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Slashback: Sony Blu-Ray, Phone Records, Korean Cloners
Mathew Bevan speaks out on McKinnon case. mrkuji writes "Ex military hacker Mathew Bevan AKA Kuji has released his comments and thoughts about the goings on of the McKinnon hacker extradition trial."
New Zealand revises their view of OSS. sam_vilain writes "As previously noted here on Slashdot, the New Zealand State Services Commission has some problems with open source software. The new version of their legal guidelines document for OSS in NZ government, however, is a breath of fresh air."
Korean cloners facing possible jail time. reporter writes "In a stunning conclusion to the saga of the Korean cloning scientist who fabricated his results, the Korean government wants to throw him in prison. The BBC reports, "The South Korean cloning scientist who faked his stem cell research has been charged with fraud and embezzlement. [...] Prosecutors claim he [, using grant funds,] bought a car and paid contributions to politicians and company officials who helped to arrange his grants. [...] The misuse of state funds carries a jail term of up to 10 years, while a violation of bio-ethics laws can mean up to three years in prison.'"
The fight for .xxx to continue? Robert writes "ICANN has played down the role that the conservative US government had in its decision to reject a plan to launch a porn-only internet domain, while the company backing the .xxx proposal said it was considering an appeal. From the article: 'Stuart Lawley, president of ICM, after spending at least two years and over $2m on campaigning for .xxx to be approved, told us he thought the deal was shot down for political reasons, and said he was weighing a response. [...] The reason people suspect that US concerns were key, and the reason that the media keeps harping on about it, is because ICANN's powers are granted under a contract with the US Department of Commerce. That contract ends in four months, and so far nobody seems to know what happens after it expires.'"
More details on the Diebold problem. An anonymous reader writes "SecurityFocus' Rob Lemos has published an article with many more details on the critical Diebold problems, implications for upcoming state elections next week, and quotes from key scientists who have detailed knowledge of how easily the flaws can be exploited." Relatedly eldavojohn writes "USA Today is reporting that Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell has resigned. From the article: "The board of directors and Wally mutually agreed that his decision to resign at this time for personal reasons was in the best interest of all parties," said John Lauer, Diebold's non-executive chairman of the board."
Supreme Court sides with eBay in patent suit. theodp writes "In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court sided with eBay in a fight over the use of its 'Buy It Now' feature, which will make it easier for companies to avoid court injunctions barring the continued use of technology after a patent infringement finding, such as the one used by Amazon against Barnes & Noble in the midst of the Christmas holiday season over its soon-to-be-reexamined 1-Click patent."
AT&T denied a closed hearing. guygee writes "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, AT&T has lost its '11th hour bid' to force closed hearings on unsealing critical documents in EFF's class-action lawsuit alleging AT&T's illegal transfer of its customer's telephone and Internet records and communications to the National Security Agency. According to the report, 'An AT&T lawyer sent a letter by fax to Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker on Tuesday asking that the courtroom be closed during any discussion of its trade secrets or confidential information.' EFF is also reporting the breaking news on the case." Relatedly DarkAudit writes "A commissioner for the FCC wants an investigation into whether or not phone companies broke the law by handing over their records to the NSA."
Sony's Blu-Ray demo on the level. eaglebtc writes "Gearlog.com has retracted a previous accusation against Sony regarding their alleged use of a DVD+R instead of a Blu-Ray disc in a demonstration. In the original announcement, Gearlog.com claimed that Sony was using a DVD+R to demonstrate Blu-Ray technology, in an attempt to show that Sony was not ready to market the product."
good! he's a fraud and deserves punishment. Sounds like the prosecution has a lock case. Although I only think we're hearing about this because of all the political baggage stem cell research carries. There are plenty of people defrauding governments and companies worldwide.
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Apparently, Lance was drunk during the event and thought he had some kind of big scoop when really he was too wasted to understand what was going on at the event.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
From Gearlogs "retraction" The fact is, Mr. Ulanoff, you thought you had a scoop and ran off to stick it in your blog. You did seem to think this was a "momentous discovery", at least that's what your actions suggest.
Be a man, admit you screwed up and move on.
Trolling is a art,
I took a look at their paper on F/OSS and I liked it. The people who wrote it really did an effort to understand the issues.
... that the 'Sony used a DVD+R for their BluRay Demo' meme will float into console fanboy lore, like the Toy Story claim...
