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Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Blizard sues SPAM heavy gold sellar.

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DaphneDiane
DaphneDiane writes: "Blizzard announced that they are suing one of the annoying heavily spaming gold sellar peon4hire. Peon4hire had recently been blanket spamming players in World of Warcraft with multi-line messages advertising their power leveling and gold selling business. With the advent of the recently released 2.1.0 patch Blizzard made it easier to report and block these spammers. I've noticed a large decrease in spam while playing since the patch. It used to be that I would get nearly a dozen spams a night but I barely have seen any since."
NASA

Submission + - Nasa unveils Hubble's successor

Submitted by
dalutong
dalutong writes: "BBC News has an article detailing NASA's replacement for the much-loved Hubble telescope. The $4.5 billion telescope will be placed in orbit 1.5 million km from Earth and will be almost three times the size of the Hubble. It is set to launch in 2013. They plan to service the Hubble in 2008."
America Online

Submission + - Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted

Submitted by BondGamer
BondGamer writes: Many ICQ users woke up and found their ICQ numbers were no longer working. There is a topic on the ICQ support with more than 1,500 replies. There are pages upon pages of other topics asking what happened. There has been no official response from AOL about what has happened. How would if affect you to one day to find out the instant messenger ID you used for years is suddenly gone?
Novell

Submission + - Robert Love resigns from Novell

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Robert Love who was the Chief Architect of Novell's Linux Desktop has resigned today. Robert is a prominent Linux kernel hacker, author and journalist in the Linux community (read more about him in his Wikipedia entry). His blog doesn't specify why he resigned. But after colleague and friend Jeremy Allison's departure from Novell in protest of the Microsoft-Novell deal, this might be the latest fallout from it.
The Courts

Submission + - More developments in the Reiser murder case

Submitted by
Fahrvergnuugen
Fahrvergnuugen writes: "Wired is running a story about how an ex-lover of the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case.

Reiser will stand trial for the murder. This development will undoubtedly complicate things."
Google

Submission + - The Most Annoying Adsense Questions Ever

Submitted by
crazy4bass
crazy4bass writes: "This list is in no particular order and shouldn't downplay the numerous good questions that are asked about this program. The short of it is, these questions are usually asked by people looking to make a quick buck and wondering just how far into a perceived gray area they can go or they have the delusion that someone's going to just give them the keys that will magically make their sites perform. Newsflash, it's not going to happen and if you have to ask most of these questions, you probably shouldn't be trying to use Adsense or any other revenue source in the first place. http://www.realitywired.com/2007/04/09/the-most-an noying-adsense-questions-ever/"
Puzzle Games (Games)

Submission + - Former chess champion Kasparov arrested at rally

Submitted by vertinox
vertinox writes: From the BBC: 'Police have arrested Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov at a banned anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow. He was detained during a huge security operation to prevent protesters from gathering at Pushkin Square. Police deny reports he has now been freed. The former chess champion leads the United Civil Front group, part of the opposition coalition Other Russia.'

BBC has also run a profile on Mr Kasparov's political aspirations.

For those who may not remember Garry Kasparov was the 1984 World Chess Champion and also played Deep Blue in 1997 and lost.
Novell

Submission + - openSUSE Hobbled by Microsoft Patents

Submitted by
kripkenstein
kripkenstein writes: "openSUSE 10.2 no longer enables ClearType (which improves the appearance of fonts). The reason given on the openSUSE mailing list for not enabling it is:

Note that this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents and should not be activated in any default build of the library.
As reported on and discussed here and here, this matter may be connected to the Microsoft-Novell deal. If so, Novell should have received a license for the Microsoft patents, assuming the deal covered all relevant patents. Does the license therefore extend only to SUSE, but not openSUSE?"
Math

Submission + - Formula for Procrastination Found

Submitted by
kandela
kandela writes: "Science Daily and the Universtiy of Calgary report that Calgary academic Dr. Piers Steel has published a paper titled "The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure." in The American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin. In it he reveals that most people's New Year's resolutions are doomed to failure, most self-help books have it completely wrong when they say perfectionism is at the root of procrastination, and procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation.

From the article "Essentially, procrastinators have less confidence in themselves, less expectancy that they can actually complete a task," Steel says. "Perfectionism is not the culprit. In fact, perfectionists actually procrastinate less, but they worry about it more."

The research is apparently the culmination of 10 years work, however no indication was given of how much time was spent putting it off before it was begun."
Space

Submission + - Expensive new U.S. spy satellite not working

Submitted by
Penguinshit
Penguinshit writes: "U.S. officials are unable to communicate with an expensive experimental U.S. spy satellite launched last year by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

An official said the problems were substantial and involved multiple systems, adding that U.S. officials were working to reestablish contact with the satellite because of the importance of the new technology it was meant to test and demonstrate."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Vanguard Beta 5 starts; NDA dropped

Submitted by
Mikey
Mikey writes: "Finally! The Phase 5 of the Vanguard Beta program has started, and people are being staggered into the Beta program over the next day or two.
Hey all, as of about 2 minutes ago, Beta 5 has started. Its not "completely" open per se quite yet though, we're going to be staggering the new testers coming in today, and then opening it up. We'll be sending out a press notice in a few minutes here too, and I will post that here when its out. Anyway, what that means, is that the NDA is as of right now, lifted. Have fun, all
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