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http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3635

 

Hvorfor skriver ikke tek.no om slike ting som dette?

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http://www.physorg.com/news172133939.html

 

Google Internet Stats gathers its information from a range of International third party sources to present twitter-like entries covering the areas of Consumer Trends, Macro-Economic Trends, Media Consumption and Landscape, and Technology. Each area is broken down into sub-categories. You can locate data by drilling down through the links, or by using the search engine.

Using Google Internet Stats you can find all kinds of snippets of statistics such as: 57% of young people watched a YouTube music video in the last year; 1.6 billion people, or 24% of global population, are now online; over a quarter of Internet users surveyed in six countries in 2008 said most of the time they watch TV at the same time as being on the Internet; and iTunes has sold over six billion songs

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...kZjqWAD9AQ5PBO0

(AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department advised a federal judge Friday that a proposed legal settlement giving Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books threatens to thwart competition and drive up prices unless it's revised.

 

 

Reports: FCC to propose 'Net neutrality' rules

(AP) – 5 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The head of the FCC plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks, according to reports published Saturday.

The Washington Post and New York Times said the Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, will announced the proposed rules in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

The proposals would uphold a pledge Barack Obama made during the presidential campaign to support Internet neutrality and would bar companies like Verizon, Comcast or ATT&T, from slowing or blocking certain services or content flowing through their vast networks.

The rules would apply to all ISPs, including wireless service providers.

Without strict rules ensuring Net neutrality, consumer watchdogs fear the communications companies could interfere with the transmission of content, such as TV shows delivered over the Internet, that compete with services the ISPs offer, like cable television.

Internet providers have opposed regulations that would inhibit the way they control their networks, arguing they need to be able to make sure applications that consume a lot of bandwidth don't slow Internet access to other users.

"We are concerned about the unintended consequences that Net neutrality regulation would have on investments from the very industry that's helping to drive the U.S. economy," Chris Guttman-McCabe, a vice president at CTIA, a wireless trade group, told the Post.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

 

A French court on Friday ordered online auction site eBay to pay 80,000 euros (118,000 dollars) to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury perfumes, LVMH said.

"The court found that in using key words from certain LVMH brands, eBay had commited several acts of counterfeiting," LVMH said in a statement.

It cited among the perfume marques top range Parfums Christian Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and Guerlain.

The court ordered eBay to pay 80,000 euros to LVMH as compensation and order that it would have to pay 1,000 euros for any subsequent infraction.

In June last year, the Paris commercial court ordered eBay to pay nearly 40 million euros in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods in a ruling that was cheered as a victory for copyright protection.

The commercial court had ruled in favour of six LVMH brands and also barred eBay from selling four perfumes -- Christian Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and Guerlain -- on its websites.

© 2009 AFP

 

The Redmond, Wash., software maker filed the claims Thursday in Washington state court against five unknown individuals under the business names Soft Solutions, DirectAd, qiweroqw.com, ITmeter INC. and ote2008.info.Microsoft's associate general counsel, Tim Cranton, announced the move in a blog post.

The company is accusing the defendants of spreading so-called "malvertisements," ads that can end up infecting computers with damaging software.

"For example," Cranton wrote, "ads may redirect users to a Web site that advertises rogue security software, also known as scareware, that falsely claims to detect or prevent threats on the computer."

A similar type of ad popped up last weekend on the Web site of The New York Times, one of the most popular news sites. It purported to scan visitors' computers for viruses and warned them to buy antivirus software.

Malvertisements may also introduce software that can steal personal data or take control of a computer, Cranton said.

Microsoft is asking a court in Seattle for damages as well as an order barring the advertisers from operating.

E-mail messages to ote2008.info and DirectAd were not immediately returned and phone numbers were not available for the companies. A phone call to ITmeter INC. went unanswered as did an e-mail message, while registration records for qiweroqw.com domain name had no contact information for the company. No contact information was available for Soft Solutions, which Microsoft said was separate from businesses operating by that name in Atlanta and France.

 

Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory has been served with a bankruptcy petition, a Stockholm court official said on Friday, after a former board member filed a complaint over unpaid debts

 

"There has been an application from another company, Advatar Systems, against Global Gaming Factory (GGF)," a spokeswoman for Stockholm district court told AFP.

The spokeswoman said Advatar was claiming more than 1.3 million kronor (188,000 dollars, 128,000 euros) from GGF, a Stockholm-based software company, but gave no further details as to the nature of the dispute.

Stockholm district court will hear the case in November, she added.

