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Comment Re:My proposal (Score 1) 755

by Nullav on Friday October 24, 2008 @08:19AM (#25496243) Attached to: Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time?

So shift work/school schedules in Winter to make people start/end their days at different times; going to sleep at 22:00 instead of pretend-21:00 isn't going to kill you. This would also eliminate countless scheduling problems.
Car analogy: Moving the road to get to work.

Submission + - Wikileaks coup: Guantanamo and rendition manuals (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by James Hardine on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @01:44AM

James Hardine writes: The Washington Post is reporting that Wikileaks has released another manual for Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay together with the US military's rendition operations manual. This release follows from the Wikileaks release of the 2003 SOP Manual as reported in Slashdot and the New York Times last month. Wikileaks compares the two manuals (2003, 2004) and reveals damning changes in official US detainee policy in exquisite detail. Who knew that diff could be such a powerful political weapon?

Submission + - NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam (techluver.com)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Saturday November 03, 2007 @03:28AM

Tech.Luver writes: "Nov 02, '07 — A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for helping send "spam" e-mails to more than 1.2 million America Online subscribers. Todd Moeller, 28, was sentenced 27 months in prison in a federal court in New York after he was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails — known as spam — advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the profits, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan said. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/03/nj-spammer-gets-two-years-jail-for-aol-spam-scam/ )"

Study Says P2P Downloaders Buy More Music 158

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 03, 2007 @12:17AM from the not-all-that-kooky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist posts to his site about a study commissioned by the Canadian government intended to look into the buying habits of music fans. What the study found is that 'there is a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing.' The report is entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada, and it was 'conducted collaboratively by two professors from the University of London, Industry Canada, and Decima Research, who surveyed over 2,000 Canadians on their music downloading and purchasing habits. The authors believe this is the first ever empirical study to employ representative microeconomic data.'"

Submission + - Top Ten Strangest or Cruellest Science Experiments 1

Submitted by

aalobode

on Friday November 02, 2007 @11:38AM

aalobode writes: "The Times of London has a current story based on the review of a book by Alex Boase, Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments. There they list the top science experiments — including the one from which the book gets its name — that were conducted by otherwise sane humans who tragically or otherwise ignored the effect of their research on the subjects themselves. Nowadays, most institutions have a review board for research on human subjects which would flag most proposals that could lead to harm for the subjects, but not so in the past. See for yourself at the url http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2779808.ece?OTC-HPtoppuff&ATTR=elephants"

Submission + - Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" (youtube.com)

Submitted by THX-1138 on Sunday September 16, 2007 @11:30PM

THX-1138 writes: A few months ago, Trent Reznor (frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails), was in Australia doing an interview when he commented on the outrageous prices of CDs there. Apparently now his label, Universal Media Group is angry at him for having said that. During a concert last night , he told this to fans, "...Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means — STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these mother**** will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that that's not right."

The YouTube link contains a video recorded by a fan that shows his full speech during the concert.

Submission + - DOJ puts pressure over NAND to boost industry (mercurynews.com)

Submitted by Ep0xi on Sunday September 16, 2007 @08:44PM

Ep0xi writes: The Department of Justice said Friday that it has begun an antitrust investigation of the NAND flash-memory industry, a volatile business where price swings are dramatic and profits substantial.

Submission + - New iPod Checksum Cracked (kde.org) 1

Submitted by on Sunday September 16, 2007 @07:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: After 36 hours of reverse engineering, the method for producing the checksum on new iPods has been discovered.

Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats 244

Posted by kdawson on Thursday July 19, 2007 @08:48AM from the stranger-and-stranger dept.

StonyandCher write(s) to spread news about the strange story of the reported Apple OS X worm, which is growing stranger by the day. The blog of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware reportedly received death threats. The blog was then hijacked, according to the researcher, who calls him/herself InfoSec Sellout. InfoSec blamed David Maynor for hacking the blog. For his part, Maynor apparently unmasked himself as "LMH" and InfoSec as Jon Ramsey. The post to the Fuzzing mailing list has not been independently confirmed.
Update: 07/19 13:48 GMT by KD : David Maynor wrote in and denies that he is LMH.

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