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Submission + - Photoswarm - New Photo Sharing Service (photoswarm.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: New Photo Sharing Service:

Photoswarm provides fast, beautiful, full screen photo sharing showcase websites for pro photographers.

Pro sites come with a professional "www.yourname.com" domain name, the ability to sell your photos and track visitors with world beating Google Analytics integration.

Photoswarm is also backed by a collection of Amazon S3 & EC2 server farms ensuring high availability, rock solid data safety and lightning fast photo websites.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Letter to the USTR regarding the ACTA 1

Journal by einhverfr

BTW, here was my comment submitted to the USTR regarding the treaty.

RE: 2010 Special 301 Review
Docket Number USTR-2010-0003

Jennifer Choe Groves
Senior Director for Intellectual Property and
Innovation and Chair of the Special 301 Committee
Office of the United States Trade Representative
600 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20508
Filed electronically via Regulations.gov

Dear Ms. Groves:
Botnet

Submission + - Chuck Norris attacks Linux-based routers, modems (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Discovered by Czech researchers, the Chuck Norris botnet has been spreading by taking advantage of poorly configured routers and DSL modems. The malware got the Chuck Norris moniker from a programmer's Italian comment in its source code: "in nome di Chuck Norris," which means "in the name of Chuck Norris." Chuck Norris is unusual in that it infects DSL modems and routers rather than PCs. It installs itself on routers and modems by guessing default administrative passwords and taking advantage of the fact that many devices are configured to allow remote access."

Submission + - Windows 7 memory usage critic outed as fraud (infoworld.com)

Submitted by Fred Flowers
Fred Flowers writes: /.ers will remember a couple of stories in the past few days about Devil Mountain Software's finding that Windows 7 consumes too much memory. The original story quoted the company's CTO, Craig Barth on the issue. Now, InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr has still more to add. From Knorr's blog at InfoWorld.com: 'On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics...There is no Craig Barth". Knorr's post goes on to say that Kennedy has been fired from his blogging gig at InfoWorld over this 'serious breach of trust', and that his blog will be removed. Is this a victory for the integrity of traditional media vs. bloggers or just another sad data point in the ongoing debate over the future of journalism?

Submission + - ACTA internet chapter leaked - bad for everyone (boingboing.net)

Submitted by roju
roju writes: Cory Doctorow is reporting on a leaked copy of the "internet enforcement" portion of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). He describes it as reading like a "DMCA-plus" with provisions for third-party liability, digital locks, and "a duty to technology firms to shut down infringement where they have 'actual knowledge' that such is taking place." For example, this could mean legal responsibility shifting to Apple for customers copying mp3s onto their iPods.
Businesses

Submission + - Will Obama Really Commercialize Space? (associatedcontent.com)

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: Many people who defend the new Obama space policy tout its commercial space initiative, believing that it will spark a free market future on the high frontier of space. But considering how the Obama administration approaches private business on this planet, it could just as well presage a space based version of a crony capitalism spoils system.
Image

Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance 262

Posted by samzenpus from the if-it-looks-like-a-liberal-and-quacks-like-a-liberal dept.
quaith writes "It's not the way they dress, but the appearance of their face. A study published in PLoS One by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady of Tufts University used closely cropped greyscale photos of people's faces, standardized for size. Undergrads were asked to categorize each person as either a Democrat or Republican. In the first study, students were able to differentiate Republican from Democrat senate candidates. In the second, students were able to differentiate the political affiliation of other college students. Accuracy in both studies was about 60% — not perfect, but way better than chance."
Moon

Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon 920

Posted by CmdrTaco from the selling-out-the-future dept.
bonch writes "Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'"

Comment Re:Cyber Clean (Score 1) 214

by NitsujTPU (#30752584) Attached to: The Worst Products of CES 2010

I was about to say something similar, albeit, perhaps less derisively. I haven't tried Cyber Clean, but it seems like a great product. If it's at ThinkGeek, I'll have to throw it in with my next order of energy drinks.
Books

Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture 241

Posted by kdawson from the another-tortured-genius dept.
EagleHasLanded writes "Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman doesn't talk to journalists. Actually, he doesn't talk to anyone anymore. So we'll have to settle for insights via his biographer, Masha Gessen, who, strangely enough, has never talked to him either. But she has spoken with just about everyone who has ever had any significant interaction with Perelman, and the result is the book Perfect Rigor, which more than adequately explains why Perelman has gone into self-imposed exile, and why he probably won't collect the million dollars he won by solving the Poincare Conjecture."
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Casino Denies Man $166 Million Jackpot 32

Posted by samzenpus from the glitch-in-your-winnings dept.
An anonymous reader writes 'After having played on the slot machine for over 30 minutes, Bill Seebeck was ecstatic when he hit the $166 million jackpot. However, The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa was less than enthusiastic, telling Seeback his win was a mistake because the machine malfunctioned. Thus, the casino refused to pay Seebeck his prize as the machine was only supposed to have a maximum pay out of $99K. Currently, the casino refuses to pay out even that amount.'

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