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Amidst public outrage over Facebook.com’s storage of user information on its server, Facebook has recently encouraged its users to vote on possible changes to the Web site’s terms of service. In a post on the company’s blog on Thursday, Facebook CEO and founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 explained that if more than 30 percent of Facebook’s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook’s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users...
...Back in Sweden, the country's National Museum of Science and Technology announced this week plans to exhibit a Pirate Bay server confiscated by police last year. "This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items," curator Nils Olander said. With any luck, online piracy will one day wind up alongside...
Being a Somali pirate looks like a profitable business from the outside and it is. The margins are as attractive as those in the software industry. Microsoft still makes 60% or better margins on its core Windows, business, and server operations. With the risks that the pirates take, they ought to do as well as that...
Intel (INTC), which is the largest maker of PC and server chips in the world, announced earnings that beat analyst expectations. No one would have known that by looking at the collapse of the share price. The company, which has about 80% of the market for the main processors used in personal computers, is considered a bellwether for how hardware firms like Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ) will do. Intel's figures are considered predictive of the strength of the sales of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows...
...most critical power users - the military, hospitals, the banking system, phone networks, Google's server farms - have multiple contingencies for uninterrupted power supply and backup generation. In the event of a cyberattack on the grid, they would be able to operate for long periods - days, weeks and, in some cases, indefinitely - without much difficulty...