Calls to Global Gaming Factory's chief executive Hans Pandeya for a comment were not immediately returned.

Advatar Systems is a business consultancy run by former GGF director Johan Sellstroem, who declined to comment on the case when contacted by AFP.

Trading in GGF shares were suspended on August 21 after an investigation was announced into financial irregularities.

GGF was kicked off equity market Aktietorget on September 10 after regulators concluded it had misled investors with its claims that it was set to buy the popular download site, the Pirate Bay.

Media reports have suggested its announcement on June 30 to buy the site was merely a bluff to boost its share price.

Its shares are now traded on the small Mangold exchange.

Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.

It claims to have some 22 million users worldwide.

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http://www.physorg.com/news174286879.html

 

(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, quantum computers have lost some of their luster. In the 1990s, it seemed that they might be able to solve a class of difficult but common problems — the so-called NP-complete problems — exponentially faster than classical computers. Now, it seems that they probably can't. In fact, until this week, the only common calculation where quantum computation promised exponential gains was the factoring of large numbers, which isn't that useful outside cryptography.

 

http://www.physorg.com/news174284556.html

Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls promise to identify as much as 90 percent of "egregious" content that has escaped detection by business IT managers and security applications because of its stealthy nature on the Internet.

"The Dark Web is about corporate users' inability to see how workers are using the Web," Cisco product line manager Kevin Kennedy told AFP on Thursday.

"It is that dark, dynamic and churning part of the Web that has created the problem for business."

Computer users are growing increasingly savvy about sidestepping Internet filters, using proxy servers and other techniques to mask which websites they visit while at work, according to Cisco.

For example, if workers log into Facebook.com from an office computer someone in the IT department can typically tell how much time they fritter away at the popular social-networking website.

However, if the employee connects to Facebook through any of thousands of proxy websites set up daily all an IT department monitor will see is a nondescript Internet address as the online destination, Kennedy said.

Blocking porn websites on work computers typically involves using filter software based on lists of known online adult-content locales.

Internet porn purveyors have taken to constantly changing URLs, Internet addresses, in a practice referred to as "churning," according to Cisco

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http://techblips.dailyradar.com/video/futu...laptop-rolltop/

[GullLars]

Myspace bytter ut mange servere basert på harddisker med nye servere med Fusion-IO ioDrive.

Ved å bytte til ioDrives klarte myspace å få samme jobben gjort med halvparten av serverhardware og med bedre ytelse og pålitelighet. Det var også kraftige kutt i strømbruken.

Myspace byttet i første omgang 150 standard load servere og sparte 280U rack space, og planlegger nå å byte ut 1770 2U servere når de når slutten av livssyklusen med nye servere med ioDrive.

 

Min kilde: storagesearch.com/ssd.html

Publisert 13.10.09

 

Link til hele case-studien fra Fusion-IO på deres sider

Endret 13. oktober 2009 av GullLars

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Finland becomes the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right.

 

Finland, a country I was fortunate to visit just last month (my thoughts), has just become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right.

 

According to YLE.fi, starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

 

Finland is reportedly the world’s first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The government had already decided to make a 100 Mb broadband connection a legal right by the end of 2015.

 

Other European countries including Belgium and the UK are considering making broadband access available for all. The fast growth of technology has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect.

 

Current statistics suggest about 36% of households in EU member nations have high-speed net access. When a majority of EU citizens are using a telecoms service, EC law dictates that it becomes one every European should be able to enjoy.

 

Wonderful to see Europe be at the forefront of such regulation, lets hope other countries soon follow suit.

http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/10/14/fi...roadband-legal/

[GullLars]

Fusion-IO leverer oppsett til to amerkanske statsorganisasjoner som klarer over 1 TB/s og 100 millioner IOPS, og kun tar opp 6 racks.

http://www.fusionio.com/press/Fusion-io-Ac...ined-Bandwidth/

 

For å klare 1TB/s med harddisker trenger man over 50.000 state-of-the-art disker fordelt over mange hundre servere (over hundre racks med utstyr).

 

100 millioner IOPS vil sansynligvis ikke være mulig å klare med harddisker, og IBM lagde store overskrifter over et prosjekt for et år siden som klarte 1 million IOPS.

 

En vanlig SATA harddisk klarer ca 100 IOPS (kan økes noe med short-stroke), 15K SAS disker klarer 300-500 IOPS (mer med short-stroke), og Intel x25-E klarer ca 40.000 IOPS.

