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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 09:50 PM EDT |
"Allowing unknowable laws to be written on an ad-hoc basis by private
corporations [...]"
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Authored by: lnuss on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 07:27 AM EDT |
There seems to be a lot of duplicated text in this news item.
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Authored by: frankieh on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 12:06 PM EDT |
apple
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 02:19 PM EDT |
US agency baffled
by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of
viruses
The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident
was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its
investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary
infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy
$170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in
development of a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a
year.
How's that affecting the Total Cost of Ownership
[*] for those legacy Microsoft systems?
[*] Don't blame me for that
oxymoron; that's a Microsoft invention. Might even be a patented method of
deception.
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Authored by: complex_number on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 03:19 AM EDT |
link to /.
If they do, all your data will belong to
the NSA(Prism).
Nice idea but since DropBox will have to give in to ALL NSA
requests (don't know about any back doors...) what price privacy then?
--- Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe &
Everything which is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: JK Finn on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 06:38 AM EDT |
Infoworld article
The new Win8.1 Smart
Search -- invoked by
default through the Windows 8.1 Search charm -- not only
searches your computer for the string you specify. It also,
all by itself,
gathers up the terms and runs them through a
Bing search. Making this cool new
feature all the more
lovable, Microsoft has officially announced that
advertisers
will be able to dish up advertising to your computer, based
on the
searches you perform on your computer.
Eh, isn't this precisely
the mode of operation that
Canonical tried with Dash and the Shopping Lense,
only to be
forced to back out of by, among other things, community
response
and EU data protection laws?
I can easily see Microsoft ignoring
community response, but
I wonder if they really think this is a good
time to
try their luck with those laws, what with the NSA kerfuffle
and
all.
NSA may consider themselves to be above any applicable
laws, but I
don't think that extends to their contractual
partners like Microsoft.
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