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Submission + - Firefox 128 has integrated data collection for advertisers enabled by default (privacyguides.org) 5

Submitted by TheNameOfNick
TheNameOfNick writes: Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta (formerly Facebook) and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions.

To deactivate the anti-feature, go into Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down and uncheck the box labeled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement". Consider not giving money to a company that betrays your trust.
Networking

Submission + - Coming Soon: Terabit Ethernet (networkworld.com)

Submitted by stinkymountain
stinkymountain writes: Pre-standard 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products — server network interface cards, switch uplinks and switches — are expected to hit the market later this year. And standards-compliant products are expected to ship in the second half of next year, not long after the expected June 2010 ratification of the 802.3ba standard. Despite the global economic slowdown, global revenue for 10G fixed Ethernet switches doubled in 2008, according to Infonetics. And there is pent-up demand for 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, says John D'Ambrosia, chair of the 802.3ba task force in the IEEE and a senior research scientist at Force10 Networks. "There are a number of people already who are using link aggregation to try and create pipes of that capacity," he says. "It's not the cleanest way to do things...(but) people already need that capacity." D'Ambrosia says even though 40/100G Ethernet products haven't arrived yet, he's already thinking ahead to Terabit Ethernet standards and products by 2015. "We are going to see a call for a higher speed much sooner than we saw the call for this generation" of 10/40/100G Ethernet, he says. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042009-terabit-ethernet.html?ts0hb&story=ts_spmc
Security

Submission + - Computer Spies Breach $300-bil Fighter-Jet Project (reuters.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: WASHINGTON — Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.

Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force's air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft.

The latest intrusions provide new evidence that a battle is heating up between the U.S. and potential adversaries over the data networks that tie the world together. The revelations follow a recent Wall Street Journal report that computers used to control the U.S. electrical-distribution system, as well as other infrastructure, have also been infiltrated by spies abroad.

Former U.S. officials say the attacks appear to have originated in China. However it can be extremely difficult to determine the true origin because it is easy to mask identities online.

WSJ : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027491029837401.html

Reuters : http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNewsMolt/idUKTRE53K0TG20090421?sp=true
The Internet

Submission + - SPAM: A Layman's Guide to Bandwidth Pricing

Submitted by
narramissic
narramissic writes: "Time Warner Cable has, for now, abandoned the tiered pricing trials that raised the ire of Congressman Eric Massa, among others. And, as some nice data points in a New York Times article reveal, it's good for us that they did. For instance, Comcast says it costs them $6.85 per home to double the internet capacity of a neighborhood. But the bit of the Times article that we should commit to memory is this:

If all Time Warner customers decided one day not to check their e-mail or download a single movie, the company's costs would be no different than on a day when every customer was glued to the screen watching one YouTube video after another.

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Comment Re:Yes, but... (Score 1) 406

by lemmett (#3646779) Attached to: Cradle to Cradle
In the end, it cost less and created a new market for the company. The same example is used in a book called Natural Capitalism (highly recommended by the way).

The original push to develop the new process was that the chemicals used in the manufacture of the fabric were classed as hazardous waste and it cost the company a ton of money to dispose of them.

After they revised their process their manufacturing costs went down (didn't have to dispose of chemicals), they were able to fetch a premium price for the product, and it opened up the entire market of people with chemical sensitivities that they hadn't been able to sell into before. I believe it also cut down on the number of employee sick days being taken, although that may have been one of the other examples in Natural Capitalism.

Net of it all: more money to their bottom line, lot's of good publicity, and they're doing The Right Thing(tm).

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