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Submission + - Arriva il Pinguino. Avanti la Italia (repubblica.it)

Submitted by Ep0xi
Ep0xi writes: Montecitorio hi-tech: arriva il Pinguino Linux al posto di Windows e rete wi-fi Folena: "Adottare un sistema open source ci libera dai vincoli del software proprietario E' una scelta di trasparenza e di sicurezza doverosa per una istituzione pubblica" di CLAUDIA FUSANI Ho provato e funziona tutto alla perfezione rassicura Grillini. (11 luglio 2007)
Censorship

Submission + - 'Metal Hand Sign' Perverted by overuse (theonion.com)

Submitted by Ep0xi
Ep0xi writes: VATNAJÖKULL GLACIER, ICELAND — In an emergency session Tuesday, members of the Supreme Metal Council strongly condemned the increasing use of the metal hand sign in lay society, claiming that its meaning has become perverted by overuse. Enlarge Image Metal Council Convenes To Discuss 'Metal Hand Sign' Abuse Elders of the Supreme Metal Council examine amateur-video evidence of what they are calling a worrisome trend." "The metal sign, or 'sign of the goat,' has all but lost its impact as a token of respectful recognition for something truly 'rocking' or 'metal,'" SMC president Terence "Geezer" Butler said. According to Butler, members are upset that their sacred gesture is being used to acknowledge and celebrate "favorable but clearly non-metal events."
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - U.S. storms homes to snag gaming pirates (msn.com)

Submitted by
KennyG944
KennyG944 writes: "Federal agents seek piracy devices in more than 30 homes and businesses WASHINGTON — Federal customs agents Wednesday raided more than 30 businesses and homes, looking for devices that let pirated video games play on Sony's PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360, and Nintendo's Wii. The alleged sale and distribution of illegal modification chips and copyright circumvention devices for the popular consoles and others included 32 search warrants in 16 states, said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (MSNBC.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal News.) ICE declined to release the names of those targeted or any other details. The illegal chips and other devices used on gaming consoles violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Sales of counterfeit or illegally obtained games costs the industry about $3 billion a year globally, not including Internet piracy, estimates the Entertainment Software Association trade group. "Illicit devices like the ones targeted today are created with one purpose in mind, subverting copyright protections," Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for ICE, said in a release. "These crimes cost legitimate businesses billions of dollars annually and facilitate multiple other layers of criminality, such as smuggling, software piracy and money laundering." The federal raids came after a yearlong investigation conducted by ICE's Office of the Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Cleveland, which coordinated with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio and the Department of Justice's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section. ICE said it also received technical assistance from the software association and other industry members. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. issued a statement applauding ICE's efforts to reduce piracy and protect the gaming industry's intellectual property. A company spokeswoman would not divulge Microsoft's individual piracy losses. Shares of Microsoft added 15 cents to $29.14 in afternoon trading, while Sony Corp. dipped 44 cents to $52.30."
Businesses

Submission + - DSL Half Duplex... Why is upload more expensive?

Submitted by
Saevio
Saevio writes: "I have a question I would like answered: Why do all ISP's charge more for Upload than Download bandwidth. SDSL is outrageously more expensive than ADSL. Since the majority of residential lines are Half Duplex why would it matter? It makes no sense to me."
Windows

Submission + - Teachers in Graphic design not using OLE at all

Submitted by
Ep0xi
Ep0xi writes: "My mother which also works teching in the tech industry as i do, is doing some graphic design i asked. We reach to the conclusion that she has not been using the OLE technologies since the Windows XP came to market. In her school where she teaches all the usual design software, (of course they have originals)
she is not teaching her alumns to use OLE at all, because since Windows Millenium,
including Windows XP SP1, and SP2, she says that the OLE do not work as intended,
and the failures on the software and operating system are huge, so the waste of time
makes no point in using OLE at all.
By the way, she uses HUGE amounts of hard drive, because she saves one copy after another
of every process she do with images and vector graphics.

So my question is, do anyone really use OLE Technologies flawless after leaving Windows 98?
You can check her webpage Alicia"
Censorship

Submission + - Fox News Report Retaliation for "Hacking"?

