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Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder

theshowmecanuck writes “According to the Montreal Gazette, ‘The owner and operator of a well-known ‘real gore’ website is charged with corrupting morals for posting a video allegedly depicting the murder of student Jun Lin by Luka Magnotta. Magnotta, 30, is currently in custody charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 33-year-old Chinese international student, who was killed in Montreal in May 2012. The victim’s severed limbs were then mailed to political parties and elementary schools, and his torso found inside a discarded suitcase.’ A news interview with the detective in charge of the case, airing on CTV as I type this, says he believes the web site hosts a lot of racist content and unimaginable violence. You should note that Canada has less free speech than in America (we have ‘hate crime laws’), but there will likely be some arguments in this vein. The charge against the operator is quite rare and no-one so far remembers it ever being used before.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties

First time accepted submitter rpopescu writes “Thom Yorke of Radiohead fame has pulled his solo album ‘Eraser’ (as well as music made as Atoms for Peace) from the music streaming service Spotify, as a protest at how much it pays the artists. Quote: ‘”Make no mistake. These are all the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system.”‘” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney

An anonymous reader writes “Ben Kruidbos, the IT director for the Florida State Attorney’s Office who’d spoken up when important cellphone evidence he’d extracted from Trayvon Martin’s cellphone was withheld by the state from the defense, was fired by messenger at 7:30 PM Friday, after closing arguments in the Zimmerman case. He was told that he could not be ‘trusted to set foot in this office, ‘ and that he was being fired for incompetence. Kruidbos had received a merit pay raise earlier this year. The firing letter also blames him for consulting a lawyer, an obvious sign of evil.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay

judgecorp writes “NHS Surrey, part of Britain’s health service, has been fined £200, 000 when a computer holding more than 3000 patient records was found for sale on eBay. The system was retired, and given to a contractor who promised to dispose of it securely for free, in exchange for any salvage value… but clearly just put the whole system up for sale.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Decapitated worms regrow their heads with old memories intact

It’s hard to let go of some memories, even if your head has been chopped off. Well, at least if you’re a flatworm. When these tiny critters are decapitated, their heads and brain eventually grow back. But more remarkable than that, so too do their previous memories. Read more…        

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America’s Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency

cold fjord writes “From the Examiner: ‘…the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. … part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. … There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs. Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing. … Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, but now make up a tenth of the jobs in the United States. In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.’ The NYT has a chart detailing the problem.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Hawkmoths use their genitals to scare off bats

Bats hunt moths and other insects by using echolocation, where they emit ultrasonic calls and analyze the rebounding sound. So to avoid getting eaten by hungry bats, hawkmoths blast the flying mammals with their own ultrasound…which comes from their genitals. Seriously. Read more…        

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Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death

An anonymous reader writes “Remember AltaVista from the late ’90s? Yahoo is finally pulling life support and letting Altavista die a noble death after over 15 years of hard service.” You can only take so many years of being a running gag. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Knoppix 7.2 Released

hypnosec writes “Knoppix 7.2 has been released for public testing — unlike its predecessor, Knoppix 7.1, which was only made available through the annual Linux Magazine CeBIT edition. Based on Debian “Wheezy”, Knoppix 7.2 packs quite a few new features, including newer desktop packages from Debian/testing and Debian/unstable Jessie. The latest version uses the Linux 3.9 kernel and xorg 7.7, and comes loaded with LibreOffice 4.0, GIMP 2.8, Chromium 27 (and Firefox/Iceweasel 21), Wine 1.5, and Virtualbox version 4.2.10. It uses LXDE by default. For users who still want to go for KDE or GNOME, version 4.8.4 and 3.4.2 of the respective desktops are available from the Knoppix DVD.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers

schwit1 writes with a report on just how extensive always-on license plate logging has gotten. The article focuses on California; how different is your state? “In San Diego, 13 federal and local law enforcement agencies have compiled more than 36 million license-plate scans in a regional database since 2010 with the help of federal homeland security grants. The San Diego Association of Governments maintains the database. Unlike the Northern California database, which retains the data for between one and two years, the San Diego system retains license-plate information indefinitely. Can we get plate with code to delete the database?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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