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Remove Filter  | It took two years, but Terry Childs, former network administrator for the city of San Francisco, has finally been convicted of one felony count of computer tampering. In [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219397.html"]2008[/URL], Childs changed the system's router passwords and then for more than a week refused to give them to anyone, even after … |
| | The case of a Philadelphia school allegedly [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story263325.html"]spying [/URL]on students through webcams in their laptop computers continues to wend its way through the legal system, with more recently filed court documents alleging that as many as 56,000 pictures were taken. While attorneys for the school system [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/us/20brfs-SCHOOLDISTRI_BRF.html"]insist [/URL]none of the … |
| | It's enough to make anyone froth at the mouth: Film parodies making use of a ranting Hitler, with added subtitles explaining what current event he was ranting about -- which have grown increasingly popular on YouTube -- are gradually disappearing after a request from the company that owns the film. … |
| | 33 of the 4,000 people who worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the last five years -- 31 of them within the past three years -- were busted viewing pornography on the job, including 17 senior employees earning between $99,000 and $222,000 a year, according to a [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/SECPornSummary.pdf"]report … |
| | Among those stranded by last week's new eruption of an Icelandic volcano was Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister of Norway, who on Friday found himself stuck in JFK, according to [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/04/16/2010-04-16_volcanic_ash_strands_norway_prime_minister_jens_stotlenberg_in_nyc_airport_so_he.html"]news [/URL]reports. Fortunately, he'd just bought an iPad, and proceeded to conduct the daily business of the country in the airport … |
| | Awards from the first round of broadband stimulus grants are coming under criticism for duplicating existing infrastructure. "Now as the government awards the money, some phone and cable companies complain that not all of it is being used to bring broadband to places that lack it," said Joelle Tessler in … |
| | In response to criticism of the way it was testing broadband Internet speeds, the Federal Communications Commission, following up a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story267741.html"]promise [/URL]it made last month, [URL="http://blog.broadband.gov/?entryId=359987"]announced [/URL]it had hired a vendor to help it perform more accurate tests. "In a couple of weeks, we will be asking for consumers from … |
| | Applications for the second round of U.S. broadband stimulus funding are starting to become publicly available on a federal [URL="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/applications/search.cfm"]website[/URL]. Approximately 870 applications had been posted to the database as of Saturday, [URL="http://www.stimulatingbroadband.com/2010/04/update-broadband-stimulus-round-ii.html"]according [/URL]to Stimulating Broadband, a website dedicated to tracking broadband stimulus funding. In the American Recovery and Reinvestment … |
| | [I]So, did anybody hear tonight's mysterious southeast Portland explosion? [/I] Apparently a lot of people, like my Portland friend, did. ("Tonight" was Sunday.) What's interesting is how they used Internet tools to track down the location. As described in an article in the [I]New York Times[/I], people immediately started using …  |
| | Just six weeks after Google [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story259442.html"]announced [/URL]its plan to build a gigabit fiber network for a city, more than 1,100 cities have applied, the company [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-steps-for-our-experimental-fiber.html"]said [/URL]on Friday. In addition, more than 194,000 individuals responded, Google said. The company has put a map up on its corporate blog showing which …  |
| | A news [URL="http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=135404&provider=top"]article [/URL]was making the Facebook rounds today, warning about a site called [URL="http://www.spokeo.com/"]Spokeo.com [/URL]that aggregates publicly available information. "It can list your address, a picture of your home, how much it cost, how long you have lived there, your approximate age and income, your relationship status and more," … |
| | About a year [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220410.html"]ago[/URL], three girls fought charges of child pornography -- of themselves -- for refusing to attend 10-hour class on pornography and sexual violence after they were arrested for taking pictures of themselves [I]en deshabille[/I]. Now, the district court not only barred the district attorney from initiating any …  |
