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• Justice Department Joins Fraud Lawsuit Against Oracle - suraj.
• ISC Offers Response Policy Zones For DNS - penciling_in writes "ISC has made the announcement that they have developed a technology that will allow 'cooperating good guys' to provide and consume reputation information about domains names.
• Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market - eldavojohn writes "According to AfterDawn, Google has given app makers the option to use a license server as DRM to ensure the user has paid for an app before they can download it.
• Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth - climenole points out a post from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth about internal strife in the free software community.
• What's Wrong With the American University System - ideonexus writes "The Atlantic has an excellent interview with Andrew Hacker — co-author with Claudia Dreifus of a book titled Higher Education? — covering everything that's wrong with the American university system.
• New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time - wooferhound writes "Like proud parents savoring their baby's very first steps, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time.
• An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control - waderoush writes "Princeton's Ed Felten has criticized the iPhone and iPad as Disneyland-like 'walled gardens' and says there's no way the iTunes App Store can 'offer the scope and variety of apps that a less controlled environment can provide.
• Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support - Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem.
• Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems - angry tapir writes "Oracle has announced that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers.
• The Science of Caddyshack - astroengine writes "Thirty years after the release of the cult classic comedy Caddyshack, Discovery News has geeked out and gone on the hunt for any trace amount of science they can find in the movie (video).
• Copyright Troll USCG Violates Copyright - omarlittle writes "The US Copyright Group — a company owned by intellectual property lawyers, which has been in the news for threatening downloaders of the movie Hurt Locker — has apparently stolen their site from a competitor.
• China's Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused - eldavojohn writes "Massive confusion occurred last night for Google's Chinese search engine and ad services when Google's automated reporting system claimed that everything was blocked in China.
• BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future - kkleiner writes "BlindType has created a new touchscreen keyboard program of the same name that changes size, orientation, and position to match your wandering fingers as they type.
• Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day - ArbiterOne writes "The 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is today.
• To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency' - Barence writes "Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has vented his frustration at the success of the iPad and said developing a Windows alternative is 'job one urgency.