environment
Apple quits Chamber of Commerce, praised for green efforts
Apple’s attention to its environmental impact doesn’t end at “greenest notebook” slogans or earth-friendly graphics on the environment section of its website. The company is taking action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions seriously and has underscored its commitment by resigning from the US Chamber of Commerce this week, citing that group’s criticism of legislation to regulate GHG emissions. And, although the company’s efforts on the green front haven’t yet resulted in much recognition from Greenpeace, Apple is earning accolades for efforts to green its products from the International Chemical Secretariat and Clean Product Action.
Continue reading »Guy Laliberté blasts off for One Drop in space
p2pnet news view P2P | Cool:- Canadian Guy Laliberté, who started out as an accordion player but went on to found the world-famuous Cirque du Soleil, ranks 261 in the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires for 2009. Which is why he can afford to pay the Russians $35 million for a journey into space. Early this morning, he blasted of from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a rocket-powered trip to the international space station.
Continue reading »TJX Hacker Charged with Heartland, Hannaford Breaches
The constellation of hacks connected to the TJX hacker is growing. Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez, a former Secret Service informant who is already awaiting trial over his involvement in the TJX hack, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey, along with two unnamed Russia-based conspirators, with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, the New Jersey based card processing company, as well as Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven, Inc, and two unnamed national retailers, according to the indictment unsealed Monday. Prosecutors say they’re investigating other breaches and have not ruled out Gonzalez’s involvement in even more intrusions.
Continue reading »Evan Roth’s IP Asshole contest
Stra p2pnet news view Cool | P2P:- “Evan Roth (born 1978) is an artist whose work focuses on tools of empowerment, open source and popular culture,” says the Wikipedia . “He has previously released work under the name ‘fi5e’.” Almost a year ago, in Toronto, “With a fire extinguisher filled with paint and a thirsty desire to hack into the systems that define our environment, Evan Roth and his mystery associate Katsu have the ability to tag an entire side of a four-story building in under 30 seconds,” said Indusblue , noting: “He proved it too, with an eloquent audacity, showing a video of their late night escapades to an early gathering at this year’s Toronto Flash In The Can. Katsu, whose face was obscured on camera, plastered the side of the building with a gushing stream of splattering black paint.” Now, “Who is the bigger intellectual property asshole?” – he wonders in what has to be one of the most original art promos ever, going on »»» Is it the artist who has amassed a small fortune based on “appropriation” yet still sends cease and desist letters to other artists for appropriating his work?
Continue reading »Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
File this in the “exporting democracy” category, or not: a recent report from Europe serves as a reminder that serious problems with e-voting aren’t just an American malady, although it’s much easier to move back to paper ballots if your country is fairly small. Just ask the Irish, who have announced their decision to scrap their e-voting system and return to paper. Ireland has already put about $67 million into building out its e-voting infrastructure, but the country has apparently decided that it would be even more expensive to keep going with the system than it would be to just scrap it altogether.
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