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This website uses dymaic web slicing on some pages that are updated on a daily (or sometimes an hourly) basis. A page contains a web slice if you see this icon in the toolbar. This feature was introduced with IE 8, which allows users to subscribe to content and receive notification of updates on the browser tool bar. This was implemented for the employment page in January, 2010 and the Article Alert service in March 2010. The video link is an introduction to the use of web slicing. Further details about web slicing and how it works can be found here.
RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. It has become the standard method to send news and information from websites directly to the user who wishes to keep up to date.
Extensive use is made of RSS feeds on this website. The most obvious is LT.info Bulletin, which you can subscribe to by clicking on the RSS symbol . Whenever I make a major addition or change to the site it will be announced on this feed. I sometimes also use it to notify subscribers of more general language testing news.
Many pages also contain information that is generated by RSS feeds, but filtered using software that selects content using keywords and strings, before aggregating the information on the page. Examples of this are the article aggregation, and article alert services, which scan journals for language testing content and updates this page whenever new articles are published. This makes keeping up to date extremely easy, especially in the latter case where it is combined with web slicing. Developing the filters for some pages has taken over a year, such as on the employment page. However, some 'rogue' jobs still get through, particularly from the fields of computing, health care, and engineering. I continually update the filters to reduce such instances, but cannot eradicate them completely.
If you would like to know more about how aggregation works, there is a useful Wikipedia entry that you can consult.
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Hackers breach FBI-UK police call 3 February, 2012 Hackers Anonymous release a recording of an intercepted conference call between the FBI and UK police discussing their efforts to fight hacking.
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Anonymous has upped the ante in its bid to air the world's dirty linen in public by releasing a recording of what is apparently a phone call between the FBI and UK police, as well as an email between the agencies discussing online hacking.
The FBI has confirmed that the audio is real and told the Associated Press that it "was intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained".
Curious comms
Anonymous has been busy of late, taking down any website it feels has contributed to the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and its latest stunt proves that the hacking collective has no plans to give up embarrassing and obstructing the FBI in its bid to tackle piracy and hacking online.
Anonymous first announced the conference call leak on the @AnonymousIRC Twitter account. A tweet was posted which said: "The FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now." This was followed by a link to an MP3 of the recording.
Anonymous has urged its followers to upload the audio to as many places as possible so that it is not taken down.
Speaking about the hack, Graham Cluley from Sophos said: "The assumption has to be that an Anonymous hacker had access to one of the recipients' email accounts, and thus had secret access to the confidential call."
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Skype has announced the latest update to its video-calling service, Skype 5.8, which offers up Full HD video calling and even more interaction with Facebook.
There haven't been many webcams that have gone Full HD but in a blog post Skype notes that the Logitech C920, which does all of its encoding inside the camera, is a good fit for this hi-def loving update.
"Now you can make crystal clear video-calls with your loved ones or business contacts by utilising the latest technology for Skype and Logitech, which is incorporated into the latest update to Skype for Windows and the Logitech C920 webcam," explained the blog.
We are guessing you can also call people you hate in crystal clear Full HD as well, but we'll have to get in touch with Skype to confirm this.
Facebook calling
The other significant addition to Skype is that you can now call your Facebook friends straight from the Skype application.
This is in beta at the moment, but it does offer both audio and video calling.
The list of changes is a little bit 'meh' from here on in, with Bing toolbar integration, a push to Talk option in Skype hotkeys and also a Skype Updater.
That's right, this update brings with it a way to update Skype. Head over to Skype now to get the latest version of the video-calling service.
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This website uses dymaic web slicing on some pages that are updated on a daily (or sometimes an hourly) basis. A page contains a web slice if you see this icon in the toolbar. This feature was introduced with IE 8, which allows users to subscribe to content and receive notification of updates on the browser tool bar. This was implemented for the employment page in January, 2010 and the Article Alert service in March 2010. The video link is an introduction to the use of web slicing. Further details about web slicing and how it works can be found 
