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| Computer Misuse Act changes are delayed further DoS attacks not criminal till October
Denial of service attacks will not be criminalised in England and Wales for another six months despite measures lying unused in existing laws since 2006. Changes to the Computer Misuse Act will not be activated until October.
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| Moody’s to fix sub-prime computer error CCC rating (That’s Credit crunch computer cock-up)
Moody’s, the ratings agency, is reviewing its computer models and setting up a central monitoring system after admitting that a bug led it to incorrectly grade several European mortgage debt instruments.
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| Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, IBM Dedicate Mark I Computer 1944: Harvard and IBM dedicate the Mark I computer. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or ASCC, the pioneering computer was notable for producing reliable results and its ability to run 24/7.
Harvard electrical engineer Howard Aiken first dreamt up a large-scale calculator in 1937. He knew he needed a corporate partner and [...] [..] |
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| ADL decries Ben Stein's Holocaust rhetoric It's not just the science groups who are upset with Expelled's misuse of the Holocaust for petty political advantage. The venerable Anti-Defamation League says that the anti-evolution film misappropriates the Holocaust:
New York, NY, April 29, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intel [..] |
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| Third Parties Were "Confused" By PS3 [Kaz Hirai] Once upon a time, the PLAYSTATION 3 was not a game console. A Blu-ray player! An home entertainment hub! It was a super computer! A... Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai explains:
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| Third Parties Were So "Confused" By PS3 [Kaz Hirai] Once upon a time, the PLAYSTATION 3 was not a game console. A Blu-ray player! An home entertainment hub! It was a super computer! A... Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai explains:
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| Fake Ransom Demanded Over "Nintendo Computer" [Give Me Back My Son!] In China, a guy known only by his surname "Yang" faked his abduction because his skinflint parents wouldn't buy him "a Nintendo computer," according to the China Daily. The scheme crowbarred about 10,000 yuan ($1,400 U.S.) off the 'rents, but the kid and his two captors were snagged trying to get the doug [..] |
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| Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog | Relevance: 5.370 |
| Devices for the deviceless There are an estimated half of a billion people in the world who surf the Net every day yet don't own a computer. They depend on the public PCs available in cybercafes, which in many cities and countries remain the centers of personal computing. Cloud computing is ideally suited to these so-called cybernomads, as it can provide them with, in essence, a computer to call their own - a virtual deskto [..] |
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| Dixons admits ‘it’s even worse than you thought’ Overhauls PC World, slashes stores and dividend
DSGI will overhaul its PCWorld computer barns and slash its fleet of High Street shops as part of a turnaround plan revealed the same day it admitted sales have gone into reverse at its computer retail business.
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| SF’s silent sysadmin pleads not guilty The password? Can’t say? Won’t say?
The sysadmin accused of locking the San Francisco city council out of its computer network was back in jail yesterday after pleading not guilty to four counts of computer tampering.
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| One computer to rule them all IBM has launched an ambitious initiative, called Project Kittyhawk, aimed at building "a global-scale shared computer capable of hosting the entire Internet as an application." Forget Thomas Watson's apocryphal remark that the world may need only five computers. Maybe it needs just one. The Register's Ashlee Vance points to a fascinating white paper about the IBM program. The effort focuses on exp [..] |
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| Which Gov Agency Should Be Your Computer’s Firewall? Citing the dire nature of internet security, government agencies in the United States say they need to be inside the net to prevent cyber-crime, child porn and cyber-terrorism. So which government agency should you choose to protect your home computer? Help decide with our interactive poll.
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| On the trail of the itinerant computer Back in 1993, Eric Schmidt, then the Sun kid, now the Google dad, wrote in an email to the telecosmic George Gilder: "When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." The Economist closed its recent article on cloud computing by sketching out a picture of where this technological trend is leading: In future the geography of the cloud is l [..] |
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