| | As the saying goes, a man (and presumably a woman) is known by the company he keeps. In fact, last [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story224479.html"]fall [/URL]some MIT students did a study where they demonstrated that they could tell someone's sexual orientation by the sexual orientation of their friends on Facebook and other social networking … |
| | In preparation for releasing its national broadband plan tomorrow (which is already coming under [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/business/media/13fcc.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1268658134-LNz+NNwd7fnSKyovP4YlZw"]criticism[/URL]), the Federal Communications Commission has started collecting data from users on their broadband [URL="http://broadband.gov/qualitytest/"]performance [/URL]-- a test that is also coming under criticism. Like [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219530.html"]similar [/URL]testing a couple of years ago, the broadband.gov testing suffers … |
| | The issue of teens taking naked pictures of themselves with their cell phones and sending them to other teens has been an issue of increasing [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220134.html"]concern[/URL], with teens being [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220410.html"]slapped [/URL]with child pornography charges, simply by virtue of the fact that the subject of the picture was under 18 -- … |
| | Craig Newmark, the man that newspaper editors love to [URL="http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/weekly-newspapers-in-crisis/Content?oid=923530"]hate[/URL], celebrated the 15th anniversary of Craigslist -- the garage sale listing of the Internet -- this month. In Newmark's [URL="http://www.cnewmark.com/2010/03/craigslist-is-around-fifteen-years-old.html"]blog[/URL], he posted a copy of a message from March 28, 1995, from the seminal online service The WElL. "My focus, … |
| | Announcements for the first round of broadband stimulus grants and loans have slipped a bit; while all the announcements were supposed to be made by March 1, they are now expected to be made by March 15, according to an [URL="http://www.stimulatingbroadband.com/2010/03/broadband-stimulus-pipeline-usda-says.html"]article [/URL]on the Stimulating Broadband website. In the first round … |
| | After finding out that criminal [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story253452.html"]attorneys [/URL]and divorce [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220645.html"]lawyers [/URL]are using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to find out information for and about clients, it shouldn't be any surprise that banks are doing the same thing. "Companies like RapLeaf of San Francisco have been quietly gathering information … |
| | Federal magistrate Barry Garber has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed for what a student said was a violation of her First Amendment rights after she was suspended for setting up a Facebook page that criticized her teacher. Katherine Evans was a junior in Pembroke Pines Charter High School in … |
| | Those of us who still read newspapers have seen them -- the pages and pages of teeny type describing changes in zoning, foreclosure notices, and all sorts of other arcane information. Most of us just turn the page. But in publishing, it's big money, and newspapers that have already lost … |
| | 40 million people were without power in the eastern United States, more than 60 million cellphones were out of service, and Wall Street was closed for a week due to a terrorist cyberattack against the United States. No, it didn't really happen. But it could. Coverage of a simulated cyber … |
| | A police officer who posted to a Facebook page criticism of a political movement in which pro-gun advocates openly carry firearms in public has come under fire for claiming, in what he is now saying was a joke, that they should be shot. East Palo Alto Detective Rod Tuason was … |
| | YouTube is coming under criticism for continuing to keep online a ten-minute interview with Scott Roeder, who was convicted after a 37-minute deliberation of first-degree murder for killing Dr. George Tiller, whose Kansas clinic performed late-term abortions. The [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkIw_fqmC1k"]interview[/URL] is by phone but includes a scroll with the text. It … |
| | Legislators around the country are scrambling to look at their states' laws about lewd messages to minors after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned a conviction, saying state law didn't support it because it didn't specify online messaging. “The online conversations in this case, as they were not written with … |
| | Authors of books published by [URL="http://us.macmillan.com/"]Macmillan[/URL] discovered early Saturday morning that all their electronic books been pulled from Amazon sales, and even wishlists, in a dispute between Amazon and their publisher over e-book pricing. How the dispute is resolved will help determine the price of e-books in the future. "Macmillan, … |
| | Perhaps taking the lead from Connecticut Republicans who set up [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story232782.html"]fake[/URL] Twitter accounts and websites for their Democratic opponents, other political campaigns are doing it, too. In California, an intern for the campaign of Beth Krom for Congress noticed that the website of incumbent Representative John Campbell had a misspelled … |
