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Asus comes back with the logical evolution of the EEE 701, another $200 netbookThe price is low because Windows was avoided, the way Asus did things back in 2007. This one has a 10″ matt screen, ssd, a web cam and is very thin.Various excuses and praise are heaped on Vista 8 for not being able to run Windows relic code on ARM.1,2, 3. WinCE and derivatives were never able to run anything so this is not surprising. If they do it like Vista 7, it won’t really work on ARM at all. This is what happens when a company would rather eat dog food than use GCC.ScienceDinosaur feathers in Amber2SecurityA typical Windows botnet steals $3.2 million in six monthsRoughly 18% of the systems compromised were Vista 7, which is the claimed portion of the population of that version of relicware. Damage control efforts elsewhere laughably blame users and “social engineering” but that does not jibe with compromises at US Government and Fortune 100 companies where users have zero software choice. Reputable estimates are that at least half of Windows computers are compromised by botnet owners. In other news, they infect your bios again, so dual booting is not an adequate prophylactic.Defence/Police/AggressionOn 9/11, 50 US airplanes were raided by armed police because someone reported “suspicious behavior” – brown skinned people had used the bathroom.In the reported incident, all of the passengers were menaced by the airline crew and a swat team. Before landing, F16s had been scrambled to intercept and shadow the plane. At least three completely innocent passengers were jailed, interrogated and strip searched. They were not allowed to call friends and family until they were released after a search of the airplane found nothing suspicious. See alsoIsrael plans to punish Turkey by arming Kurds to attack Turkey, and also by encouraging international recognition of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians.A Decade After the 9/11 Attacks, Americans Live in an Era of Endless WarOfficials confuse banditry with acts of war and are unable or unwilling to imagine a prolonged peace.The Department of Homeland Insecurity has a broad and pervasive program of recruiting people to suspect Americans for anything unusual, and report them too.Qureshi remembers his father saying, “You don’t have to fear the police here. They are here to help.” Environment/Energy/WildlifeOil and tar washes up on Gulf Coast shores after Tropical Storm LeeThe new tarballs ranged from the size of a quarter to blobs 8 inches across … the fresh tarballs had layers of liquid oil inside them. Oil bled from the tarballs sitting in the sun on the beach, collecting in little pools on the sand. … We’re going to be seeing this for years. … In a way, that small storm could have been kind of a blessing. We got to see a little of what is out there.More pictures of oil hereLawsuit claims BP delayed capping operations for Deepwater Horizon well because they wanted to salvage the well.Defendants’ conduct … is at the highest level of reprehensibility, warranting and necessitating the imposition of punitive damages at the highest level, because defendants’ conduct was motivated by financial gain; because it injured and endangered humans and the environmental health and safety; because it was not isolated or accidental, but part of a culture and ongoing pattern of conduct that consistently and repeatedly ignored risks to others in favor of financial advantage to defendants…New Oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster site may be impossible to stop.The EU has banned honey contaminated by GM crops and says the bee keepers should sue for their losses.There is new documentation of the Bush administration’s disregard of asbestos and dioxin in the 9/11 clean up.People who could have been warned of known danger were needlessly exposed. Most buildings in the US are also filled with asbestos and present similar hazards when demolished or renovated. FinanceAs the rich get richer, more people fall to poverty and the poor get poorer.The U.S. Census Bureau released its latest poverty figures this week, and they show that poverty is worsening nationwide — but especially in the South. … The poor are getting even poorer, with the share of the population earning below half of the poverty line hitting a record high of 6.7 percent last year. … In 2010, 39.1 percent of black children and 35 percent of Hispanic lived in poverty.US Citizens, urge congress to forgive student debt as an economic stimulus.It would have been better for society to have put the money into public education in the first place but relieving people the debt they owe second rate community colleges for training they should receive on the job is a good first step. This article connects massive public education