Comment Ah, Clacks (Score 5, Informative) 279
Apparently where Terry Pratchett got the clacks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacks
Submission + - Thieves using stolen credit cards to make donation (newsday.com)
JagsLive writes: ""Even the bad guys want to verify the other bad guys."
Newsday.com rerts, " They might seem like modern-day Robin Hoods, but they're really just cyber-robbers.
Some fraudsters have become generous — with other people's money, donating to charities with stolen credit cards to verify the numbers are valid before selling them, the security firm Symantec Corp. said Friday on its blog.
Unverified cards fetch up to $6 while verified cards can bring up to $18, said Javier Santoyo, a manager at Symantec. "Even the bad guys want to verify the other bad guys." ""
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance 790
UpnAtom writes "People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed, and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to — will be denied passports from March 26th. The Blair government has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons. Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe — more so even than Sweden. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British government to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."
Top Ten Open Source Innovators 152
42istheanswer writes "Open source is so much more than Linux these days. A lot is happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are thriving in CRM (SugarCRM), messaging (Scalix), and systems management (Zenoss). Datamation has identified ten leading commercial open-source innovators and the projects they are working on in their article, Ten Leading Open Source Innovators."
Bookmark Innovative Pharox LED Lamp Uses 3.4W: Replaces 40W Incandescent (TreeHugger) (treehugger.com)
Submission + - Selling Homeowners a Solar Dream
slugo writes: "Instead of making you spring for $25,000 or more in gear, Citizenr says it will loan you a complete rooftop solar power system, install it for free and sell you back the power it generates at a fixed rate below what your utility charges. The company hopes to make back its investment with those monthly payments, augmented by federal tax credits and rebates."
