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Google Streetview Lawsuit: Privacy, Oh No!->

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fsufitch writes "Google is being sued for mistakenly storing info that passed over unsecured wifi connections when they probed for "hot spots" using the Google Streetview cars. But, if their private information was ever at risk, they have much more to worry about than the brief seconds of packets that Google grabbed."
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Linux Gets Virus Via Wine-> 2

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fsufitch writes "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux *not* immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground. Also, just like some Windows programs running via Wine, not all features may work — in this case, the crippling of the system, immunity to the task manager, identity theft, etc."
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Linux Gets Virused Via Wine-> 1

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fsufitch writes "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux *not* immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground. Also, just like some Windows programs running via Wine, not all features may work — in this case, the crippling of the system, immunity to the task manager, identity theft, etc."
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Why Ubuntu Is Failing the Trade-Off->

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fsufitch writes "Kevin Maney wrote his new book "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't", and came to NYU-Poly to lecture the engineering students there of the basics of his book. His theory of the trade-off between convenience and fidelity of a product or idea casts a light on the open source movement, and what kind of innovation Ubuntu in particular needs in order to be known and be popular."
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Open Source... Books?-> 1

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fsufitch writes "On September 30th, the "Open College Textbook Act of 2009" was introduced to the Senate and referred to committee. The bill proposes that all educational materials published or produced using federal funds need to be published under open licenses. The reasoning behind it takes into account the changing way information is distributed because of the Internet, the high price of college and textbooks, and the dangerously low college graduation rates in the US. Will a bill such as this endanger publishing companies in the same way Internet journalism endangers traditional journalism?"
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Comment: Re:This is stupid (Score 2, Interesting) 435

by fsufitch (#25188119) Attached to: Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain
If it takes "a bastion of holier-than-thou ego junkies" to write decent program code in the 21st century then so be it. What elnyka was talking about is about average Joes switching to CS degrees and making it through college with an eye out for the professor and the other eye on digg (or slashdot). They then go on to copy-paste a chunk of code from online, pass it off as their own work, then pose as a computer programming professional when they don't know how to code a proper quicksort after two Artificial Intelligence courses. The companies these fakes work in proceed to shakingly grow, then fall because of the collective stupidity, bringing down the others in the resulting panic too. As a last example, take the field of medicine. Are doctors "holier-than-thou ego junkies"? No. However, the field of medicine will never fall because of the high degree of filtering it takes to become a doctor in the first place. Only the true doctors make it. None of the jerks that thought "oh, doctors get paid well, so I want to be one too!". Want bugs in your bodily systems? No. Have good true doctors. Want bugs in your computer systems? Up to you...

You will be run over by a bus.