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It's not surprising that the change in definition comes from the same nation that defined as "theft" the download of nearly anything. Don't forget that Obama has a former RIAAA lawyer in his staff: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/riaa-lawyer-solicitor-general/

Yep, the Google official market is TOTALLY safe: Google recently removed at least 10 applications from the Android Market, all of which contained malicious code disguised as add-ons to one of the most popular apps of all time.

It doesn't appear to be included in the rather poor article Slashdot chose to link, but the much better Ars piece links the actual ruling [pdf], which includes that sentence on the last page.

Here's a copy of the judge's order. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/06/huntsanctions.pdf

By the way, Wired had a bit more information on the ruling also:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/copyright-troll-sanctions/

A link to the PDF of the judge's order can be found on the EFF's website as well:

http://www.eff.org/cases/righthaven-v-democratic-underground

...for the 1997 $150M bailout of Apple by Microsoft?

...that Apple wouldn't be making iPads today had Microsoft not bailed Apple out of bankruptcy to the tune of $150M in 1997?

"Authorities in Awe of Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs"
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_drugsub/all/1
5.5 tons of cocaine on a American-registered DC-9
http://www.madcowprod.com/07152010.htm
As for the US border, expect to see a huge roll out of face, cell phone data and optical character recognition systems deep into the USA on all public roads.
Your car might make it over, but your face will be recorded. You can change cars, papers, times, but over time a database will try and build some face based watch list for people who make repeated trips .....
Is the driver new to the US, looking stressed, been seen before on back roads .... next "random" Border Patrol interior checkpoint, expect a "random" Border Patrol check - somewhere within 100-miles of the US land and coastal borders is legal.

What the hell does this mean "go to prison for possession of certain comic books"

No, that was not an exaggeration:

http://boingboing.net/2009/05/27/manga-collector-face.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/

Did you think I was just making it up? Or were you not paying attention to the sorts of laws that have been passed in the United States?

Again I think you are leaving out a couple of facts with this beauty "Teenagers have been arrested for photographing themselves".

No, actually, I left nothing out; just ask these teenagers:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479803,00.html

Oh, sorry, that was a Fox News link. Here, something less fair and balanced:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/aclu-sues-da-ov/

Note that the three girls who took the photographs -- photographs of themselves -- were arrested, as were the boys who received them. Not one of the people arrested here was over the age of 16.

This "people who break the law should not have any doubt as to whether or not what they are doing is illegal" assertion says more about idiots committing the crime than it does about the law.

Oh yeah? Are you sure that you have never committed a felony? These people were pretty sure too:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/criminalizing-everyone/

Did you remember to check all the paperwork relating to your hobbies? Obviously importing orchids without doing so is something you can go to jail for, right?

What the hell does this mean "go to prison for possession of certain comic books"

No, that was not an exaggeration:

http://boingboing.net/2009/05/27/manga-collector-face.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/

Did you think I was just making it up? Or were you not paying attention to the sorts of laws that have been passed in the United States?

Again I think you are leaving out a couple of facts with this beauty "Teenagers have been arrested for photographing themselves".

No, actually, I left nothing out; just ask these teenagers:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479803,00.html

Oh, sorry, that was a Fox News link. Here, something less fair and balanced:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/aclu-sues-da-ov/

Note that the three girls who took the photographs -- photographs of themselves -- were arrested, as were the boys who received them. Not one of the people arrested here was over the age of 16.

This "people who break the law should not have any doubt as to whether or not what they are doing is illegal" assertion says more about idiots committing the crime than it does about the law.

Oh yeah? Are you sure that you have never committed a felony? These people were pretty sure too:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/criminalizing-everyone/

Did you remember to check all the paperwork relating to your hobbies? Obviously importing orchids without doing so is something you can go to jail for, right?

I found the article. For further reading on how every nerd article quote you read is created for your consumption: Please Quote Me on That - How Forrester Research and Jupiter Communications vie for ink (1997).. It was hard to find because Wired themselves has become swamped with "research", so doing a site search for any of these company names will get you analyst quotes in hundreds of articles.

For reference, Gartner Group bought 1/3 of Jupiter a month after publication of this article. Jupiter was founded in 1986 by lucky wackjob Josh Harris as Jupiter Communications, going public in 1999, merging with Media Metrix in 2000, selling its syndicated research business to INT Media Group in 2002, a split and rename to Jupiter Research, being acquired by MCG Capital in 2006 and being http://web2.forrester.com/ER/Press/Release/0,1769,1220,00.html">acquired by Forrester in 2008. International Data Group (IDG) acquired Forrester Research, Inc in 2010. Feel free to investigate the acquisition history of any of those other companies I mentioned for a tangled web of ownership.

