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Submission + - Myspace now involved in censoring?

Submitted by
wolfeharte
wolfeharte writes: "According to the latest news post and myspace bullitins from http://askaninja.com/node/2836, Myspace now automatically censors certain URL's from being posted on their site. If you try to use www.revver.com in a message, or display it anywhere on myspace, the end result will be "www...". Has Foxspacenews launched another volley at Net Neutrality? Some fear that if this continues, Myspace will force others to use their own brands of video hosting services, and charging for the ability to view and create is just a short step from there."
Censorship

Submission + - Blog comments and libel laws

Submitted by
56ker
56ker writes: "I have a blog, written in the UK and published in America. A guy rang my home phone, mobile phone repeatedly yesterday (and emailed me) as he objected to a comment a third party (an American) had left on the blog calling him illiterate. Apart from first referring to livejournal as Myspace it turns out he wants me to "get rid" of the comment (despite not being the author or publisher) otherwise he'll sue me for libel. The comment in question was written last year around December 4th-5th. The question is — as a person who can edit the content on my blog do I have to comply with his request? Can he sue me for such a matter and should I ask the person who left the comment to delete/rephrase it or wait for a lawsuit? What are the laws that apply to comments left in blogs by third parties (only other case I can think of is Shoemoney). Any advice anyone? P.S. The UK libel laws do not apply to Six Apart (who publish livejournal) or the commenter — but they do to me as "editor" — which set of laws applies anyway?"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Ban Animal rights activists

Submitted by ghoul
ghoul writes: This article on Time shows the stupidity of Animal Rights activists. They have campaigned for and successfully got eating dog meat banned in Phillipines where it has been a traditional food . I wonder how Americans would feel if Hindus told Americans you cant eat beef as Hindus find that disgusting as Americans find eating dogs?
Programming

Submission + - New Source Code Search Engine

Submitted by tdalek
tdalek writes: Today a new source code search engine, All The Code launched with a substantially different take on source code search engine than previous companies. Traditional source code search engines have relied solely on the code within a file, however this new engine looks at how code is used to help determine the relevance of source code. Presently All The Code only supports the java language, but its still quite interesting to see how this technology works.
United States

Journal Journal: "Terrorism" Strikes again

Journal by EatingSteak
"Terrorism" strikes again. A man advertising Adult Swim in Boston has just been arrested.
FTA: "Authorities arrested a man in connection with electronic light boards depicting a middle-finger-waving moon man that triggered repeated bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday and prompted the closure of bridges and a stretch of the Charles River."
Television

Submission + - Adult Swim Ad Campaign Discovered To Be Hoax

Submitted by
makinola
makinola writes: "A clever ad campaign caused a serious uproar in Boston on Wednesday. On Wednesday January 31st Boston was on high alert as Police and F.B.I agents located "suspicious packages" throughout the city. Thought to be some sort of bomb plot, the packages were part of an ad campaign for Adult Swim. The packages were magnetic light boards depicting one of the mooninite characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force giving the finger. From the Article: "...Peter Berdvosky was arrested in Arlington Wednesday night and charged under a recently enacted statute making it a crime to place a hoax device that results in panic...Berdvosky was apparently working for InterferenceInc.com, which was the company hired by Cartoon Network to carry out the ad campaign." The devices were apparently placed throughout the city 2-3 weeks ago according to Cartoon Network. I'm not sure which is worse,the over reaction over some harmless light boards or that it took the authorities 2-3 weeks to realize they should even be looking into anything. I surely feel safer today than yesterday."
Republicans

Submission + - Cheney Sidesteps Travel Disclosure Rules

Submitted by
JayTheHun
JayTheHun writes: "Unlike the rest of the White House, Cheney doesn't make his outside travel public By Kate Sheppard and Bob Williams WASHINGTON, November 16, 2005 — Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff have been unilaterally exempting themselves from long-standing travel disclosure rules followed by the rest of the executive branch, including the Office of the President, the Center for Public Integrity has discovered. Cheney's office also appears to have stuck taxpayers with untold millions in travel costs rather than accepting trip sponsors' funds that the rules would require to be disclosed. It's not as if those in Cheney's office don't indulge in the type of junkets that are routinely funded by private sources. Instead of accepting reimbursement for such trips like other government travelers, it appears that his office labels them "official travel." As a result, however, the public is kept largely unaware of where he and his staff are traveling, with whom they are meeting with and how much it costs, even though tax dollars are covering the bill. http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?a id=760"
Nintendo

Submission + - Wii Modchip Announced

Submitted by deadmantyping
deadmantyping writes: The first modchip for the Wii, dubbed "WiiNinja", allowing the playing of backups has been announced. This comes shortly after the announcement of a method to backup Wii games. Photos of the modchip and videos of it in action were also made available by the developers. Installation requires dismantling the Wii (of course) and soldering 5 wires to the Wii's motherboard. The WiiNinja modchip will be available soon for purchase according to the developers.
The Internet

Submission + - Charter Communications Hijacks Windows Live Search

Submitted by
Tony Bradley
Tony Bradley writes: "There are plenty of spyware and malware programs out there that will hijack your default home page or search engine. Antivirus and anti-spyware software will typically identify and block such attempts because they are illegal, or at least unethical. Imagine my dismay then when my default Web browser search engine was hijacked...by my ISP!! I did some investigating and found that they rationalized their browser hijacking by calling it an opt in "feature". The problem is that they opted everyone in by default and never gave users the opportunity to choose. I also discovered that this "service" only seems to apply if you use Microsoft's search engine. If you are a Google or Yahoo user, apparently you don't need to be forced to opt in to Charter's new "feature". Check out my walk-through of my investigation into this browser hijacking, complete with screen shots to illustrate the story. http://netsecurity.about.com/od/webbrowsersecurity /ss/charterhijack.htm"
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Free Public Wifi? Free Public Infection...

Submitted by tkohler
tkohler writes: Computer World is running an article about those "Free Public Wifi" wireless SSIDs that have popped up recently. Turns out that these are bait for unsuspecting mobile wannabes looking for a free hook-up. The article says that these can launch an attack on you and make you a zombie too. I have seen these at airports, near my home and around my office. Are all the people around me turning to virus sharing zombies? You need to have file sharing on, and if you do, a automatic Wifi connection could infect you. Oh yeah, it is worse on Vista.
Space

Submission + - 'Smoking gun' report to say global warming here

Submitted by
gollum123
gollum123 writes: "from the CNN, Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week ( http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/23/climate .report.ap/index.html ). The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment, written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate. That report will feature an "explosion of new data" on observations of current global warming. the 12-page summary for policymakers will be edited in secret word-by-word by governments officials for several days next week and released to the public on February 2. The rest of that first report from scientists will come out months later. The report will draw on already published peer-review science. Some recent scientific studies show that temperatures are the hottest in thousands of years, especially during the last 30 years; ice sheets in Greenland in the past couple years have shown a dramatic melting; and sea levels are rising and doing so at a faster rate in the past decade."

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