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The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace NSFW 629

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @02:25PM from the meesa-completely-agree dept.

cowmix writes "When TPM came out ten years ago, its utter crappiness shocked me to the core and wounded a entire generation of geeks. My inner child had been abused and betrayed. I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks. I couldn't bring myself to see #2 or #3, whatever they were called. Now, a decade later, comes Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, the ultimate, seven-part, seventy minute analysis of this mother of all train wrecks. Not only does it nail how the film blows, but tells us why. Time, apparently, does not heal all wounds." Or, if you prefer all 7 parts embedded in one page, you can check out slashfilm's aggregation.

Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation 259

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 20, 2009 @10:33AM from the still-looking-for-somebody-to-crucify dept.

VValdo writes "As you may recall, the citizens of the US shelled out about $85 billion to bail out AIG and its creditors (Goldman Sachs in particular) last year. But as 80% owners of AIG, we still don't know what happened, exactly. That may change. In a new op-ed piece, former prosecutors (including former NY governor Eliot Spitzer) are calling for the US Treasury to force AIG to release its treasure-trove of emails to the public before allowing AIG to 'break free' of our control. As the prosecutors put it, 'By putting the evidence online, the government could establish a new form of "open source" investigation. Once the documents are available for everyone to inspect, a thousand journalistic flowers can bloom, as reporters, victims and angry citizens have a chance to piece together the story.' Good idea?"

Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia 464

Posted by timothy on Monday September 07, 2009 @07:49AM from the all-they-want-is-a-little-sanity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Submitted by the Australian branch of Scientology to the local Human Rights Commission is a proposal to eliminate anonymity on the net and the removal of critical websites (MS Word document). The submission is listed as #1931 at this page at the Australian Human Rights Commission." (Read on below for some of the details of what the Scientologists propose.)

Comment Oh no! (Score 1) 293

by Daniel K. Attling on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @09:50AM (#22405146) Attached to: US Group Calls Canada a Top Copyright Violator

I was sure we Swedes where in the lead! Must we make yet another [something]Bay?

Isn't this award of being the worst offender being passed out like a little kids soccer tournament, where everyone gets a medal for just attending? Russia is the worst, China is the worst, Sweden is the worst, Canada is the worst. Bah.

An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming 234

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @01:03PM from the say-goodbye-to-the-hardcore- dept.

Reservoir Hill writes "An article from last week runs down the new mass audience for gaming among families, women and older people. The importance of the mass audience in gaming's spectacular growth is seen most clearly in the success of Nintendo's Wii, which is far outselling its more technically advanced hardware competitors, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 from Sony. Wii Play was the No. 2-selling game of last year even though it received an abysmal score of 58 out of 100 at Metacritic, which aggregates reviews. The Times says that as video games become more popular hard-core gamers are becoming an ever smaller part of the audience. 'Paradoxically, at a moment when technology allows designers to create ever more complex and realistic single-player fantasies, the growth in the now $18 billion gaming market is in simple, user-friendly experiences that families and friends can enjoy together.'"

Submission + - Apple to kill Optimus

Submitted by

weebuzo

on Friday January 04, 2008 @09:40AM

weebuzo writes: "Highly awaited and sometimes considered a vaporware, Optimus OLED keyboard by russian Art. Lebedev Studio, may be too late for the market. MacRumours noticed that yet in March 2007, Apple filed the patent application for the keyboard, where "each key has several light emitting diodes disposed on a face of the key," "...wherein the organic light emitting diodes are placed in a dot matrix pattern on the key and operable to display symbols indicating an action that will be performed by a computer when the key is depressed by a user." At the same time, the official Optimus page mentions that the patents are yet pending. Abstracting away from the moral dimension and the patent law shortcomings, the news that such big market player as Apple may be going to start a competition with Art. Levedev studio, may mean the only word for the end user. "Cheaper.""

Submission + - Science "can prove the universe is a simulatio

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday January 04, 2008 @09:24AM

holy_calamity writes: A New Zealand physicist has written a paper saying that physicists should seriously explore the possibility the universe is a giant virtual reality simulation. He says that the existence of quantum phenomena could be due to the underlying digital nature of the simulation and also claims his VR hypothesis can explain relativity, the big bang and more. It should be possible to perform experiments to prove the hypothesis too. He reasons that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual.

