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Submission + - NZBMatrix has closed. (nzbmatrix.com)

Submitted by timm5 on Sunday December 09, 2012 @08:06AM

timm5 writes: A sad day. Website quotes the below:

The End...

It is with our regret to announce that NZBMATRIX has closed.

We have had to make this decision due to a very large takedown request from a company called Wiggin LLC. These represent the following: Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited ("FACT"), Paramount Home Entertainment International Limited; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Limited; The Walt Disney Company Limited; Twentieth Century Fox Film Company Limited; Universal Pictures (UK) Limited; Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Limited.

As everyone is aware we are DMCA/Takedown notice compliant, and always have been.
Once this notice is completed we are left with an impossible task of policing our indexing bots. Even then it won't stop there, there will be follow-up notices etc.

Coupled with this is problems with payment providers, we have been through pretty much everyone out there, in the end they all pull out.
There are massive server/bandwidth costs to pay, with the payments in-stability this is a very hard task.

NZBMATRIX has never been the subject of any legal issues or threats.

Also the Usenet Indexing scene is going through some changes, with content being removed from pretty much every provider its making the existence of an indexer irrelevant if the content does not even exists anymore.

So it's time for us to bow out...

Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 272

by dweezil-n0xad on Sunday November 18, 2012 @04:00AM (#42017621) Attached to: Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console

yes.

Submission + - Higgs Boson: Cern Scientists May Have Discovered 'God Particle' (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @06:04AM

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists at the European Council for Nuclear Research (Cern) have discovered a subatomic particle which could be the Higgs Boson, the elusive "God particle" that gives mass to all other particles in the universe.

The search for the Higgs Boson has been going on for decades at a cost of billions of pounds. Scientists have now announced they have seen the best evidence yet that it exists.

Submission + - MS will remove OEM 'crapware' for $99 (zdnet.com)

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Saturday May 19, 2012 @01:20PM

walterbyrd writes: "Microsoft even offers up numbers to show how detrimental this OEM-installed crapware is to your system. Microsoft claims that Signature systems start up 39 percent faster, go into sleep mode 23 percent faster, and resume from sleep a whopping 51 percent faster compared to their crapware-ladened counterparts. (A "Signature" system is one without crapware). But now, Microsoft will offer customers the opportunity to give their Windows 7 PC the Signature treatment by bringing it to a Microsoft Store and paying $99, according to the Wall Street Journal."

Submission + - RIP Compiz (techrepublic.com)

Submitted by dweezil-n0xad on Thursday February 09, 2012 @01:28PM

dweezil-n0xad writes: This is not 100% confirmed, but the news that Fedora is dropping Compiz from release 17 can only mean one thing — Compiz is dead. Gentoo, openSUSE, GNOME, and a list of others had already dropped Compiz, leaving only one distribution holding onto the compositing software — Ubuntu. That’s right, the little desktop that could still uses Compiz as its compositor. There are also plenty of outstanding bug reports whose issues, it seems, will forever be unresolved. This all clangs out a death knell for the compositor that really brought something to the Linux desktop that no other had.

Submission + - Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attac (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by rastos1 on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:14AM

rastos1 writes: In a demonstration last Friday, it took less than two minutes for researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo to wield the exploit to recover an encrypted authentication cookie used to access a PayPal user account. The researchers settled on a Java applet as their means to bypass SOP, leading Firefox developers to discuss blocking the framework in a future version of the browser.
“I recommend that we blocklist all versions of the Java Plugin,” Firefox developer Brian Smith wrote on Tuesday in a discussion on Mozilla's online bug forum. “My understanding is that Oracle may or may not be aware of the details of the same-origin exploit. As of now, we have no ETA for a fix for the Java plugin.”

Submission + - Large ISPs Profit From BitTorrent Traffic (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by

kijitah

on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:44PM

kijitah writes: "Ernesto at TorrentFreak writes: 'A new report published by Northwestern University and Telefónica Research discovered some BitTorrent trends worth sharing. During a 2-year period the researchers monitored an unprecedented sample of 500,000 people in 169 countries. Aside from showing that BitTorrent users download more and more data, the report also finds that large ISPs including Comcast are actually making money off BitTorrent traffic.'