 

I oppsettet nevnt i artikkelen her er det brukt custom ioDrive Octal, et kort med 8 ioDrives på PCIe gen2 x16. I dag selger Fusion-IO bare ioDrive Duo, men Quad og Octal kommer sansynligvis etter hvert. Arkitekturen til Fusion-IO er laget for å skalere.

Endret 21. november 2009 av GullLars

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Google er et skritt nærmere å bli SkyNet:

 

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...s_resolver.html

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http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagate...or-slim-high-c/

Seagate's 7mm Momentus Thin 2.5-inch hard disk for slim, high-capacity laptops: a world's first

By Thomas Ricker posted Dec 8th 2009 6:23AM

Any advancement in commercial storage is big news 'round here so we're stoked to learn of a new ultra-thin hard disk from Seagate meant to slake our jones for super-slim portable computing. Seems that Seagate's already sampling a 7-mm high disk as part of its Momentus Thin series of drives scheduled to be launched at CES in January. Impressive, especially when you consider that just about every 2.5-inch SATA disk we cover measures in at 9.5-mm high. Although Seagate doesn't give specifics, we assume the drive will be spinning a single platter. And knowing that dual-platter 2.5-inch disks currently max out at 640GB (or 320GB per platter), we expect Seagate to at least match that single-platter capacity, but probably improve upon it via a boost in areal density. Feel free to offer your guess in comments until all is revealed on January 5th.

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http://www.itworld.com/security/88833/hack...win-250000-gold

 

 

Hack this encrypted conversation, win $250,000 (in gold)

 

 

Apparently, $100,000 in gold isn't worth what it used to be. A full month into the Gold Lock Hacker Challenge, the sample file has only been downloaded 1,000 times. And so the Israeli mobile security firm has upped the offer to $250,000.

 

"Since 2003, we have been telling everyone how our products provide unbreakable protection for their voice and data transmissions, but talk is cheap. So now we are putting our claims to the ultimate test by inviting anyone that thinks they have the skills to take us down," said Noam Copel, CEO of Gold Lock, in a statement. "I don't think there is a chance at all that I'll be giving away the gold. No individual, group or intelligence agency has the skills, technology or time needed to defeat our technology," he said.

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Vell, "Gold Lock Hacker Challenge" er en fil kryptert med (2^8) 256bit AES og (3*2^7) 384bit ECIES og har en (2^14) 16384bit key. Dersom key er random er det 2^16384 = ca 1,19*10^4932 mulige nøkler. Lykke til med å brute-force det

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http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/hackers...decaf-20091215/

 

Hackers counteract Microsoft COFEE with DECAF

 

 

DECAF

 

In November Microsoft had an unusual piece of software pirated and released on BitTorrent. It was called COFEE and consisted of a suite of tools used by law enforcement to collect evidence through computer forensics.

 

Such software was bound to capture the interest of hackers and a month after the original uploading a new suite of tools has been released to counteract COFEE. The name of this protective suite is, of course, DECAF.

 

decaf_mainCOFEE stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor and can be plugged into any computer via a USB stick. The 150 or so tools it contains go to work collecting evidence with little or no intervention required by a person other than to remove the USB stick after COFEE has finished.

 

DECAF works to thwart any evidence collecting carried out by COFEE with a Lockdown Mode. It sits on a Windows machine waiting to detect COFEE. When it does, countermeasures are taken to remove or block the evidence COFEE is looking for. This includes deleting temporary files, clearing any logs COFEE makes, ejecting USB drvies, disabling most types of drives in a system, removing torrent clients, killing processes, shutting down the PC, or providing false information rendering the evidence useless. It is also configurable by the user.

 

Although remaining anonymous one of the two hackers behind the development of DECAF told The Register:

 

We want to promote a healthy unrestricted free flow of internet traffic and show why law enforcement should not solely rely on Microsoft to automate their intelligent evidence finding.

 

decaf_lockdown_mode

 

The decafme.org website has appeared a few days after DECAF’s initial release offering up the 181Kb set of tools. Development is also set to continue as it states on the website:

 

Future versions will have text message and email triggers so in case the computer needs to enter into lockdown mode the user can do it remotely. It will also have notification services where in the case of an emergency, someone can be notified (private torrent tracker admins). DECAF’s next release is going to be available in a more light-weight version and/or a windows service.

 

Read more at The Register

 

Matthew’s Opinion

 

Unless you fear the authorities are about to bust down your door, or you are doing something highly illegal on your PC, then I don’t think you need to install DECAF. It’s usefulness may extend beyond that though and now COFEE is in the wild there’s nothing to stop it being modified to collect other evidence from a machine.

