Comment Re: Far right tantrum (Score 1) 370
Depends on the temperature
Comment This just in from Norway... (Score 1) 297
Just read about this in the paper today, a Norwegian parking company just started with this practice and the guy caught was quite surprised as he was not notified about his wrongdoings until the ticket came in the mail (he parked there several times thus getting several tickets). The Norwegian Data Inspectorate is looking into this practice.
(Google translate of article)
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftenposten.no%2Fnyheter%2Foslo%2Farticle3851620.ece
Comment Re:Well... (Score 5, Interesting) 89
I have been to many african countries and the only way the are able to communicate with work, family and friends is through mobile phone. There is no infrastructure for wired communications and the postal service is almost non existant or cost a furtune (also there is a lack of places where you can pick up the mail). You can be in the middle of nowhere and you find a mobile phone mast and people with mobile phones. Many of them do in fact have several phones, one on each major provider, as the providers not always peer with each other or the peering is defunc. Mobile serivce is cheap as long as you call people on same carrier, thus another reason for more than one phone.
Submission + - Dubai's police chief calls Blackberry a spy tool (skunkpost.com)
crimeandpunishment writes: Does the battle over the Blackberry ban in the United Arab Emirates have its roots in a spy story? Dubai's police chief says concern over espionage...specifically, by the US and Israel....led to the decision to limit Blackberry services. The UAE says it will block Blackberry email, messaging, and web services on October 11th unless it gets access to encrypted data. Comments by Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim are often seen as reflecting the views of Dubai's leadership, and would appear to indicate a very hard line in talks with Research in Motion.
Comment Not worth it (Score 3, Insightful) 169
3Par is not worth it, HP is just being bully and want to get rid of the HD partnership so they can push their own storage.
For Dell and their customers this is a relief as they would have burned a lot of their cash reserves, now HP have. 3Par was impressive yesterday tomorrow somebody else will show how storage should be done.
Submission + - Julian Assange wanted for rape (expressen.se) 3
mpawlo writes: According to Swedish tabloid Expressen, Wikileaks founder Mr Julian Assange is wanted in Stockholm by the Swedish police, suspected for rape. According to the article the rape suspicion concerns two women. If this is real or a setup, I have no idea...
Submission + - Virginia Health Database Held for Ransom (washingtonpost.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The Washington Post's Security Fix is reporting that hackers broke into servers at the Virginia health department that monitors prescription drug abuse and replaced the homepage with a ransom demand. The attackers claimed they had deleted the backups, and demanded $10 million for the return of prescription data on more than 8 million Virginians. Virginia isn't saying much about the attacks at the moment, except to acknowledge that they've involved the FBI, and that they've shut down e-mail and a whole mess of servers for the state department of health professionals. The Post piece credits Wikileaks as the source, which has a copy of the ransom note left behind by the attackers.
Comment Re:willingness to relocate (Score 1) 494
Dubai has no income taxes at all, at least in the free zones.
Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users 854
Will Fisher writes "New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven't found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help."
Submission + - MIT scientists reach fiber-optic breakthrough
kcurtis writes: The AP (via boston.com) has a story about how MIT scientists have detailed a breakthrough in optics that could lead to cheaper, more efficient optic communications. From the story: "Like polarizing sunglasses that block light waves oriented in different directions, the MIT researchers created a clever device that splits the light beams as they pass through a circuit. The device then rotates one of the polarized beams, before both beams are rejoined on their way out of the circuit, retaining the signals' strength.
But it's not just that device that the researchers are touting.
They're also trumpeting the innovative method they devised to integrate the optical circuitry with electronic circuitry on the same silicon chip."
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