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The Internet

The Dark Side of the Web 156

Posted by timothy from the reefer-madness-is-back dept.
Barence writes "Beneath the web pages indexed by Google lies an online world that few know exists. It's a realm of huge, untapped reserves of valuable information containing sprawling databases, hidden websites and murky forums. It's a world where academics and researchers might find the data required to solve some of mankind's biggest problems, but also where criminal syndicates operate, and terrorist handbooks and child pornography are freely distributed. Interested? You're not alone. The deep web and its 'darknets' are a new battleground for those who want to uphold the right to privacy online, and those who feel that rights need to be sacrificed for the safety of society. The deep web is also the new frontier for those who want to rival Google in the field of search." The melodrama is tempered, though: "The deep web isn’t half as strange or sinister as it sounds. In computer-science speak, it refers to those portions of the web that, for whatever reason, have been invisible to conventional search engines such as Google."
Censorship

Pennsylvania CISO Fired Over Talk At RSA Conference 147

Posted by timothy from the perfecting-the-art-of-the-ham-fist dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Pennsylvania's chief information security officer Robert Maley has been fired for publicly talking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system. He apparently did not get the required approval for talking about the incident from appropriate authorities."
Music

EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs 601

Posted by timothy from the but-this-is-on-the-internet dept.
smooth wombat writes "Before the advent of iTunes and MP3s, EMI and Pink Floyd entered into a contract which stated that EMI could not unbundle individual songs from their original album settings. This was insisted upon by the members of Pink Floyd, who wanted to retain artistic control of their works, which they considered 'seamless' pieces of music. However, with the advent of digital downloads, EMI has been selling individual songs through its online store. Pink Floyd sued, claiming EMI was violating the contract, whereas EMI said the contract only applied to physical albums, not Internet sales. Judge Andrew Morritt backed the band, saying the contract protected 'the artistic integrity of the albums.' Judge Morritt also ruled EMI is 'not entitled to exploit recordings by online distribution or by any other means other than the complete original album without Pink Floyd's consent.'"
Government

Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794

Posted by timothy from the too-stupid-to-live-as-long-as-possible dept.
lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
The Courts

The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law 467

Posted by kdawson from the nobody-left-to-collect-damages dept.
KentuckyFC writes "Now that the physicists have had their say over the safety of the Large Hadron Collider, a law professor has produced a comprehensive legal study addressing the legal issue that might arise were a court to deal with a request to halt a multi-billion-dollar particle-physics experiment (abstract). The legal issues make for startling reading. The analysis discusses the problem with expert witnesses, which is that any particle physicists would be afraid for their livelihoods and anybody else afraid for their lives. How can such evidence be relied upon? It examines the well established legal argument that death is not a redressable injury under American tort law, which could imply that the value in any cost-benefit analysis of the future of the Earth after it had been destroyed is zero (there would be nobody to compensate). It asks whether state-of-the-art theoretical physics is really able to say that the LHC is safe given that a scientific theory that seems unassailable in one era may seem naive in the next. But most worrying of all, it points out that the safety analyses so far have all been done by CERN itself. The question left open by the author is what verdict a court might reach."
Networking

Submission + - $500 Network cable no longer available on Amazon. (amazon.com)

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DeCappa
DeCappa writes: "the infamous $500 "Denon-Link" ethernet cable is no longer available on Amazon. It is unclear why it was pulled. The reviews were perhaps the best part about this whole thing and they are still available via permalink. Here are some links for more info:

Original Slashdot Article:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/15/009216&from=rss

Original Amazon Link (not working):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM

Amazon page via Google Cache:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tC1SK2C904MJ:www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM+denon+%24500+cable+amazon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Amazon Review Page via Google Cache:
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2Fproduct%2FB000I1X6PM%3FshowViewpoints%3D1&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a"

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