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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2054</link>
<slash:hit_parade>11,8,5,3,2,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>tweaking-here-and-there</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/1326219&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T15:25:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>An anonymous reader writes "The search giant has moved to fix a problem in Google Base which didn't properly block pornographic material in their search results. According to Google, the filter was broken for 'some period of time' but the company didn't elaborate. Nathan Weinberg could have been one of the first to report the incident on his blog, Inside Google, writing: 'Holy crap, there is a lot of porn at Google Base! Looks like, just like Google Images, Google Base could become a huge source of porn, and eventually a place where porn will be sold. I even noticed some movie reviews.'" They've also recently corrected a problem with their search appliance. geo_2677 wrote to mention a Securityfocus.com article discussing the rapid patching of the Google search boxes in response to a vulnerability.</description>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>google</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Google Blocks Porn In Base, Patches Appliance</title>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2053</link>
<slash:hit_parade>6,6,5,4,1,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>anyone-really-surprised</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/133226&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T14:32:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Doc Ruby writes "Via TechDirt, the news that despite the intent of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it's very popular to abuse the law by using it merely to compete, without legal basis: 'Supporters of the DMCA claim that only an occasional improper takedown notice gets through. Some new research suggests otherwise. Over 30% of DMCA takedown notices have been deemed improper and potentially illegal.'"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2053"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>cda</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>DMCA Abuse Widespread</title>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2052</link>
<slash:hit_parade>1,0,0,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>electronic-gibbering-mouther</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/000202&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T13:07:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>fury88 writes "CNN is running a story on a new device created by Herman Miller to help with lack of privacy in the cube life. It's apparently a device that will spit out gibberish when you are talking on the phone. You record a few words as instructed by the device and when you are having conversations that may be private, it will spit out sounds that sound like a clone of yourself all talking at once. Frankly I have to think this would be annoying after awhile. As if dealing with your project manager sitting next to you wasn't enough, now you get to hear several versions of your Project Manager talking at once. Talk about insanity!"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2052"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>tech</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Cube Privacy Via Gibberish</title>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2051</link>
<slash:hit_parade>17,16,12,8,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>raise-the-bug-shields</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0227241&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T11:15:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>aaditeshwar writes "It looks like sensor networks have some applications afterall, other than the usual stuff for defense and US military! AmBio has created a wireless mesh network of bugspraying "magnets" that report back data on the temperature, air conditions, and wind directions, and a central controller uses this data to turn ON or OFF the magnets in different areas. They plan to cover entire cities with such wireless meshes, and create an anti-mosquito shield around the city!"</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>wireless</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Wireless Sensor Networks for Killing Mosquitoes</title>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2050</link>
<slash:hit_parade>22,21,12,9,4,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>if-you-buy-this-don't-have-kids</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0127232&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T07:12:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>The Moose at Dr.MOZ writes "The GoodFather, "for the baby he can't refuse." The GoodFather is a custom-boxed CD-ROM that teaches new dads hundreds of baby skills and baby related definitions through a fun parody of a famous American gangster epic (The GodFather). The baby/parenting topics in The GoodFather CD-ROM were selected for men by experienced dads and grandfathers, and edited by licensed nurse-midwives to ensure the material is medically sound. In addition to the hundreds of baby skills lessons and definitions, The GoodFather also has a Baby Name Book with approximately 15,000 baby names and a Baby Card Maker which allows new dads to make and print their own baby cards. New dads choose from dozens of "new dad" card-types with provided art, or they are able to import JPGs to create their own customized baby cards! The GoodFather runs on both Windows&amp;#174; and Macintosh&amp;#174; systems and is proving to be the next "must have" gift for the sometimes ignored new dad on the baby shower list."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2050"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>software</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The GoodFather</title>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2049</link>
<slash:hit_parade>6,6,3,1,1,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>he-told-you-so</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0118232&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T05:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>jose parinas writes "The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research. The enigmatic "dark energy" that drives the acceleration of the Universe behaves just like Einstein's famed cosmological constant, according to the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). Their observations reveal that the dark energy behaves like Einstein's cosmological constant to a precision of 10%."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2049"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>space</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't</title>
