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Submission + - Child porn victim looks to the courts for cash

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jswatz
jswatz writes: ""Amy," whose uncle used her for child pornography, is now trying to get restitution from those convicted of possessing porn collections that include her images. But getting restitution from those who simply possess porn, instead of producing it, is controversial. I wrote the story up for the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/03offender.html?hp"

Submission + - Massive disclosure of docs stalls court proceeding

Submitted by fractalspace
fractalspace writes: An ongoing criminal prosecution of former Nortel executives in a Toronto court were brought to a halt when Nortel 'disclosed' 23 million pages of documents to the court. Justice Cary Boswell called it "staggering" and "... had it been produced in paper form, it would reflect some eight-thousand to 10-thousand banker's boxes of material." he said.

The documents were stored in electronic form using some software produced for Nortel by 'Kroll Ontrack'. Apparently, Nortel did not pay the developer additional "tens of thousands of dollars" that were necessary to "improve the search aspects".

The defence argued that its fair trial rights were affected because there was no way to conduct effective database searches of the material. The judge sort of agrees, noting in his ruling that "Disclosure must be meaningful.", which, in electronic age means " ...must be accessible".
Patents

Submission + - MPEG LA extends H.264 royality-free license (mpegla.com) 1

Submitted by Sir Homer
Sir Homer writes: The MPEG LA has extended their royalty-free license for "Internet Video that is free to end users" till the end of 2016. This means webmasters who are registered MPEG LA licensees will not have to pay a royalty to stream H.264 video for the next six years. However the last patent in the H.264 portfolio expires in 2028, and the MPEG LA has not released what fees, if any, it will charge webmasters after this "free trial" period is over.
Privacy

Submission + - Twitter Reports Torrent Sites Used as Honeypots (twitter.com)

Submitted by reifman
reifman writes: Twitter is reporting examples of Torrent sites and forums that required registration being used as honeypots to collect email and passwords for breaking into other sites: 'if you’ve signed up for a torrent forum or torrent site built by a third party, you should probably change your password there. The takeaway from this is that people are continuing to use the same email address and password (or a variant) on multiple sites.' In related news, MSNBC reports today that 73% use bank password everywhere. I've begun encouraging friends to use password management tools — they're cheap and plug in pretty easily to most operating systems and browsers.
Technology

Submission + - SSD Poised to Become Drive of Choice in 2010 (allion.com)

Submitted by madfishevan
madfishevan writes: LSI Corp. and Seagate Technology Inc. recently announced their collaboration to create a PCI-based Solid State Drive (SSD). The companies are combining LSI’s board-level product integrating SAS and PCIe technology with Seagate’s SSD technology to address consumer demands for increased speed and power by achieving new levels of performance, reliability and ease of use. For the computer industry, it looks increasingly likely that SSD technology will begin to phase out Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).
NASA

Submission + - NASA picks 5 firms for private launch to LEO (space.com) 1

Submitted by Gary W. Longsine
Gary W. Longsine writes: Five contracts have been awarded by NASA today, to firms exploring different aspects of the effort to develop a private launch industry for people to low earth orbit. Today's winners include:

Will the forecast $6 Billion allocation over five years be enough to inspire private industry to develop not one, but two human rated launch systems (a capsule, and the lifting body Dream Chaser)? NASA clearly wants competition in the private market, so they seek more than one vendor. Will the losers in this competition be able to survive today's announcement, which makes them "distant third" candidates to provide these services?

Comment Re:Doesn't help. (Score 1) 535

by fractalspace (#29484377) Attached to: Why Developers Get Fired
You are paid to do what you are told to do. Making a stand against the management on your personal philosophy is not exactly "...Highlighintg distinct lack of guidance in their security policies and documentation". If you want your personal agenda implemented, then start your own company. If I find something wrong in how things are done, I make sure all the stakeholders are aware of my objections. My actions however follow what my manager would finally ask me to do. Cant argue with the dough. - myself

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