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Phurge writes:
Savvy Internet fans in the people's republic have known for a long time, however, that there have been simple ways to get forbidden information. One of those ways was the magical gift of Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. The Great Firewall can block specific web sites all it wants, but as long as there's an RSS feed, many Chinese surfers can use feeds to access otherwise forbidden information.
Unfortunately, China appears to have finally gotten wise to RSS as of late — reports have been popping up from our readers and around the web of not being able to access FeedBurner RSS feeds as early as August of this year. More recent reports tell us that the PSB appears to have extended this block to all incoming URLs that begin with "feeds," "rss," and "blog," thus rendering the RSS feeds from many sites — including ones that aren't blocked in China, such as Ars Technica — useless.
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An anonymous reader writes:
Two new class-action cases against Apple are taking shape. The first involve the widely reported suit by Queens, NY woman Dongmei Li over the $200 iPhone price cut. Li's lawyer Jean Wang tells InfoWeek she's seeking to broaden the case. "I'm looking for a class action," Wang said. "Right now, I'm seeking as plaintiffs people just like Li, who feel their property was devalued. We're suing them not for lowering their prices, but for the various anti-trust violations that have resulted from them lowering their prices." The second case comes from California lawyer Damian Fernandez, who's looking for plaintiffs to join an iPhone warranty suit over iPhones that were "disabled, malfunctioned, or you had third-party applications erased after you downloaded iPhone update 1.1.1"
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holy_calamity writes:
Sony and the University of Alabama are working on a gigapixel resolution camera for improved satellite surveillance. It can see 10-km-square from an altitude of 7.5 kilometres with a resolution better than 50 centimetres per pixel. As well as removing annoying artefacts created by tiling images in Google Earth and similar, it should allow CCTV surveillance of entire cities with one camera. It does it with an array of chips that record small parts of the image and place them at the focal plane of a large multiple-lens system.
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ShakaZ writes:
Following the leaks of all the internal emails and later the source code of all the anti-p2p software of MediaDefender, the boss and an employee of the company have been arrested by the LA police. They are charged for illegal uploading with intent to deceive, bandwidth theft, and grievous misrepresentation.
More handcuffs there : http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13397
Due to the released emails, ThePirateBay have proof of infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, for which they filed a complaint to the Swedish police. 10 companies of the music, movie and gaming industries are listed in the complaint.
More pirates here : http://thepiratebay.org/blog
