Comment Re:99.3% accurate? (Score 1) 239
I realize that we aren't going to be trying to make a cloned copy from this data, but what uses is this "good enough" for?
It's good enough to make Ivory: a pure 99.44%.
Comment Re:How is this different from net-neutrality? (Score 1) 102
Because they've gotten hammered in Nanog over hosting Intercage/Attrivo. And you can say all you want about the Congress-critters and their "regulation" about net neutrality, but unless they want to make their own US-only internet, they're going to have to play by the rules of the big dogs (those who own ASes, many of which aren't in the US). And the big dogs on Nanog aren't happy about it, and last month some threatened BGP-blackholing (therefore completely making them disappear) for their particular ASes.
When you run your own AS, you ARE Shiva the Destroyer, as far as the "Internet" is concerned. You can make other places just *poof* disappear.
Really, this is just the modern equivalent of the UDP - nobody will enter into this lightly but it is effective.
Read Nanog - despite the fact that there are some serious asshats on that list, it's like a pulse of the Net. Stuff like the Sitefinder announcement and this were posted there first.
Journal SPAM: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker 608
During the very time Congress was debating codifying the Bush administration's wiretap lawbreaking by revising the FISA law the Gonzales DOJ was raiding the home of a former Justice official to identify the person who first brought the illicit program to light.
As Newsweek details the FBI raided the home of Thomas M. Tamm, former official of the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) within DOJ.
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An anonymous reader writes: Within a few weeks, Australia may introduce new laws to censor films and literature deemed by the government to be supportive of terrorism. This is not the first time material has been censored in Australia, which has previously censored films and banned publications, including one titled Defence of the Muslim Lands (censored in mid 2006 by Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock). The proposed laws are aimed to target material such as a DVD by Feiz Mohammad containing some of his past controversial sermons calling for jihad and comparing Jews with pigs. The Office of Film and Literature Classification previously classified this DVD as "PG", suitable for viewing by anyone under 15 years of age with parental guidance.
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Frosty Piss writes: "Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent. One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park. Yet significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range of mountains, in a total surprise, is getting shorter. The findings, reported this month in the Journal of Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption."
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