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	<title>Tech news - Original Signal</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:18:41 CET</pubDate>
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  <title>Congress Actually Helping The Internet, Rather Than Mucking It Up?</title>
  <link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120208/00260717693/congress-actually-helping-internet-rather-than-mucking-it-up.shtml</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:52:13 CET</pubDate>
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  We're so used to Congress trying to muck up the internet, that it's rare we hear about cases where they're actually looking to make things better.  While the idea has been floating around for a little while, (and the actual bill was introduced back in December when we were focused on the whole SOPA/PIPA debate), the Startup Act is starting to get some attention, with co-sponsors Senators Jerry Moran and Mark Warner taking to the WSJ to explain why the Startup Act is important.  The basic idea behind the bill is to remove some of the regulatory hassles of starting and building a new company.  As we've pointed out repeatedly, studies have shown that pretty much all of the net job growth in the US comes from startups, and a bill like the Startup Act should help make it easier for startups to get going.  To be honest, the bill could be even stronger in a bunch of places, but as a starting point, it's definitely nice to see.  The focus is on making it easier for startups to be startups by doing the following:It will make permanent a capital gains tax exemption on the sale of certain kinds of small business stock that is held for at least five years.  In other words, it will encourage long-term investment in startups, which is just the kind of investing we should be encouraging (rather than quick flip type investing, which is more about gambling on changes, rather than investing in economic growth).It decreases corporate taxes on new businesses during their first three years of profitability -- again making it easier for young companies to grow and to reinvest their own profits in jobs and growth.While it doesn't do away with crippling government regulations for small businesses, it does require a cost-benefit analysis of the economic impact of many of those regulations on startups.It implements a simplified form of the startup/founders visa -- which is about helping non-Americans start companies and create jobs in the US.  We've talked about the startup visa in the past and why it's a good idea.  No matter how you feel about other immigration issues, this one is pretty clearly about having immigrants create jobs in the US (rather than elsewhere).There are a few other things in the bill, but overall the key point is to basically get overbearing regulations out of the way.  These are regulations that bog down many startups (or prevent them from getting started at all), and really put a drain on the key part of the economy that is contributing to both job growth and economic growth.  It's rare to see Congress trying to do something that helps the internet, rather than mucks it up, so we should certainly highlight when such efforts are being pushed forward.  I have a few quibbles around the edges on pieces of the bill, and really think it should go further in other areas, but on the whole it's a really good start.Permalink | Comments | Email This Story    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Google Offering Cash For Your Cache</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:29 CET</pubDate>
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  pigrabbitbear writes "The gradual transformation of the web into an ultra-personalized, corporate-owned social space in the cloud has raised more than a few legitimate concerns about data privacy. Google, for obvious reasons, has always been one of the top cheerleaders for this metamorphosis. Touting a fresh new privacy policy that allows data about you from all of their services to coalesce, they've recently been particularly bullish about rendering that increasingly realistic digital portrait of you that lies stuffed away in their servers. It has led us again to question: How much are we comfortable with our machines knowing about us? How much is our privacy really worth? With their new program, Google is now asking those questions quite directly, and preceding them with dollar signs. Are we all on the verge of making our own information age Faustian bargains?"                                                                                                                                                                              Read more of this story at Slashdot.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Kickstarter racks up over $2 million for two projects</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:52:05 CET</pubDate>
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  For the first time ever, two projects on the crowd-source funding platform exceeded $1 million each--both in the same day.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Eight 5.1- And 7.1-Channel Gaming Headsets, Reviewed</title>
  <link>http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/surround-sound-headset-benchmark,3125.html#xtor=RSS-182</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:26:08 CET</pubDate>
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  Surround sound headsets are often more practical than a home theater system attached to your PC. We compare eight premium models from Arctic, Psyko, Cooler Master, Logitech, Creative, Thermaltake, Corsair, and Razer to figure out who sells the top option.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>OCZ Octane 1.13 Firmware Update: Improving 4KB Random Write Performance</title>
  <link>http://www.anandtech.com/show/5529/ocz-octane-113-firmware-update-faster-4kb-random-write-performance</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:52:10 CET</pubDate>
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  The one thing that OCZ has been missing for so many years is finally one of its staples: focus. The same company that dabbled in everything from brain mice to DIY notebooks is now almost exclusively an SSD company that peddles power supplies on the side. OCZ&#39;s penchant for aggressively trying new things hasn&#39;t faded away however. As an SSD maker, OCZ is currently or will in the near future, be shipping drives based on controllers from three different vendors - each with their own strengths. OCZ&#39;s relationship with SandForce continues and the Vertex 3 remains OCZ&#39;s highest performing offering. A recent partnership with Marvell gives OCZ early experience with native PCIe based SSDs, experience that is extremely important as the industry marches towards a new PCIe based interface standard for SSDs (SATA Express). Finally there&#39;s OCZ&#39;s own controller, the Indilinx Everest, which it is quickly building momentum behind. It&#39;s obviously in OCZ&#39;s best interests to have its own controllers in the bulk of the drives it makes, but one doesn&#39;t simply build a better controller than everyone else on the first try.A few weeks ago OCZ released a firmware update for its Octane drives that promised a significant increase in 4KB random write performance. Read on for our analysis of the firmware update!  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Tesla Model X: Electric, all-wheel drive, and crazy folding doors</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:52:05 CET</pubDate>
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  Tesla previewed the Model X in Los Angeles, and the highlight of the new vehicle was not the electric power train, but innovative folding side doors.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Roll up, roll up! Oracle digest Taleo</title>
  <link>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/collaboration/roll-up-roll-up-oracle-digest-taleo/2309</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:26:09 CET</pubDate>