Check out the presentation slides or paper!"

Submission + - Boeing to Deliver First 787 (cnn.com)

Submitted by

mosb1000

on Sunday August 07, 2011 @03:59PM

mosb1000 writes: "Boeing will be delivering their first 787 to All Nippon Airways next month. The 787 is the first commercial airliner to be made from carbon fiber composites, and has been delayed for years because if Boeing's extensive outsourcing of the project."

Submission + - Astronomers Find Largest Reservoir of Water (nasa.gov)

Submitted by gerddie on Saturday July 23, 2011 @09:45AM

gerddie writes: Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.

One team, lead by Matt Bradford, made their observations starting in 2008, using an instrument called "Z-Spec" at the California Institute of Technology’s Submillimeter Observatory, a 33-foot (10-meter) telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Follow-up observations were made with the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA), an array of radio dishes in the Inyo Mountains of Southern California.

The second group led, by Dariusz Lisused, used the Plateau de Bure Interferometer in the French Alps to find water. In 2010, this team serendipitously detected water in APM 8279+5255, observing one spectral signature. Bradford's team was able to get more information about the water, including its enormous mass, because they detected several spectral signatures of the water.

Submission + - Linux kernel 3.0 released (google.com)

Submitted by

Suchetha

on Thursday July 21, 2011 @11:55PM

Suchetha writes: "In a posting on his Google+ page Linus Torvalds announced the launch of Linux kernel 3.0. This follows the kernel missing the planned release date of the 19th because of "a subtle bug""

Submission + - 'Walking chair' could be step-up for disabled acce (physorg.com)

Submitted by fangmcgee on Monday June 06, 2011 @05:21PM

fangmcgee writes: A student inspired by moving sculptures has designed a prototype 'walking chair' that he hopes could go on to give people with mobility problems greater freedom.

Comment Re:Best Family "Adventure" game (Score 1) 8

by dweezil-n0xad on Monday June 06, 2011 @02:46PM (#36353618) Attached to: Best Adventure Game to start with?

Honestly, Im going to recomment a MMORPG, Wizard101. Check out wizard101.com. You can start for free and its $5.00 a month per account to go a LONG way into multiple worlds.

You will need a personal computer with Windows to play. :-/

Submission + - Amazon Math Trick "Doubles" Kindle Battery Life (cnet.com) 2

Submitted by destinyland on Sunday May 29, 2011 @02:16AM

destinyland writes: Amazon just doubled the reported battery life for their Kindle digital readers — but they did it by cutting the estimated daily usage in half! Monday Amazon's competitor, Barnes and Noble, had released a new touch-screen version of their Nook reader, and C|Net notes that apparently Amazon "took issue with how its competitor was calculating and presenting its battery life numbers." When Barnes and Noble claimed that the Nook's charge lasted twice as long based on a half hour a day of usage, Amazon simply recalculated the Kindle's battery life using the same formula. By Wednesday, Barnes and Noble was insisting that the Nook's charge still lasted twice as long as the Kindle's, "If that’s true, then Barnes and Noble mangled the launch of their touch-screen Nook," reports one Kindle blog, "by botching their description of one of its main selling points."

Submission + - Firefox Gets Faster Builds - To Be Fast As Windows (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Saturday April 30, 2011 @12:07PM

dkd903 writes: Mozilla's Mike Hommey has announced on his blog that his team at Mozilla has finally managed to get the Linux builds of Firefox to use GCC 4.5 with aggressive optimization and profile guided optimization enabled. All this simply means that we can now expect a faster and less sluggish Firefox browser on Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit systems).

Submission + - Earth Has a Stalker (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Friday April 08, 2011 @04:33PM

sciencehabit writes: Don't panic, but Earth has a celestial stalker. An asteroid discovered last fall moves in roughly the same orbit as Earth does. However, there's no need for a restraining order. Computer models indicate that for the foreseeable future, the object will stay at least 19 million kilometers away from our planet and, therefore, doesn't threaten a collision. Simulations suggest that unlike the paths followed by three other known asteroids in such orbits, the newly-discovered asteroid's orbit has been stable for at least 250,000 years and will likely remain so for at least 200,000 years into the future.

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