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Journal Journal: Choke points for spam

A large problem with spam is the collection of zombie systems (mostly Microsoft home computers) on residential broadband lines that act as relays for spam. Most of these users have simple firewalls supplied by their broadband providers that they never really configure that provide DNS proxy services, among other services. Is it not about time to start pressuri
Education

Submission + - New accelerator technique doubles particle energy

ZonkerWilliam writes: Plasma wake particle accelerators are making suprisingly quick advances. It was a just a little while ago we had Gev acceleration in 3cm; http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/0 4/0057225. Here they are capable of doubling the speed of electrons, in one meter. See the article for more information; http://www.physorg.com/news90682193.html
The Courts

YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox 396

An anonymous reader writes "Tech Crunch has an article about YouTube identifying and handing over a user's information after a request from Fox. 'Three weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television. That user, named ECOTtotal, is also alleged to have uploaded 12 episodes of The Simpsons, some quite old. Apparently Google and YouTube were willing and able to identify the owner of the username ECOTtotal, according to a report on InternetNews.com.'"

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