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Submission + - Harvard releases disruptive P2P file sharing code (harvard.edu)

Submitted by Instant_Harvard_Groupie
Instant_Harvard_Groupie writes: Today Harvard released a program what they hope is a first peek at a new generation of P2P file sharing. Their P2P software demonstrates a 'deft trick'. It turns Internet bandwidth into a global currency.
They explore the generation of P2P beyond Bittorrent tit-fot-tat by creating a leak-free economy. They also fully integrated TOR into their software to demonstrate the fundamental flaws in tit-for-tat incentives. Quite disruptive for Youtube as they integrated video website search and you will never have visit such sites separately anymore. Features: keyword search, Bittorrent downloads, Youtube access, TOR integration, and LGPL. Platforms: Ubuntu, Mac, W95, Vista. May an army of law professors protect them from harm now and in the future because they have some serious P2P research plans..
Republicans

Submission + - Plagiarism at arXiv (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by jmakov
jmakov writes: "They provided a PDF of the Journal of High Energy Physics article, marked up to reveal the source of much of the text. It contains material from at least a dozen different peer-reviewed works; the original material seems limited to a majority of the abstract and a limited number of mathematical derivations that rephrase equations published elsewhere." Some other urls: http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/08/22/ plagiarism-at-arxiv/, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=59 0
Privacy

Submission + - Light pulses crack security codes within seconds (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by jmakov
jmakov writes: University of Michigan scientists have discovered a breakthrough way to utilize light in cryptography. The new technique can crack even complex codes in a matter of seconds. Scientists believe this technique offers much advancement over current solutions and could serve to foil national and personal security threats if employed.
Privacy

Submission + - Rep. Berman Doing Mafiaa Bidding (As Usual) (variety.com)

Submitted by
Panaqqa
Panaqqa writes: "Howard Berman, the Representative from Disney, is once again trying to turn ISPs into part of the RIAA/MPAA's extortion and shakedown juggernaut by requiring them to pass along threatening letters to subscribers that use P2P. This is quite alarming, coming as it does from the head of the house Intellectual Property Committee. Many P2P lawsuits are based on very flimsy evidence, such as an IP address alone. One can only hope that more defendants have positive outcomes such as winning back their attorney's fees."
Microsoft

Submission + - 0-day vulnerability in MSN Messenger (redoracle.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A zero day vulnerability has been found in MSN Messenger. There are no sure information about that at the moment, but experts think that an attacker could execute injected arbitrary code on vulnerable computers cusing a buffer overflow through malformed video data stream. To take advantage of this security problem, the victim should accept to use his webcam.
Security

Submission + - Security Economics (net-security.org)

Submitted by J0yc3
J0yc3 writes: Information security has finally become mainstream. It is almost a recognized profession, with its own areas of specialization: network security, audit, incident response, forensics, and security management. Salaries for IS practitioners have been rising constantly, the market for security products and services is large. The "security frontier" has moved from firewalls and anti-virus to IM and VoIP security. However, convincing people and organizations to implement effective security measures has not become easier, so we must ask ourselves — is security worth it?
Windows

Submission + - Vista SP1 leaked, analysed (apcmag.com)

Submitted by
imbaczek
imbaczek writes: "It's no secret that there's a leaked beta of Vista SP1 floating around, but no-one yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does. Someone did, and you can too."
Microsoft

Submission + - Irregularities reported in OOXML ISO process (europa.eu)

Submitted by Basile Schaeli
Basile Schaeli writes: Irregularities are being reported in national standardisation bodies of several EU member states that are deciding how to vote on OOXML. Participants found issues in the voting process in Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands.
Software

Submission + - Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian Translator Created (marketwire.com)

Submitted by DrJackson
DrJackson writes: A new ancient languages online translator has been developed. It can translate Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian and the hieroglyphic script of Egyptian (1 of the 3 anyway). This is the website: virtualsecrets.com . This is the first time I ever saw a translator for cuneiform. Something like this would be great for translating interesting historical records like the Amarna Letters.
Space

Submission + - ISS Expedition 15 Crew Snap Dramatic Cloud Photos

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From their silent orbit high above planet Earth (via), International Space Station (ISS) astronauts have a unique view and perspective of events on Earth. On 20 August 2007 the Expedition 15 crew aboard ISS witnessed stunning and huge clouds formed over Earth. Five pictures were taken, listed here in time order, giving us the opportunity to share in the spectacular scene: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and the via which includes links to larger photos, and links to the original NASA images. And finally, look at this beautiful and interesting cloud pattern over Earth, photographed on 11 August 2007 during Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission: #6 (via), #7 (via).
Security

Submission + - Reuters hacked? (reuters.com)

Submitted by Sam_Brightman
Sam_Brightman writes: Has Reuters been hacked/subject to XSS? Their homepage initiates an aggressive attempt to install "performanceoptimizer" when visited in IE. Apparently it has been like this for about a week.
The Internet

Submission + - Free the fonts!

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Web pages are limited to using a few fonts issued by Microsoft a decade ago — this is Microsoft's forgotten monopoly. CSS describes how to link to font files from web pages, but no browser support this for common TrueType files. In an article on Alistapart Håkon Wium Lie, the father of CSS, argues that the time is right for web fonts. Truetype files are freely available, the TrueType format is universally supported, and the first implemenatation (Prince) has arrived. Demos provided.
Handhelds

Submission + - Why is shopping for a cell phone so horrible? 1

Submitted by
botkiller
botkiller writes: "In shopping around for a new cell phone plan, I'm finding how incredibly painful the process of cell phone shopping truly is. Cell companies all have convoluted data plans, no clear explanation of what you get with any type of plan, and on top of this, are actually charging instant messaging per message, as if it's text messaging! Is there any way to shop for a smartphone and plan out there that doesn't kill my wallet and make me rip my hair out?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Explains Networking Slowdown

Submitted by Thornkin
Thornkin writes: A week ago there was a furor raised on Slashdot and various blogs regarding the massive drop in network throughput when one played an MP3 file on Vista. It was purported to be a big DRM conspiracy by some. It was submitted as evidence of Microsoft's incompetence by others. Today Microsoft released the details of what happened. Larry Osterman of the Windows audio team and Mark Russinovich formerly of SysInternals both posted about the issue. It turns out the network was being throttled to avoid audio glitches. The throttling was a bit too aggressive for fast networks and they are working on a fix.

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