In a follow-up statement, Entergy said that tests conducted by S&C and Entergy on the two relays at the Superdome showed that one worked as expected, the other did not.
I would hope most devices in the distribution of power are designed to prevent outages.
A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many other issues) the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher’s career, found all of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. The reason? A small site based in India apparently copied all of the posts, claimed them as their own, and then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the originals pulled from their source. As of now, the originals are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.
via Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals | Ars Technica.
What could possibly go wrong with SOPA? 🙂
The group went on detail how it knocked the front door down (only Amazon.com’s front page was offline), with a large “botnet” or network of thousands of computers working together.
via Amazon.com website briefly offline, hackers claim credit | Fox News.
Interesting. Looks like a distributed denial of service (DDOS) on the grand daddy of the data center and cloud computing industry. Amazon was down for only 49 minutes. It will be interesting to hear the inside baseball techie talk as to how this happened and how Amazon recovered.
The timeless plastic bricks of LEGO can be built into predetermined items such as a car or house but can also be formed into any shape, the options limited only by the creativeness of its builder. However, turn LEGO bricks into a controversial item and the company’s lawyers could soon be breathing down your neck.
via Pirate Party Battles LEGO Over Copyright and Trademark Injunction | TorrentFreak.
This is happening in Czechoslovakia. It amazes me at how creative companies get over claims of ownership.
A competitor has issued me with a DMCA takedown notice saying that by using the standard Moodle login page with no modifications, I have infringed his copyright. He says my Moodle login page is too similar to his login page which he also asserts copyright over. His login page is a standard WordPress wp-admin page. This can’t be right. Who owns Moodle? I would like to report his actions.
Starting at 10:26 UTC (12:26pm in Damascus), Syria’s international Internet connectivity shut down. In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet.
via Syrian Internet Is Off The Air – Renesys Blog.
These five offshore survivors include the webservers that were implicated in the delivery of malware targeting Syrian activists in May of this year.
The jury at the Supreme Court of Victoria agreed with Google up to a point. The company wasn’t responsible for the results until Trkulja asked it to take them down, it said. (Read the decision in full here.) Because it stuck to its guns, Google must pay $200,000 in damages..
As you would be no doubt already aware, I run a section of my blog here devoted to the free sharing of laptop service manuals. This is a side project I have run for the last three years, gathering as many repair manuals as I could find on the internet and rehosting them on my website for anybody to download and use.
I have unhappy news for you all. Since I was first contacted by Toshiba Australia’s legal department, I have been attempting to discuss with them the potential for me to continue to share their laptop service manuals on my site. Their flat and final response was “You do not have permission [to disseminate Toshiba copyright material] nor will it be granted to you in the foreseeable future.” As a result, all Toshiba material that was on my website is now gone, permanently.
via Future proof » Blog Archive » Toshiba laptop service manuals and the sorry state of copyright law.
Kim Dotcom’s plan of launching a “bigger, better, faster, stronger, safer” Megaupload successor, Mega, is already in peril as Gabon’s government has suspended the domain www.me.ga.
Instead of blowing off the letter as patently contradicted by section 230, Phoenix NAP took the entire Lipstick Alley web site off line without any notice. In response to a strong protest, Phoenix NAP acknowledged that its failure to give notice was a mistake in process, but it had no sympathy for Lipstick Alley’s legal rights; PhoenixNAP told me that it takes claims of defamation seriously and, without regard to the merits of the dispute, its customers must “resolve the issue with the complaining party.”
via Phoenix NAP’s Response to Kasim Reed Shows Its Unreliability as a Data Center (CL&P Blog).