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Errr, I thought, the guy's resigned a second time?
No, indeed, it is not news. The 2005 date of the article is even embedded in the link. Halooooo Slashdot!!!
Hey I hear those kids in that Duke rape case pleaded innocent, so by your logic, they must be!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
What seems more likely.... that the NSA tried to strong arm Qwest and when that failed decided not to try and get information from the other telecoms or the other telecoms are lying about not handing over our information? Qwest has no reason to lie while the other companies have 200 billion reasons to do so.
Doesn't anybody else think its a cheapshot to compare a Blu-ray movie to one on a single layer DVD? No commercial movies are that small anymore.
I can't help but wonder if this was mistake or an intentional attempt to boost HD-DVD sales by someone for stock reasons or something. The HD-DVD camp has been very shrill in decrying Blu-Ray the Beta of the new millennia, despite Blu-Ray's larger coalition of partners than its rival this time around and Blu-Ray's much larger storage (storage being a HUGE factor in Beta's demise). Beta did come out first, so the fit with HD-DVD is the more like Beta. HD-DVD is trying to claim a 2 month head start is insurmountable for Sony and Blu-Ray, but Beta had a least a year's head start on VHS.
I haven't seen any HD-DVD recorders yet. Do the HD-DVD notebooks have recorders or just players? Sony VIAO will come out with a read/write Blu-Ray in June I believe. If Blu-Ray is first with recorders that is the real race and death knell for HD-DVD.
Given the FUD form the HD-DVD camp I think they know that come June it is essentially all over for them. They will unload a few more players at or below cost. Brag about being first to market. then give up shortly after Christmas.
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You don't have to have the entire movie on a single layer DVD to make a comparison. More than likely, they probably only burned the necessary footage for an A & B comparison.
Then is the president of the united states lying in his statements that they are keeping a database of numbers called? Or is he just misinformed about what civil liberties his administration is currently disregarding?
) Human Kind Vs Human Creation
) It'd be interesting to see how many humans would survive to serve us.
So were these the same machines used to re-elect George Bush in 2004? Which states used Diebold devices then? I seem to remember some counties in Ohio did.
The companies waited 5 days before even starting to try to tell us the story was false.
With carefully worded statements that avoid coming out and saying what the AT&T case already shows, that the NSA has built snooping into the phone system. Verizon came out and said that "the NSA program" is highly classified and so it can't comment on it. BUT we are not giving them phone records. OK, what ARE you giving them?
I'd give about as much creedence to these denials as Enron saying they aren't manipulating the energy market in California.
Anyone else want to weigh in on the fact that the NSA "phone-tapping scandal" is turning out to be a big flop for our vaunted mainstream media?
No, since calling the story a "big flop" is your opinion. Come back when you know the difference between a fact and an opinion, and we'll reconsider your brilliant and insightful analysis.
Oh wow, weeks later they're insisting they weren't involved? I wonder why they didn't notice earlier... wait what? The judge declined a closed court hearing and is looking less and less like a republican stooge? Oh shit! They promised our involvement would never be made public! Quick, get the PR department on full spin! We did not have information exchange with that NSA agent!
Thanks for the link. Is your summary of its contents 100% wrong because you're a troll, or because you're functionally illiterate?
You might wanna check this out. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/17050 6_b_Memorandum.htm
It turns out, the President gave a memorandum telling the National Intelligence Director he could authorize companies to lie about dealings having to do with national security without being subject to penalties almost a week before the NSA shit really started hitting the fan.
You know, I think that a significantly more secure machine could have been made using an XBox! It's absolutely a frightening indication of our priorities when the security of games is more important than the security of elections.
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
The false story leads in an article; the retraction is hidden at the bottom of trash day. Nice.
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Fast forward to last year, my girlfriend at the time was a self-employed contract graphic artist, bought music all the time, and criticised me on my stance. Her friends told her to use P2P software but she said that her computer was too important to put anything on there that might upset her work. Overall her and I sort of had this ongoing argument about it. Anyway one day I get a SMS from her, a big "Help Me". I got round to her house and her computer wouldn't boot into Windows. She's in a big panic, big job due the next day, it takes days to install all the software she needs to do her work, she's lost a bunch of work and her PC is stuffed.
