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Man arrested for uploading episodes of 24

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2007, @09:58AM

An anonymous reader writes "A Chicago Man was arrested for uploading 4 episodes of the 6th season of 24 prior to it's season premier. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_en_tv/co pyright_prosecution_1 He's turning himself in this week for the trip to LA to face charges."

Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling 144

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 04 2007, @09:42AM
from the like-they-don't-already-know dept.

jcatcw writes "Microsoft research on Internet user profiling could lead to tools that help repressive regimes identify anonymous dissidents, the Reporters Without Borders advocacy group warned last Friday. Microsoft's new algorithms correctly guessed the gender of a Web surfer 80% of the time, and his or her age 60% of the time. "In China, it is conceivable that this type of technology would be used to spot Internet users who regularly access such 'subversive' content as news and information websites critical of the regime," the group said."

Bank switches 12000 desktops to Linux->

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rpc1980

on Monday June 04 2007, @09:23AM

rpc1980 writes "Following recent reports of a South African bank eyeing out Linux, Novell South Africa today issued a statement in which it said it had reached an agreement with First National Bank of South Africa to standardise the bank's 12 000 desktops in its 680 retail branches on Novell's Linux product."
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Plasma arc recycling->

Submitted by

Scooby12

on Monday June 04 2007, @08:56AM

Scooby12 writes "FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida county has grand plans to ditch its dump, generate electricity and help build roads — all by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than the sun. The $425 million facility expected to be built in St. Lucie County will use lightning-like plasma arcs to turn trash into gas and rock-like material. It will be the first such plant in the nation operating on such a massive scale and the largest in the world."
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