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Comment Re:Paper and pencil (Score 1) 320

by fatduck on Sunday October 26, 2008 @05:28PM (#25520653) Attached to: US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool"

Except the article says nothing about "outlawing Twitter," nor was the report intended to warn the public of the dangers of evil Twitter. It was an internal report suggesting that intelligence analysts should look at social networking tools like Twitter as possible venues for terrorist communication. Is it somewhat obvious? Sure. That doesn't justify your knee-jerk response which, in my opinion, is a lot more "fear-mongering" than the government you're criticizing for no reason.

A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? 436

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 07, 2007 @08:15PM from the worth-a-try dept.

tcd004 writes "F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen proposes an elegant solution to the problem of bank account phishing in the latest Foreign Policy magazine. Hypponen thinks banks should have exclusive use of a new top-level domain: .bank. 'Registering new domains under such a top-level domain could then be restricted to bona fide financial organizations. And the price for the domain wouldn't be just a few dollars: it could be something like $50,000 — making it prohibitively expensive to most copycats. Banks would love this. They would move their existing online banks under a more secure domain in no time."

Submission + - US to pass bill outlawing genetic discrimination

Submitted by

fatduck

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @12:42PM

fatduck writes: "NewScientist reports that, "On 25 April, the House of Representatives voted 420 to 3 to pass the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The Senate is expected to endorse the act within a few weeks, which is also supported by President Bush." "There is no gene for the human spirit.""

Submission + - Court rules playlist customization not interactive

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prostoalex

on Sunday April 29, 2007 @05:43PM

prostoalex writes: "Is music played via customized playlist delivered interactively (i.e., via user participation) or non-interactive (i.e., decisions are made on the server side)? The question does seem metaphysical, but it took Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Yahoo! six years to figure it out. User-driven playlists are bucketed with on-demand music services, while server-driven playlists are equaled to broadcasts, thereby causing different licensing mechanisms to take place. Yahoo! inherited the legal wrangle when it purchased a music startup Launch, which built a music recommendation feature. Court decision determined that recommendation algorithms that rely on usage data to build playlists server-side are still eligible for broadcast license, thereby substantially lowering the costs of operating a music recommendation site."

Google Earth and "Collateral Damage" 541

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 15, 2007 @02:57AM from the bad-with-the-good dept.

netbuzz writes "British news reports say insurgents are using Google Earth to pinpoint vulnerable targets within bases in Iraq. Could Google be doing more to prevent this? Should they be doing more? They certainly could explain more."

Submission + - "Killer" Network Card Reduces Latency

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fatduck

on Saturday December 09, 2006 @03:12PM

fatduck writes: "HardOCP has published a review of the KillerNIC network card from Bigfoot Networks. The review examines benchmarks of the product in online gaming and a number of user experiences. The product features a "Network Processing Unit" or NPU, among other acronyms, which promise to drastically reduce latency in online games. Too good to be true? The card also sports a hefty price tag of $250."

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by joetheprogrammer on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @09:02PM

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