In the end it was a big disaster, the job was screwed up and she lost a customer. A few weeks later I realised what the problem was, she was running Windows XP x64 and had put in a new Sony CD that had rootkitted her machine and overwrote some 64 bit drivers with some 32 bit drivers. PWN3D!!!! Explaining to her what happened was like the best argument win ever!! of course then we split, but it was worth it.
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The first line of the article begins with a false premise, and incorrectly reflects the amended law as of any time since 1978, claiming that what was written in 1968 was the correct interpretation of a document written 150 years, before communication could possibly involve anything more than direct than person-to-person or written correspondence.
The Omnibus... act was amended in 1978 to specifically remove the language which places the President's authority over all other concerns. Check out the current version of 18 USC 2511, and specifically the MISC2 section at the end, which outlines the changes to the statute through all amendments. The 1978 amendmeent, in fact, was the same one that overrode the portions of Omnibus... to reflect the details of the FISA legislation passed in the same year, which granted specific powers, to be exercised via specific procedures, with regards to electronic surveillance.
In particular, the "constitutional power" verbage was removed as overreaching, and 2 (e) and (f) were added to reflect the ability of the Federal government to conduct electronic and other surveillance of foreign communications on foreign communications networks granted by FISA. In no way, shape, or form does the collection of data regarding my phone usage fall under those terms, no matter how many degrees of separation from Al-Qaeda I am via Kevin Bacon.
If you want to be a strict Federalist interpretist of the Constitution, you better send your women back to the kitchen and keep your negroes in line...can't have them out, you know, voting and owning property.
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For detailed info on the hardware and software used by NSA at the AT&T central switching centers see my journal.
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The evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's suit against AT&T indicates that the pen-register (phone call records) and call-graph analysis is really just the tip of the iceberg. The equipment that the NSA installed in AT&T's main switching and routing centers is known, it is made by Naurus Inc.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry
Thanks for that link! Want to do something about it? The referenced article states:
Some googling found this link: U.S. Code collection: 78m. Periodical and other reports and the referenced section of the code states:
(emphasis: mine.)As I see it, these telecom companies could have been authorized to lie to the SEC, their shareholders, and the general public about their participation in this. How much will it take for people to realize what is going on... and do something about it? How about people contact the congressional members who are responsible for monitoring these activities? Wikipedia lists the members of these organizations and provides some background: Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate
AT&T has lost its '11th hour bid' to force closed hearings on unsealing critical documents
First, why the hell didn't the EFF go public with their evidence first? Depending on the outcome of the case, we might never know whether they stumbled onto something "real", or just something trivial that the NSA could hypothetically abuse under a combination of unlikely circumstances.
But aside from that...
How exactly does the evidence remain under seal in an open court? Do all parties involved use vague allusions and a lot of wink-wink-nudge-nudge to refer to the evidence without revealing anything about it to the public? Do spectators swear not to reveal anything they see or hear (yeah, that would work - until about 30 seconds after the end of the first session)? Do the MiB use their magic flashing memory eraser any time someone mentions a detail under seal?
So goddamned sick of all the secrets and lies. Who wants to join me in pushing for a constitutional amendment banning the use of secrecy or any form of "classified" designation (perhaps with a nonrenewable two-week-maximum exception for situations where revealing such information would directly threaten American lives)? Time to let these arrogant twats know who they work for!
What seems more likely.... that the NSA tried to strong arm Qwest and when that failed decided not to try and get information from the other telecoms or the other telecoms are lying about not handing over our information? Qwest has no reason to lie while the other companies have 200 billion reasons to do so.
You are not playing the PR game! AT&T put out a press release that only IMPLIED that they did not cooperate with the NSA. They said that AT&T did not give the NSA any company records. They said nothing about allowing the NSA access to trunks lines or areas inside their facilities that would allow the NSA to collect the data themselves. The press release also said that AT&T did not provide NSA with any data about calls from 2001 to December 2006, but it is beleived that one of the SUBSIDIARIES did.
Is this lying? Technically no, but it sure is deceitful, misleading and slimey! Power to the Public Relations Departments of the world. Join us and you too can have a career by learning how to lie by telling the truth.
In tomorrows news, FCC commissioner resigns after phone records of calls to his mistress were leaked by the NSA.
ok, this just doesnt make any bloodly sence.... making a single domain for the slew of porn sites would make blocking them a painless task. One would think that the far right would love that idea.
