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Republicans

Submission + - Jimmy Carter says Bush allows torture

Submitted by cryfreedomlove
cryfreedomlove writes: Former US President Jimmy Carter is lending his reputation to the growing story that the USA, under the leadership of George W. Bush, is torturing prisoners in violation of international law. Carter is adamant that the torture is happening and that Bush is a liar. It is interesting that, because we live in a free society (for now), that this story is gaining traction in the press and now from a former President who has made a career in the past decade out of lending his personal integrity to causes of social justice around the world. This is happening despite the fact that the Bush machine is trying to urgently keep a lid on this story. Their chilling quote is: "Our interrogation methods are tough, safe, necessary and legal.".
Programming

Submission + - Using Yahoo Web VoiceXML search

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This article shows you how to build a web search application that take VoiceXML as input and queries the Yahoo Search API for both basic Web searches and Yahoo local searches. The query returns information about businesses within a specific location and region. The application then reads the results to the caller after submission.
Security

Submission + - SEC's Anti-Spam Initiative Impacts Financial Spam (net-security.org)

Submitted by GIJoe
GIJoe writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its assault on stock market e-mail spam by suspending trading in the securities of three companies that haven't provided adequate and accurate information about themselves to the investing public. The trading suspensions are part of the Commission's Anti-Spam Initiative announced earlier this year that cuts the profit potential for stock-touting spam and is credited for a significant worldwide reduction of financial spam. A recent private-sector Internet security report stated that a 30 percent decrease in stock market spam "was triggered by actions taken by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which limited the profitability of this type of spam."
Businesses

Submission + - Are animated web ads too intrusive? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I've noticed a worrying trend over the past six months: full motion video adverts in web pages containing otherwise static text. Additionally, some adverts feature strobe-effect flashing. These ads from major corporations make reading the web page impossible — I've just given up on a Salon page after I had to resize it every which way to try and hide a movie advert that flashed from negative to positive every second and destroyed my concentration each time. The question is: Are web page advertisements going too far? Should there be a code of conduct that keeps ads relatively discreet? How can we fight back without denying websites invaluable revenue by using indiscriminate ad-blockers?
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - SFLC Finishes Report on BSD/GPL Dual Licensing (groklaw.net)

Submitted by
Xenographic
Xenographic writes: "Groklaw is reporting that the SFLC has finished their report on the dual licensing debacle over the Atheros wireless driver. To remedy the situation, they got the relevant copyright holders to agree to BSD their contributions to the controversial parts and recommend that future developers use the BSD license only, not a dual license, when they intend for the code to be shared between GPL and BSD codebases. Hopefully, this will quiet the flame wars for the time being."
Upgrades

Submission + - Server densities hampered by depths

Submitted by
BDPrime
BDPrime writes: "With all this talk about server density — fitting more power into the same box — there's one factor in the equation that some people forget about: server depths. Yes, it's a problem. While vendors build servers that can fit more processors and more cores into a 1U server rack space, the problem is that many of their products are so deep that they stick out the front of the racks, forcing data centers to space the racks farther away from one another, which takes up valuable floor space. Anyone else have this problem?"
Editorial

Submission + - Daniel Lyons of Forbes admits being snowed by SCO (none)

Submitted by
certain death
certain death writes: "Daniel Lyons of Forbes Magazine has admitted to being snowed by SCO with concern to the law suit over Linux and SCO code. He specifically mentions the GrockLaw folks and wonders when his crow will show up, seems he has some ketchup ready to mask the flavor. Anyone who has been following the SCO debacle from the start has probably read some of his one sided (SCO) aritcles. Article can be found here (print version) http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons_print.html"
Data Storage

Submission + - World's 5 Biggest SANs

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ByteandSwitch is searching the World's Biggest SANs, and has compiled a list of 5 candidate with networks supports 10+ Petabytes of active storage. Leading the list is JPMorgan Chase, which uses a mix of IBM and Sun equipment to deliver 14 Pbytes for 170k employees. Also on the list are the U.S. DoD, which uses 700 Fibre Channel switches, NASA, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (it's got 18 Pbytes of tape! storage), and Lawrence Livermore.
Unix

Submission + - Advanced UNIX find command techniques

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The UNIX operating system is much like a vast, uncharted wilderness. As you travel the terrain, you can pick up tools that assist you later. The find command is such a tool. The find command is capable of much more than simply locating files; it can automatically execute sequences of other UNIX commands, using the filenames found for input, as this article explains.
Programming

Submission + - Its official: C++ sucks (gmane.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to Linus the creator of the Linux operating system: C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Jobs' Open Letter to iPhone Customers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Good news for early adopters who are upset at iPhone's price drop 2 months after the introduction. Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to iPhone customers. Acknowledging that Apple received complaints over the aggressive price cut, Jobs promised $100 rebate in the form of store credits to those who are illegible for refunds or other considerations. Details to follow next week.
The Internet

Submission + - Wikipedia blocks Overstock.com from editing 1

Submitted by thefickler
thefickler writes: Known for having a media director that obsessively stalks critics, Overstock.com's IP address range has now been banned from editing on Wikipedia. Longtime Wikipedia staffer, David Gerard, posted this on the Administrators' Noticeboard Tuesday afternoon: "I've just blocked 65.116.112.0/21, which is an IP range (a) owned by Overstock.com (b) widely used by them for spamming, COI editing and attempted intimidation of administrators dealing with them. I strongly suggest against unblocking this range under any circumstances"

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