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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* The Smartest Browser and OS
* UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida
* Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
* Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells
* Asus Set To Release Desktop Eee PC Variant
* Canadians Organizing a Rally For Net Neutrality
* Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux?
* VIA Open Platform Mini-Notebook Serves up Linux
* Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail
* OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool
* Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls
* Mars Probe Brings the "Weather Rock" New Respect
* McCain vs. Obama on Tech Issues
* Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites
* Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater
* Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On
* How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation?
* Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures
* TJX Fires Employee For Disclosing Vulnerability
* Six Degrees of Wikipedia
* Would You Rent a Song For a Dime?
* Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement
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| The Smartest Browser and OS |
| from the correlation-is-not-causation dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @20:16 (It's funny. Laugh.) |
| http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2249243|
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The [0]IQ League maintain a "60 Second IQ Test" online. Interestingly,
they correlate the results of this test with a number of statistics
available from their server logs. Along with the geographical
distinctions like city and country, the referrer and OS/Browser
user-agent strings are also mined, to determine the [1]Smartest Browser
and OS. Cutting to the chase, the very smartest is [2]Firefox on Unknown
(which internal evidence suggests is MacOS-Intel), and the dumbest, as of
this writing, is [3]IE on WinNT. Quick! Test out and move the bars on the
pretty graph! Can we make Slashdot.org the "[4]Smartest Website in the
World?" (It's curretly number 2 behind ScienceBlogs.com.)
Discuss this story at:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/2249243
Links:
0. http://www.iqleague.com/
1. http://www.iqleague.com/group/smartest-browser-and-os
2. http://www.iqleague.com/group/mozilla-on-unknown
3. http://www.iqleague.com/group/ie-on-winnt
4. http://www.iqleague.com/group/smartest-website-in-the-world
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| UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida |
| from the terrism-is-the-root-password-to-the-academy dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @21:29 (Government) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/232221
|
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D Afifi writes "Two political researchers at the University of
Nottingham, in the UK, have been [0]arrested under the Terrorism Act for
downloading Al-Qaida material from a US government website. The material
was to be used for research in terrorist tactics. There has been a
[1]huge public outcry, with university staff planning a march to
demonstrate against the attack on academic freedom. Yet, one of the
students, an Algerian, is still held in custody under immigration charges
and is being fast-tracked for deportation."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/232221
Links:
0. http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282045,00.html
1. http://freehichamyezza.wordpress.com/
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| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement |
| from the what's-on-your-ipod-eh dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @23:02 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2312244
|
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[0]SpaceAdmiral writes "The Canadian government is secretly negotiating
to join the US and the EU in an [1]Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and
cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over
customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the
University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest
Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: 'If Hollywood could order
intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This
is pretty close.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/2312244
Links:
0. http://www.fanehenderson.com/
1. http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e
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| Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells |
| from the when-the-rain-washes-you-clean-you'll-know dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @00:35 (Power) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2319219
|
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esocid writes "Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM
(Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) have found irrefutable
proof that the so-called [0]avalanche effect by electrons occurs in
specific semiconducting crystals of nanometer dimensions. This physical
effect could pave the way for cheap, high-output solar cells. Solar cells
currently have relatively low output, typically 15%, and high
manufacturing costs. One possible improvement could derive from a new
type of solar cell made of semiconducting nanocrystals and could
theoretically lead to a maximum output of 44%, with the added benefit of
reducing manufacturing costs. In conventional solar cells, one photon can
release precisely one electron. However, in some semiconducting
nanocrystals, one photon can release two or three electrons, hence the
term 'avalanche effect.' This effect was first measured by researchers at
the Los Alamos National Laboratories in 2004, and since then the
scientific world had raised doubts about the value of these measurements.
