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Submission + - "Sex addict" sues IBM for firing him

Submitted by Red Samurai on Friday May 25, 2007 @03:42PM

Red Samurai writes: The BBC reports that 58 year-old James Pacenza is suing IBM for firing him after discovering that he used adult online chat rooms while at work. He issues the subpoena on the grounds that they were unsympathetic and offered no support towards his addiction, and he also uses his experiences in Vietnam to justify his actions. The BBC says this has "potential implications for employers across America and their attitude towards regulating how employees use workplace computers". So what does Slashdot make of this? I for one, welcome our new porn surfing IT worker overlords.

Submission + - Linux Volume Encryption: TrueCrypt vs DM_Crypt

Submitted by

michuk

on Friday May 25, 2007 @02:59PM

michuk writes: "Encrypting your data is the key to mobile security. PolishLinux.org has a couple of tutorials comparing DM_Crypt with TrueCrypt — two programs that can save your life when your computer gets lost or stolen. Find the differences between these two and encrypt your disk now! Tip: DM_Crypt better integrates with Linux kernel, but TrueCrypt works on Windows as well."

Submission + - FINAL Call for Papers: Chaos Communication Camp 2

Submitted by

swann

on Friday May 25, 2007 @02:21PM

swann writes: "The Chaos Computer Club has published the FINAL Call for Papers for the second Chaos Communication Camp. The main theme of this year's camp is the world we want to live in tomorrow. In general, lectures and workshops dealing with technology, ethics, science, security, art, philosophy, politics, culture and cooking are welcome.

Dear Nerd: whereever you are, whatever you do — submit your paper now and book your flight directly to the Finow Airfield."

Submission + - How Smart Are Aliens?

Submitted by billtowson on Friday May 25, 2007 @02:20PM

billtowson writes: http://www.thefuturewatch.com/AlienIntelligence.ht ml

Despite not actually having discovered any aliens, we can make some interesting and reasonable guesses about their intelligence and level of technological advancement.

Submission + - How's Social Software Adoption in the Enterprise?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20, 2007 @05:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: This article suggests that "enterprise social software" is now a real and distinct category, and Wikipedia agrees, which is why perhaps CMP Technology next month is launching a new conference devoted entirely to Enterprise 2.0. Convincing upper management of the business benefits of social software used in enterprise contexts is the next task. Besides the usual suspects like enterprise wikis, corporate blogs, and unified communications, what are the most interesting, productive, and profitable "edge cases" of social software being used right now in the corporate enterprise?

Submission + - Free MMORPG Daimonin releases new major beta

Submitted by

rvalles

on Sunday May 20, 2007 @04:47AM

rvalles writes: "Daimonin, a free software MMORPG available for Linux and Windows featuring isometric graphics and a live player community, released its fourth beta after years of development. Highlights for the release include a many-times-as-big world, new graphics and music, a new client skin, a new tutorial for new players and a new quests and events system."

Submission + - The darkside of Google taking over your ISP's emai

Submitted by

SlinkySausage

on Sunday May 20, 2007 @03:55AM

SlinkySausage writes: "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email system to Google, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to rapidly grow its userbase (it trails a distant third to Yahoo Mail with only 51million users compared to Yahoo's 250million and Hotmail's 228 million users.) There are some obvious benefits to end users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. But APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the "dark side" of the deal, not least the fact that it simply reinforces the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it much harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes up. Question is: is a 10GB ISP mailbox for every ISP user a sufficient benefit to outweigh the numerous downsides?"

Submission + - MacBook Displays: Class-action against Apple

Submitted by l3mr on Saturday May 19, 2007 @07:08PM

l3mr writes: Another class-action suit has been filed against Apple. Allegedly, MacBook- and MacBook Pro displays are only capable of displaying 18 bits of color information instead of the usual 24 bits. This would invalidate the claim that they show millions of colors. Customer complaints about the quality of the displays have been heard since the release of Intel-based MacBooks, and the suit states that Apple has deleted threads regaring this matter on their forums.