<slash:section>science</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2048</link>
<slash:hit_parade>20,20,13,4,1,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>greased-lightning</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0028213&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T03:46:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>the 1st sandman writes "SC2005 published some results of several challenges including bandwidth utilization. The winner (a Caltech led team of several institutes) was measured at 130 Gbps. On their site you can find some more information on their measurements and the equipment they used. They claimed they had a throughput of several DVD movies per second. How is that for video on demand!"</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>networking</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Bandwidth Challenge Results</title>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2047</link>
<slash:hit_parade>9,9,6,5,2,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>the-sound-of-an-insane-man-pulling-the-hair-out-of-a-baboons-back</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0025201&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T02:32:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Bram writes ""The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, -not songs-... released under the Creative Commons Sampling+ License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing and browsing these samples." In less that 7 months we've grown to 30000 users and today we finally reached the first goal of the project: we've collected over 10000 samples, added by various people around the globe: only a slashdotting would be a suiting birthday cake. If you do visit Freesound, don't forget to have a look at the Geotagged Samples as they are well worth it."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2047"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>music</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Freesound Reaches 10000 Files</title>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2046</link>
<slash:hit_parade>12,9,8,6,2,1,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>too-little-too-late</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/2345207&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T01:23:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Doc Ruby writes "The California Secretary of State has invited Black Box Voting to hack away at some Diebold voting systems. The testing is set for Nov. 30, 2005. Evaluations conducted by Black Box Voting in San Joaquin, Marin, and Alameda counties (Calif.) reveal that a critical paper audit component is missing for all absentee and mail-in ballots, and also for recounts. (Black Box personnel were hired by the Libertarian Party to conduct inspections.)"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2046"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>usa</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>BlackBox Voting Tests California Diebold Machines</title>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2045</link>
<slash:hit_parade>31,29,24,18,2,2,2</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>let-google-do-the-walking</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/2336203&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-24T00:21:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>teknopagan writes "Google has debuted a new service called Click-to-Call, in which they will connect you by phone to any of their advertisers. You click a phone icon next to the ad, enter your phone number, and Google calls you and connects you for free to the advertiser."</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>google</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Google's New Click-to-Call Service</title>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2044</link>
<slash:hit_parade>10,9,7,3,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>the-price-is-right</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/2249249&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-23T23:29:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>An anonymous reader writes "A new free Open Source Enterprise magazine was launched today. The publication was built entirely with Open Source tools, including the GIMP, Scribus and Open Office. It is distributed in PDF format, and focuses on Open Source Solutions related to Enterprise Data Networking. The first issue looks at some interesting stuff include MultiLayer Switching in Linux. A torrent is also available."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2044"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>networking</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>New Free Open Source Enterprise Magazine</title>
<slash:section>it</slash:section>
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<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2043</link>
<slash:hit_parade>1,1,1,0,0,0,0</slash:hit_parade>
<slash:department>a-correction-of-misconceptions</slash:department>
<feedburner:origLink>http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/2055240&amp;from=rss</feedburner:origLink>
<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
<dc:date>2005-11-23T22:40:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>spacemonk asks: "I teach at a community college and our enrollment numbers are down in our IT programs. We have found that many have the perception that there are few IT jobs. We feel this is causing many students, who might be interested in IT, to enroll in other programs. There is obviously a lot of conflicting information regarding the impact of off-shoring, and so forth, but much of what we have found indicates that the IT job market is improving, and IT is still a career that can offer job opportunities to students. For example, we have had internship opportunities that we have not been able to send candidates to, simply because we don't have the students. Needless to say, this is very frustrating. How would you honestly describe the IT job market to students considering this major? What can be done to recruit more students into IT programs?"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=2043"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>ed</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Recruiting IT Students?</title>
<slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section>
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