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Submission + - Wikileaks shutting down due to lack of money (marketwatch.com)

Submitted by stevegee58 on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:15AM

stevegee58 writes: The financial blockade by financial firms like Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, and PayPal has finally caught up with Wikileaks.

Due to lack of funding Wikileaks has announced on its web site that they're temporarily ceasing publication.

Submission + - Wikileaks stops publishing classified files (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

lee1

on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:03AM

lee1 writes: "Wikileaks has had to cease publishing classified files due to what the
organization calls a "blockade by US-based finance companies" that, according
to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has "destroyed 95% of our revenue." Assange
also opined that "A handful of US finance companies cannot be allowed to decide
how the whole world votes with its pocket." According to Assange the group was
taking "pre-litigation action" against the financial blockade in Iceland,
Denmark, the UK, Brussels, the United States and Australia. They have also
filed an anti-trust complaint with the European Commission."

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is this piracy or not ? 8

Submitted by

Chuby007

on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:46AM

Chuby007 writes: "ok I own a movie on DVD now the Blu-ray version is out, I want to download the Blu-ray version, I do not think it's piracy, because I ALREADY PAYED for the rights of the movie, but what do you guys think is it or is it not ?"

Submission + - Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:14AM

jfruhlinger writes: "Gamers who have grown bored with the current generation of game hardware will have to sit tight a bit longer. Word on the street has it that the next PlayStation won't be ready until 2014, and the next XBox won't appear until Christmas 2013 at the earliest."

Submission + - Is online property real? Lawyer says no. (mnginteractive.com)

Submitted by

Bob the Super Hamste

on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:51AM

Bob the Super Hamste writes: "The St. Paul Pioneer Press is reporting on an analysis by lawyer Justin Kwong in the William Mitchell Law Review about virtual property and ownership. Justin Kwong asserts that virtual items are not real items and that you do not own them but only have a license. The analysis stems from a 2008 case of a Blane, MN man who filed a police report for the online theft of approximately $3800 of virtual goods. Justin Kwong compares virtual items to a mug club at a bar where patrons purchase rights to a specific numbered mug but cannot remove the mug from the premises. He does note that if in game items are purchased there needs to be clear language stating:
"the transaction is a license, not a sale, and that traditional consumer protections afforded by sales of goods do not necessarily apply""

Submission + - IT shops coping with overloaded 2.4GHz WiFi band (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:40AM

alphadogg writes: Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme example of how today's surging number of Wi-Fi clients is crowding the band least able to accommodate them. At ACU, this is not considered a problem, at least not yet. In part, that's because of careful wireless LAN design and capacity planning. And partly because a goodly percentage of mobile devices that can run on the alternative 5GHz band, do so: on that same day, 47% of the school's laptops and desktops, and two-thirds of its iPads cruised on 5GHz, via either 802.11a or 802.11n. Yet relatively few of today's Wi-Fi clients support 5GHz.

Submission + - Aaron Barr's Strange Trip to Occupy Wall Street (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Monday October 24, 2011 @07:33AM

Trailrunner7 writes: It was an "Elvis Meets Nixon" kind of moment: former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr sporting blue hair and posing in front of a van sporting the Wikileaks logo down at New York's Zuccotti Park, home of the Occupy Wall Street protest. What was he doing there? It's complicated.

In an interview with Threatpost, Barr said he wanted to be on-hand on the day of the protest in part to observe what role, if any, his arch nemesis — the anarchic hacking group Anonymous — played in the events that transpired. But Barr's e-mail address also turned up on dispatch to the New York FBI by Thomas Ryan, an independent security consultant who has admitted to informing on the doings of OWS organizers, prompting Barr critics called 'foul,' accusing him of trying to undermine the popular protests. Barr, it would seem, was ...err...poking the Anonymous hornet's nest once again.

Comment Re:other factors (Score 1) 264

by Rob Nance on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @03:11PM (#37682316) Attached to: Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base

Wow, are you telling me you value your crews life based on rank?

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