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Comment Re:Obama == Bush (corporate friend)? (Score 0) 546

by merc (#26894569) Attached to: Will Obama's DOJ Intervene To Help RIAA?

"Let me get this straight. Obama, the man of the people, has a Dept. of Justice"...

No. The President does not "have a" Department of Justice. They are two of three distinct autonomous branches of government. I'm not saying Obama is without influence but don't conflate the judicial and executive branches or assert that they are controlled by a single individual.
Spam

Submission + - ROKSO listed spammer Robert Soloway arrested

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merc
merc writes: "A story in the SeattlePI today reports that ROKSO listed Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington early this morning, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. According to the article, Robert Alan Soloway was arrested in Seattle Washington in a joint operation conducted by the Washington State Attorney General's Office, the FBI, FTC, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) and the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). The story reports that Soloway will make his initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

The indictment against soloway lists 10 separate felony charges including 10 counts to execute a scheme or artifice to defraud, 5 counts of wire fraud, 2 counts of fraud by connection to e-mail, 5 counts of aggrivated identity theft and 13 counts of money laundering. If convicted as charged, he could face up to 65 years in prison."
Spam

SORBS - Is There a Better Spam Blacklist? 226

Posted by Cliff from the blacklists-in-general-are-like-this dept.
rootnl asks: "Recently I decided to upgrade my email server with better spam detection and decided to use the SORBS blacklist. It is a very aggressive blacklist and could be deemed quite effective. However, I discovered two totally legal servers currently being blocked by their Spam 'o Matic service: a Google Gmail server (64.233.182.185), and another server belonging to an ISP called Orange (193.252.22.249). Now, normally one would think these providers would probably get themselves de-listed, but the process provided revolves around donating money. As I just happen to have a friend that is using the said ISP, I have to seriously reconsider using SORBS. What is your experience with SORBS? If you have alternatives, what would you suggest as a better blacklist service?"
Privacy

Submission + - Adobe Tracking You Through PDFs?

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Owlbino
Owlbino writes: "Adobe's relatively new product, Document Center, offers a number of interesting features related to the distribution and usage rights management associate with PDFs. Among these are a few that I find disturbing in a Big Brother, over-your-shoulder kind of way, and I hope a few readers will turn a critical eye towards these innovations with me. Extending their 'Document Protection' functionality, which gives a degree of control over what is done with PDFs after release and distribution, Adobe now offers "Active Control" and even "Document Tracking." Active control allows one to "change any aspect of the protection you apply to the document at any time, even after distribution." And Document tracking, or Document Audit, "allows you to know exactly what actions have been taken, by which individuals, with specific time and date stamps. Document Center even allows one to set "time limit access" on documents, with these permissions manageable on every level through groups and down the specific end-users. These features seem particularly prone to misuse, especially the ability to monitor the exact nature of one's use of a given document. I hope Adobe provides adequate protections for the end-user, making sure that we're warned about what information we're giving up by reading these advanced PDFs as many of these features would probably come as surprises to users. Of course, this sort of tracking is already a part of web-browsing, but I think most people assume reading PDFs on one's own computer, particularly with their interactive analogue to paper, is a passive, one way, private sort of interaction. As always, keep an eye out. http://www.adobe.com/products/onlineservices/docum entcenter/"
Handhelds

Submission + - Linux GPS Device for Divers

Submitted by James Myrie-Williams
James Myrie-Williams writes: LinuxDevices.com today are reporting that a robust handheld manufacturer are making a specialist version of their device for deep underwater use. The product seems to be targeted at scuba divers and the many people who enjoy snorkling etc. with a view to guiding them to, and around, the many amazing underwater sites in the world. Their technical researchers have been demoing it on a wreck off the south west coast of the UK. It uses GPS to help you navigate around the wreck, whilst triggering various media and information that relates to the site — all whilst your 35 meters underwater. It got me wonder whether there were actually any Divers out there who would be interested in using such a specialist device, and whether the explosion of specialist gadgets like this one has once and for all proved that the convergence theory is codswallop?

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