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by MosesJones on Monday August 18, @09:28AM (#24643951)
Attached to: Visual Search Engine Tracks Stolen Images

So to test it out I grabbed a couple of logos (AIG, Slashdot, Bluesquare, Nike swoosh) and found that what it will do is find scaled down images or ones of lower quality but it won't handle significant colour shifts. So AIG for instance have a blue logo but sponsor Manchester United where their logo is displayed on a red background, the Nike swoosh I tested had a white background and all I got was basic black on white swoosh elements.

Now with photos this is less of an issue as major colour shifts are unusual but it does mean that for commercial and design art its not really as applicable.

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Posted by kdawson on Friday August 08, @10:17AM
from the pigs-and-lipstick dept.
Diomidis Spinellis writes "An article in this week's Economist outlines Microsoft's marketing response to Vista's travails and Apple's hip Get a Mac campaign. Describing the recent Mojave Experiment as 'Microsoft at its worst,' the article's writer wonders whether hiring a new hot ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, to put together a $300m campaign can make Microsoft look cool. Can money buy you love?"
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 [+] story, tech, microsoft, business, windows, goodluckwiththat, fistya
Posted by timothy on Sunday July 27, @02:26PM
from the so-you-don't-have-to dept.
Doug Treadwell writes "Many people have wondered what the difference is between the Computer Science education given in the average public university versus one given in an Ivy League university (or a top level public university). There have also been discussions here on Slashdot about whether any Computer Science curriculum gives students the knowledge they need for the working world. As a computer science student both questions are very important to me, so I decided to answer them for myself and build a website to share what I found. I was able to find the required reading for hundreds of courses at Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley; along with some other institutions. This should also help answer some of those 'What should I read?' questions."
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22, @02:03PM (#24290509)
Attached to: Scientists Solve Riddle of Toxic Algae Blooms

Asia Ferguson waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were coasters in the park. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Dad were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
Asia was a hat wearing nigga for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the coasters and he said to dad "I want to be on the coasters daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY COASTERS"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the park at the base of the coaster he knew there were coasters.
"This is DAD" the radio crackered. "You must fight the coasters!"
So Asia gotted his hat and climbed up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the coasters
"I will shoot at him" said the coaster and he fired the a line of cars. Asia nigged at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the coasters" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are batman"
And then John dead.

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  Ballmer egged in Hungary[->] 2008-05-19 19:07 Lev

Submitted by Lev on Monday May 19, @07:07PM
Lev writes "Some says, it's because open software promoters remained unrecognizable by the governmental organizations (however EU efforts urged the country in this directions), while corruption runs trough in the state apparatus but others see it as a moment of the desperate war against the world's largest subjecter. Otherwise, his speech was pretty much about nothing considerable but popularizing the new Microsoft products and reinvented brand new concepts. Just as usual."
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207801080
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  Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else 2008-05-19 05:54 Tim Kuik

Submitted by Tim Kuik on Monday May 19, @05:54AM
Tim Kuik writes "TorrentFreak reports:

BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit responsible for shuttering or forcing torrent sites such as Demonoid overseas, has announced that it will take BitTorrent-behemoth Mininova to court. BREIN hopes the court will force Mininova to filter its search results, so that all .torrent files which may point to unauthorized content are removed.

Erik Dubbelboer, one of the co-founders of Mininova, told TorrentFreak that Mininova will not cave in to pressure from BREIN. He expects to have more details about the upcoming lawsuit later this week: "We will proceed to court with full confidence. We operate within the law, as we maintain our 'notice and take down' policy. That is, we remove search results if a copyright holder asks us to."
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  Youtube Banning acounts of anti scientologists 2008-05-17 03:21 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 17, @03:21AM
An anonymous reader writes "Within weeks of running many scientology adds for the new scientology channel, you tube has now begun removing and/or locking the acounts of anyone posting videos with views oposing that of scientologists. The internet community should be warned, it may no longer be safe to post anything to the website, as scientologist could then gain access to your personal information, and use this in one of their attacks. The church of sceintology has been known to attack people in the past, forcing them into suicide, bankrupcy, and in some cases, simply vanishing. This is not a joke, this is not a drill, you have been warned."
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  De-anonymizing Tor? 2008-05-16 18:11 Stanislav_J

Submitted by Stanislav_J on Friday May 16, @06:11PM
Stanislav_J writes "The upcoming "Security and Privacy Day" at Stony Brook University (May 30th) is scheduled to feature an interesting presentation (and a distressing one for privacy advocates) titled "Simulating a Global Passive Adversary for Attacking Tor-like Anonymity Systems" in which the presenters plan to describe "a novel, practical, and effective mechanism for identifying the IP address of Tor clients." The brief summary indicates the basic mechanism for doing this is as follows: "We approximate an almost-global passive adversary (GPA) capable of eavesdropping anywhere in the network by using LinkWidth, a novel bandwidth-estimation technique. LinkWidth allows network edge-attached entities to estimate the available bandwidth in an arbitrary Internet link without a cooperating peer host, router, or ISP. By modulating the bandwidth of an anonymous connection (e.g., when the destination server or its router is under our control), we can observe these fluctuations as they propagate through the Tor network and the Internet to the end-user's IP address." They further claim that the method can potentially trace the path of an anonymous user in under 20 minutes, and an anonymous Location Hidden Service in approximately 120 minutes.

