers communicate with you. None of this is completely new or innovative; IRC, Chat rooms, file sharing programs, etc have all done this in the past. However, the new platforms attempt to integrate all of these in a standards compliant fashion, and make this tech available to common folks.

Opera Unite is the latest in the line of federated collaboration platforms; their trick is to bundle the platform as part of the browser. There are detailed screenshots, and explanations in this article."

Comment: Err.. Not Opera 10. (Score 2, Informative) 1

by akselsm (#28345257) Attached to: Opera 10.0 released, ready to "Unite" the

Opera Unite is not Opera 10.00. It is a service coming with the release of Opera 10.00 (codenamed Peregrine). It is available in an Opera Labs release (snapshot) as of right now - dubbed "Opera Unite alpha". They did the same thing with Opera Turbo, released it as a standalone snapshot dubbed "Opera Turbo alpha".

I don't think Opera 10.00 final will be available for at least half a year.

Security

Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript->

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Ergasiophobia
Ergasiophobia writes "I'm just going to quote the page itself here, as it gives a pretty good description.

It actually works pretty simply — it is simpler than the Javascript implementation. All it does is load a page (in a hidden Iframe) which contains lots of links. If a link is visited, a background (which isn't really a background) is loaded as defined in the CSS. The "background" image will log the information, and then store it (and, in this case, it is displayed to you).

http://www.making-the-web.com/misc/sites-you-visit/nojs/ Is a demonstration of a method to find out the browsing history of a visitor to a website, no javascript required. It seems the only drawbacks to this method are the increased load on your browser, and that it requires a list of websites to check against."
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