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Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 01:22 AM EDT |
Article on the BBC.
It appears that
something has gone seriously wrong with their back-end
computers, leaving many
people unable to withdraw funds, make payments or
even complete major
pre-arranged contracts. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 02:14 AM EDT |
Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern
American mafia. Of course, you won't hear the recent financial corruption
case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, called
anything like that. If you heard about it at all, you're probably either in the
municipal bond business or married to an antitrust lawyer. Even then, all you
probably heard was that a threesome of bit players on Wall Street got convicted
of obscure antitrust violations in one of the most inscrutable, jargon-packed
legal snoozefests since the government's massive case against Microsoft in the
Nineties – not exactly the thrilling courtroom drama offered by the famed trials
of old-school mobsters like Al Capone or Anthony "Tony Ducks"
Corallo.
But this just-completed trial in downtown New York against three
faceless financial executives really was historic. Over 10 years in the making,
the case allowed federal prosecutors to make public for the first time the
astonishing inner workings of the reigning American crime syndicate, which now
operates not out of Little Italy and Las Vegas, but out of Wall
Street.
The defendants in the case – Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg
and Peter Grimm – worked for GE Capital, the finance arm of General
Electric.
Matt Taibbi, Rolling
Stone
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INDICTMENT
COUNT ONE - WIRE FRAUD
(18 U.S.C. §
1343)
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f261600/261602.htm [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 07:58 AM EDT |
Well, it gets to work with Novell and SUSE, at least.Microsoft
has announced plans to release a system to enable data centres using the
Microsoft System Center management platform to run Linux servers as well
as Windows. The SUSE Manager Management Pack for System Center provides a
way for administrators to work with servers on both operating systems through
one interface. Alan Clark, SUSE's director of industry initiatives and
emerging standards, said:"This integration between System Center and SUSE
Manager is giving our customers the ability to manage both Windows environments
and Linux environments from a single console." adding: "When vendors work
together we bring additional value to the environment". Breaking out one of our
favourite business cliches, the general manager of Microsoft's open solutions
group, Sandy Gupta, said thet the cloud "needs to be adaptable to heterogeneous
environments". Microsoft isn't known to be a fierce advocate of computer
users' rights. so it's easy to be suspicious of the company's motives. However,
the growing involvement of MS with open source software demonstrates that it
believes there's gold in them thar github repositories. We're glad to see any
investment in Linux at all, as what's good for one will, eventually, turn out to
be good for all. Source: Linux Format, August 2012. Only a tiny
extract from the magazine, so fair use should apply. Buy the magazine anyway,
there is other good stuff in there including a quote from PJ. Hmmmm, Novell,
who did a deal with M$, and Sandy Gupta, proven arch enemy of Linux, as seen
in the SCO trial. I think I will be avoiding this. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT |
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- correct link - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 08:24 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
blah, blah blah... nothong.
http://blog.canonical.com/2012/06/22/an-update-on-ubuntu-and-secure-boot/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
Oyama noted that in addition to the more than 115,000
websites
that went dark Jan. 18 pursuant to “internet
blackout day,” there were also 3.9
million tweets about SOPA
that day.
After Google launched a website to
inform citizens about the
legislation, more than 7,000,000 people petitioned
Congress
to vote no on SOPA and the Protect IP Act, Oyama said. “The
mass
constituent outcry has kind of fundamentally taken
shape here in D.C.,” she
said.
The internet blackout and the public outcry on Jan. 18
seemed to
signal a turning point in the debate, as a
numerous lawmakers pulled their
support for the legislation,
resulting in both bills being shelved just two
days
later
...
Moore agreed that the free speech concerns were
misplaced.
“The First Amendment argument is not appropriate in this
context,”
Moore said. “The First Amendment is part of
copyright. They are not in
tension.”
Linky
Not in tension … As though DNS
blocking does not
constitute a prior restraint on speech ...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 04:13 PM EDT |
Source: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to Buy
Hawaiian Island for $500 Million
Larry Ellison, the
co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corp., has agreed to purchase 98 percent of the
Hawaiian island of Lana’i for an estimated $500 million, the state’s
governor announced in a statement earlier this week.
“It is my
understanding that Mr. Ellison has had a long standing interest in Lana’i,” Gov.
Neil Abercrombie said in a statement. “His passion for nature, particularly the
ocean is well known specifically in the realm of America’s Cup sailing. He is
also a businessman whose record of community involvement in medical research and
education causes is equally notable.” [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 05:09 PM EDT |
There is no better way than a hackday to highlight and celebrate
women who are hackers and creators, and to encourage women who are watching from
the sidelines to join in.
A few weeks ago, we
announced LinkedIn’s first global women’s hackday in Mountain View from June
30th to July 1st, a little over a week from now. I am excited to announce
that by popular demand, we have now added in a second venue. There will be a
parallel DevelopHer
hackday in Delhi, India, over the same weekend.
Rashmi
Sinha, Linkedin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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