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Comment: Re:Paper and pencil (Score 1) 320

by fatduck (#25520653) Attached to: US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool"
Except the article says nothing about "outlawing Twitter," nor was the report intended to warn the public of the dangers of evil Twitter. It was an internal report suggesting that intelligence analysts should look at social networking tools like Twitter as possible venues for terrorist communication. Is it somewhat obvious? Sure. That doesn't justify your knee-jerk response which, in my opinion, is a lot more "fear-mongering" than the government you're criticizing for no reason.
Security

A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? 436

Posted by kdawson
from the worth-a-try dept.
tcd004 writes "F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen proposes an elegant solution to the problem of bank account phishing in the latest Foreign Policy magazine. Hypponen thinks banks should have exclusive use of a new top-level domain: .bank. 'Registering new domains under such a top-level domain could then be restricted to bona fide financial organizations. And the price for the domain wouldn't be just a few dollars: it could be something like $50,000 — making it prohibitively expensive to most copycats. Banks would love this. They would move their existing online banks under a more secure domain in no time."
Real Time Strategy (Games)

Turn-Based Strategy MMOG Launched With Prize Money

Submitted by !coward
!coward writes "A team of portuguese developers, fans of the turn-based strategy genre, found themselves "[f]rustrated that we could not find any game on the web which would allow for deep strategy thinking, we decided to do it ourselves." And "Almansur Battlegrounds" was born.. According to the manual:

Almansur Battlegrounds is a strategy game of politics, economy and war, set in the early middle ages and, in some scenarios, in a fantasy world. You play the role of a lord with the job of guiding your land to greatness and glory.
The games will adapt to your obligations in the real world, not the other way around. So even if you are short of time, you can play it. But if you are a power gamer, you will not be disappointed.
It can be played from any system, just needs a browser with Flash and internet access.
Estimated to have an average €4.90 monthly fee and a per-day requirement of no more than 15 minutes of actual play, this one is for those who like to plan their every move to the death, or can't invest in more time-consuming games.

To celebrate the launch, they've set up an inicial Tournament (which they hope to turn into an anual event). With an entry fee of €19.90 per inscription (up to 3 per player), and spanning for 2 and half months, players will compete amongst themselves in qualifying rounds to gain a place in the finals where the prize money [scroll down for details] can go from €5,000 to a whopping €250,000. Those who don't make it to the finals will get credits allowing them to play the game itself for the duration of the tournament. Inscriptions close May, 10th."
Software

Gentoo Linux 2007.0 Released

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wolf31o2
wolf31o2 writes "The Gentoo Release Engineering project is pleased to announce the much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named "Secret Sauce". This release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security vulnerabilities in large packages which had to be rebuilt using the newer, secure versions of the packages. There was also a complete re-snapshot done about half-way through the release period due to the release taking so long and the packages becoming stale.

You can find out more information about the release in the official press release. To get the new release, grab it from the mirrors."
Republicans

Is the MSNBC Debate Poll Legitimate?

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k1e0x
k1e0x writes "Did Ron Paul really win the debate? Did his message of small government resonate with people? or is it a case of click fraud? Could Ron Paul really have more internet savvy supporters than John McCain and Giuliani combined? How do you explain the results?

http://www.ronpaulpresshub.com/

Ever since Ron Paul won the MSNBC Debate Poll, there have been some people around the blog world and Digg expressing skepticism with regards to the validity of the poll. Have some folks stuffed ballots for Paul before? Sure. Pajamas Media pointed out that some Paul supporters did cast many votes, but they also noted that both Romney and Obama had supporters do the same thing. Have some Paul supporters engaged in this more than front runner supporters? It's possible, given the fact that he now is only now getting any media attention. This is why on-line polls should be run by professional system administrators and web programmers, so that vote stuffing can be minimized and the results can be more useful. It's simply too easy for people to influence on-line polls. All it takes is one or two bad apples to give fuel to people who want to sling mud.
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The Internet

Xinhua stealing website code from CNN?

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes "Xinhua (China's state news agency) appears to be stealing elements of its layout straight from an American competitor — CNN. Here's an example of a Xinhua news story: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-05/06/conte nt_6063951.htm Here is a CNN news story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/06/kenya.p lane/index.html Besides the obvious grab by Xinhua of the 'story highlights' concept, the color, font and shape are identical. Other elements of the layout are clearly 'influenced,' if not directly stolen, from CNN's site. Besides the questions of professionalism on the part of Xinhua, is Xinhua violating copyright? Is there any recourse for CNN?"
Music

Court rules playlist customization not interactive

Submitted by
prostoalex
prostoalex writes "Is music played via customized playlist delivered interactively (i.e., via user participation) or non-interactive (i.e., decisions are made on the server side)? The question does seem metaphysical, but it took Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Yahoo! six years to figure it out. User-driven playlists are bucketed with on-demand music services, while server-driven playlists are equaled to broadcasts, thereby causing different licensing mechanisms to take place. Yahoo! inherited the legal wrangle when it purchased a music startup Launch, which built a music recommendation feature. Court decision determined that recommendation algorithms that rely on usage data to build playlists server-side are still eligible for broadcast license, thereby substantially lowering the costs of operating a music recommendation site."

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