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+-   Twitter on Saturday November 07, @10:55AM xujun99663311

Submitted by xujun99663311 on Saturday November 07, @10:55AM
xujun99663311 writes "many twitter web client list
that's dozens.."
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+-   Hand Mounted Flame Thrower - Prometheus Device[->] on Saturday November 07, @10:49AM emeraldd

Submitted by emeraldd on Saturday November 07, @10:49AM
emeraldd writes ""Everett Bradford's "Prometheus Device" is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots, like, real fire. Really Cool, watch the video! Check out here to see how Everett Bradford made it."
He has posted some notes on the device to picasa and has a video."
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+-   MythTV theming competition announced[->] on Saturday November 07, @10:48AM zenyu

Submitted by zenyu on Saturday November 07, @10:48AM
gui
zenyu writes "After a year and a half both porting MythTV from Qt3 to Qt4 and porting the UI from Qt to a more themable MythUI the project has released version 0.22 of the PVR. Support for new hardware has been added and a number of small code quality improvements have been made such as reducing polling with the use of PowerTOP.

But the real news is that with this release the project has announced a competition to come up with new themes for the next release. The deadline for theme submissions is February 1st, 2010; with the next MythTV release to follow March, 2010. The top three entries will receive Hauppauge hardware."
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+-   Amazing Landscapes From Martin Surface (35 Pics)[->] on Saturday November 07, @10:10AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07, @10:10AM
An anonymous reader writes "Here is a collection of images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which is currently orbiting Mars. MRO is a HiRISE (Hi Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, which is used to take images around the planet. This camera is capable of taking pictures at a greater resolutions."
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+-   Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Brazil[->] on Saturday November 07, @09:29AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07, @09:29AM
An anonymous reader writes "In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affected three million people. Another, smaller blackout north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005 was also triggered by computer intruders, the network claims."
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+-   Simple, cost effective multiroom audio? on Saturday November 07, @08:13AM jimicus

Submitted by jimicus on Saturday November 07, @08:13AM
jimicus writes "I'd like a multiroom audio system but I'm thoroughly confused by the options available — and the difference in prices is huge. For instance, Philips have a wireless system which starts at around £280 — and Russound have a product which comes in around £1,000.

I've already got all my music as MP3s and it lives on a NAS box — I don't really want to repeat that process. I also have a perfectly capable amp and speakers in my living room, so I don't really need anything else there.

Whatever I go for has to pass the wife test — so something which requires a separate amp, speakers and PC in each room and requires a keyboard to control is right out.

I don't mind spending a little money but I don't really want to find that every little extra thing adds up to £thousands.

Has anyone else dealt with a similar problem? How did you solve it?"
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+-   Twitter testing retweet feature on some accounts[->] on Saturday November 07, @08:10AM snowbot

Submitted by snowbot on Saturday November 07, @08:10AM
snowbot writes "Twitter are testing their controvercial new retweet feature on limited accounts, (http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/retweet-limited-rollout.html) the change to retweets has been unpopular with some users, who started a #saveretweets hashtag to protest against twitters meddling. (http://danzarrella.com/mangle-retweets.html)"
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+-   Who's in charge of Android: Google or developers?[->] on Saturday November 07, @08:05AM wiseandroid

Submitted by wiseandroid on Saturday November 07, @08:05AM
google
wiseandroid writes "Google says Android is an open development process, but partners say the company is running the show to ensure Android's commercial viability"
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+-   Adobe Photoshop Mobile Launches on Google Android[->] on Saturday November 07, @07:53AM wiseandroid

Submitted by wiseandroid on Saturday November 07, @07:53AM
wiseandroid writes "Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the Photoshop.com Mobile for Android software, extending Adobe® industry-leading digital imaging technology to users of the Google Mobile operating system."
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+-   Danish anti-piracy agency throw in the towel[->] on Saturday November 07, @06:08AM ChristianVillum

Submitted by ChristianVillum on Saturday November 07, @06:08AM
movies
ChristianVillum writes "Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in the towel and will seize their operations completely; to find and prosecute music copyright offenders. Here is a translation of the article from todays Danish press."
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+-   Apple changes the way it handles AppStore updates[->] on Saturday November 07, @04:14AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07, @04:14AM
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+-   Gadget problems divide the sexes.[->] on Saturday November 07, @02:38AM Ant

Submitted by Ant on Saturday November 07, @02:38AM
technology
Ant writes "BBC News report that "gadget problems divide the sexes. Men and women have different approaches to dealing with technology problems, according to a gadget helpline..."

Seen on Boing Boing."
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+-   Microsoft Borrows GPL Code for Windows 7 Utility[->] on Saturday November 07, @02:28AM Goatbert

Submitted by Goatbert on Saturday November 07, @02:28AM
microsoft
Goatbert writes "Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that Microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft at a time when they're getting mostly good press from the tech media."
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+-   Exam brute-forced by world's worst test taker[->] on Saturday November 07, @02:09AM unixan

Submitted by unixan on Saturday November 07, @02:09AM
idle
unixan writes "What can you do with $4,200, and a lot of time on your hands? Why not brute force a written exam, the old fashion way?