This is an immense business, providing "expert opinion" to print media, seminars, CEOs, and changing corporation names to hide corporation games.

I found the article. For further reading on how every nerd article quote you read is created for your consumption: Please Quote Me on That - How Forrester Research and Jupiter Communications vie for ink (1997).. It was hard to find because Wired themselves has become swamped with "research", so doing a site search for any of these company names will get you analyst quotes in hundreds of articles.

For reference, Gartner Group bought 1/3 of Jupiter a month after publication of this article. Jupiter was founded in 1986 by lucky wackjob Josh Harris as Jupiter Communications, going public in 1999, merging with Media Metrix in 2000, selling its syndicated research business to INT Media Group in 2002, a split and rename to Jupiter Research, being acquired by MCG Capital in 2006 and being http://web2.forrester.com/ER/Press/Release/0,1769,1220,00.html">acquired by Forrester in 2008. International Data Group (IDG) acquired Forrester Research, Inc in 2010. Feel free to investigate the acquisition history of any of those other companies I mentioned for a tangled web of ownership.

This is an immense business, providing "expert opinion" to print media, seminars, CEOs, and changing corporation names to hide corporation games.

Or release it for another mobile OS - perhaps one with more market share and no dickish rules about what's "appropriate"?

Yeah. Like maybe Android perhaps? Oh, wait....

Every ebook screen I've seen, unless the book was specifically designed for it, either displays far less data per page (say, 1-2 paragraphs at most) or comes out fuzzy on the text. None of them can render illustrations worth a damn.

Doesn't sound like you've looked at recent eInk screens - the Kindle I bought at the end of last year looks amazing in its illustrations. It does have a small-ish screen, but it's about the same size as one paperback page, and there are several font sizes to suit your needs.

I don't even mind reading on my 5" phone, and the 7" Kindle feels fine in comparison. My Xoom is 10" and is my preferred reader when inside. I use the phone on the bus sometimes, and generally reserve the Kindle for long road trips right now, or reading outside on sunny days.

As others have said, the Kindle also keeps track of which page you were on, and the battery will literally last you weeks. Especially if you're going on a trip where you would have had to take several books, it's also much more compact and lighter.

With the Xoom, I really like that I can read in the dark without requiring a case-light or room light. Combined with listening to music (which the Kindle can do, but I prefer to use devices with more storage space, or Spotify), it creates a really nice environment for reading IMO.

Not sure if this is a joke, but not fake, this was covered on quite a few news outlets:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/suntransit/

Maybe, I think the leading causes will be debated by historians for decades. Wired has a summary(wordpress link to the same story, after wireds part in Bradley Manning and their smear job of Bruce Ives I have a hard time sending traffic there) and a google search will pull open more debates and comments about the link between anthrax and the Iraq War.

From what I remember about late 2001, the events of 9/11 were traumatic and confusing, but not really fear inspiring. It felt more like a one off, more similar to the Cole, embassy bombings or all the hijackings/bombings of planes in the decade before. Getting on a plane was scary for a few months, but that was about it. The anthrax was completely different.

With the anthrax we had a few weeks of new reports that people were getting sick or dying. And unlike working in a fancy highrise in New York City, everyone gets the mail and everyone could be a potential victim. Anthrax brought about a sustained fear of terrorism where anyone could be a victim, and made people afraid that they could be the victim of WMD's that would kill, not a few thousand, but millions.

I am sure the discussion as to the major cause of Iraq will continue for decades for many reasons least of which is probably not that the national science foundation doesn't accept the FBIs conclusions where the science is concerned, and that aside from Bruce Ives was creepy the anthrax investigation pointed back to government labs.

tl;dr Powell didn't go before the security council with a toy plane but with a vial of anthrax.

Why does China need Google? Is there anything Google does that Baidu can't, or won't be able to with a little motivation?

Google would thrive if China disappeared, sure. But if Google were forced out of China, to be replaced by Bing (for exampley), that would put them at a competitive disadvantage, even outside of China.

Well, this, for example. And I did say, "won't be the case forever." More to the point, so far as the Chinese citizenry is concerned, is the fact that Google isn't a Chinese operation, and indexes knowledge that Baidu would never be permitted to make available. Google, thanks to Sergey Brin's feelings on the matter, isn't likely to permit itself to be used to implicate Chinese citizens for crimes against the State. That attitude is precisely what this squabble is all about, and is why Bing, for example, isn't being treated the same way.

