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Submission + - Political strife erupts in Second Life

Submitted by
covert.c
covert.c writes: "A real-life drama in the political world spilled over into the virtual, as the Second Life headquarters of France's controversial Front National political party fell to violent protestors. The anti-FN activists, who had armed themselves with slogans, placards and weapons, levelled the digital buildings occupied by Front National.

Second Life is often home to established political and social movements. It seems logical that opposing forces would also choose to make SL their stage. What's next, rampant terrorism?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - When Mac OSX is worse that Windows XP?

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Meitham Jamaa
Meitham Jamaa writes: "I love Unix (and Linux) and planning to move away of Windows to Mac, not because I love Mac, but only because Mac OSX is a stable Unix based OS. Lots of people have wrote about how good is mac compared to pc but they all view it from a user point of view. I am a developer (mainly Python and Java) and I am a newbie in the Linux world (having a virtual Ubuntu working on VMware). People only tends to highlight the points where OSX is better than windows in. I want to know what will I lose when I switch to Mac before I make any step forward. Can anyone please tell me when Windows is better than OSX.

Thanks
~Meitham"
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Mistah Wilson, He Dead

Submitted by
nonorganon
nonorganon writes: "According to his blog Robert Anton Wilson has shuffled off this mortal coil early this morning. An influential and prolific author of conspiracy ridden science fiction, examinations of fringe beliefs and mental hacks, his presence will be felt for a long time coming. His most popular work is described thus by Wikipedia:

"...The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975), co-authored with Robert Shea and advertised as "a fairy tale for paranoids," humorously examined American paranoia about conspiracies. Much of the odder material derived from letters sent to Playboy magazine while Shea and Wilson worked as editors of the Playboy Forum.[1] The books mixed true information with imaginative fiction to engage the reader in what Wilson called "Operation Mindfuck"; the trilogy also outlined a set of libertarian and anarchist axioms known as Celine's Laws, concepts Wilson has revisited several times in other writings. Although Shea and Wilson never partnered on such a scale again, Wilson continued to expand upon the themes of the Illuminatus! books throughout his writing career."

Journey on, brave psychonaut."
Music

Submission + - Is Apple DRM's best friend?

Submitted by Flatworm
Flatworm writes: Are we looking at a seismic shift in DRM during 2007? Ars Technica doesn't think so and they believe we have Apple to thank for it. 'Apple has, in an important sense, become a digital gatekeeper for media companies; iTunes is the best way to reach consumers with music, movies, podcasts, and television. Content companies have paid close attention to the success of iTunes; they've seen how it saved The Office, pushed billions of dollars in revenue to Disney, and established itself as such a de facto standard on college campuses that students would rather use iTunes than free alternatives.' The only universal alternative to Apple's DRM is no DRM at all, and the content creators are even more fearful of that alternative.
The Internet

Wikileaks — Anonymous Whistle-Blowing 162

Posted by kdawson from the weapons-of-mass-conscience dept.
too_old_to_be_irate writes to tell us about a site that word got out on before they were ready. Wikileaks aims to be an anonymous and uncensorable repository of leaked documents, posted for commentary by interested parties. It's expected to go live in a month or two. From the site: "Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. We have received over 1.1 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."
Television

Submission + - Format war is over as pr0n has chosen sides

Submitted by profet
profet writes: It seems that one of the last heavyweights in the format war has chosen its hardware. Various members of the adult film industry have decided on HD-DVD. The reasons seem to be based primarily on cost of manufacturing. History has shown that the porn industry can be a driving factor for technology. Can bluray recover from such a tremendous blow? Does HD DVD have the market penetration that everyone claims?
Mozilla

Submission + - Debugging CSS, AJAX and DOM with Firebug

Submitted by
prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "Joe Hewitt of Parakey in the latest Dr. Dobb's Journal provides a detailed overview of Firebug extension for Firefox: "Firebug breaks the page down into a set of tabs that depict its most important aspects — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the DOM, network activity, and a console for errors and log messages. No tab is an island; Firebug lets you browse code just as you browse the Web by presenting objects as hyperlinks that can take you from one view to another.""
Sony