Submission + - SPAM: Decision-Making: The Good Better Best Paradigm

Submitted by

rinkjustice

on Friday January 04, 2008 @08:45AM

rinkjustice writes: "Life rarely boils down to choices of right or wrong, good or bad. Life is not black and white. More realistically, our choices range between good, better and best. Here's how to identify them."
Link to Original Source

Submission + - PC Magazine Not Impressed with MS Office 2008 (pcmag.com)

Submitted by gnaremooz on Friday January 04, 2008 @08:37AM

gnaremooz writes: PC Magazine has examined Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac, and come away unimpressed:

Bottom Line: A disappointing upgrade, with almost no must-have improvements. Stick with Office 2004 unless you absolutely need some feature of the new version.

Submission + - Facebook Widget Installs Zango Spyware (net-security.org)

Submitted by BaCa on Friday January 04, 2008 @08:32AM

BaCa writes: A malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the social networking site ultimately prompts users to install the infamous "Zango" adware/spyware. The tremendous success and lightning fast expansion of Facebook empowered the social networking giant with an impressive user base. Needless to say, in a digital world where web traffic equals money, such a user base attracts spammers, virus/spyware seeders, and other ethic-less online marketers like honey would attract flies.

Submission + - Whatever Happened to Eric Raymond? (linuxjournal.com)

Submitted by

Glyn Moody

on Friday January 04, 2008 @07:49AM

Glyn Moody writes: "Once the the unofficial voice of open source, Eric Raymond has been pretty silent for the last few years. I asked him why, and for his thoughts on open source past, present and future. As well as telling me about the reasons for stealth mode, his biggest surprise in the ten years since the publication of Cathedral and the Bazaar, and why World Domination would be a "damned near-run thing either way", he also explained how the open source way can solve climate change, sea acidification, water shortages and resource depletion. Time for ESR to un-stealth?"

Submission + - Intellectual Property vs. Intellectual Pirates (google.com)

Submitted by

nuclearrrabit

on Friday January 04, 2008 @06:45AM

nuclearrrabit writes: "The new film Steal this Film II addresses the growing global war on piracy and the retaliation because of it. Included in the film are interviews from many webmasters of tracker sites, interviews from law professors, and even the Dan Glickman, chairman of the MPAA. The film discusses the implications of censorship on expanding technologies and the role of technology in communication of ideas."

Submission + - SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned (beskerming.com)

Submitted by

SkiifGeek

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @11:05AM

SkiifGeek writes: "Late last week the SquirrelMail team posted information on their site about a compromise to the main download repository for SquirrelMail that resulted in a critical flaw being introduced into two versions of the webmail application (1.4.11 and 1.4.12).

After gaining access to the repository through a release maintainer's compromised account (it is believed), the attackers made a slight modification to the release packages, modifying how a PHP global variable was handled. As a result, it introduced a remote file inclusion bug — leading to an arbitrary code execution risk on systems running the vulnerable versions of SquirrelMail.

The poisoning was identified after it was reported to the SquirrelMail team that there was a difference in MD5 signatures for version 1.4.12.

Version 1.4.13 is now available."

Submission + - GNOME supporting Microsoft OOXML as ISO standard? (archive.org)

Submitted by

christian.einfeldt

on Sunday October 28, 2007 @01:29AM

christian.einfeldt writes: "According to long-time OpenDocument Fellowship member Russell Ossendryver, it appears that GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza's widely-publicized praise for OOXML as a 'superb standard' is being followed up with on-going support by the GNOME Foundation in 'resolving' the thousands of criticisms leveled against the purported Microsoft OOXML standard. In an open letter in his blog, Ossendryver calls on the GNOME Foundation to explain its apparent attempts to 'resolve' the criticisms, which is a pre-condition to acceptance of Microsoft OOXML as a second office productivity standard by the world ISO committee. Ossendryver urges the GNOME Foundation to halt its apparent support for OOXML as a standard and to put its efforts behind enhancing adoption of the genuinely open standard, the OpenDocument Format (ODF), which was approved by the world standards bodies as ISO/IEC standard 26300 on 2 May 2006."

Submission + - Jeremy Allison on Microsoft, OOXML and standards

Submitted by on Saturday September 15, 2007 @06:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: OOXML is already Microsoft's "de facto" standard as implemented in Office 2007, so when would any changes arising from the Comments Resolution meeting in February 2008 be put in place? According to Jeremy Allison's latest column, when last minute changes were suggested for the CIFS standard, which Samba exists to disentangle, "the response came back from Microsoft that although the fixes were valid, unfortunately the code was already written and was going to be shipped in the next service pack. End of discussion. It wasn't even in a shipping product yet, but the specification was determined to be unchangeable as they didn't want to change their existing code."

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