This is sort of "old news"; Wired ran the story last week in Threat Level, about bitcoin and the "silk road" drug marketplace:

Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/silkroad/

Antimatter can be used as a catalyst to reduce the amount of material needed for fission by a factor of 1000. Now imagine a sniper rifle with nuclear rounds (sized around 1kT). One shot and the enemy base is toast before they know what hit them. That's probably why DARPA is researching positron storage as well. Wired mentioned something about 4 years ago on fringe science spending.

From: U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right

The report, by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, comes the same day an internet-monitoring firm detected that two thirds of Syria's internet access has abruptly gone dark, in what is likely a government response to unrest in that country.

Full report, dated 15 May 2011: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue

Why a Kidney (Street Value: $3,000) Sells for $85,000

Poor Pakistanis Donate Kidneys for Money

Since it's not a legalized trade, prices will vary wildly.

Long live Project Mneumonic!

No no no... Episodes 4-6 were made by the real George Lucas... Here's what really happened thereafter... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/george-lucas-strikes-back/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

And actually, as it turns out, we're both wrong.

Not the first time you've been wrong:

Notice the "absurd notion" being repeated.

If Apple can’t take over for more traditional AV vendors and security researchers, though, iOS and the Mac App Store may provide clues to how Apple may deal with the malware problem in future versions of Mac OS X. iOS is essentially a closed ecosystem, where software can only be installed via the App Store. Applications must be digitally signed by the developer, and iOS will refuse to install or run software that is modified in any way. Apple further randomly checks applications submitted to the App Store to make sure they don’t gather user data or perform other nefarious tricks.

Wired's article said 0.05cm. So half a millimeter. Can't really get a picture of that too easily. I mean, it's just a roundworm... it's not like it's that amazing unless you get up close.

After WikiLeaks announced its plan of releasing information about a major bank, the US Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America reportedly hired the data intelligence company HBGary Federal to protect their servers and attack any adversaries of these institutions.

False. Read the emails, the Chamber of Commerce and BOA requested ideas about how to combat the threat of wikileaks. HBGary Federal put together a presentation about methods that could be used. No one actually hired HBGary Federal, and in fact, HBGary Federal never won any government contracts. Probably because they suck, but the main point is that the Chamber, BOA, and the US government never employed them.

I don't know how certain members of Anonymous found themselves on the receiving end of Aaron Barr's maligned attacks on them but I don't see their reaction to such as all too out of line. Barr went after Anonymous and it's not entirely clear to me why persecution of Anonymous is sought.

Anonymous had already launched major attacks against many different targets, so they were obviously on the shit list of many people. Barr was apparently trying to social engineer his way into the group and gain insight into their identities. He put together a powerpoint about it and was scheduled to talk at a conference about how p2p/proxies/irc/etc doesn't hide your identity as well as you think. His initial press release indicated he wouldn't put any names in the paper.

Anonymous then took it upon themselves to hack him. They found some random draft of his powerpoint and published it, claiming it was all wrong... but when they leaked his email spool they quickly found out that he had actual names and locations... you should have seen the shit storm in IRC with people freaking out about their real name being in the emails. This was the beginning of a major divide in Anonymous, and it has caused a splintering among various AnonOps factions.

I have zero doubt that many members of AnonOps were picked up by the FBI. I also suspect that some of them have been forced into a double-agent role and are now FBI spies. And this is why I no longer participate in Anonymous: They have been compromised.

The group demonstrated its capabilities in February, says the report, when it hacked into US-based defence contractor HBGary.

I neither defend nor condone Anonymous' actions but I take issue with this statement. Indeed, upon reading the report I get a little more accurate of a description:

Observers note that Anonymous is becoming more and more sophisticated and could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files. According to reports in February 2011, Anonymous demonstrated its ability to do just that. After WikiLeaks announced its plan of releasing information about a major bank, the US Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America reportedly hired the data intelligence company HBGary Federal to protect their servers and attack any adversaries of these institutions. In response, Anonymous hacked servers of HBGary Federal’s sister company and hijacked the CEO’s Twitter account. Today, the ad hoc international group of hackers and activists is said to have thousands of operatives and has no set rules or membership.[36] It remains to be seen how much time Anonymous has for pursuing such paths. The longer these attacks persist the more likely countermeasures will be developed, implemented, the groups will be infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted.[37]

(Emphasis mine). I don't know how certain members of Anonymous found themselves on the receiving end of Aaron Barr's maligned attacks on them but I don't see their reaction to such as all too out of line. Barr went after Anonymous and it's not entirely clear to me why persecution of Anonymous is sought. What would I do in that situation? Would I lash back out at this person tracking you? Probably although I might have taken a more litigious route (and I hope those named by Barr do, regardless of any possible involvement in Anonymous).