 

If COFEE can be deployed remotely online then it could become a security threat and DECAF may be the best form of defense. We have no details on how and if it works yet, though, so if you are going to download it do so with caution.

 

One of the first companies to look at DECAF will of course be Microsoft. If it renders COFEE useless then no doubt it will have to update the tool set and then we get into a cat & mouse game of updates between the two sets of tools.

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Google invited reporters to attend an "Android press gathering" on January 5 at the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters.

"With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we've seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation," the invitation said. "And this is just the beginning of what's possible."

The invitation provided no further details about the event.

But it comes amid reports Google is preparing to release a Google-branded smartphone known as "Nexus One" which would be sold directly to consumers and would not be tied to any one telecom carrier.

Google employees have been testing the device internally.

A growing number of US telecom carriers and manufacturers have been adopting Google's open-source Android software in bids to challenge the Apple iPhone and Blackberry from Research in Motion.

Although Android's share of the US smartphone market is relatively small, it has doubled in the past year to 3.5 percent in October, according to comScore.

The timing of the Google event appears to be an attempt to upstage the annual Consumer Electronics Show which opens in Las Vegas on January 7.

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Hastesak!

 

ATI introduserer Mobility Radeon HD 5000-serien (kilde). Fatter meg i korthet nå. Heftigere ytelse, støtte for DX11, lavere strømforbruk i idle og tilsvarende fall i temperaturer og viftestøy. Vil kombineres med Intels kommende Arrandale-serie, med mulighet for veksling mellom integrert og dedikert grafikk. Det vil bety endelig godkjent spillytelse, samt at batteritiden vil se en dramatisk økning. Spekulasjonene for året vil ligge i byttet til bedre skjermkort, prosessore kombinert med SSD og LED for en jevnere ytelse.

Endret 7. januar 2010 av Agentspoon

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http://nrkbeta.no/2010/01/08/openoffice/

 

Fra og med 1. mars 2010 kan alle datamaskiner som brukes av NRKs ansatte få kontorpakken OpenOffice. Etter mange år med bare Microsoft Office, vil NRK nå støtte åpne formater som ODF. OpenOffice vil være standard kontorpakke på alle produksjonsmaskiner, Macintosher og terminalservere. Dermed tar NRK et langt steg i å støtte åpen programvare og støtte åpne formater

[L4r5]

Windows-hull oppdaget etter 17 år.

 

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item...ars-908917.html

[GullLars]

IMB og Fujifilm utvikler 35TB tape-drive. Dette er en 44x økning i kapasitet over eksisterende tape løsninger i følge kilden.

[L4r5]

Find a Bug in Google Chrome, Earn $500-$1337

 

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/find_...e_earn_cash.php

[L4r5]

Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits

Credit card numbers are so passe. Today’s hackers know the real powerhouse data to steal is emission certificates.

That’s exactly what hackers went after last week when they obtained unauthorized access to online accounts where companies maintain their carbon credits, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel.

The hackers launched a targeted phishing attack against employees of numerous companies in Europe, New Zealand and Japan, which appeared to come from the German Emissions Trading Authority. The workers were told that their companies needed to re-register their accounts with the Authority, where carbon credits and transactions are recorded.

When workers entered their credentials into a bogus web page linked in the e-mail, the hackers were able to hi-jack the credentials to access the companies’ Trading Authority accounts and transfer their carbon credits to two other accounts controlled by the hackers.

Under environmental cap-and-trade laws, there’s a limit to the greenhouse gases companies can emit. Companies that exceed this limit can purchase so-called carbon credits from entities that produce fewer greenhouse emissions than the limit provides them.

The scheme has produced a robust market for the trade of credits. More than 8 million tons of CO2 emissions worth $130 billion were traded in Europe last year.

According to the BBC, it’s estimated the hackers stole 250,000 carbon credit permits from six companies worth more than $4 million. At least seven out of 2,000 German firms that were targeted in the phishing scam fell for it. One of these unidentified firms reportedly lost $2.1 million in credits in the fraud.

The credits were resold for an undisclosed sum. The buyers, who likely believed the transactions were legitimate, haven’t been named.

The German Emissions Trading Authority has suspended access to its databases for a week while an investigation is underway.

The fraud is the latest example of hacks aimed at gaming environment controls. A year ago, hackers penetrated the Brazilian government’s quota data for Brazilian rain forest products — allowing the illegal poaching of more than 1.7 million cubic feet of timber.

 

 

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/h...-carbon-credits