| | To protest a planned Internet filter in Australia, Australian websites and users are being encouraged this week to turn themselves black. "The Federal Government wants to pass laws to force internet service providers to block banned material hosted on overseas servers," explained one Australian [URL="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/26/2801759.htm"]media source[/URL]. "Communications Minister Stephen Conroy … |
| | As increasing numbers of states are running into budgetary problems, some of them are starting to look at taxing Internet sales. When the Internet first started becoming a commercial entity, Internet sales were exempted from sales taxes in order to help encourage new commercial companies to form on the Internet. … |
| | Online legal experts are salivating over cookies. Specifically, they are leaping to comment on the legal precedents involved over a lawsuit by Dr. Sanford Siegal, creator of the "[URL="http://www.cookiediet.com/"]Cookie Diet[/URL]," and his company, Dr. Siegal's Direct Nutritionals, LLC, against celebrity, model, socialite, and actress [URL="http://kimkardashian.celebuzz.com/"]Kim Kardashian[/URL] over what they allege …  |
| | Well, there's one advantage to global warming: The Kodiak-Kenai Cable Company (KKCC) has announced plans to finance, design, build and operate an express undersea fiber optic cable connecting Asia and Europe, routed through the Arctic, according to an [URL="http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=8381"]article[/URL] in the [I]Kodiak Daily Mirror[/I]. Construction of the $1.2 billion, 10,000-mile … |
| | Interested in following the Obama presidency? There's an [URL="http://itunes.com/apps/thewhitehouse"]app[/URL] for that. Timed for the State of the Union speech next week, TheWhiteHouse is a free application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users stream video, browse photos, and read text from President Barack Obama's White House. According … |
| | While waiting for [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/post977515.html"]federal legislation[/URL] legalizing online gambling -- a vote that could happen as early as [URL="http://www.pokerheadline.com/2010/01/efforts-are-taken-by-poker-players-alliance-to-regulate-online-gambling/"]next month[/URL] -- individual states are looking to legalize online gambling as well. States such as [URL="http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/article_8a288b86-04b0-11df-8663-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story"]New Jersey[/URL], [URL="http://www.egrmagazine.com/news/263017/california-poker-bill-introduced-next-year-promises-new-pva-chief.thtml"]California[/URL], and [URL="http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2010-01-20/story/florida_legislature_could_take_a_look_at_regulating_internet_poker"]Florida[/URL] are considering legislation that would permit online gambling within their states -- … |
| | Following the lead of [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4250.html"]Facebook users[/URL] whose uproar over a change in terms led the social media company to change them back, Twitter users are now clamoring about a change in what Twitter shows. Twitter users "follow" other users, meaning they see their posts. People can either create new posts … |
| | The Federal Communications Commission asked Congress this week for a one-month extension to its Feb. 17 deadline for a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220560.html"]report[/URL] on a national broadband plan, according to an [URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100107-707117.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines"]article[/URL] in the [I]Wall Street Journal.[/I] The agency said it needed more time to fully brief commissioners and key members of Congress, … |
| | Facebook is now being blamed for up to 1 in 5 divorces, according to an analysis performed on an online database of divorce documents. The website, called [URL="http://www.divorce-online.co.uk/"]Divorce-Online[/URL], had Facebook mentioned 989 times out of 5,000 documents, [URL="http://www.journalism.co.uk/66/articles/536960.php"]according to[/URL] Mark Keenan, managing director of the site. The most common reason … |
| | A recent [URL="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1448/latinos-internet--usage-increase-2006-2008"]survey[/URL] by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the percentage of Latinos who use the Internet has jumped, and that a larger percentage of Latinos than blacks now use the Internet. From 2006 to 2008, Internet use among Latino adults rose by 10 percentage points, … |
| | You could call it Santa 6.0. In what's becoming a regular product cycle, Google [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-dasher-now-dancer-track-santa-and.html"]announced[/URL] today the new features that Santa-tracking kids of all ages could expect starting on Christmas Eve at 2 am EST: primarily, support for the Google Earth plug-in, meaning that users will be able to watch … |
