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Archive for 2011/04/25
Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, The CloudWikiLeaks releases secret Guantanamo prison files
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyThe files reveal that intelligence agencies from China, Russia, and other repressive regimes were invited to interrogate inmates. An Al-Jazeera journalist was held in part to “to provide information on … the al-Jazeera news network’s training program, telecommunications equipment, and newsgathering operations.” Some detainees reportedly were nabbed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and were as young as 14 and as old as 89.
This Old Chinese Man Repairs Damaged Photos with Photoshop for Free
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / AwarenessRight now, his captors are demanding $4.3 million for the missing 20 year old, who’s been missing for two days as police search in vain
http://gizmodo.com/#!5794853/russian-antivirus-tycoons-son-kidnapped
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The kidnapped son of Kaspersky Lab’s founder has been freed and five suspects are in custody in connection with the abduction, according to a Russian media report today
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20056864-83.html
The Story of E-Waste: What Happens to Tech Once It’s Trash
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / AwarenessKeeping secret the work of 2,000 persons in the age of Internet is just impossible
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?Alleged LHC Memo Hints Scientists Have Found the Elusive Higgs Boson
In the case of Atlas Shrugged the filmmakers relied on Ayn Rand’s fans to build the buzz and apparently it worked
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionWord of mouth on Twitter and via various “like-minded” groups — including some libertarians and Tea Party folks — apparently drove interest in the movie
Google opens peephole on mystery data center practices
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Google, Tech EvolutionGoogle location tracking can invade privacy, hackers say
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Google, Privacy / Data ProtectionUnique IDs + router addresses = potential abuse
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/22/google_android_privacy_concerns/
UIT, or United Information Technology, is the second largest indigenous storage supplier in China after Huawei, and it’s now coming out of China to sell into the western storage world
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionThe company was founded by three Chinese nationals who each spent 5 to 10 years working for US storage suppliers before returning to China and setting up UIT in 2001
Microsoft lobby will turn Google into Microsoft
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyHacker cops to payment card fraud worth more than $36m
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessMobile users: ready to pay extra for Skype, IM, streaming video?
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution
The PlayStation Network is still offline. Sony has confirmed that it is under malicious attack, and the PlayStation Network has access to my credit card information
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Network Securitydown due to “external intrusion”
Copyright laws keep on being ‘copied’, even though there are seemingly better solutions out there. The industries that depend on copyright are not in favor of change because this would mean that they would lose authority and power, and possible revenue
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Copyright, Education / AwarenessGoogle’s arguments as amicus reflect its litigation interests in obtaining a legal ruling that facilitation of infringement, even if shown to be intentional, may still be immune from copyright liability
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Google, Illegal File Sharing, LitigationGoogle, MPAA and isoHunt Clash in Court
http://torrentfreak.com/google-mpaa-and-isohunt-clash-in-court-110423/
“You’re not supposed to sue first and ask questions later—it’s f**king retarded. But the ISP’s have forced us into that situation”
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, LitigationA Denton lawyer devotes his life to fighting America’s porn thiefs.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-04-21/news/barely-legal/6/
Google has removed the homepage of Rojadirecta.es, the alternate domain of the sports streaming site that had its .com domain seized by the US authorities earlier this year
Posted: 2011/04/25 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, GoogleThose who look closely will see that the removal is the result of several misunderstandings and mistakes
http://torrentfreak.com/google-censors-alternate-domain-of-seized-streaming-site-by-mistake-110422/
