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POPS45th Mersenne Prime Revealed As for the next prime number record waiting to be crunched, the EFF will award $150,000 to the first person or group who discovers a prime with at least 100 million digits and $250,000 for a prime with at least a billion digits. You can download the GIMPS distributed computing software and join the hunt here .
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POPSBill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet
The White House is supposed to engage in "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government. ("Cyber" is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.) "The language has changed but it doesn't contain any real additional limits," EFF's (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Tien says. "It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)...The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There's no provision for any administrative process or review. That's where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it." Translation: If your company is deemed "critical," a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, . . .
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POPSMilitants behind Indonesia hotel bombs plotted to shoot Barack Obama People hate Americans throughout the world because they hate our way of life. Eff the militants who want kill our presidents. Obama needs to stop this ridiculous tour of the world trying to win over our enemies because it ain't gonna happen. He needs to focus on protecting us and protecting his family. If he can't do it then we need someone else @1600 that can.
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POPSObama administration defends Bush wiretapping Not surprising at all, if you have the same employer and work in the same position within a corporation you generally do the same job. according to company policy as per the instructions of its owners. This is Just one of the many lies Obama told on his campaign to dupe the American People into thinking he is their savior. In reality Obama is just a new mask on the same old face of tyranny.
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POPSFederal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 WHOOOA! This has to be protested big time. If this is permitted to happen we are all royally screwed, since the Internet is the Mass Communications structure of this era. The government used to be able to block radio &TV (probably still can and would) but right now it is not possible to close down the loop and voice of the Internet so easily. Unless this happens and we cannot let this happen. EFF is right, this is very dangerous. Hopefully people start organizing now and figuring ways to setup P2P and Mesh systems that can perhaps bypass the normal Internet and circumvent any blocks the government (any government) that is put into place.
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POPSObama Adopts Bush Policy on Domestic Spying This is a landmark moment. No 'change' here either. Was this not a major issue before, American freedoms and civil liberties from government instrusion? Will Democrats remain silent? Is a mere change of party--but not policy--enough?
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POPSSame wolf- Different Coat President Obama promised the American people a new era of transparency, accountability, and respect for civil liberties. But with the Obama Justice Department continuing the Bush administration's cover-up of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans, and insisting that the much-publicized warrantless wiretapping program is still a "secret" that cannot be reviewed by the courts, it feels like deja vu all over again.
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POPSObama Admin Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping & Secrecy "President Obama promised the American people a new era of transparency, accountability, and respect for civil liberties," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. "But with the Obama Justice Department continuing the Bush administration's cover-up of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans, and insisting that the much-publicized warrantless wiretapping program is still a 'secret' that cannot be reviewed by the courts, it feels like deja vu all over again."
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POPS “Take this job and shove it!” No waitress, factory worker, clerk or bottle washer ever got to deliver a “Take this job and shove it!” like that. Did any country western star ever even think of writing that one? Boo hoo. That’s for the rest of us, because Jake, his boss Edward Libby, these nameless credit-default swap electricians … the ones Jake says shafted us when he was honestly raking in a couple million a year as a financial products plumber in that crappy house … and all the pols and bureaucratic building inspectors who stood by, have put us in a position where we have to pay people who made obscene amounts of money on this screwed-up system even more obscene amounts of money to unscrew it. If in fact that is what they are doing, a point about which I am not confident. I bet we can fly in a planeload of financial brainiacs from Bangalore at a fraction of Jake’s price. Outsourcing Wall Street to India. That’d get their attention.
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POPSOpt-out on Googles Behavioral Targeting Add Program, Protect your Privacy. In Short: Google bought DoubleClick a while ago, an internet-based advertising firm. Today Google launched that program, and it tracks you through cookies. Privacy aware surfers delete their cookies once in a while, and/or are careful which cookies are stored on their computer. But that won't stop Google from tracking your surfing habits. So if you really want to stop Google from doing that to you, install this 'Advertising Cookie Opt-Out Plug-in'.
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POPS DC Liberals An Incoherent Bunch Of Eff-Ups a high tech leap that has any number of offshoots - and it has been cancelled. In this tsunami of government spending, the opportunity to harness nuclear fusion based power has been ended, replaced with dog runs and bike paths in the Spendulus pork buster bill! How did this happen? Here is an overview on the program and its potential: The sun and the stars burn hot in the cold, infinite depths of space because of nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms combine to form heavier elements with the release of energy. If mankind could harness this fusion process, we would have nearly unlimited fuel with little or no pollution. Although fusion has been achieved in the hydrogen bomb, researchers have been looking for over 50 years to tame it for electrical power. Taking up the daunting challenge, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is embarked on a program to reach this goal by using a new technology. http://www.saic.com/news/saicmag/2004-summer/fusion.html
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POPSBarbie Now Has Tattoos? From being an innocent and sweet toy for girls, Mattel decided to bring things up a notch and parents are not happy about it. Barbie has been around for 50 years and was distributed in every shape and form possible. She’s been a princess, a mermaid, and a NASCAR fan? What the eff were they thinking? This time around, America’s little sweetheart is the toy version of the girls from Miami Ink. That’s right, Barbie now comes with tattoos!
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POPSObama Opens Up Government UPDATE: President Obama issued two more documents related to government transparency today. A new executive order reverses changes made in recent years to the Presidential Records Act, while a second memorandum provides the Administration's general policy on transparency and open government. 1st memo (on the Freedom of Information Act): http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia/2009foia.mem.rel.pdf Executive Order on the Presidential Records Act: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090121/2009_PRA_EO.pdf 2nd memo (on the Administration's general policy on transparency and open government): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090121/2009_transparency_memo.pdf
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POPSTelecom Amnesty Illegal "The EFF blasted the retroactive amnesty as a "blatant attempt to prevent this Court—and every other court, federal or state—from deciding whether the carrier defendants conducted dragnet, warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans' communications and communications records in violation of the Constitution and numerous statutes." The government and the telecoms argued in earlier briefs that Congress can tinker with ongoing legislation without violating the Constitution and that citizens should sue the government, not private companies, over the spying."
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POPSwww.eff.org EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.
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POPSRIAA lawsuit campaign loses credibility Since September of 2003, the recording industry has leveled legal threats against close to 30,000 American music fans. In a report released today, "RIAA v. The People: Five Years Later," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) presents a comprehensive overview of the RIAA's litigation campaign and concludes that it is hurting music fans and artists alike, without making a dent in unauthorized file-sharing. "If the RIAA wants to keep suing hundreds of people each month and collecting these huge settlements, it can't take shortcuts," said EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry. "It's not enough to say the law 'could have been' broken and demand thousands of dollars to make the accusation go away. The recording industry must prove its case and show that infringement actually occurred."
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