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Comment Awesome (Score 0) 261

by danielfrancis on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:23PM (#37028152) Attached to: Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc

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Submission + - Apple sued over OS X's use of quick-booting (networkworld.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: With a patent originally owned by LG in tow, a Florida based company called Operating Systems Solutions LLC recently filed suit against Apple claiming that OS X's use of quick booting infringes the aforementioned patent.

Submission + - Syrian Hackers Deface Anonymous' Social Network (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:17PM

CWmike writes: "After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous' embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus — the site Anonymous set up last month when it was booted off Google+ — did not include the name of the group responsible. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, however, credited the AnonPlus defacement to the 'Syrian Electronic Army' in a message posted to Twitter. 'In response to your hacking to the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the internet of [y]our pathetic website,' the defacement read."

Submission + - Facebook Now Using Natural Language Processing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has added a new type of story to its News Feed today: if more than one of your friends post about the same topic, and it has a Page on the social network, the posts will be grouped under a Posted About story, even if your friends don’t explicitly tag the Page. It turns out Facebook is using natural language processing on status updates as well as the headlines of posted links to figure out if a topic mentioned has a corresponding Page, and then searches to see if your other friends have done so as well.

Submission + - Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: Michigan's Thomas M. Cooley Law School recently filed a lawsuit that appears to be boomeranging in the worst possible way. A little-noticed pseudonymous blogger respectfully disagreed with Cooley's self-awarded number-2 ranking, nationwide (well, perhaps no so respectfully), and had a few other choice things to say. So, Cooley went ahead and hired some lawyers who had graduated from Georgetown and the University of Michigan, to file a lawsuit to unmask the blogger. And EFF cooperating attorney John Hermann got involved. http://www.freep.com/article/20110806/NEWS06/108060378/Lawyer-says-Cooley-Law-School-s-suit-just-trying-silence-critical-bloggers Tech Dirt's Mike Masnick once coined the term "The Streisand Effect" to describe the phenomenon of SLAPP lawsuits that boomerang badly. Is "The Cooley Effect" an even better illustrative term?

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