This current research does in fact demonstrate that the avalanche effect
can occur."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/2319219
Links:
0. http://www.physorg.com/news131027836.html
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| Asus Set To Release Desktop Eee PC Variant |
| from the eight-days dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @03:04 (Linux Business) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2343219
|
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the_leander writes "The Register has pictures of the [0]desktop version
of Asus's Eee PC, reportedly called the 'Ebox.' It will be released early
next month after it has been unveiled publicly at Computex in Taipei on
June 3. It'll come equipped with the same Xandros Linux distribution as
the Eee, though it's likely that Windows XP will be available also. But
given the probable choice for CPU, Atom, ithe Ebox is unlikely to allow
for the use of Vista, unless you're something of a masochist. It's
expected to retail for $200-$300."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/2343219
Links:
0. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/23/asus_e_dt_is_ebox/
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| Canadians Organizing a Rally For Net Neutrality |
| from the we-could-learn-from-them dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @05:35 (The Internet) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2323252
|
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[0]taylortbb writes "Canadians are fighting back against Bell Canada's
traffic shaping (recentlly [1]discussed by Slashdot here [2]and here) by
organizing a [3]rally in support of network neutrality. The rally is
being backed by a long list of organizations including Google, two major
political parties, three ISPs, and two major unions. It's set for Tuesday
at 11:30am on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The only question that remains
is, will the government listen?"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/26/2323252
Links:
0. http://www.taylorbyrnes.org/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/17/2321231&tid=95
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/035200&tid=153
3. http://www.netneutralityrally.ca/
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| Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? |
| from the diabolically-advocating dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @08:06 (Linux Business) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/0027212
|
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Shadow7789 writes "I have been in the market for a new computer for the
past few weeks and I know that I want to run Linux on it. However, every
time I look at (for example) Dell's computers that are preloaded with
Linux, the question pops into my head: 'Why should I buy a PC preloaded
with Linux?' They are more expensive, and it's not hard just to reformat
the PC with Linux. I hate paying the Microsoft Tax as much as anybody
else, but if paying that 'tax' allows companies to reduce my price by
bundling with my PC products that I will never use, why wouldn't I just
buy a Windows-loaded PC and reformat?"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/0027212
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| VIA Open Platform Mini-Notebook Serves up Linux |
| from the cognitive-dissonance-alert dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @08:44 (Portables) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/129247
|
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Vigile writes "VIA is attempting to outdo the [0]ASUS Eee PC with its new
[1]OpenBook platform reference design that not only offers up extra
features but also supports many more operating system choices as well.
The exterior design is pretty damn sexy and is built around (of course)
VIA's own CPU and chipset products and can be equipped with WiMAX and/or
3G networking like HSDPA or W-CDMA. What is really impressive is that the
device can run versions of Windows Vista or XP, Ubuntu, Suse or gOS."
Update: 05/27 13:30 GMT by [2]T : alphadogg adds a bit more information
on the "open" part of "Open Platform," writing "The CAD
(computer-assisted design) files for the OpenBook reference design can be
[3]downloaded for free and made available to anyone under the Creative
Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. The terms of this license
allow the CAD files to be freely copied, shared and modified."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/129247
Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/1348228&tid=184
1. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=562
2. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
3. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/052708-via-releases-laptop-design-as.html
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| Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail |
| from the conceding-loss dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @09:28 (Communications) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/137229
|
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[0]1sockchuck writes "LA hosting company DreamHost, which hosts more than
700,000 web sites, is encouraging its customers to use Google's Gmail for
their e-mail, rather than the DreamHost mail servers. DreamHost is
continuing to support all its existing e-mail offerings, but said in a
blog post that email is "just [1]not something people are looking for
from us, and it's something the big free email providers like Yahoo,
Microsoft, and Google can do better." DreamHost addresses a [2]question
about Google that has vexed many web hosting companies: is Google a
useful partner, or a competitor that intends to make "traditional" web
hosting companies obsolete? In this case, partnering with Google offers
DreamHost a way to offload many of its trouble tickets, reducing the
support overhead. Is Google starting to make web hosts less necessary?"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/137229
Links:
0. http://www.gamehostingguide.com/
1. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/05/23/what-web-hosting-is-for/
2. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/May/27/big_web_host_please_use_gmail_for_email.html
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| OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool |
| from the well-equipped dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @10:11 (Security) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1333248
|
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twistedmoney99 writes "InformIT.com has a whimsical yet intriguing look
at the OLPC in an article series titled "One Leet Pwning Child ��� Give
one, Get Owned". Part one details how to [0]upgrade the core system with
some extras, but part two is where the fun begins as the author
[1]converts the OLPC into a lean green hacking machine to enable wireless
sniffing, setup the OLPC for vulnerability assessments, and stage the
device for a little autopwning with Metasploit."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1333248
Links:
0. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1211713
1. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1211714
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| Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls |
| from the mercantilism-strikes-back dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @10:53 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/149248
|
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[0]Dekortage writes "German telephone giant Deutsche Telekom has admitted
to [1]secretly tracking the phone calls between board members and
journalists, in an effort to identify media leaks about internal affairs.