Submitted by
ReK_42
ReK_42 writes: "Am I the only one who thinks that this report might be related to the Fox FTP incident less than a week ago?
The Fox account of the incident states "No user information, e-mail addresses or other personal data were ever comprised." However, according to the blogger linked in the above /. article:

"...later published on Slashdot exposed sensitive content to thousands of members of the public today.
The data included names, phone numbers, and email addresses of at least 1.5 million people."
And to take a 3rd, independant source as confirmation, The Register has this to say:

"...the FTP account that was discovered provided access to records for around 1.5 million individuals, along with access to sensitive ZDNet business documents."
I say Fox has pointed the FUD-guns at Anonymous because of this incident.
Let's get some free (liberal, as Fox would call it) media aware of this and point the truth guns right back at Fox.
"
Privacy

Submission + - Does Internet really help to traditional business? (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by
Ep0xi
Ep0xi writes: "Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has issued a powerful warning of the disruptive force that technology can inflict on traditional business models.
Article on ZDNET
Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp, admitted that power was moving away from proprietors such
as himself, towards a "new media audience" who use IT and the Web to "to inform, entertain and above all to educate themselves". This included bloggers, and Web users who access information and
downloaded music and video online."
Security

Submission + - Bind DNS hole worse than anticipated?

Submitted by
Crissee
Crissee writes: "There's an article up on heise Security going into some detail about the faulty PRNG of Bind9 and its consequences. The conclusion: it's a very bad implementation bug. And it seems the OpenBSD folks smelled the rat ten years ago. From the article:

Interestingly, the OpenBSD project, which explicitly focuses on security, chose a different path and already addressed the issue ten years ago. According to it's lead developer Theo De Raadt, the OpenBSD Bind was patched in 1997 during the migration to version 9, to use a Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) for its transaction IDs, which are not vulnerable to the attack. De Raadt also claims that back then there were discussions with the Bind developers, on the questionable security of their LFSR implementation, but they "they did not listen"."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Historical Look At First Linux Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by LinuxFan
LinuxFan writes: KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Scientists doing Quantum research with cats??

Submitted by Ep0xi
Ep0xi writes: Cat thrown away in 'brutal act'
The cat, nicknamed Chivers
The cat was found to be slightly underweight
The RSPCA has expressed concern after a cat was seen thrown from a moving car in Cornwall.

A witness saw the ginger cat being thrown from the front passenger seat of a black car at the Chiverton Cross roundabout near Blackwater.

The RSPCA found the cat on the roundabout and took him to the RSPCA Venton Animal Centre. The cat was uninjured but left very frightened.

A spokeswoman described it as a "brutal act to a friendly and loving animal".

She said: "It is amazing that he escaped without any physical injury and was able to make it to the island without being run over."

The cat, thought to be about two years old, is slightly underweight. He has been nicknamed Chivers.

The RSPCA is appealing for information in a bid to find the person responsible.
Announcements

Submission + - EU to change definition of "open standard"

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The EU is considering to change the definition of "open standards". It has a consultation process that is not publicized at all. Please submit opinions in favor of open standards, or else we will suddenly wake up to having lost a very important battle. On the form, ask for the use of open standards, as defined by the European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment Services (Version 1.0, 2004, page 9) for all information, be it in documents, video, sounds, etc. published on the websites of the European Commission. 34
Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo! Still down (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by
DFDumont
DFDumont writes: "Does anyone have an idea of what's wrong with Yahoo? Its now day two of their inability to map My.yahoo.com to my user ID, and I cannot authenticate anything, (My portal, mail, maps, messenger). I tried the password recovery feature, even though I'm quite certain I know my password but it fails to load the toolbar. My account with Yahoo! is ancient, even older than my Slashdot account ;-)

The front public page simply says there's a temporary error, but 36 hours is not temporary.

I'm trying both Firefox and IE and both have the same behavior. Any news?

Dennis Dumont"
Intel

Submission + - Intel open-sources multicore programming toolkit (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Doctor Memory
Doctor Memory writes: Intel has recently open-sourced their previously closed-source TBB 2.0 (Thread Building Blocks) C++ library. The library provides parallel algorithm templates for "task-based parallelism", emphasizing logical tasks instead of physical threads. The web site (osstbb.intel.com) hosts an FAQ, a forum link, and a download page to get the latest version of the source. Licensed under GPLv2, Intel will continue to sell a commercial version of the library which will include engineering support. There's a more in-depth overview over at Ars Technica.

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