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Submission + - FBI orders ca.gov domain deleted

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: FBI orders ca.gov domain deleted

Today the FBI had the ca.gov domain removed from the root servers. Why? A DNS server for a subdomain was hacked and was delegating to other subdomains which were hosting porn. That problem was fixed in mid-September. The federal reaction shows significant latency.

As the caches around the internet age out, email etc. are going to stop. Phone calls and email to get the problem fixed at dotgov.gov were answered by a secretary type answering the phone and she was reading from a script. The root server entries went away approx. 2:15 PDT, and Washington D.C. has gone home. There are over 640 California domains that will not be reachable once the DNS caches time out.

At 6:00 PDT someone at GSA was reportedly pushing out a correction, although the typical BIND cache interval of 3 hours.
The Internet

Submission + - Feds delete ca.gov domains by SNAFU

Submitted by gnulinux4me
gnulinux4me writes: The GSA General Services Administration (GSA) website for domain name registration for the U.S. government deleted the ca.gov domain. How are the Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger fans going to get updates on his latest escapades if they can't access www.gov.ca.gov? A WHOIS search earlier today reported the status of ca.gov as denied\deleted which has recently changed to a status of active. This is the only info I can find on the Internet: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/hacked-gov-sites.html.
The Internet

Submission + - Domain Registry of America Scam

Submitted by
eefsee
eefsee writes: "In 2003 the Domain Registry of America was cited by the FTC for its deceptive practices. They got into similar hot water for a renewal scam in Canada. This company is still at it today, though. They send out deceptive "Domain Name Expiration Notice" up to six months before most domains expire, making it seem that the domain needs to be renewed within the month and charging four times the typical market price for this renewal. I usually just toss these "notices," but my mom almost signed her domains over to these clowns. I just got another "Domain Name Expiration Notice" from DROA today and I'm getting fed up. Who do you think I should tell? My state attorney general? The FTC? They've been down that road before and seem none the worse for wear. Any ideas of how to get these folks shut down?"
United States

Submission + - Driving 'privalege' unconstitutional?

Submitted by JoeSilva
JoeSilva writes: If one accepts that the US Constitution affirms Government only has the powers that it's citizens grant it, then what is this claim by the states that driving is a privalage granted by them? There is certainly good cause to grant the government regulatory powers over the use of motor vehicles and over our rights of way, for the common welfare, but government claiming driving is a privalage it grants to it's citizens seems to me counter to our constitutional ideals. What say you?
Linux Business

Submission + - InformationWeek Invents Torvalds Quote (fsdaily.com)

Submitted by
Morosoph
Morosoph writes: "Last week, Slashdot reported upon an article in InformationWeek, attributing a slur on the authors of the GPL version 3 to Linus Torvalds, which was generated by taking out of context some comments from an email that Linus wrote before the GPL version 3 was even released.

Penguin Pete goes as far as to say that Information Week told a "BIG FAT LIE" in his own blog."
Democrats

Submission + - Why Can't Congress Just Not Send a Bill At All? 1

Submitted by Eldred
Eldred writes: Why do I keep hearing that the Democrats "can't stop the war" in Iraq because they don't have a veto-proof majority. The way I understand it, if they don't send a supplemental spending bill for the war, then the President can no longer spend money on the war and would therefore have to end it? They have a majority. They have "the power of the purse." They can block any war spending bill from passing. So, why can't they just NOT pass a bill and have the war end that way?
Censorship

Exxon's Brute Squad Hacks the Yes Men 308

Posted by kdawson from the can't-take-a-joke dept.
tom_evil notes a story up on Infoshop.org about a parody site and the lack of a sense of humor in a large multinational. "One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement of ExxonMobil's plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men's upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men's email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify. 'Since parody is protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site will think Vivoleum's a real Exxon product, not just a parody,' said Yes Man Mike Bonanno. Exxon's policies do already contribute to 150,000 climate-change related deaths each year,' added Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum. 'So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!'"
Printer

Submission + - Which printer won't rip me off?

Submitted by
Wellington Grey
Wellington Grey writes: "My old inkjet printer died on me today, and after the number of stories we've had on slashdot about the dirty tricks that printer companies pull — from misreporting ink levels to DRM and preventing refills — I wanted to know if slashdotters had any printers they can actually recommend. I don't do a lot of printing, perhaps 50 pages a week, but I don't want to support any companies that try and deceive their customers or sell products designed to fail."
Java

Submission + - JPC is now open source (ox.ac.uk)

Submitted by
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza writes: "JPC, the pure java x86 PC emulator, is one of the coolest things I've seen done with FreeDOS in the last few years. An early preview demonstration was previously discussed on slashdot, but it is now GPL licenced for all. It allows you to boot an instance of FreeDOS in a Java window on your web browser. From there, you can run programs, games, etc. This presents a wonderful opportunity to embed FreeDOS in other systems, or to increase the availability of FreeDOS and DOS applications to users. And now the JPC team has made an important announcement: "Further to your interest in JPC (pure java x86 PC emulator) we are pleased to announce that, with permission of Oxford University, the source code to JPC is now available via the GPL version 2 open source licence." To try JPC or download the source code, visit the project website at: http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk. But does it run linux?"
Businesses

Submission + - Dell IS offering complete hardware support

Submitted by somegeekynick
somegeekynick writes: According to this DesktopLinux.com article, a Dell spokesperson has stated that, "Due to an ordering system glitch during the weekend, we inadvertently removed extended warranty and CompleteCare options from our 'configurator.' We're working to get the issue resolved as quickly as possible and those options will be reinstated this afternoon [June 5]. If customers ordered systems when extended warranties weren't available, they will have the option of upgrading at the original price. There will be more details on that program soon."
Linux Business

Submission + - Extended Warranties on Ubuntu Systems Back Soon

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dell replies to extended warranty claims on Ubuntu systems. "Recently, folks like Slashdot and others reported that we are no longer offering extended warranties or CompleteCare on Ubuntu-based systems. User johnnyk submitted an idea on IdeaStorm asking us to bring back warranty options for these systems. The short answer — we will soon."

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