As [2]noted by the German Journalists' Association, 'This company has
special access to the records of its customers.... That means it has a
special obligation to be trustworthy.' DT denies having eavesdropped; it
merely tracked the calls dialed."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/149248
Links:
0. http://www.arrowbay.net/
1. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,555664,00.html
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/business/worldbusiness/27tapes.html?pagewanted=all
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| Mars Probe Brings the "Weather Rock" New Respect |
| from the if-tail-is-wet dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @11:32 (NASA) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/153240
|
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[0]radioweather writes "What looked to casual observers like a
malfunction, a dangling wire with something on the end, seen in the
[1]first photo of the meteorological mast on NASA's [2]Phoenix Mars
Lander, actually [3] turned out to be the real instrument. Surprisingly,
it is much like the novelty 'weather rock' seen as a novelty gag around
the world. The instrument called the '[4]Telltale' is described as a
'passive wind indicator' and uses an extremely lightweight Kapton tube
hanging in Kevlar fiber. Images taken of the instrument will show the
deflection of the Telltale due to the Martian wind."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/153240
Links:
0. http://www.wattsupwiththat.com/
1. http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images.php?gID=457&cID=8
2. http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/index.php
3. http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/nasa-sends-the-weather-rock-to-mars/
4. http://www.marslab.dk/TelltaleProject.html
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| McCain vs. Obama on Tech Issues |
| from the six-v-half-a-dozen dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @12:13 (United States) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1546204
|
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[0]eldavojohn writes "Ars is running a brief article that [1]looks at
stances from Chuck Fish of McCain's campaign and Daniel Weitzner from
Obama's in regards to technical issues that may cause us geeks to vote
one way or the other. From openness vs. [2]bandwidth in the [3]net
neutrality issue to those pesky [4]National Security Letters, there's
some key differences that just might play at least a small part in your
vote. You may also remember our discussions on [5]who is best [6]for
geeks."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1546204
Links:
0. http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/multimedia/
1. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080527-mccain-and-obama-tech-policy-at-cfp.html
2. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/10/2220235&tid=225
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/30/1826253&tid=215
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/16/2125236&tid=95
5. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/04/1423257&tid=225
6. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/04/1421245&tid=224
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| Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites |
| from the oh-that-makes-sense dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @12:59 (The Internet) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1643258
|
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An anonymous reader writes "A Singapore firm, VueStar has threatened to
sue websites that [0]use pictures or graphics to link to another page,
[1]claiming it owns the patent for a technology used by millions around
the world. The company is also planning to take on giants like Microsoft
and Google. It is a battle that could, at least in theory, upend the
Internet. The firm has been sending out [2]invoices to Singapore
companies since last week asking them to pay up."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1643258
Links:
0. http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/smb/0,3800010798,62041802,00.htm
1. http://lwb.lawnet.com.sg/legal/lgl/rss/legalnews/57100.html
2. http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/vuestar2008/?action=view¤t=vuestar_01.gif
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| Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater |
| from the closing-in-on-a-big-boom dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @13:46 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1736231
|
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[0]#space_on_irc.freenode.net (Dusty) writes "Lake Cheko in Siberia has
been noted as the probable crater of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event.
This news was [1]discussed here in December, but details on the crater
were scant. Now a new paper written by Luca Gasperini, Enrico Bonatti,
and Giuseppe Longo (the same team in Bologna, Italy that made news in
December) has a horde of new details on the supposed crater. The team
visited Lake Cheko complete with their own catamaran and completed
ground-penetrating radar maps, side-scanning sonar images, aerial images,
and some sample collection of Lake Cheko. Intriguingly, they also imaged
an object under the sediment that may be a fragment of the impacting
body. Their paper (PDF) includes [2]a lot more details including images,
side-scanning sonar image, a 3-D view of the lake, a morphobathymetric
map. It's an interesting read, these dudes are good. They plan to return
this summer and drill the core if weather permits, hopefully answering
the question once and for all." The same team also has [3]a more
discursive article in the current Scientific American that includes some
detail on the working conditions in the Siberian summer. Think:
mosquitos.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1736231
Links:
0. http://www.slashdot.org/
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/08/1340207&tid=160
2. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00792.x
3. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-tunguska-mystery
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| Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On |
| from the mainstreaming-of-a-subculture dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @14:33 (The Media) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1822230
|
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[0]Itninja writes "A few days ago Consumer Reports posted their [1]first
report on a specific video game: Wii Fit. From the article: 'Our testers
ranged in age from 24 to 69 and included 10 women and five men. Users ran
the gamut from regular exercisers to mostly sedentary folks.' Will this
be a harbinger of things to come? Will CR be reviewing the next
installment of Gran Turismo?"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1822230
Links:
0. http://geeksplosion.blogspot.com/
1. http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2008/05/wii-fit-nintend.html
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| How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? |
| from the counter-cyclical-investing dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @15:20 (The Almighty Buck) |
|
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1851205
|
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[0]sshuber writes "It's no secret that the US and other parts of the
world are currently having some economic problems. How is this affecting
new technologies under development? With the large numbers of layoffs,
are we seeing projects, such as things under R&D, that are being axed?
