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by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
There’s nothing like digging into your first Linux distribution, whether you’re a tech-savvy user looking to branch out or whether you’re installing it on a friend’s computer. But which distribution is actually better for beginners?...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the literal-reading-for-literally-reading dept. Anyone under 18 found reading the news online could hypothetically face jail time according to the latest draft of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which is said to be ‘rushed’ to Congress during...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the hidden-in-congressional-offices dept. According to the CBC, there was a massive leak of “files containing information on over 120,000 offshore entities — including shell corporations and legal structures known as trusts — involving people in over 170...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the there-should-be-blood dept. Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the U.S.’s most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it’s totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the coming-soon dept. Both Viking and Micron plan to ship cards that combine DRAM and NAND flash on a standard DDR3 DIMM. The cards will have twice as much NAND flash as volatile memory. For example, the non-volatile DIMMs will come in capacities ranging from 4GB...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY
from the together-we-live dept. The edX project today announced that they are joining forces with Stanford and releasing the source to edX on June 1st. As part of the platform going Free, Stanford will be integrating features from their Open Source Class2Go project....