budget cuts to political manipulation by sham philanthropists, such as Pope and Koch, who profit from the decline of public cooperation.Anti-TrustThe “Shock Doctrine” Comes to Your Neighborhood Classroom – Corporate reformers use the fiscal crisis and campaign contributions to hype an unproven school agendaa Disaster Capitalist has spoken the unspoken and clearly articulated the Shock Doctrine in all its hideous glory … “Let’s hope the fiscal crisis doesn’t get better too soon. It’ll slow down reform.” … as the overall spending pie for public schools is shrinking, the piece of the pie for high-tech companies — who make big campaign contributions to education policymakers — is getting much bigger, while the piece of the pie for traditional education (teachers, school infrastructure, text books, etc.) is getting smaller.European Commission buys Microsoft for 20 years without competitionThe European Commission has been buying Microsoft software since 1993 without an open and public competition to assess alternative products, according to documents released to Computer Weekly. As a result of striking its sixth successive uncontested deal with Microsoft in May this year, the Commission has ensured Microsoft will have dominated the desktop computing environment of European institutions for 20 years without allowing a single rival to compete for the business.CensorshipThe DOJ’s escalating criminalization of speechIf the First Amendment was designed to do anything, it was designed to prevent the government from imprisoning people — or killing them — because of the political ideas they promote. Yet that is clearly what the Obama administration is doing with increasing frequency and aggression.Civil RightsSony adds an obnoxious “binding arbitration” clause in PSN EULA.US Citizens, object to manditory use of the flawed E-Verify system and the “Legal Workforce Act”Religious fanatics would dismantle public schools in the US if they could.Koche financed politicians openly advocate disenfranchising the poor. Internet/Net NeutralityRogers cable admits to throttling games and p2p to a combined bandwidth of 80 kilobits per second.Instead of building out capacity to meet customer demand, they buy DPI and throttling equipment from Cisco.US White Space testing is underway.Slowly, the injustice of spectrum ownership is coming to an end.Intellectual MonopoliesA Federal Circuit Court rules that a “Internet Monetization Method” is a process worthy of a patent.PJ begs them:Ah! Intricate and complex computer programming! The magic this court always is so impressed by. The court in a perfect world would read this article on Groklaw, “A Simpler Explanation of Why Software is Mathematics” or the deeper article, “An Explanation of Computation Theory for Lawyers“An audience with the King of the Patent TrollsNathan Myhrvold promises more patent lawsuits from, “companies that have a software-centric value to add.” The article is such infuriating, self serving, extortionist propaganda that I don’t think anyone should read it.TrademarksThanks to corruption and failure of corporate agriculture, the global food movement is growing.Some Americans see the food movement as “nice” but peripheral—a middle-class preoccupation with farmers’ markets, community gardens and healthy school lunches. But no, I’ll argue here. It is at heart revolutionary, with some of the world’s poorest people in the leadCopyrightsHotfile Sues Warner Bros. For Copyright Fraud and AbuseHotfile is suing Warner Brothers for systematically and knowingly taking down files it doesn’t hold the copyright on. Hotfile made the mistake of cooperating with Warner earlier, and every file taken down is replaced with a Warner advertisement. There’s no pleasing frauds like that.Canada’s right-wing government is again planning to impose a US-style prohibition on breaking digital handcuffs.Appeals Court Reinstates $675,000 File Sharing Verdict Against Joel TenenbaumIf any of this seems familiar, the same thing happened in the nation’s first jury trial against a file sharer, Jammie Thomas-Rasset. That case has morphed into a Ground Hog Day of sorts for the same reason. After a third trial in that case, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis of Minnesota slashed an award from $1.5 million to $54,000 in a jury verdict for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa.The Obama administration disgraced itself by arguing for the insane fines and the whole war against sharing.Copyright TheftThe EU extends copyright from 50 to 70 years.we have had 20 years public domain use stolen from us, since nothing was given in return for this sudden loss. There can be no quibbling here about whether this is really theft, because something we had before has been taken away without our permission.
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