Submission + - Some DNS requests ruled illegal in North Dakota (circleid.com) 1
jgreco writes: "A judge in North Dakota has just ruled that requesting a zone transfer from a public DNS server is criminal activity within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crimes Law. A zone transfer is a simple request that a DNS server hand over information in bulk, and a DNS server may be configured to allow or deny such requests. That the owner of a DNS server would configure the server to allow such requests, and then claim such requests were unauthorized, is simply stunning.
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Feed The Register: Quad-core Xeons use small power plant to maul Opterons (theregister.com)
When Fully buffered DIMMs attack
A recent benchmark comparing quad-core chips asserts that Intel Xeon-based servers have an edge in performance but are complete power hogs when compared to the dainty energy appetite of AMD Opteron-based servers.
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Given that people use computers for taxes, shopping, and other personal activities, how much of this information would be picked up by the Microsoft Ad Servers? Personally, I would rather pay for Windows than take even more risk of my personal information being exposed in this manner.
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