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Comments: 4 + -   Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN on Friday March 12, @07:26AM

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 12, @07:26AM
from the pants-and-cheeseburgers-to-follow dept.
movies
itwbennett writes "Sony on Tuesday 'rolled out the ability to buy HD movies from the PlayStation Network,' writes blogger Peter Smith. Sony claims they're the first service to offer HD titles to own from all six major movie studios. Smith runs the numbers on 'standard' pricing for titles ($19.99 for new releases; $17.99 for older movies), file sizes (ranging from 4 GB for Zombieland to 7.5 GB for 2012), and resolution (720P as far as he can tell)."
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Comments: 47 + -   UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button on Friday March 12, @06:40AM

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, @06:40AM
from the extreme-unction dept.
judgecorp writes "Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, has said that UK government ministers are 'taking action' to get Facebook to add a British child protection button (called CEOP) to its site. The move comes after the UK's Daily Mail withdrew allegations that teenagers on Facebook are continually pestered — though Facebook is still considering suing the paper. The campaign apparently ignores Facebook's assertion that it already has better child protection in place and the CEOP button would be limited to the UK."
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Comments: 36 + -   China To Tap Combustible Ice As New Energy Source on Friday March 12, @05:00AM

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, @05:00AM
from the undra-the-tundra dept.
earth
lilbridge writes "Huge reserves of "combustible ice" — frozen methane and water, have been discovered in the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Estimates show that there is enough combustible ice to provide 90 years worth of energy for China. Burning the combustible ice may be a far better alternative than letting it just melt, releasing tons of methane into the air."
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Comments: 91 + -   A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet on Friday March 12, @03:36AM

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, @03:36AM
from the if-you-can't-read-this-you-know-why dept.
censorship
An anonymous reader writes "Another one bites the dust, as New Zealand's Internet filter stealthily goes live with two smaller ISPs, and three of the largest already rumoured to have signed up to do the same. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is apparently 'committed to helping people to circumvent government internet filtering,' so perhaps the USA will launch an invasion to free the poor downtrodden Kiwis from their own evil government?" Clever of one of the acquiescing ISPs to have named itself "Watchdog."
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Comments: 90 + -   Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? on Friday March 12, @02:01AM

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, @02:01AM
from the funken-arund dept.
wireless
code prole writes "With two upcoming trips to Germany, and no readily available Internet (WiFi or otherwise) in the location where we'll be staying, I'm looking for a no-contract USB stick and pre-paid data plan. Vodafone has a huge selection of USB sticks but has proven to be unresponsive to questions about data plans. And the US-based T-Mobile Help Center was clueless about getting the device in Europe and using it there. Hopefully the Slashdot community has some suggestions. Any duds to avoid?"
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Comments: 52 + -   Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out on Friday March 12, @12:20AM

Posted by timothy on Friday March 12, @12:20AM
from the like-the-energizer-bunny-in-more-ways-than-one dept.
botnet
harryjohnston writes "The Register points out that the takedown of a significant number of Zeus command-and-control servers, which we discussed earlier, was a short-lived victory, as about one-third of the affected servers were back on the net in less than 48 hours." Adds itwbennet: "Just hours after network connectivity to Troyak was severed the ISP peered with a new upstream Internet service provider named Ya. The next step will be to 'de-peer' Troyak from its new service provider, either an ISP named Nassist or its upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, said a researcher familiar with the matter. 'We have taken some of their territory, they are trying to out flank us,' the researcher said via IM. 'We are going to win this one — we have 'em boxed in.'"
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Comments: 120 + -   MetaLab Accuses Mozilla of Ripping Off UI Elements In Mockups on Thursday March 11, @09:08PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, @09:08PM
from the classic-miscommunication dept.
canada
CWmike writes "Canadian interface design firm MetaLab has accused Mozilla of stealing user interface elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making. MetaLab leveled the charges on Tuesday when the 11-person firm's founder, Andrew Wilkinson, blogged about the similarities between his company's designs and those posted by Mozilla for FlightDeck, a Jetpack editor. 'What they did was pretty ridiculous,' Wilkinson said on Thursday. 'There's a difference between inspiration versus ripping something off,' he said. 'The measurements of the graphic elements [Mozilla took from us] were the exact same, the very same pixels. When someone takes your images from the server hosting them, that's crossing the line.' Mozilla apologized to MetaLab on Wednesday, saying in a blog post, 'While the design direction being implemented does not utilize these design elements, we inadvertently included the early mockups in our blog post and video announcing the next phase of development for the Jetpack SDK ... We sincerely apologize to MetaLab for incorporating design elements from their web site in our early mockups and for posting them publicly without proper attribution.'" Alexander Limi of the Firefox User Experience Team points out that MetaLab has accepted the apology, too — worth bearing in mind.
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Comments: 227 + -   William Shatner Takes On Social Networking on Thursday March 11, @06:22PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, @06:22PM
from the man-of-many-talents dept.
nut writes "Everybody's favourite actor, author and starship captain is bringing some new ideas to the world of social networking. Myouterspace.com is, in the Captain's own words, '...a Sci Fi Social Network for those with a passion for the arts.' Facebook and Myspace should be worried. Sign up now. Go on, you know you want to."
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Comments: 180 + -   Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs on Thursday March 11, @05:38PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, @05:38PM
from the binded-by-the-light dept.
MikeChino writes "A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rate of 230 megabits per second, and they expect to be able to double that speed in the near future. While the regular radio-frequency Wi-Fi most of us use currently is perfectly fine, it does have its flaws — it has a limited bandwidth that confines it to a certain spectrum and if you've ever had someone leech off of your connection, you know that it also leaks through walls. LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides."
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Comments: 100 + -   SolarPHP 1.0 Released on Thursday March 11, @05:18PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, @05:18PM
from the something-new-under-the-sun dept.
php
HvitRavn writes "SolarPHP 1.0 stable was released by Paul M. Jones today. SolarPHP is an application framework and library, and is a serious contender alongside Zend Framework, Symphony, and similar frameworks. SolarPHP has in the recent years been the cause of heated debate in the PHP community due to provocative benchmark results posted on Paul M. Jones' blog."
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