"Sources told us that BellSouth and Verizon records are included in the database," USA Today spokesman Steve Anderson said Tuesday.
"We're confident in our coverage of the phone database story," Anderson added, "but we won't summarily dismiss BellSouth's and Verizon's denials without taking a closer look."
emphasis added, where exactly is the flop? In order to have a flop the author would have to change something, not just point out that the phone companys didn't like the way the story was presented.
oh wait, I see the flop, "BellSouth did not challenge the initial report when given details about it before publication. But BellSouth spokesman Jeff Battcher said he never agreed to the reporter's allegations when presented with them."
you meant the phone companys are flopping, well your posting was mis-worded.
If you are concerned about the legitimacy of our democratic system it is worth looking at John Conyer's report on the irregulaties in Ohio's results - including three references to Diebold.
It's about 100 pages long, covers a range of issues, including the machines, and is very objective.
From what I've seen most of the world does things quarter or one tenth assed. I do things two thirds assed and I look good by comparison. ;-)
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Verizon came out and said that "the NSA program" is highly classified and so it can't comment on it. BUT we are not giving them phone records. OK, what ARE you giving them?
They're giving the NSA little origami swans that, coincidentally, have copies of phone records printed on them.
Or perhaps they have the phone records in an FTP repository. They aren't giving them, the NSA is taking them.
Or, more likely, they aren't giving them at all, they are selling them.
It all depends on what your definition of "is" is.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
How about some references to back that up? I find no mention of Danaher being a contributor to the Democrats. In fact, the news I read said that the way these machines were configured favored Bush. Also, I recall reading quite a bit more about problems with Diebold than Danaher.
Danaher used to be known as Shooptronics, and I found searching on Shooptronics to be more relevant, as there are evidently several companies called Danaher that have nothing to do with voting. I suspect Faux News (or wherever you got this information) disengenously noted that "Danaher" donated to the Democrats, without noting that it was a different Danaher.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I believe I read the idea somewhere else on slashdot, but why not simply restrict port servers to a special port? Then browsers could simply have an option to not allow sites using that port to send them a page. I do believe this would be significantly easier to impliment than .xxx, and would allow porn sites to keep thier domains. Of course my understanding of ports and thier functions might restrict me from seeing the problems with such a solution, or that this solution is simply too good to actualy become a law could easily prevent this from happening.
This guy had a real story right under his friggin nose and chose to go for the HOME RUN instead of a tipple. Sony did not fake this demo TOTALLY but it was still a VERY UNFAIR DEMO. DVD+R has half the capacity of a normal DVD, so when the Sony rep said that they used a burned DVD to get the content the same so they could have an apples to apples comparison with a Blu-Ray disc they were full of s*$t. They used a burned DVD to make the Blu-Ray demo look better, and to make people think that "wow normal DVD looks like crap". Next time don't get so excited, post the actual news, because im sure that would have been just as interesting to the readers and we would be discussing the fact that Sony was using DVD+R to compare to Blu-Ray discs instead of discussing how much of an idiot you are.
as credible as Timecube or David Icke.
Here's the damn Presidential Executive Order in question. Published on the WhiteHouse.Gov website itself.
The directive itself is rather opaque, reffering to 13(b)(3)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended (15 U.S.C. 78m(b)(3)(A)), but reading those sections reveals that they do in fact say what it is claimed the directive says - that the President was granting the Director of National Intelligence the Presidential Authority to immunize companies from Securities Exchange laws that they can LIE TO THE PUBLIC and legally deny that they did what they did on National Security grounds.
It seems that the remaining 29% who still support president Bush are suffering from some pretty severe cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive Dissonace: "People who are involuntarily exposed to information that increases dissonance are likely to discount that information, either by ignoring it, misinterpreting it, or denying it.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
And the difference in this case would be......
I call a reporter that later does a story on government corruption and that call is logged in a government database controlled by the very people who have the most motivation to abuse it without our knowledge.
This is what we were so afraid of when we were fighting communism, that an invasive government idea would infest our basic rights to freedoms and liberties assured us in the constitution.
A quote by our founding fathers:
"Those who trade security for liberty deserve neither."
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) Human Kind Vs Human Creation
) It'd be interesting to see how many humans would survive to serve us.
Interesting which side most folks here come down on. One "fact" contradicts the other, but without any reasonable expectation of agenda.
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