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Submission + - EFF Releases Tool for Testing ISP Interference (eff.org)

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Placid

on Saturday August 02, 2008 @06:43AM

Placid writes: "The EFF announces a tool for testing if your ISP is interfering with your BitTorrent transfers. From the article:
Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Switzerland is an open source software tool for testing the integrity of data communications over networks, ISPs and firewalls. It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between clients, inform you, and give you copies of the modified packe

Naturally, the tool is FOSS; you can contribute to it via its sourceforge project."

Submission + - Yahoo To Serve Adverts In PDFs (bbc.co.uk)

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Placid

on Thursday November 29, 2007 @12:40PM

Placid writes: "According to the BBC, Yahoo! has signed a deal to provide adverts within PDF documents. The article states:

The service will allow publishers to make money by including adverts linked to the content of a PDF document in a panel at the side of the page.
It is Yahoo's latest way of expanding the places it can advertise online following deals with the auction site Ebay and the cable TV group Comcast.
Dynamic adverts can be changed for particular audiences or rotated to make sure that a particular user never sees the same advertisement twice.
Unlike Web Browsers, the advertisements will not appear if the PDF document is printed."

Submission + - $200 Ubuntu PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart (wired.com)

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Placid

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @08:15AM

Placid writes: "The Wired Blog has an article detailing the recent availability of "a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores".
In direct competition with offerings from Dell and HP, Wal-Mart claims the PC is more responsive than Vista and is touted as a "green machine". From the article:

Touted as a "green" machine, it has a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU embedded in a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. Normally, this would simply mark it as unacceptably low-end for use with modern software. By using the fast Enlightenment desktop manager (instead of heavier-duty alternatives like Gnome or KDE), the makers say it's more responsive than Vista is, even on more powerful computers.
Who's next on the cheap Linux PC bandwagon?"

Submission + - Monster.com Attack, User Data Stolen (bbc.co.uk)

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Placid

on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @11:09AM

Placid writes: "The BBC has an article detailing a successful attack on the US recruitment site, Monster.com. According to the article, "A computer program was used to access the employers' section of the website using stolen log-in credentials" and that the stolen details were "uploaded to a remote web server". Apparently, this remote server "held over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousands of candidates, mainly based in the US, who had posted their resumes to the Monster.com website". The article also links the break-in to a phishing e-mail sent out recently where personal details were used to entice users to download a "Monster Job Seeker Tool".

What does this mean for spam? Will we now be inundated with job requests for pharmaceutical companies and African investment opportunities?...Oh, wait..."

Submission + - Ubuntu Mobile Announced

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Placid

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @08:53AM

Placid writes: "The BBC has an article detailing the "Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded" project, which was announced by Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu's CTO on the Ubuntu developers mailing list. Zimmerman stated that "These devices place new demands on open-source software and require innovative graphical interfaces, improved power management and better responsiveness.". Furthermore, according to the article itself, Intel will have their finger in the pie too, who recently announced a prototype device running Ubuntu.
What does this mean for projects such as OpenMoko? Healthy competition, or the beginning of the end?"

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