So, whatcha think, you Tor advocates (and all those who are "geekier than moi" on Slashdot and actually understand this stuff). Just based on the summary, does this sound like a workable way to defeat Tor's anonymity? Anyone in the New York area want to drop by this seminar and give us the details?"
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  Google kills Anonymous AdSense account[->] 2008-05-15 13:39 http://techwatch.reviewk.com/

Submitted by http://techwatch.reviewk.com/ on Thursday May 15, @01:39PM
http://techwatch.reviewk.com/ writes "Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web's most influential anti-Scientology sites. Yesterday, the search giant cut off all ads served to Enturbulation, a fledgling site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations. This could have something do with the nature of the ads Google was serving. Many of the Google-driven ads funding the anti-Scientology site were paid for by the Church of Scientology. "While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers," read Google's letter to Enturbulation, a kind of home base for the now famous Anonymous movement. "Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we've decided to disable your account." Of course, it's not Enturbulation's fault that Google was serving the site pro-Scientology ads. AdSense automatically chooses ads based on a site's content. And like any AdSense advertiser, the Church of Scientology has the power to ban its ads from individual domains. Google did not respond to our requests for comment. But it should be noted that the company's new AdSense policies say that partner sites may not include "advocacy against any individual, group, or organization." That said, Google's terms and conditions also prohibit "any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google or otherwise disparages or devalues Google's reputation or goodwill." And this isn't always enforced. The Register, for instance, is an AdSense user, and it doesn't always champion Google's every move. It should also be noted that the Church of Scientology wouldn't actually pay for ads posted to Enturbulation unless someone clicked on them. The question is whether the site's users would be interested in doing so. We leave that question to you. Meanwhile, Enturbulation may lose between $400 and $500 a month in ad revenue. Google's crackdown on Enturbulation's AdSense account follows similar actions by its YouTube subsidiary. Last month, the world's most popular video site vaporized an account run by Mark Bunker, a well-known TV journalist/anti-Scientology activist. YouTube said it destroyed Bunker's video channel because he'd already had an account suspended for violations of site policy. But it seems this rule does not apply to the Church of Scientology."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/google_kills_enturbulation_adsense_account/
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Submitted by PachmanP on Wednesday May 14, @08:58AM
PachmanP writes "While not typical /. fare, there is a copyright tossup going on over Dr. Who knitting patters. A woman shared patterns for characters online. From the article, the problem seems to stem not from the lady but because "there were some unscrupulous people taking these patterns and using them on eBay to make profit for themselves. Unfortunately, we had to get to the source of the patterns — and that was her website.""
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7400268.stm
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  Did Earth once have multiple moons?[->] 2008-05-06 04:02 fyc

Submitted by Cyvros on Tuesday May 06, @04:02AM
A new study from NASA's Ames Research Center has suggested that the collision of Earth and a Mars-sized object that created the Moon may also have resulted in the creation of tiny moonlets on Earth's Lagrangian points. 'Once captured, the Trojan satellites likely remained in their orbits for up to 100 million years, Lissauer and co-author John Chambers of the Carnegie Institution of Washington say. Then, gravitational tugs from the planets would have triggered changes in the Earth's orbit, ultimately causing the moons to become unmoored and drift away or crash into the Moon or Earth.'
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13836-did-earth-once-have-multiple-moons.html
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Submitted by on Tuesday May 06, @03:48AM
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  Pollution Sends Men Bald[->] 2008-05-05 01:32 Ant

Submitted by Ant on Monday May 05, @01:32AM
Ant writes "Telegraph reports that men living in polluted areas are more likely to go bald than those breathing cleaner air, a new study suggests. The ground breaking research, by academics at the University of London, has linked the onset of male pattern baldness, to environmental factors, such as air pollution and smoking. The scientists believe toxins and carcinogens found in polluted air can stop hair growing by blocking mechanisms that produce the protein from which hair is made. Baldness is known to be hereditary, but the new research suggests that environmental factors could exacerbate hair loss... Seen on Digg."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/05/04/scibald104.xml
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  Sun might be offering ZFS images on AWS[->] 2008-05-04 23:40 Chalkboy

Submitted by Chalkboy on Sunday May 04, @11:40PM
Chalkboy writes "Sun's CEO Jonathan Scwhartz is going to make some interesting news for the blogosphere. David Berlind is attending Startup Camp for the conference and has talked about what might be happening in his blog David Berlind's Tech Radar. He says that Schwartz hinted at an Amazon with ZFS announcement for tomorrow night. This would be a great addition in many ways for the Amazon Cloud."
http://troytolle.blogspot.com/2008/05/sun-and-amazon-could-be.html
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