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Submission + - EU might be listening to you at last (wikinews.org)

Submitted by Ronald Dumsfeld on Monday October 19, 2009 @01:44PM

Ronald Dumsfeld writes: Wikinews puts together some of the details around the EU's five-year-plan called Project INDECT, and brings attention to a leaked "sales-pitch" video.
"An unreleased promotional video for INDECT located on YouTube is shown to the right. The simplified example of the system in operation shows a file of documents with a visible INDECT-titled cover stolen from an office and exchanged in a car park. How the police are alerted to the document theft is unclear in the video; as a "threat", it would be the INDECT system's job to predict it.
Throughout the video use of CCTV equipment, facial recognition, number plate reading, and aerial surveillance give friend-or-foe information with an overlaid map to authorities. The police proactively use this information to coordinate locating, pursing, and capturing the document recipient. The file of documents is retrieved, and the recipient roughly detained."

Submission + - Chinese version of Wikinews blocked in China (wikinews.org)

Submitted by

DragonFire1024

on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:47PM

DragonFire1024 writes: "Wikinews — Wikinews has learned that access to the Chinese Wikinews website has been blocked in China. Wikinews can also confirm that the English version of the website is still available in China.

Users using the social networking site called Twitter have reported that the site was "blockade[ed] today by the mainland" of China. Others, writing on the Wikimedia Foundation's mailing list also state that the Chinese version of Wikinews is blocked in major Chinese cities such as Beijing.

The reason for the blockade is not yet known. Wikinews contacted the Chinese government for a statement, but so far there has been no reply.

The Chinese government has an active policy of blocking websites they consider harmful."

Comment Found? Not at all. (Score 1) 767

by DragonFire1024 on Sunday September 21, 2008 @04:08PM (#25096117) Attached to: Palin Email Hacker Found

This is nothing more than crap. No one has found this "hacker" and no one knows where he is. The article linked in this post tells of ways they are trying to find him/her/them but there is NOTHING that says he was found. In fact the only news sources saying he was, is the website in this post, and slashdot. I can see FOX News not doing simple research on this, but /.? Fact is I know for a 100% fact that 1) no one knows who the hacker(s) are 2) no one knows where they are. 3) I can say for a fact that anyone involved with this is safe and sound.

Submission + - Honeybees prompt faster Internet server technology (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Sunday November 18, 2007 @10:38PM

coondoggie writes: "Honeybee intelligence can be used to improve the speed and efficiency of Internet servers by up to 25% according to Georgia Institute of Technology researchers.Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command. Such swarm intelligence of these amazingly organized bees can also be used to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22045"

Submission + - Google Honors Veterans Day

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:10PM

theodp writes: "It took nearly a decade, but Google has done a turnabout and is honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page are greeted with three World War I-era helmets capping the letters 'o' and 'e' in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999."

Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions 720

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @05:16AM from the deletionism-rampant dept.

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser. This is to protest the 'notability purges' taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening?"

Submission + - Call To Halt Donations To Stop Wikipedia Deletions 4

Submitted by

ObsessiveMathsFreak

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:04PM

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes: "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser, in protest at the "notability purges" taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening? Is Deletionism becoming a dominant ethos on Wikipedia? Are the right people holding the reigns?"

Submission + - Astronauts Prepare to Open Station Room (go.com)

Submitted by

mikesd81

on Saturday October 27, 2007 @12:20PM

mikesd81 writes: "ABC News reports that the ISS has opened the new station room. Commander Peggy Whitson and astronaut Paolo Nespoli delayed their lunch so the event could happen before the station's orbit temporarily blocked the ability to send a video downlink to Mission Contro. "It's a pleasure to be here in this very beautiful piece of hardware," said Nespoli, who joined Discovery's crew to personally deliver the Italian-made pressurized chamber. Astronauts added the school bus-sized room called Harmony during a 6.5-hour spacewalk Friday, using a robotic arm to lift it from the shuttle's cargo bay and install it on the station. The compartment will serve as the docking port and nerve center for European and Japanese laboratories that will be delivered on the next three shuttle flights. It also will be a power and thermal distribution center, providing air, electricity, water and other systems for the space station. Racks of computer and electronic equipment are already inside the cylinder, which will double as a living space for the crew. The astronauts will have to undo about 700 bolts that held down the equipment during flight to get the room ready. Also time on Saturday has been set aside to inspect Discovery."

Submission + - Remains of Shattered Moon Found in Saturn's Rings (colorado.edu)

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @05:54PM

Riding with Robots writes: "Scientists have announced that they have used images from the robotic spacecraft Cassini to find moonlets embedded in Saturn's outer rings that are likely the remains of a larger moon that was shattered by an asteroid or comet. The team from the University of Colorado at Boulder that made the discovery has now posted details and pictures."

US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma 199

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:21AM from the doesn't-work-as-well-as-pulling-the-plug dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that US-made censorware is being used to oppress the people in many countries, including Burma. That in itself may not be surprising, but a more interesting point is that according to lawyers interviewed by the CS Monitor it appears to be legal — in spite of all the economic sanctions against the country, and even though people know it will be used to hush up any mention of things like attacks on peaceful protesters."

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