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Submission + - Data Center Operators Double as Energy Brokers (nytimes.com)

Submitted by mattOzan on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @04:03PM

mattOzan writes: When data centers first opened in the 1990s, the tenants paid for space to plug in their servers with a proviso that electricity would be available. As computing power has soared, so has the need for electricity, turning that relationship on its head: electrical capacity is often the central element of lease agreements, and space is secondary. While lease arrangements are often written in the language of real estate, they are essentially power deals.

Submission + - Judge rules against RealDVD (wired.com)

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mattOzan

on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @12:38AM

mattOzan writes: "Judge Marilyn Hall Patel was unswayed by RealNetwork's defense of their product under the Fair Use Doctrine, as she declared RealDVD illegal and barred its distribution. As she said in her ruling, "So while it may well be fair use for an individual consumer to store a backup copy of a personally owned DVD on that individual's computer, a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies.""

Submission + - Bootkit bypasses TrueCrypt encryption

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mattOzan

on Saturday August 01, 2009 @06:02PM

mattOzan writes: "At Black Hat USA 2009, Austrian IT security specialist Peter Kleissner presented a bootkit called Stoned which is capable of bypassing the TrueCrypt partition and system encryption. The bootkit uses a "double forward" to redirect I/O interrupt 13h, which allows it to insert itself between the Windows calls and TrueCrypt."

Submission + - 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA is the Law That (wired.com)

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mattOzan

on Monday October 27, 2008 @07:42PM

mattOzan writes: "On the tenth anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Wired Magazine posits that the DMCA should be praised for catalyzing the interactive "2.0" world wide web that we enjoy today.

While acknowledging the troublesome "anti-circumvention" provision of the act, they claim that any harm caused by that is far outweighed by the act's "notice-and-takedown" provision and the safe harbor that this provides to intermediary ISPs.

"It's not perfect. But it's better than nothing."

Submission + - In case of Rapture, check inbox

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mattOzan

on Saturday June 07, 2008 @04:43PM

mattOzan writes: "Wired reports on a handy new web service at youvebeenleftbehind.com, where subscribers can have email notifications sent to 62 non-believing friends in the wake of The Rapture. Personal and financial documents saved on the website will automatically be decrypted and sent to loved ones as well, six days after the presumably sky-sucked administrators all stop logging into the site."

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