Whoever leaked these documents is at fault here, be it Bradley Manning or anyone else who had access to the documents and leaked them. I'm guessing they signed something saying they wouldn't do that so they're at fault. Wikileaks, the press, Anonymous, the whole internet, etc are not to blame for coming into possession of them through legal means. Attack the person who broke the rules and fix the problem from its source. Whether Manning was whistle-blowing or breaking his promise of national security will be decided by what he leaked. NATO should be telling the nations to deal with their own problems and not trying to enforce more ridiculous global control.

try this one: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/googles-schmidt-social/

The posted url now 410's. here's a link to the article on PC mag and the wired source too...

The 4th Amendment, for example.

The article contradicts you.

DHS spokesman Jason Ciliberti says the ACLU's description of the zone as "Constitution-Free" couldn't be further from the truth and that the check points follow rules set by Supreme Court rulings.

"We don't have the abilitty to just set up checkpoints willy-nilly," Ciliberti said. "The Supreme Court has determined that brief investigative encontuers do not constitute a serach or seizure."

When citizens or visa holders encounter a checkpoint, most are waived on after showing identification, but if an agent suspects the person is not lawfully in the country, the agent can detain the person until the agent's investigation is satisfied.

The government has long had the power to set up such check points, but has recently expanded the number of permanent and 'tactical' check points and deployed them in areas they hadn't before -- such as near the Canadian border.

The courts, however, are not on the ACLU's side -- and have regularly ruled that the Fourth Amendment's protections don't extend to the border area, airport screening or even to laptops at the border.

Free the Nuremberg 24!
A presidential pledge broken, thank goodness

The Fourth Amendment is in fine shape, but many people here have mistaken notions about its application..

The 4th Amendment, for example.

... so yeah, not really comparable. Even if Google Market had rules as strict as the iTunes store, it would still be fine with me because the user ultimately has control over what is installed. Google is free to provide a "protected space" (whether or not it's a good idea is a different story) if they want to -- users that want to install other apps are free to do so.

Even AT&T, who used to restrict sideloaded apps, have said they will remove the restrictions via firmware updates. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/att-sideload-android-amazon/ -- those of us on SPCS/VZ/TM never had the restriction to being with.

So this is a story about what? Google having a market that they control? We knew that.

I'm so tired of that argument, when the first thing reviews mention, often in the friggin title, is how much these phone like an iPhone then it goes somewhat beyond "well they're both phones." Case in point :

First Look: Samsung Vibrant Rips Off iPhone 3G Design
Review: The IPhone Look Alike Samsung Eternity
Samsung Galaxy S Review : "In the time we’ve been carrying the Galaxy S, more than a few people – geeks included – have mistaken it for an iPhone 3GS"

Why do you accuse me of peddling dodgy treatments? Just google for zinc and cold.

It works better than placebo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12462910
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/for-cold-virus-zinc-may-edge-out-even-chicken-soup/
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Zinc-HealthProfessional/

Stick to the pills/lozenges, take them at early onset of symptoms, don't overdose and definitely don't spray your nose with it (or you might damage/lose your sense of smell). May not be a cure, but most subjects would feel better and that's good enough for most people.

AFAIK doctors in some countries are still prescribing antibiotics to those with colds and flu. Despite being told year after year not to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/20/coughs-colds-cures-treatment-antibiotics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6526575/GPs-told-to-stop-prescribing-antibiotics-for-coughs-and-colds.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1574995/Stop-giving-antibiotics-for-colds-doctors-told.html

My current guess (not enough proof yet :) ) that most people get antibiotic resistant bacteria from hospitals, not farms.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20524852

