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NatWest & RBS utter fail
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.

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The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
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

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Mircosoft gets Linux
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.

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Surface presentation
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT
link

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  • correct link - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 08:24 AM EDT
An update on Ubuntu and UEFI/Secure Boot
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/

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SOPA Backers Criticize Internet Opposition, Claim Response ‘Orchestrated' by Tech Giants
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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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to Buy Hawaiian Island for $500 Million
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.”

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Hear Her Hack - Calling Global Women Hackers
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

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