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Submission + - The Pirate Bay taunts Hollywood with Oscartorrents

Submitted by cursorx on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:29AM

cursorx writes: Slyck reports that the MPAA loving Swedes from The Pirate Bay have just opened a new site called Oscartorrents.com. Not only do they provide links to torrents of most of this year's Academy Awards nominees, but they're also asking for users' votes. After the ceremony, they intend to publish a list of winners based on the torrent community's collective opinion. According to The Pirate Bay, "this is the way it should be done now that movie distribution is almost free. Hollywoodland might not like it, but some people always have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future."

Submission + - Scientists Out, Civil War Historian in at Harvard

Submitted by

theodp

on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:25AM

theodp writes: "The candidates for the Harvard presidency left vacant by Lawrence Summers after his girls-don't-get-math-and-science-like-guys gaffe reportedly included University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman (PhD, Biochemistry), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson (PhD, Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics), and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews (PhD, Molecular Biology). But Harvard has tapped Civil War historian Drew Gilpin Faust to be its first woman president, a choice that some may find less than inspiring."

Submission + - New Year's Resolutions to Secure Cyberspace

Submitted by WienerPizza on Friday December 29, 2006 @11:38AM

WienerPizza writes: Michael Sutton hits us with some New Year's resolutions for software/harware vendors in an effort to improve computer security. "These are security resolutions for vendors in the IT industry. If they can just take the time to implement these simple changes, all of our security woes will be a thing of the past, or at least we can dare to dream."

Submission + - Wikipedia Plans Its Own Search Engine

Submitted by

John H. Doe

on Friday December 29, 2006 @11:28AM

John H. Doe writes: "The search engine to be would be called Wikiasari, and would rely on the crowd mentality to go head to head with those giants Google and Yahoo. Could it be possible that relevance would be better served by the meatspace than cyberintuition?"

Submission + - wii kiosks require credit card as collateral

Submitted by on Friday December 29, 2006 @11:22AM

An anonymous reader writes: When I was at the local EB games I noticed something strange, their wii kiosk was turned off. In addition, no controller was present. After asking about it, an employee told me that EB games does not allow people to play their wii kiosks unless they provide a name and a credit card. He says this is to prevent theft of the wireless controller. So there it remains Wii unit turned off and missing the controller. What happens to kids who don't have a credit card? Could this hurt sales, and why don't they fix this problem? Will other retailers adopt a similiar stance? Why not simply have a tethered controller for the kiosks?

Submission + - is this stuck ..

Submitted by

rs232

on Friday December 29, 2006 @11:16AM

rs232 writes: "rs232's Recent Submissions
US Embassy gets Open Source decision reversed .. Monday December 04, @04:17PM Pending"

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