RESULTS:
Neither the preintervention rate of MRSA colonization or infection (0.56 cases per 1,000 patient-days [95% confidence interval {CI}, 0.49-0.62 cases per 1,000 patient-days]) nor the slope for the rate of MRSA colonization or infection changed significantly after the first intervention. The rate decreased significantly to 0.28 cases per 1,000 patient-days (95% CI, 0.17-0.40 cases per 1,000 patient-days) after the second intervention and to 0.07 cases per 1,000 patient-days (95% CI, 0.06-0.08 cases per 1,000 patient-days) after the third intervention, and the rate remained at a similar level for 8 years. The MRSA bacteremia rate decreased by 80%, whereas the rate of bacteremia due to methicillin-susceptible S. aureus did not change. Eighty-three percent of the MRSA isolates identified were clonally related. All MRSA isolates obtained from healthcare workers were clonally related to those recovered from patients who were in their care.
CONCLUSION:
Our data indicate that long-term control of endemic MRSA is feasible in tertiary care centers. The use of targeted active surveillance for MRSA in patients and healthcare workers in specific wards (identified by means of analysis of clinical epidemiology data) and the use of decolonization were key to the success of the program.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/718935

March 22, 2010 â" A multifaceted infection control program led to a significant decline in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cases in Paris-area hospitals with high endemic MRSA rates, according to an article in the March 22 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

There are other superbugs too:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/enemy_pr.html

It's true that many species of acinetobacter flourish widely in the environment. Thriving colonies have been recovered from soil, cell phones, frozen chicken, wastewater treatment plants, Formica countertops, and even irradiated food

Yes. The Google version of Android (meaning pure/unadulterated) should allow you to remove whatever you want, but since it's open, the hardware manufacturers/carriers are allowed to make any changes they want to the OS including shovelware

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/bloatware-android-phones/

Wyden has also publicly criticized what he calls the US government's secret interpretation of the "Patriot Act".

You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. Wyden (D-Oregon) says that powers they grant the government on their face, the government applies a far broader legal interpretation — an interpretation that the government has conveniently classified, so it cannot be publicly assessed or challenged. But one prominent Patriot-watcher asserts that the secret interpretation empowers the government to deploy ”dragnets” for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently.....

It doesn't matter what Facebook is intended for. I might need to sign up to see somebody's posted pictures etc, but not in a thousand years would I give the damn place any real data. The 'rabid foaming at the mouth privacy nuts' have perfectly legitimate reasons for foaming at the mouth when somewhere, sometime anything they say or are associated with can be used against them, especially now that it's being revealed that the authorities are scraping for every little detail about everybody, and those same authorities have secret interpretations of the law. What you might think is perfectly innocent can land you in prison, and you'll never know why. It's not the info itself, it's how it is being abused..

Slavery, fuck yeah!

Oh, wait. They make 23 cents an hour. Guess those Chinese do have it tough.

Apple doesn't hide rootkits in their software or media files.

Maybe not. But they were summoned to the US Senate to answer questions on privacy concerns over what they track & why they track it unencrypted.

Google, who is responsible for Android, was also called to those hearings. Apple sent a vice-president in charge of software development. Google sent a lobbyist. Apple voluntarily has already taken steps, and has promised to take further steps, to reduce both the amount of "tracking data", and to encrypt what data the user's phone does store. What has Google done/promised (I honestly don't know on that one)? But don't let facts available for nearly two months stop your rant.

Apple doesn't actively prohibit "rooting" of their devices.

I think you need to read the last 2 lines about possibly denying sevice on this page.

Yeah, EULAs always sound terrible. But point to me one instance of Apple actually doing that. [Crickets]

Apple doesn't pursue the iOS "hacker" community with legal threats, DMCA takedown notices, etc.

It has put the mechanisms in place to do so in the future though.

Again, the potential of doing it; but obviously Apple is just putting that in as a guard against an unforseeable "worst-case-scenario" threat. And again, please show me a single instance of Apple actually making good on any sabre-rattling. And didn't it get settled nearly a year ago that "Jailbreaking" was NOT illegal? Do you see Apple actively fighting that with signed bootloaders, security fuses, etc, like some Android Device manufacturers? So, your point, again?

Apple doesn't embrace DRM every day, and in every way (they DO have to put up with SOME DRM due to pressures from "content providers"; but it is obvious they chafe against it).

Apple dropped DRM from iTunes about 2 years ago. It could be argued that they bowed to pressure from their user base after the Sony rootkit and CD DRM fuss. I have not come across a DRMed CD for some years now because of the stink DRM caused.

ANYTHING "can be argued". But at least Apple's CEO published an Open Letter publicly decrying DRM. Has Sony? Howabout Google?

Apple doesn't infest its products with an OS (Windows 7) that has DRM from the driver-level up.

