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Submission + - Analyst Reports Steve Ballmer to Speak at WWDC (bizjournals.com)

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on Thursday May 27, 2010 @10:23AM

truthsearch writes: "An analyst reports that not only will CEO Steve Jobs return to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference stage he missed last year for medical reasons, but that he will be joined there by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdrey said that Microsoft has been given seven minutes during Jobs' keynote to talk about Visual Studio 2010. Chowdrey said that a new version of the development tools software will support native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS."

Submission + - UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense (linuxworld.com.au) 2

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on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @12:50PM

truthsearch writes: "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled. The case marked an interesting challenge to the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which in part compels someone served under the act to divulge an encryption key used to scramble data on a PC's hard drive. The appeals court heard a case in which two suspects refused to give up encryption keys, arguing that disclosure was incompatible with the privilege against self incrimination. In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will."

Submission + - FBI Finds It Overstepped in Collecting Data (washingtonpost.com)

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on Thursday June 14, 2007 @12:43PM

truthsearch writes: "An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March. The new audit covers just 10 percent of the bureau's national security investigations since 2002. The vast majority of the new violations were instances in which telephone companies and Internet providers gave agents phone and e-mail records the agents did not request and were not authorized to collect. But two dozen of the newly-discovered violations involved agents' requests for information that U.S. law did not allow them to have."

Submission + - Microsoft's "Immortal Computing" Project

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SeenOnSlash

on Monday January 22, 2007 @12:59PM

SeenOnSlash writes: "Microsoft is working on a project they call "immortal computing" which would let people store digital information in durable physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations. The artifacts would be designed to make the process of accessing the information clear with instructions in multiple languages or hieroglyphics. In one possible use, messages for descendants or interactive holograms might be stored on tombstones. The project was revealed when their patent application recently became public."

Submission + - NASA Testing Linux-Based Exploration Robots

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on Friday September 15, 2006 @10:59AM

SeenOnSlash.com writes: "This week NASA is testing a Linux-based lunar rover called K-10 in the Arizona desert. To cut costs and promote maintainability the K-10 runs Linux and uses commercial off-the-shelf parts where possible. The robot rover's control and communications system is based on an IBM Thinkpad X31 and attaches to subsystems with standard PC interfaces. Real-time tasks such as fine-grained motor control are offloaded to a distributed network of microcontroller-powered control boards. Maneuvers can be watched through a live webcam."

Submission + - Wikipedia Refuses to Bow to Chinese Censors

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on Monday September 11, 2006 @01:20PM

truthsearch writes: "Jimmy Wales has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive Wikipedia entries. He challenges other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing. Wikipedia has been banned from China since last October. Whereas Google, Microsoft and Yahoo went into the country accepting some restrictions on their online content, Wales believes it must be all or nothing for Wikipedia. 'We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which is that we stand for the freedom for information.'"

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