| | Hewlett-Packard is scrambling to respond to an issue brought up by a Dec. 10 YouTube video demonstrating that the facial tracking software used in some of its laptops doesn't recognize black people. HP responded to the issue yesterday [URL="http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Voodoo-Blog/Customer-Feedback-is-Important-to-Us/ba-p/51351"]in its blog[/URL], and it's starting to go viral today. In the … |
| | If you've ever wanted to read [I]Sprague's Journal of Maine History[/I], or [I]Pioneers of Scioto County[/I], but couldn't because they were too old, you're in luck. They're among nearly 60,000 books -- many too fragile to be safely handled -- that have been digitally scanned as part of the first-ever … |
| | Almost [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220055.html"]exactly a year[/URL] after Facebook users complained that the site was deleting pictures of them with their nursing babies, now they're complaining that they can't show pictures of their pregnant bellies, either. The Facebook group [URL="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=86701642170&ref=search&sid=792620396.4283721828..1"]"Allow pregnant women to display pictures of their baby bump!!!!"[/URL] was formed on June … |
| | Teens who take revealing pictures of themselves to send to other teens are getting more than embarrassment: They're getting a criminal record as a sex offender. The problem of revealing teen pictures has been getting a great deal of attention lately, with a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3651.html"]recent survey[/URL] finding that 36 percent of … |
| | The federal government today [URL="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/vice-president-biden-kicks-72-billion-recovery-act-broadband-program"]made[/URL] the first awards aimed toward improving broadband access in the U.S. In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, Congress appropriated $7.2 billion for broadband grants, loans, and loan guarantees to be administered by the USDA’s Rural Utilities … |
| | The Electronic Frontier Foundation has [URL="http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/social_network/social_networking_FOIA_complaint_final.pdf"]filed suit[/URL] against a number of government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance. The EFF is working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of … |
| | I was pretty sure I wasn't the only person who cooked Thanksgiving dinner in front of, not a propped-up cookbook, but a laptop. It turns out the [I]New York Times[/I] agrees. In fact, the paper did an [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/dining/26search.html?_r=2"]analysis[/URL] of search terms by region and by time, to see what conclusions … |
| | An increasing number of cities in the United States and Canada are releasing data to developers to use in applications. While regions have released geographic information system (GIS) data for some time, such data required complicated software to use. Cities are now releasing all kinds of data, some of them … |
| | Keeping the Internet safe for satire, the World Intellectual Property Organization [URL="http://didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com/legal.php"]ruled[/URL] that the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was not a violation of the conservative political commentator's intellectual property. The WIPO [URL="http://reporter.blogs.com/files/decision-d2009-1182.pdf"]ruling[/URL] "dismissed Beck's argument that Internet users could be confused by the domain name and its accompanying Web site," noted … |
| | Here's a switch. Instead of newspapers trying to protect the identities of the people posting to their websites, the newspaper is the one outing them. As [URL="http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-editors-desk/the-editors-desk/2009/11/post-a-vulgar-comment-while-youre-at-work-lose-your-job/"]described[/URL] by editor Kurt Greenbaum of the [I]St. Louis Post-Dispatch[/I], someone posted a vulgar word in the paper's online commenting system, and re-posted it … |
| | Thinking of looking for a flu shot while you're out shopping this weekend but don't know where to look? There's an [URL="http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/flushot/flushot.xml"]app[/URL] (Google Maps) for that. Type in a location and it will show you locations in the area that offer flu shots, as well as their times -- and … |
| | Ever wanted to see the International Space Station but didn't know when or how to look? There's an app (Twitter) for that. Start following @twisst and using the information in your profile, it will let you know when the International Space Station is scheduled to pass by you. "So, every … |
| | In 1968, a teacher named [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott"]Jane Elliott[/URL] performed a seminal experiment with her class of third-graders. Wishing to teach them about prejudice, she told them that kids with blue eyes were superior to those with brown eyes, gave the blue-eyed kids all sorts of privileges, and made the brown-eyed kids … |
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