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Submission + - Hollywood treats hackers pretty well (idg.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "According to Damian Gordon, a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, hackers are treated pretty well by movie-makers. Gordon studied 50 movies, produced over five decades to help write an academic paper for the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. The results amazed him. In the movies, most hackers aren't teenaged whiz-kids. They're professionals, over 30 years old, who work in IT."

Submission + - Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple (makeahistory.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization
Google

Submission + - Losing Google would hit Chinese science hard 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: More than three-quarters of scientists in China use the search engine Google as a primary research tool and say their work would be significantly hampered if they were to lose it, a survey showed on Wednesday. In the survey, 84 percent said losing Google would "somewhat or significantly" hamper their research and 78 percent said international collaborations would be affected.

"Research without Google would be like life without electricity," one Chinese scientist said in the survey, which asked more than 700 scientists for their views

Submission + - PayPal to open app store for developers (goodgearguide.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "PayPal will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company's multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers. Developers have a big opportunity to offer applications for merchants and consumers that PayPal doesn't have the interest or resources to build itself, according to a PayPal official."
Security

Submission + - Intelligence Failure in Mabhouh Assassination (shalomlife.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems that in this case the assassination planners did not conduct a diligent gathering of information. A simple search on Google, as shown above, would have spotted the potentially huge risk embodied in the surveillance cameras of the hotel.
Privacy

Submission + - GoDaddy logs in on customers' VPS unauthorized (sucuri.net) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From a dismayed user's blog:

I have been a GoDaddy user for a while and never had problems with them. In fact, differently than some people, I had great support and service from them. However, one recent situation is making me change my mind about them...
Microsoft

Submission + - Kindle as e-reader in Microsoft Courier ? (tablettweet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Imagine how great it is If you can use Microsoft Courier as e-book reader which supported by Amazon Kindle’s 3G book buying Whispernet ! Why I said something like this ? Because Microsoft and Amazon just announced about a patent cross-license agreement which gives both companies access to each others patent software technology. So it means that, right now Microsoft which have a plan to release Microsoft Courier in this year has a Kindle technology and I think maybe Microsoft’d like to put the e-book reader application “Kindle” which has a biggest online book buying support system in their greatest tablet of all time “Courier”. This is not just a dream because Amazon has start to expand their Kindle into new territory such as Iphone, PC, MAC, and also a Blackberry. Maybe this is one of the way to fight back Apple Ipad from Amazon and Microsoft.

Submission + - RapidShare Ordered To Filter Book Titles (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by RedTeflon
RedTeflon writes: Six book publishers have gained an injunction against file-hosting company, RapidShare. The Swiss-based ‘cyberlocker’ service must monitor user uploads to ensure that around 148 titles, many of them textbooks, are never made available to its users. Failure to do so could result in $339,000 fines, or even jail time for company bosses.

Submission + - Victorian Postal Service Resembled E-mail (nytimes.com)

Submitted by goombah99
goombah99 writes: Written mail in Victorian London was delivered and picked up 12 times in a 12 hour day. It also resembled e-mail in the way it was used. Messages often sought replies by the next postal pickup. And even the lazy practice of sharing links rather than writing a thoughtful letter became commonplace as people would send copies of previously read newspapers instead of writing. Like now, newspapers saw their circulations plummet as their content was shared freely this way. And as the price of mail droppped to negligible, junk mail was invented along with the 409 solicitations from strangers. All in all it seems like a good evidence that charging more for e-mail delivery would arguably cure its worst tendencies.
Government

Submission + - Use open source? Then you're a pirate! (computerworlduk.com) 4

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes: There's a fantastic little story in the Guardian today that says a US lobby group is trying to get the US government to consider open source as the equivalent to piracy.
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), an umbrella group for American publishing, software, film, television and music associations, has asked with the US Trade Representative (USTR) to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its "Special 301 watchlist" because they encourage the use of open source software.
A Special 301, according to Guardian's Bobbie Johnson is: "a report that examines the 'adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights' around the planet — effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure — often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods — to try and force governments to change their behaviours."
Read more: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2811&blogid=10

Submission + - Videogames meet film noir under a Heavy Rain (outravegames.com)

Submitted by fracatola
fracatola writes: With critics saying many Hollywood movies look like videogames, French game-maker Quantic dream this week bucks the trend with “Heavy Rain”, an interactive adventure that plays like a classic film noir thriller.

Submission + - Free money not worth effort for Miami Newspaper (nbcmiami.com)

Submitted by Dthief
Dthief writes: Just two months after they put out their hand asking for online donations, the Miami Herald has apparently ended its request for voluntary contributions to its Website. ...
"The first few days of this experiment have elicited an encouraging steam of gifts, ranging from $2 to $55," Gyllenhaal said. "They've also provoked an array of reactions, here and across the country, since this has drawn attention as the first effort of its kind."
Open Source

Submission + - How to make an Open Source Business (ustream.tv)

Submitted by mjhuot
mjhuot writes: Many of us love working in open source software, but few of us have figured out how to do it full time or to make a career out of it. At this weekend's Southern California Linux Expo, keynote speaker Tarus Balog presented an inspiring talk on how he has been able to create a successful services company supporting the open source network management application platform OpenNMS. If you were unable to make the conference, the talk is available online and is worth checking out.

Submission + - Windows 7 memory usage critic outed as fraud (infoworld.com)

Submitted by Fred Flowers
Fred Flowers writes: /.ers will remember a couple of stories in the past few days about Devil Mountain Software's finding that Windows 7 consumes too much memory. The original story quoted the company's CTO, Craig Barth on the issue. Now, InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr has still more to add. From Knorr's blog at InfoWorld.com: 'On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics...There is no Craig Barth". Knorr's post goes on to say that Kennedy has been fired from his blogging gig at InfoWorld over this 'serious breach of trust', and that his blog will be removed. Is this a victory for the integrity of traditional media vs. bloggers or just another sad data point in the ongoing debate over the future of journalism?

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