I'm mainly a Linux guy, I'm still using XP for some stuff but haven't played with Windows 7 much beyond setting up some laptops for colleagues - therefore I'm no expert on it. However, I am not aware of any restrictions on Windows 7 that stop you running non-DRMed formats on it exactly as you can do on previous iterations of Windows. I am led to believe that it provides a *platform* for DRM, again probably bowing to the same pressures from the RIAA that you said it was perfectly okay for Apple to have done during the early days of iTunes.

When Apple was starting out with iTunes, NO ONE would have signed up without DRM, and you (and everybody else) knows it. Even when iTunes had DRM on music, it was the weakest DRM possible. Individual songs weren't DRMed, per se; only Playlists were copy-restricted. NOTHING (but trust) prevented the user from deleting the Playlist, and recreating it, thus garnering another seven (then five) copies of a particular song. And let's not forget that iTunes also allows creating an Audi

No only if you purposefully make them look so much alike that it can potentially confuse the consumer. Like when you make a nearly identical handset and change the icons to very closely resemble the iPhone ones. Now personally I don't think this should be against the law, but the first time I saw a commercial for one of these phones I do remember thinking to myself they were shameless iPhone rip offs. I'm not the only one either :

First Look: Samsung Vibrant Rips Off iPhone 3G Design

Review: The IPhone Look Alike Samsung Eternity SGH-A867 (AT&T)

Samsung Galaxy S Review : "In the time we’ve been carrying the Galaxy S, more than a few people – geeks included – have mistaken it for an iPhone 3GS. The glossy black plastic and metal-effect bezel both echo Apple’s second/third-gen smartphone"

"SCADA systems -- computer systems that control industrial processes -- are one of the ways a computer hack can directly affect the real world".

Only if you connect the SCADA systems directly to the Internet and run them on top of Windows. Instead of running them behind a secure VPN connection running on embedded hardware.

Here's the leaked Cisco presentation that was shown to the Human Rights Commission in 2008.

Cisco knew perfectly well what the purpose of the Great Firewall (Golden Shield) of China was and that it was to target the Falun Gong.

This rich asshole thinks you peons shouldn't require eight hours of undisturbed sleep.


bonus related airporn: silly airplane, you're not a bird, get out of that tree!

WTF has Einstein to do with this?!

I assume TFS was referring to the cosmological constant - some have figured that Dark Energy is the mechanism behind the lambda* in Einstein's equations.

*someday Unicode will work on Slashdot...

fMRI again - I want to know how dead salmon react to Apple imagery.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

Yes, just like their archiving of your location data keeps you more secure... Apple is totally perfect, right? They wouldn't EVER let anything unknown or an app that did more than it said into the app store, right?

This is simply an implementation flaw. Shit like that happens on ANY system. It's just that with open systems you actually learn about it. Are you SURE that you know all the security weaknesses in your iProduct? Are you sure Apple is telling you everything? How can you be?

Pardon me as I break my tin-foil hat out here. But there are a lot of government agencies and companies who have a vested interest in seeing Anon fall to pieces. The timing on this is almost as convenient as Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Julian Assange being arrested for sexual assault (the former right after he pulled decisively ahead of pro-American Nicolas Sarkozy in the polls and the later just weeks after he released a series of secret documents that embarrassed the U.S.). But then, I've always said that pedophilia and sexual assault charges are the quickest way to discredit someone publicly--way better than anything as crude as assassination.

Don't get me wrong, here. I'm not the kind of guy who thinks the moon landings were faked or that the U.S. planned 9-11 or any of that horseshit. But sometimes the timing on certain events just strikes me as a little too convenient for mere coincidence. And as was done with Wikileaks, the first step in a descrediting campaign is to encourage dissension from within and to get some internal plants/buy-offs to publicly bad-mouth the leadership (Daniel Domscheit-Berg, I'm looking in your direction, little plant). Just don't be suprised to see some Anon leaders suddenly facing rape/pedophilia/sexual assault charges in the near future. You'll know for sure if beautiful women suddenly start throwing themselves at 4channers in public.

"Bill Binney .. worked on NSA's ThinThread program; a way to monitor the flood of internet data from outside the US while protecting the privacy of US citizens" ..

For a professional spy he does come across as naive. The US security services has been spying on the rest of the world and its own citizens for years before 9/11. All September 11th did was give them the pretext to massively expand the program. And I guess the rest of us don't really matter, we're not real countries anyway.

The secret of Room 641A

AT&T collaborates with NSA

Echelon