Submission + - pr0n going HD-DVD

Submitted by YLee
YLee writes: heise news reports (German only): According to Joone (founder of Digital Playground and "star director" of HD porn) SONY is trying to prevent the use of BD for distibution of adult entertainment material. Joone: "SONY wants me to use HD-DVD for distibution". First his plan was to go the BD route but every BlueRay press plant in the USA refused to cooperate with his company. Betamax/Video2000 deja-vu, anyone? (Max Grundig: "This crap won't make it on my tapes!")
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Laptop Keyboard Surgery

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Dell Latitude CPx line of laptop is notorious for having keyboards go bad and mine was no different. Not all the keys would stop working, just the 8, I and K keys. I've tried all the various fixes but to no avail, cleaning the contacts, removing parts of the metal keyboard tray that was supposedly shorting, etc, ect. They would work for a few days then it would be back to typing with the on-screen keyboard. If I pounded my fist in just the right place I could get it to work but only until I moved the laptop again. This was getting irritating, time for some surgery."
Media

Submission + - The best friend of DRM: Apple Inc.

Submitted by parvenu74
parvenu74 writes: Arstechnica is running an article pointing out that while some pockets of the entertainment industry are experimenting with DRM-free distrobution, Apple Inc, which announced that they have now sold over 2,000,000,000 songs on iTunes, are now the strongest pro-DRM force in digial media. From the article: "DRM is dying. It's a statement being echoed with increasing frequency around the Web over the last few weeks, and is perhaps best articulated in this Billboard article. But there's a powerful force standing in the way of this DRM-free panacea, and it might not be the one you expect: Apple, Inc."
Space

Submission + - Black diamonds come from space

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Two teams of U.S. researchers have found that carbonados — or black diamonds — come from outer space. Helped with funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), they discovered nitrogen and hydrogen in these porous black diamonds found only in Brazil and the Central African Republic. And these elements are not found in conventional diamonds extracted from mines from volcanic rocks. They think these carbonados were part of asteroids which landed on Earth about 3 billion years ago. Read more for additional explanations and a picture of such a not-so-pretty diamond."
Networking

Submission + - Networking in Extreme Conditions?

Submitted by
222
222 writes: "Mission: Create an intermediate distribution frame. Difficulty: A few feet away, industrial equipment will be generating roughly 2000 degree heat. Bonus: Keep the network switches inside the IDF from melting.
Does anyone have experience in making IT work in such extreme conditions? Is there an enclosure in existence that can handle this type of abuse? This is essentially what I've been asked to accomplish, and now I'm asking my Slashdot brethren the questions; "Can it be done? Do we have the technology?""
Security

Submission + - Forwarding corporate mail to Web accounts

Submitted by weil8127
weil8127 writes: NYT.com has an article on the practice of forwarding your [possibly sensitive] internal emails to a more accessible account. How big a problem does this really pose, and can the risks be mitigated without resorting to Draconian measures? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11ema il.html?hp&ex=1168578000&en=552c9e079982fece&ei=50 94&partner=homepage
Spam

Proper Ways to Dispose of Spam? 119

Posted by Cliff from the let's-stop-wasting-bandwidth-on-useless-bounces dept.
An anonymous reader asks: "My domain name is being stolen by spammers; they forge outgoing mail using my poor innocent domain name. First, I'd like to plead with mail server administrators out there: please REJECT spam and undeliverable mail. If you reject instead of bouncing then legitimate mail senders will still know there is a problem. Second, do you have any tips for dealing with a flood of spam bounces? Exim is pitching the bounces pretty quickly, but my server is still getting overwhelmed." In the case of stolen sender addresses, SPF attempts to address this problem but has it been effective?

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