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Living Room / Digg Revolt
« on: May 02, 2007, 04:47 PM »
Instead of repeating the whole thing again here, here's a quote and a link.

It seems that Digg, the user powered community, has found themselves on the back end of a user revolt.
A user submitted the HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number,which can be used to unlock the copy protection for Hi-Def movies, to the site.
Apparently Digg decided that it exposed them to some liability and then deleted the post.
Well the original poster then reposted it and then reportedly went to bed only to find his post deleted and his account at Digg suspended.
Well throughout the night and the next morning it created quite a fuss, and as the article relates it became the top Digg, and then suddenly it all disappeared.
Most blogs and articles, when writing about what happened next, label the reaction a "user revolt" with other users by the thousands posting the same encryption code over and over.
So many in fact that it became apparent that Diggs editors couldn't possibly keep up with or remove all the posts and posters.


What has Digg dug for themselves?


*edited to add a little more info*

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Living Room / Researchers: Scrap the Internet and Start Over
« on: April 14, 2007, 07:36 PM »
Little news for thought.
NEW YORK —  Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.

One challenge in any reconstruction, though, will be balancing the interests of various constituencies. The first time around, researchers were able to toil away in their labs quietly. Industry is playing a bigger role this time, and law enforcement is bound to make its needs for wiretapping known.

There's no evidence they are meddling yet, but once any research looks promising, "a number of people (will) want to be in the drawing room," said Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor affiliated with Oxford and Harvard universities. "They'll be wearing coats and ties and spilling out of the venue."


Consider the vested interests if this gets off the ground.  :tellme:
Read the rest HERE.

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General Software Discussion / Windows PowerShell
« on: April 13, 2007, 06:45 AM »
Anybody using Windows PowerShell?
If so what do you think about it?

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General Software Discussion / Microsoft Launches Security for Windows
« on: May 31, 2006, 09:07 PM »
Microsoft Launches Security for Windows

Live One Care

90 day free trial, if anyone can find out how much it costs for the subscription post it here.
I can't seem to locate the cost without em asking me to whip out my Credit Card.

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Living Room / Too Funny
« on: May 13, 2006, 11:53 AM »
Ok, I saw this over at the Masm forum and just had to link to this one.
Stupid Users

 :greenclp:

The other stuff is pretty hilarious too. :Thmbsup:

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