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Comment Re:Statute of Limitations == No Story (Score 1) 266

by teknopurge (#32986156) Attached to: Facebook Wants Ownership Case Thrown Out
It's from the time when the breach was detected - it likely took several years for this guy's lawyers to confirm the breach was valid and there was a valid suit. Do you think we would be talking about this on slashdot if it hadn't been vetted by his lawyers before going after zuckerperson? In short, your quoting something as obvious as a limitation statute thinking that this is what will undermine the case is ignorant. The lawyers that filed the suit considered that for about 200ms when they first met the plaintiff for coffee.
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Google Found Guilty of Australian Privacy Breach 105

Posted by timothy from the so-so-really-very-sorry dept.
schliz writes "The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found Google guilty of breaching the country's Privacy Act when it collected unsecured WiFi payload data with its Street View vehicles. While the Commissioner could not penalize the company, Google agreed to publish an apology on its Australian blog, and work more closely with her during the next three years. Globally, Google is said to have collected some 600 GB of data transmitted over public WiFi networks. In May, the company put its high-definition Australian Street View plans on hold to audit its processes."

Comment Re:Nothing can beat Apple (Score 3, Insightful) 143

by teknopurge (#32278454) Attached to: OpenBSD 4.7 Released
The difference between the OpenBSD community and the Apple community is that the OpenBSD folks know what they are doing. I'm not trying to troll here, but Theo is an asshole, and the exact type of person that I want developing my kernel. His know-it-all attitude and demand for "not-created-here" things to gtfo led to the development of things like OpenSSH. I like the OpenBSD coding style and best-practices in addition to how they audit and analyze their code; more than any feature this is paramount in selecting software for us.

OpenBSD has fewer kernel panics than 2.6.xx.xx and for network tasks has better performance for us.

Again, kudos to the OpenBSD team for another release.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft is hiring again: at $0.52/hr (nlcnet.org) 2

Submitted by teknopurge
teknopurge writes: I actually like most MS products, which is why I was shocked to stumble across this story. 'KYE recruits hundreds-even up to 1,000-"work study students" 16 and 17 years of age, who work 15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week. In 2007 and 2008, dozens of the work study students were reported to be just 14 and 15 years old. A typical shift is from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m. ....Along with the work study students-most of whom stay at the factory three months, though some remain six months or longer-KYE prefers to hire women 18 to 25 years of age, since they are easier to discipline and control' Now I'm all for a global economy and the re-balancing of markets that comes with it, but it seems that there is some serious normalization that needs to be done in these economic cycles. The trend has been to move toward cheap-labor centers for the past 10 years or so. When is the backlash in the markets going to take place?(wages increases abroad, better working conditions, near-shoring becuase the off-shore costs are rising, etc...)

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