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Submission + - Michael Geist Sued for Defamatory Blogroll

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @05:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist, the well known Canadian law prof and columnist, is apparently being sued for a defamatory blogroll. The suit apparently claims that Geist should be considered the publisher of a libel because his site includes a blogroll that links to a site that in turn links to a site that contains some allegedly defamatory third party comments. At this rate, Slashdot will presumably be sued for linking to Geist who links to a site that links to site that may contain a defamatory comment.

Submission + - Semantic Search: An Antidote for Poor Relevancy

Submitted by

ReadWriteWeb

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @04:44PM

ReadWriteWeb writes: "Dr. Riza C. Berkan, Founder and CEO of hakia.com, writes on Read/WriteWeb about semantic search:

"How satisfied search engine users are today is an on-going debate. However, there is wide consensus, from a scientific viewpoint on the competency of the current search engines: They are half-way to the target and there is huge room for improvement. Semantic search is now under the magnifying glass and the question is 'can semantic search be an antidote for poor relevancy?'""

Submission + - Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config

Submitted by jcatcw on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @04:13PM

jcatcw writes: While Firefox is very customizable, many of its settings aren't in the Options. Each setting is named and stored as a string, integer or Boolean in a file called prefs.js, accessed via about:config from the nav bar. Computerworld provides instructions on 20 tweaks for speeding up page loads, making tabs behave, reducing memory drain and making the interface behave the way you want. Customization also comes through the must-have FF extensions, but be sure to skip these.

Hardware Firewall On a USB Key 203

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @03:30PM from the bad-packets-stop-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Israeli startup has squeezed a complete hardware firewall into a USB key. The 'Yoggie Pico' from Yoggie Systems runs Linux 2.6 along with 13 security applications on a 520MHz PXA270, an Intel processor typically used in high-end smartphones. The Pico works in conjunction with Windows XP or Vista drivers that hijack traffic at network layers 2-3, below the TCP/IP stack, and route it to USB, where the Yoggie analyzes and filters traffic at close-to-100Mbps wireline speeds. The device will hit big-box retailers in the US this month at a price of $180." Linux and Mac drivers are planned, according to the article.

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