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Submission + - Nevada Approves Driverless Car Legislation (fellowgeek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Nevada has successfully managed to get some legislation in place to regulate driverless cars, making them the first state to do so. This is big, big news, as this could be the opening that Google needs to prove its vehicles are safe and reliable.

As this is the first time that driverless car legislation has ever been handled, Nevada had to figure out the specifics for how driverless cars would be regulated. What they have settled on is a bit conservative, but not bad for a first draft, though it does keep driverless vehicles for the rich, at the moment...

Submission + - Teambox goes closed source (teambox.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Starting from Teambox 4 given the huge success of open source, the Teambox team has now closed the source, only time will tell if this was a good strategic move. From the site "Teambox 4 is not available as an open-source download. We believe it would take at least a small team of full time developers and thousands of dollars a month in servers to get it running the way it's meant to run."

a slight contradiction to what one of the main developers Pablo Villalba promised last week on the community site: "The repo for Teambox 3 is still open, but Teambox 4 is a work in progress and we won't open anything until it's stable enough, which is still months away. There will a self-hosted install." http://teambox.com/projects/teambox/conversations/238501
DRM

Submission + - MineCraft Authentication servers trouble preventin

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: MineCraft authentication servers are currently experiencing problems which is preventing users who have premium accounts from logging into online servers. if this is not DRM when it breaks down, then what is it? just a few weeks before the 1.9 release doesn't look good for notch and mojang
Technology

Submission + - China Telecom breaks web apps by preforming MITM 1

Submitted by nihaopaul
nihaopaul writes: During chinese new year which ran the beginning of February China Telecom one of only a handful of Internet providers turn't on their new MITM advertising injection system. This is their second version, however it now interferes with all web traffic over port 80.

the code itself can be seen here: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1049772

the interesting thing about this code is that the advertising servers are not switched on but in this example we see a hijack of mozilla.com. if you use noscript like i do in firefox this warns you of the attack but is not able to prevent it due to the MITM nature of the attack, if you have a list of sites that are able to bypass noscript and you live in china i suggest removing them for the time being.

Upon phoning china telecom on their hotline number "10000" they try to give you the run around and insist advertising exists on the web and that they are not interfering with the traffic, only once you start to argue with them and go up the food chain do you get somewhere, which they are willing to disable this "service". my questions to them were "why am i paying twice for a service, i pay for it the first time, then you force me to look at your advertisements on my personal sites?" no comment is the response but a technician will follow up..

However the downside is that any web apps pulling data from sites are also being interfered with causing malformed errors.

One operator from china telecom said "i don't see any problems when i'm at home" which i quickly replied to "sure, but you're probably using IE and being that this service hasn't been fully activated yet you wont notice"

The more exposure this gets the more chance that this wont make it past testing
Encryption

Submission + - Freedur VPN client exposes users

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After investing why Freedur service ceased working inside the great firewall of china today i came across what i believe to be a "kick in the balls", a simple tcpdump reveals that the Freedur service client transmits login details containing identifying information such as email address and account password in clear form which retrieves its connection information. I believe this to be unacceptable for a service that promotes "ANONYMOUS SURFING" and "data ENCRYPTION 128bit" but yet transmit the shared key in plain text. here is what the dump contained http://freedur.pastebin.com/v44XY3A2

Submission + - New server setups proving atypical of the internet

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An anonymous reader writes: have you ever tried to relocate your own servers? i recently relocated my servers out of china to the states, one reason is the shifting internet laws such as what you can and cannot publish and the vague wording such as "media containing poses in a manner that could be sexual" and long delays for business in publishing sites (30day wait period to apply for the required government ICP license) then the forum license, both processes are a huge time consuming activity with 'authoritative' stages that can only be submitted from an IE browser, and, one account per domain! plus the new media distribution license requirements for anything that had moving pictures such as a flash movie or a movie.. as the story goes on, has anyone recently tried to setup a server and found that most emails will get rejected even though your ip addresses are clean, have PTR records for the reverse dns and so on? plenty of companies willing to sell you 'services' that deliver email to xxx sites. i thought i'd have a hard time 8 years ago with dirty Chinese ip addresses, but with US ip addresses its much worse! what steps have you taken and where is the best place to get a good reputation for new mail services?

Comment Re:Pay for Security w/o as much Hassle? (Score 2, Interesting) 75

by nihaopaul (#28556099) Attached to: TSA Asked to Ensure Safety Of Customer Data After Clear Closing

i have to agree, safety is the least of their concern, much more work is done to get into a chinese datacenter unescorted than to pass security at the airports, but this is world wide not just America. security at the airports is for show, many times i've forgotten to empty my bag before flying and found out i've got a multipurpose screwdriver set and once i forgot to take my dive knife out of my carry on. and went through 2 international and one domestic airport.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Enter New HafniumTransistors Era with Penryn (techluver.com)

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Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes: "Intel plans to roll out its newest generation of processors, Monday, flexing its manufacturing muscle with a sophisticated new process that crams up to 40 percent more transistors onto the Penryn chips. The world's largest semiconductor company expects to start shipping 16 new microprocessors — which also boast inventive new materials to stanch electricity loss — for use in servers and high-end gaming PCs . The chip maker will now use Hafnium in combination with a pair of secret metal oxides instead of silicon dioxide to craft the insulation layer of the gate that controls current. The tweaking of the materials counts as the most significant change to transistors in about forty years, according to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. Fifteen of the new chips will run server computers, or systems that dish out data on corporate networks and the Internet, while one model is designed for personal computers. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/11/intel-to-enter-in-to-new-era-of-transistors-made-of-hafnium-with-faster-smaller-45nm-penryn-processors/ )"
Intel

Submission + - SPAM: Intel speeds past AMD -- for now -- with Penryn

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Intel on Sunday launched its long-awaited new line of power-efficient microprocessors, code-named Penryn, designed to deliver better graphics and application performance as well as virtualization capabilities. The processors, manufactured using a 45-nanometer process, feature smaller transistors and cut down on electricity leaks, which makes them faster and more power efficient than earlier 65-nm processors, Intel claims. AMD also has 45 nano chips in the works.
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Quickies

Submission + - Spain to Chavez: 'Shut tp'

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DragonFire1024
DragonFire1024 writes: "Spain to Chavez: 'Shut up' — During a summit of the Latin American nations on Saturday November 10, the King of Spain, Juan Carlos, told the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez to "shut up." The remarks quickly put an end to the meeting. "Why don't you shut up?," said King Carlos, interrupting a speech by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain who was condemning words by Chavez who called the country's former P.M. a "fascist." The King was waving a finger at Chavez."

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