Archive for 2011/10/19

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/egypt-occupy-wall-street/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/occupation-force/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/quinn-norton-occupy/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/google-and-samsung-unveil-galaxy-nexus-android-4-at-event.ars

America’s Largest Coal Power Plant Burns 11 Million Tons of Bituminous a Year

http://gizmodo.com/5850299/americas-largest-coal-power-plant-burns-11-million-tons-of-bituminous-a-year

Utilizing a quarter-petabyte of flash memory, Gordon will power through data-heavy applications way faster than vanilla parallel-processing supercomputers.

With 200 teraflops of total computing power, 64 terabytes of DRAM, 256 terabytes of flash memory, and four petabytes of storage space, Gordon will rank among the world’s 30 most powerful supercomputers when it’s completed. It could potentially achieve up to 35 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and return queries 100 times faster than other spinning-disk systems.

http://gizmodo.com/5850773/the-gordon-supercomputer-is-a-solid-state-powerhouse

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/10/19/university-study-finds-half-of-uk-internet-users-go-online-via-portable-devices.html

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/10/19/uk-isps-welcome-joint-parliamentary-committee-report-on-draft-defamation-bill.html

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193167/Federal_Trojan_s_got_a_Big_Brother

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2011/10/18/introducing-metasploit-community-edition

More:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111018/17503516408/wyden-protect-ip-act-is-about-letting-content-sector-attack-innovation-sector.shtml

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/19/vanity_addresses_dot_familyname/

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) are among software companies that lost $13.5 billion to program pirates and counterfeiters in Europe last year. Their message to lawmakers: Learn from the U.S. and punish the thieves.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-17/losing-13-5-billion-to-piracy-spurs-microsoft-led-europe-legal-push-tech.html

http://allthingsd.com/20111019/google-music-store-with-a-twist-coming-soon-says-android-boss/

A research team at Georgia Tech has discovered how to do exactly that, using a smartphone accelerometer—the internal device that detects when and how the phone is tilted—to sense keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent accuracy. The procedure is not easy, they say, but is definitely possible with the latest generations of smartphones.

http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=71506

A little more than one year after the infrastructure-destroying Stuxnet worm was discovered on computer systems in Iran, a new piece of malware using some of the same techniques has been found infecting systems in Europe, according to researchers at security firm Symantec.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/son-of-stuxnet-in-the-wild/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/how-friends-ruin-memory-the-social-conformity-effect/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/flying-spy-surge/

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/10/18/interview-with-robert-levine-on-the-current-free-ride-culture-on-the-interne.html#comment_574

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/nc/home/blog-post/2011/10/19/digital-subscriptions-of-the-times-and-the-sunday-times-increased-by-10.html

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/10/19/linking-to-copyright-protected-works-criminal-offence-according-to-spanish-court.html

http://torrentfreak.com/tvshack-admin-eyes-court-hearing-after-us-extradition-blow-111019/

CBC issues apology on 2011-10-18

CBC ombudsman says O’Leary’s ‘nutbar’ remark violated journalistic standards
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/cbc-ombudsman-says-olearys-nutbar-remark-violated-journalistic-standards-131876988.html

http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2011/10/15/cbc-apologizes-to-chris-hedges-the-lang-oleary-exchange/