Are companies playing it safe and sticking with what they know sells in
lieu of pushing the envelope? Finally, how is this affecting the open
source community, either positively or negatively?" A lot of open source
work happens with the backing or at least the sufferance of corporations.
Do laid-off tech workers contribute fewer cycles to open source projects,
or more?
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1851205
Links:
0. mailto:hereyoulie@gmail.com
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| Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures |
| from the don't-fear-the-multi-core dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @16:10 (Java) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1916235
|
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An anonymous reader writes "InfoQ has an interesting writeup of Dr. Cliff
Click's work on developing [0]highly concurrent data structures for use
on the Azul hardware (which is in production with 768 cores), supporting
700+ hardware threads in Java. The basic idea is to use a new coding
style that involves a large array to hold the data (allowing scalable
parallel access), atomic update on those array words, and a finite-state
machine built from the atomic update and logically replicated per array
word. The end result is a coding style that has allowed Click to build
2.5 lock-free data structures that also scale remarkably well."
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/1916235
Links:
0. http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/click_non_blocking
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| TJX Fires Employee For Disclosing Vulnerability |
| from the shoulda-used-wikileaks dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @16:57 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/201234
|
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[0]I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A TJX employee was
[1]fired for an online post mentioning that TJX hasn't beefed up security
after the recent, massive data breach that saw [2]94 million credit card
numbers copied by criminals and money from their accounts stolen. The
employee mentioned that, at first, their usernames were the same as their
passwords. After they required stronger passwords, some managers
complained, so they 'compromised' by allowing blank passwords. The
whistleblower said he discussed his concerns with management, but that it
was like talking to a brick wall. In spite of the weak internal security,
TJX now has a firm that scours the internet to find bad things posted
about them, which is how they found the message and fired him for it. Too
bad they don't appear to have hired anyone to beef up operational
security or to convince people to use strong passwords."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/201234
Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/support
1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/23/tjx_fires_whistleblower/
2. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/16/207215&tid=172
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| Six Degrees of Wikipedia |
| from the finding-the-center dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @17:44 (The Internet) |
|
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/2016208
|
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An anonymous reader notes that someone has [0]applied the game Six
Degrees of Kevin Bacon to the articles in Wikipedia. Instead of the
relation being "in the same film," he used "is linked to by." From the
blog post: "We'll call the 'Kevin Bacon number' from one article to
another the 'distance' between them. It's then possible to work out the
'closeness' of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any
other article. I wanted to find the centre of Wikipedia, that is, the
article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum [distance])."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/27/2016208
Links:
0. http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/
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| Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? |
| from the twenty-million-says-you-will dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @18:33 (Music) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/2111259
|
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An anonymous reader writes "What's worse than a padlocking every song so
that they will only play on certain devices? How about selling (renting)
you songs that work on no devices? Astonishingly, this is what the music
industry thinks we need. Warner Music is spending $20 million to back
Lala, a startup devising a service to convince people to 'buy' 'web
songs' for 10 cents each; these are then kept for safekeeping only by
Lala with no download privileges. Industry insider Michael Robertson
[0]leaks the facts on this scheme, along with a [1]seekrit URL so you can
try it out."
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0. http://michaelrobertson.com/
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| Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement |
| from the disintermediation-works-eventually dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 27, @19:20 (The Courts) |
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/2044207
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[0]coondoggie writes "Until today, most Internet-based real-estate
brokers were considered second-class citizens, and their clients were
left in the cold. But perhaps that will change with today's news that the
Department of Justice has reached a [1]proposed settlement with the
National Association of Realtors that requires NAR to let Internet-based
residential real estate brokers compete with traditional brokers. NAR has
agreed to be bound by a 10-year settlement, under whose terms NAR will
repeal its anticompetitive policies and require affiliated multiple
listing services to repeal their rules that were based on these
policies." Here's the [2]whole settlement document on the DoJ's site.
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0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/28143
2. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/reports/223094.htm
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