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  We're in for more cloud/SaaS merger and acquisitions this year; will continued innovation triumph over old guard purchase integrations, and do the customers and prospects care as much as the...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>E-mail viruses most likely to appear in the morning</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:26:07 CET</pubDate>
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  Cybercriminals tend to e-mail viruses from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., a new Global Security Report reveals.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Latvia Joins Countries Putting The Brakes On ACTA Approval</title>
  <link>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120209/13525017717/latvia-joins-countries-putting-brakes-acta-approval.shtml</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:49 CET</pubDate>
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  Following the news that Poland and the Czech Republic have put the brakes on ACTA ratification, we can now add Latvia to the bunch:The Economy Minister Daniels Pavluts has decided to block the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which has caused wide protests in the society.On Wednesday, February 8, the Minister announced that he made the decision taking into account the mood of various groups of the society, as well as worries of several experts about the possibility of ACTA implementation in Latvia.He thinks that it is already too late for a proactive and timely explanation of what ACTA really means. So now there is no rush with its ratification in the Parliament. &#8220;First we need a constructive and reasoned dialogue and a discussion with all the interested parties,&#8221; he says.Of course, Poland, the Czech Republic and Latvia are "smaller" players in the EU, and there are disputes over whether or not having some countries decide not to ratify kills the whole process.  Basically, there are different interpretations of how things work under the Lisbon Treaty, with some saying that even if some countries don't ratify, the EU could still ratify and issue a directive forcing the various member states to "harmonize."  So it's good to see these countries putting the brakes on what was going to be a pure "check the boxes" approval process -- but ACTA is still very likely to move forward overall.Permalink | Comments | Email This Story    ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Ode to manual typewriters</title>
  <link>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/ode-to-manual-typewriters/413</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:38 CET</pubDate>
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  Manual typewriters are back, and they're all the retro rage. This article contains stories from some of America's leading technology journalists about their relationship with manual typewriters.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>A Valentine's Day present for SCADA companies: new exploit tools</title>
  <link>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/a-valentines-day-present-for-scada-companies-new-exploit-tools.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:52:07 CET</pubDate>
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                  There's good news for people who love bad news about the security of industrial control systems. At the SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4) in Miami Beach in January, there were a host of new security vulnerabilities unearthed in popular programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, the devices and software that are used to control all manner of critical infrastructure and industrial plants. And now, one researcher is preparing a tool to demonstrate the vulnerability of another manufacturer's systems&#8212;just in time for Valentine's Day.SCADA platforms such as those from Siemens have been the subject of concerns of Homeland Security officials and others in government and industry, even before the Stuxnet worm's impact on Iran's nuclear program demonstrated that vulnerabilities in them could be used to cause real physical damage as part of a "cyber war." But many vendors have failed to improve the security of their SCADA products.  That, and a general lack of pushback from SCADA customers, was the reason for S4's Project Basecamp, a SCADA hacking project intended to demonstrate the vulnerability of some of the most common control systems in use and provide tools to help companies assess their level of risk. Digital Bond's Reid Wightman and others participating in Basecamp uncovered a number of vulnerabilities in several SCADA systems, including the GE D20ME, a controller common to the electrical utility industry.  A set of "Metasploit" modules for the GE D20ME, including a module that downloads and stores the complete configuration of the D20ME, including usernames and passwords in plain text using the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).But there were also a number of vulnerabilities discovered in the ECOM Ethernet modules for DirectLOGIC PLCs from Koyo Electronics Industries of Japan, another very common controller used across a number of industries.  In a blog post, Wightman said that those vulnerabilities include a limited size for passwords  and no lockout or timeout after bad authentication attempts. That leaves the system open to brute-force password attacks, which is part of the toolset Digital Bond is releasing on Valentine's Day. "This should save end users money," Wightman wrote, because according to an FAQ on the modules, "a lost password means that the end user must send the device in for a reset."In the ECOM100 modules for Koyo's systems, which Wightman said were less common, there is an even larger set of vulnerabilities&#8212;these have a built-in web server that requires no authentication to connect to and allows remote changes to be made to the PLC's configuration, including its network address. "To top things off, the server does not properly validate user input, and is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks," he wrote.                      Read the comments on this post  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:52:02 CET</pubDate>
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  Nominei writes "The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the Syrian President, aides and staffers had their email hacked by Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of emails online. Reportedly, many of the accounts used the password '12345' (which their IT department probably warned them to change when the accounts got set up, of course)."                                                                                                                                                                              Read more of this story at Slashdot.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>How much better will the iPad 3 be?</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:26:06 CET</pubDate>
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  With strong indications Apple will reveal its next-generation iPad in early March, CNET's David Carnoy takes a look at what feature and design enhancements potential buyers can expect.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Eolas loses landmark Web patent case</title>
  <link>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/eolas-loses-landmark-web-patent-case/10333</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:52:07 CET</pubDate>
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  In a rare, victory against software patent, a jury in the U.S. District Court in East Texas ruled that Eolas did not have a patent on the interactive Web.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>3D printing and the future of product design: Inside Quirky</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00:36 CET</pubDate>
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  A tour of crowdsourced product development company Quirky raises many questions about the future of personal and professional design.  ]]></content:encoded>
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