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UK Pressures the US To Takedown Extremist Videos 629

Posted by samzenpus from the not-fit-to-see dept.
chrb writes "BBC News and the Telegraph are reporting that the British government has pressured the US government to take down privately hosted extremist web sites and videos, particularly on YouTube. The request follows the conviction of a 21-year-old woman who attempted to murder MP Stephen Timms after watching YouTube videos of radical American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. YouTube hosts more than 5,000 videos featuring al-Awlaki, but has begun to remove them following the British government's complaints. The issue obviously raises First Amendment issues in the US, but Security minister Baroness Neville-Jones has said 'Those websites would categorically not be allowed in the UK. They incite cold-blooded murder and as such are surely contrary to the public good. If they were hosted in the UK then we would take them down but this is a global problem. Many of these websites are hosted in America and we look forward to working even more closely with you to take down this hateful material.'"
Government

US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks 555

Posted by CmdrTaco from the how's-that-working-out-for-you dept.
An anonymous reader writes "This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN), 32-page US counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks (PDF). 'The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the US government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out.' It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses 'trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whistleblowers,' the report recommends 'The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site.' [As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective.] As an odd justification for the plan, the report claims that 'Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website.' The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks — US equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable US violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay."
Space

Amateur Records the "Sound" of Mars Express 52

Posted by kdawson from the music-of-the-artificial-irregular-shapes dept.
gyrogeerloose writes "A French amateur radio operator who built his own ground station using equipment from an abandoned telecom uplink site has listened in on the ESA's Mars Express space probe. While his antenna is too small to allow him to download actual data, he was able to record and convert the signal of the probe's X-Band transmitter into an audio file."
Crime

Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s 447

Posted by kdawson from the zero-gigahertz dept.
Several readers have mentioned the strange goods that some customers received from Newegg in place of the Intel Core i7 920 processor they ordered. Word on the problem first surfaced on TribalWar on Thursday evening. Newegg still hasn't commented on this. It's not known whether it happened as a result fraud by another Newegg customer, in shipping, or where. The "processors" are made of aluminum, and the "fans" are some kind of synthetic molded material. The "factory seal" was printed onto the box; the holographic stickers on the boxes were also faked. The first part of this video shows the bogus goods. At this writing Google News lists a handful of blogs mentioning the fakes.
The Media

Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives 135

Posted by kdawson from the whole-lotta-rocket-ships dept.
DesScorp writes "Popular Science magazine has scanned every issue they've ever produced, and posted the archives at their website, at no charge. 'We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.'" First search: the history of the flying car.
Data Storage

A Look Under Western Digital's Hood 131

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the hardware-naughty-bits dept.
Tom's Hardware got a rare opportunity to explore the Western Digital campus and show us what goes on under the hood of one of the favorites in storage tech. "When you buy a car, you look under the hood. Given the critical importance of hard disk storage in all of our lives, we thought you might want a peek under that hood, too. Now that Western Digital is in the business of breaking new capacity records (the latest Caviar Green was the first drive to hit 2TB, for example), we jumped at the chance to take a first-ever, unrestricted tour of its California R&D facilities. This is the place where magnetic technology of the 1950s meets the nano- and quantum-level technologies of the current decade."

Comment Re:Venice (Score 1) 920

by TheRaven64 (#30443168) Attached to: The best pizza I have ever had, I found ...
Good advice for anyone visiting Venice is to look for restaurants in back alleys. There are a lot that are much nicer than the ones on the grand canal that get all of the passing trade (you eat at those more for the view than the food). I found a very nice place a couple of streets over from the piazza that contained a McDonalds (which, I'm delighted to say, has since closed down). You had to go through a very narrow passage containing three payphones then emerge into another street and find a restaurant hidden on the corner. I probably couldn't find it if I went back now either. Restaurants like that only survive by making the locals visit, and repeat custom requires good food at a reasonable (by Venice standards) price. Places that survive on the tourist trade just need a good location.

Comment Re:Indictment of cloud computing? (Score 1) 52

by pydev (#30443148) Attached to: Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time

minus admin time as the admin time will be roughly the same either way.

Admin time is not at all "the same"; do you have any idea how much time it costs and how much risk is involved in ordering, configuring, and high-end machines? Then there's the room, the power supplies, the racks, all the supporting infrastructure.

Also, when you buy them, you are stuck with those machines--you have sunk costs. The less you use them, the more you pay for the hours that you do use them.

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