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Submission + - Wikipedia overrules DOJ (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by kylehase on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @09:26PM

kylehase writes: The release of Wikiscanner last year brought much attention to white washing of controversial pages on the community generated encyclopedia. Apparently Wikipedia is very serious in fighting such behavior as they've temporarily blocked the US Department of Justice from editing pages for suspicious edits.

Submission + - MySQL's big leap next week (cio.com)

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kylehase

on Saturday April 12, 2008 @09:43AM

kylehase writes: "CIO.com has a writeup about MySQL's 5.1 release planned for next week. Among the enhancements are many bug fixes from 5.0 some of which may increase performance 20% or more as well as "partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering"."

Submission + - First use of RIPA to demand encryption keys (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by kylehase on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @05:44AM

kylehase writes: The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) is being used for the first time to force an animal activist to reveal encryption keys for encrypted files she claims to have no knowledge of. According to the article, she could face up to two years if she doesn't comply.

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