Submission + - Microsoft: Popfly is not a Yahoo or Google ripoff

Submitted by thefickler on Saturday May 19, 2007 @04:27PM

thefickler writes: Microsoft's new Popfly service, which the company describes as an easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications, is now officially in alpha release. While comparisons have been made between Popfly and some of the other Web 2.0 gadget/mashup services from companies such as Yahoo and Google, Microsoft has made it clear that Popfly is what the company has been all about since the day it launched BASIC for the Altair 8080.

Submission + - DVD Playback for the Nintendo Wii Project

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Saturday May 19, 2007 @04:12PM

Croakyvoice writes: Wii-News have posted about a project to bring DVD playback to the Nintendo Wii via the Gamecube port. The app will work in any region of Wii fitted with any modchip that is capable of booting GC homebrew or using the SD Load Option. The app supports both standard and widescreen TV/DVD formats.

Submission + - Indian retailers raided by Microsoft

Submitted by

slashthedot

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @12:59PM

slashthedot writes: "Microsoft caught some Indian retailers selling pirated copies by sending a dummy customer asking for a copy of Windows to be installed on their PC. The retailers say Microsoft products are too highly priced for Indian market, so many people won't be interested in buying original copies at that price. They even go on to say they are promoting MS software in this way.
One retailer was heard saying:
"Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers. Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets."

More here "

Submission + - Linux Training

Submitted by Spritzer on Saturday May 19, 2007 @12:51PM

Spritzer writes: I work for a rather large corporation with multiple divisions around the world. Nearly all user computers in the company are Windows systems, and there is no plan to move to Linux in the future. However, a good many of our products are now designed to run on Linux systems for security and stability purposes. Obviously, the design/development teams are knowledgeable in the use of Linux operating systems.Unfortunately my field service teams are not, and their is no in-house training program. This has begun to affect our ability to provide efficient, quality service to customers when in the field.

What training services have you used in the past to get people trained in the basics of using? I'd prefer to stay away from online, self-paced courses and get my people some hands on training with an instructor.

Submission + - Celebrate Commodore Computer 30th Anniversary

Submitted by

JoeCommodore

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @12:13PM

JoeCommodore writes: "This year's East Coast Vintage Computer Festival (June 9th and 10th at the InfoAge Learning Center in Wall Township, New Jersey) will mark the 30th anniversary of Commodore's entry into the computer market in 1977 with the PET computer. Part of the festivities includes a panel discussion with many luminaries of the company.

The story of how it happened and how it evolved is truly legendary in the industry. Above all, the 30th birthday of Commodore's computer division is worth celebrating! This panel discussion (on June 9th) features Chuck Peddle (creator of the 6502 Microprocessor and the PET computer), Bil Herd (designer of later Commodore 8-bit computers from the Plus/4 to the Commodore 128 & LCD), Bob Russell (software engineer — partly responsible for the VIC-20 and Commodore 64), and Dave Haynie (hardware engineer who worked on the Plus/4 series to the Amiga and end of the original Commodore in 1993). The discussion will include an audience Q&A session followed by autograph signings and maybe a few surprises.

Whether you love or hate Commodore they did have a big impact on the industry, the company may not always have been the best managed but they did produce some notably low cost and innovative computers. MOS Technologies (later bought by Commodore) created the low-cost 6502 Processor which helped make personal and hobby computing accessible to many of us either directly or indirectly."

Submission + - Frown and the Net Frowns With You

Submitted by

Jeremy Dean

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @08:50AM

Jeremy Dean writes: "...but smile and you smile alone. That's according to a study which assessed the effects of smileys :) and frownies :( as I'm now calling them. Walther and D'Addario (2001) found that while smileys had no effect on the way a message was interpreted, frowns did reduce the positivity of positive messages."

Submission + - F-Secure respond to criticism of .bank

Submitted by Crimson Fire on Saturday May 19, 2007 @07:51AM

Crimson Fire writes: F-Secure recently offered a solution to the problem of bank account phishing. In their latest blog entry they respond to criticisms of the .bank TLD that were previously raised on Slashdot.

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