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Comment Re:Even if SOPA dies, they'll just reintroduce it (Score 1) 177

by ox01a4 (#38135870) Attached to: Viacom's SOPA/PIPA Pitch Video, Annotated
I think that your proposal is a wonderful idea. Of course it would also be nice to have a clean webpage that would reference each member of congress so that you could cross reference the bills that they introduced, and gasp, how they voted on all bills. Transparency would pull down the Krone Capitalist society that Americans currently live in.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Rolls Out Space Exploration Road Map (yahoo.com)

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MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: "NASA and the space agencies of a variety of countries, including members of the European Union, Canada, Japan, Russia, India, the Ukraine, and South Korea, have rolled out the latest version of a space exploration roadmap.

NASA and its partners have created two road maps, called "Asteroid First" and "Moon First." This represents the continuing argument over which destination astronaut explorers should go to first. Should it be an Earth approaching asteroid, as President Obama insists? Or should it be the moon, as many people in Congress, NASA, and NASA's partner agencies suggest?

In any event, all roads lead to Mars in the current plan. Both visits to an asteroid and to the moon are considered practice runs for what will be needed to go to Mars."
Network

Submission + - Low-Latency Network Connects London And Hong Kong (eweekeurope.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Financial traders and law firms are set to benefit from a new low-latency network between London and Hong Kong, which can conduct data on a round trip from Europe to Asia in around 176 milliseconds.

The cable network, run by UK-based trading technology company BSO Network Solutions, has been in place for some time, but previously had to route around large parts of Russia, due to difficulties laying fibre in that country.

However, a new lower latency and higher availability ‘Transit Mongolia’ connection has helped to reduce the time of a round trip by more than 20 milliseconds during the last 12 months.

The news follows an announcement from Hibernia Atlantic last week that a new transatlantic submarine communications cable will be installed on the Atlantic seabed, to connect financial traders in New York and London. The cable will initially be lit with 40Gb technology, which could be upgraded to 100Gb technology in the future.
Cellphones

Submission + - Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices (inhabitots.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: A daycare center in Sweden is testing a new system for that will prevent missing children by placing GPS tracking devices on kids while they are outside of the confines of the nursery walls. The transmitters will report to a synced mobile phone, alarming teachers if a child moves out of a certain distance. The tracking devices clip easily to reflective vests that the children of the Malmoe daycare wear when outside of the school.
Privacy

Submission + - Are Some CAs Too Big to Fail? (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: In the wake of this weekend's revelations of the seriousness of the attack on certificate authority DigiNotar, security experts have renewed criticism of the Internet's digital certificate infrastructure, with some wondering if larger certificate authorities (CAs) might be too big to fail.

Would Mozilla and Microsoft and Google have revoked trust in root certificates from VeriSign or Thawte had they been compromised? Unlikely.

"It's not a simple matter of removing certificates from a database, because they're not in any databases," says researcher Moxie Marlinspike, who presented an alternative approach to the current SSL infrastructure last month at DEFCON. "We may never track them all down."

Submission + - TSA Groper Files SLAPP Suit Against Blogger (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: TSA employee Theldala Magee has filed a lawsuit against a blogger demanding $500k in damages for alleging a particularly invasive search involving multiple incursions of a finger into the passenger's vagina. The passenger, who likened the feeling to being raped, is being sued for defamation for supposedly sullying the otherwise good name of a checkpoint smurf.
Science

Submission + - Satellite Spots Burning Man Festival from Space (discovery.com)

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MikeCapone
MikeCapone writes: "A European Space Agency (ESA) satellite has captured what has become one of modern society's most hedonistic adventures--Burning Man. Taken about 400 miles up, the picture shows Black Rock City in full swing along with all of its 50,000-something attendees. ESA compiled the photograph using four photos, each with a resolution of about 16 feet. The perfect tribute as Burning Man just entered its 25th year. The festival started at San Francisco's Ocean Beach back in 1986 and relocated 120 miles north of Reno in 1990."

Submission + - New Superconductor Wires Could Give Renewable Ener (talkingpointsmemo.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Scientists in Israel have used technology created at a US-funded national research lab to created a new kind of wire that is a vastly better conductor than traditional copper wires. The research could have profound implications for renewable energy since much of the generation is in remote locations. It could help bring more electricty from renewable sources to cities.

Submission + - CS Majors do badly in the jobs market (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: British CS majors do badly in the job market — with, four years after graduation, a higher than average (for college graduates) unemployment rate and fewer returning to higher education. The only good news is that a higher propertion than average are in employment. Brit CS majors also do badly immediately after graduation. No similar US figures exist reports the Computing Education Blog.
Privacy

Submission + - Court Orders Gov't to Disclose GPS Tracking Data (readwriteweb.com)

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concealment
concealment writes: "United States law enforcement officials have been utilizing data provided by global positioning satellite systems to track down individual suspects, without having to demonstrate probable cause before a judge first — that much is known. Rights groups such as the ACLU have wondered, just how much of that goes on?

The rights group's investigation of this practice has inadvertently triggered a renewal of the debate over privacy policy versus public disclosure, and whether it's possible for an agency or other entity to reveal data that could lead to further revelation of personally identifiable data (PID), without officially violating privacy. The final outcome could set a new precedent for privacy policy, not just by the government but for enterprises as well."
Movies

Submission + - Netflix Cracks Down on Concurrent Streaming (stopthecap.com)

Submitted by milbournosphere
milbournosphere writes: Over the Labor Day Holiday, Netflix has started to crack down on concurrent streaming. Unless you have a plan that allows for 2+ DVDs out at a time, you will be limited to watching only one movie at a time:
"Some membership plans allow you to watch simultaneously on more than one personal computer or Netflix ready device at the same time. If you are on the 1 disc out at-a-time plan [or stream-only plan], you may watch only one device at a time. If you are on the 2 discs out at-a-time plan, you may watch on up to two devices at the same time. Members on the 3 disc plan can watch on up to three devices. The maximum is four devices simultaneously, and that is available for members on the 4 or greater discs out at-a-time plans."
It looks like this text has always been in effect, and that Netflix is just now getting around to enforcing it.

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