The exam consisted of 50 multi-choice questions, and required a 60 percent score to pass. The would-be student, now a likely nominee for an Iggy, required 950 attempts to raise a score that started in the 30 percent range.

How about it, Slashdotters: assuming 50 questions with 5 choices each, could you program a brute force script (with learning capability based on final score) and beat the worlds worst test taker?"
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+-   Crumb-y Bible Tops the Bestseller Lists on Saturday November 07, @02:01AM theodp

Submitted by theodp on Saturday November 07, @02:01AM
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theodp writes "Few Biblical scholars would have made counterculture cartoonist R. Crumb their first choice for reinterpreting the Bible. And Crumb's cult following probably never imagined the creator of Fritz the Cat would spend four of his creative years on such an endeavor. But the weird, obsessive, oversexed artist's pictorial interpretation of Genesis has climbed to the no. 1 spot on both the NYT graphic novel and Amazon.com Christian bestseller lists. In true Crumb fashion, the cover of The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb sports a picture of a grim Adam and a buxom Eve plus a Charlton Heston-y God. 'The First Book of the Bible Graphically Depicted!' it proclaims. 'Nothing Left Out!' Which no doubt should help Crumb and The Good Book find a new audience. 'I have a feeling,' quipped Crumb's editor, 'this book could do a lot for Bible literacy among teenage boys.'"
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Comments: 1 +-   Visually disabled gamer sues Sony[->] on Saturday November 07, @01:13AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07, @01:13AM
sony
An anonymous reader writes "Visually disabled gamer sues Sony because game products allegedly violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. "According to the suit, Sony ignored repeated requests through postal mail and e-mail to come up with reasonable modifications to its games to make them more accessible" (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6239339.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;5). This suit seems to be a combination of National Federation of the Blind v. Target, which complained of inaccessibility to the visually disabled (which settled for $6 million) and Martin v. PGA Tour, Inc where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a disabled golfer was entitled to a golf cart where one was not already allowed as a reasonable accommodation. If the Plaintiff wins, Sony will have to make "reasonable accommodations" which are not an "undue financial burden." In my humble opinion, providing access for the disabled is not only the right thing to do but it will generate more profit for Sony."
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+-   Microsoft COFEE Leaked[->] on Saturday November 07, @12:31AM 54mc

Submitted by 54mc on Saturday November 07, @12:31AM
54mc writes "Crunchgear reports that Microsoft's long-searched for forensics tool, COFEE has been leaked. The tool started on a small private tracker, but has since worked it's way to The Pirate Bay. Not all those who have got ahold of it are enthused, and reviews have ranged from "disappointing" to "useless." From the article:you have absolutely no use for the program. It’s not something like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, an expensive application that you download for the hell of it on the off-chance you need to put Dave Meltzer’s face on Brett Hart’s body as part of a message board thread. No, COFEE is 100 percent useless to you. "
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+-   The Pong Circuit, Commented for your Pleasure[->] on Friday November 06, @11:52PM

Submitted by on Friday November 06, @11:52PM
games
An anonymous reader writes "Some enterprising man has taken the schematics for Atari's classic game Pong and color-coded and commented them for all the budding engineers who couldn't follow the normal schematics. Interesting view for anyone who wants to see how the old game worked and maybe if they want to build their own or plug it into a simulator (64-core 8GHz liquid-nitrogen cooled computer required)."
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+-   How Google Uses Linux[->] on Friday November 06, @11:19PM postfail

Submitted by postfail on Friday November 06, @11:19PM
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postfail writes "lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit (http://lwn.net/Articles/KernelSummit2009/) includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers and how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features."
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+-   John Carmack - No Dedicated Servers for Rage.[->] on Friday November 06, @10:51PM AndrewDBarker

Submitted by AndrewDBarker on Friday November 06, @10:51PM
games
AndrewDBarker writes "“Modern Warfare 2” will use a matchmaking setup powered by IWNET for online play. It’s too early to say what Rage will use, but Carmack indicated he believed the servers are something of a remnant of the early days of PC gaming.

That said, he realizes the affinity many PC gamers have for them – and is glad “Rage” won’t be leading the charge away from them.

“The great thing is we won’t have to be a pioneer on that,” he says. “We’ll see how it works out for everyone else.”"
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What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity?
Casino Denies Man $166 Million Jackpot
Louisville Ranks No. 1 In Online Porn Searches
Terrorists Ban Musical Ringtones
Poll Sci-Fi Shows and Movies Should Stop...
Trying To Ignore Science
Being Generic Action Movies In Space
Getting Canceled Early
Spending $50M On Effects and $50k On Writing
Bothering With the Major Networks
Poorly Interpreting Good Books
Inventing New Swear Words
Starring Will Smith
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