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Comment Re:Cars (Score 2, Informative) 665

by BrianRaker (#27894701) Attached to: Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves

Actually, it's Dell as a whole. I recently put in a call to Dell for support on a Latitude D820 that now fails to boot. It's covered under warranty for another year but Dell refuses to work on it because I'm not listed as the purchaser or authorized agent for the system. My business bought this system through an employee (via a reimbursement) who no longer works with the organization. I don't have any reasonable way to have this ex-employee 'vouch' that I own the system.

Whatever happened to the days where I could just give them my Express Service Code and actually get help instead of getting accusations of theft?
Security

A Cyber-Attack On an American City 461

Posted by timothy from the if-by-one-day-you-mean-already dept.
Bruce Perens writes "Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported. So I decided to change that."
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Submission + - Jack Thompson Disbarred, Permanently (gamepolitics.com) 1

Submitted by BrianRaker
BrianRaker writes: Thanks to GamePolitics for breaking the story, it looks like the Florida Supreme Court has affirmed Jack Thompson's permanent disbarment from practicing law. This change takes place in 30 days, and will prohibit him from practicing law, or ever reapplying to the bar, for ever.

Of course, Jack rebutts with his typical "Now The Fun Begins" rhetoric. Will this really be the end of Jack Thompson? We can only hope so, but my Magick 9-Ball says "Signs point to No".
XBox (Games)

Ghost in the Shell, Other Anime Coming to Xbox Live 49

Posted by Zonk from the aeria-gloris dept.
Joystiq is reporting that a large slice of the catalog for anime distributor Starz will be coming to Xbox Live. Some of their titles are already available via the service, while others will be placed into circulation in the coming months. High profile new content includes the stellar Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Series 1 and 2), Read or Die, Macross Plus, Tokko, Virus, and X.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - God Sued Over Pestilence And Terror 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Nebrasken Court is being asked to make the ultimate judgement on the ultimate judge himself; God. Although there is some debate as to his, or indeed, her sex. According to the prosecutor, the accuased is guilty 'for causing "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues" and other alliterative catastrophes.' Neither God nor his/her spokespersons could be contacted for comment. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070919/tod-us-justice-religion-offbeat-f62056d_1.html
Linux Business

Submission + - No Wine for Dell's Prebundled Linux Machines

Submitted by UCSF Geek
UCSF Geek writes: Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, does not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows. As such, Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu, he tells eWeek here(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125848, 00.asp). He goes on to say that "while Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows. Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows."
Software

Submission + - How Do You Convert Video For Flash Automatically?

Submitted by
JiveBay
JiveBay writes: "I'm sure Google and YouTube use some kind of script and application on the server that converts an uploaded video into a FLV. But I've yet to hear about what application they use to do so. I'm not sure of any Linux Application that converts video for Flash, because I can't see Google using Windows machines to do this, but I could be wrong. Google also states they say they manually view each video after it is submitted. I'm thinking that the person that watches these probably does so in fast forward, to cut their time down."
IBM

Submission + - Another Lenovo battery recall

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Lenovo has announced yet another ThinkPad battery recall — this time Sanyo batteries.
Worms

Submission + - Rinbot Worm Wreaks Havoc on Business Systems

Submitted by Scott Tracy
Scott Tracy writes: As reported by CNN Money, some major businesses in the U.S. are being hit by a worm that was apparently created by someone with a grudge against Symantec. This is also happening in Canada, where my company (which has hundreds of Windows PCs) has been completely off the Internet for days as IT tries to wipe the worm from every desktop and laptop.
Music

Submission + - Gizmodo calls for RIAA boycott in March

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Gadget review site Gizmodo is calling for a boycott of RIAA-signed bands in the month of March: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/putt ing-our-money-where-our-mouths-are-boycott-the-ria a-in-march-239281.php Instead, they suggest spending your greenbacks on indy artists, or attending concerts/buying merchandise from your favorite RIAA artist (which puts money in the artist's pocket), rather than buying recordings (and further enriching the fat cats at the RIAA). All I can say is, "hell yes!"
Businesses

Submission + - Selling Homeowners a Solar Dream

Submitted by
slugo
slugo writes: "Instead of making you spring for $25,000 or more in gear, Citizenr says it will loan you a complete rooftop solar power system, install it for free and sell you back the power it generates at a fixed rate below what your utility charges. The company hopes to make back its investment with those monthly payments, augmented by federal tax credits and rebates."
Space

Submission + - Whistle While You Work? Not in Space.

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "ABC News report that astronauts on spacewalks will never, ever be able to whistle while they work in space. Former NASA astronaut, Dan Barry has seven hours of spacewalking time to his credit. He tried whistling during his spacewalk on STS-96 in May 1999. "It wasn't something I hadn't planned — I thought of it on the fly. It turned out that it didn't work." he said. "You can't whistle because the air pressure in the suit is only 4.3 [pounds per square inch], and normal atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi, so there are not enough air molecules blowing by your lips to make a sound," he said. Seen on Blue's News."

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