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Submission + - US church abuses YouTube DMCA (blogspot.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has decided that the "Davey and Goliath" parody "Gravey and Jobriath" — from Simpsons episode HOMR — infringes on their copyright and is using YouTube's DMCA process to take down clips of it.

Submission + - Comcast - So much for net neutrality... 1

Newshound2 writes: Comcast .net has started the process of flipping an errant finger toward the Administration and any other advocates of net neutrality, by beginning its selective presentation of the internet to its subscribers. On Sunday (May 2nd), subscribers who attempted to access the popular Bootlegzone.com discussion forum site (which fosters discussion of such unauthorized product, but does not offer direct links to such material) were greeted with a Comcast-originated screen that says "Sorry-- we can't find "www.bootlegzone.com". We suggest that you check the spelling of the web address or search above."

Screen shown here:
http://search3.comcast.com/?cat=dnsr&con=ds&url=www.bootlegzone.com

Neither previously-working bookmark links or attempts to link through Google (which apparently **can** seem to find its way around the internet) were successful as of Sunday evening. Comcast has offered no explanation for its apparent banning of the discussion site.
Math

Submission + - Traveling Salesman in Polynomial Time? (blogspot.com) 2

James writes: Kingrames, a regular Slashdotter, has recently posted his second of two solutions to the Traveling Salesman problem, both of which are done in Polynomial time. He's asking for fellow mathematicians and computer scientists to lend a hand in proving and disproving his theories, and welcomes all feedback. If this discovery turns out to be true, it calls into question the idea that there are no polynomial-time solutions to these "hard" problems, and that would be very significant. If you have the time, and the inclination, please consider lending your helping hand.
Google

Submission + - Google explains why it became an energy trader (goodgearguide.com.au)

angry tapir writes: "Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers. In February, the company's Google Energy subsidiary received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to buy and sell power on the wholesale market."

Submission + - Comcast Sets Standard

BigSes writes: As I attempted to check the amusement collectibles on my Atlantic Broadband newgroups tonight, I was suprised to find that my server now requires authentication. After attempting to use my email login and being denied, I email customer service. Much to my dismay, I found out that Atalntic Broadband has followed suit with Comcast, and has discontinued newsgroup service due to low interest. Of course, this move was made with absolutely no warning, and no offered refunds or reduced prices for service. They aren't even pulling the same card that Comcast did, offering a discount to a large newgroup provider, they are offering nothing. They didn't even feel the need to send out a heads-up to their customers, or post any sort of message on their website. Could the age of included Usenet newgroups truly be coming to an end?

Submission + - Win7 deletes all system restore points on reboot (microsoft.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Astonishingly, the so-called system restore feature in Windows 7 deletes restore points without warning when the system is rebooted. Today I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (no dual boot), and noticed that whenever the machine rebooted after installing an application or driver, the disk churned for several minutes on the 'starting Windows' screen. Turns out that churning was the sound of my diligently created system restore points being deleted. Unfortunately I only found this out when Windows barfed at a USB dongle and I wanted to restore the system to an earlier state. Searching the net reveals that other users have experienced this problem (see URL). This is an extraordinarily bad bug, which I suspect most Windows 7 users won't realise is affecting them until it's too late.

Submission + - Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Troll Acacia (marketwatch.com)

walterbyrd writes: Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that today a jury in federal court in Marshall, Texas, returned a verdict in favor of Red Hat, Inc. and Novell, Inc. in a case alleging patent infringement brought by IP Innovation LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation and Technology Licensing Corporation. The patents at issue were found to be invalid and worthless.
Television

Submission + - IT Crowd (UK) coming back! (computinghistory.org.uk)

sammyF70 writes: Every Geek's favourite non Sci-Fi Show (the original UK one, not the abysmally bad german and US remakes) is coming back for a fourth season! According to the IMDB's message board, it should be on the air "june'ish"! While you wait, you can check out what kind of vintage hardware will be on the show this time, and remember : if you illegally download movies, you will face the consequences!

Submission + - Blurring Lines: Dual Core Atom to Lift Netbooks (computerworld.com)

CWmike writes: 'The next innovation coming to Atom is on dual-core,' Intel CEO Paul Otellini said recently of the company's low end chips, which delivered the modern netbook but also embedded devices, and in the future, into mobile devices like smartphones. His statement comes after close to two years of accelerated growth, and with the initial euphoria around netbooks now subsiding. HP has already advertised a new netbook, the Hewlett-Packard Mini 210 running Intel's upcoming N455 chip, one of the Atom series processors, on Amazon.de. The N455 supports DDR3 memory, an upgrade over the DDR2 memory in most netbooks today. The DDR3-capable processors should allow data to be exchanged faster between the memory and CPU, translating to better overall netbook performance. Prices of laptops have been falling and the days of netbooks being a novelty have disappeared, said Jay Chou, research analyst at IDC. Laptops are bridging the pricing gap with netbooks, while offering better performance. 'You're getting something really attractive in the $600 range for better-performing notebooks,' Chou said. 'The original intended message of letting people expect netbooks to behave differently or less effectively is not really ringing.'

Submission + - One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010 (cnn.com)

r0k3t writes: It looks like people are finally getting sick of over priced over commercial-ed cable and satellite T.V. I had predicted that by 2005 we would mostly be using the net for video seems like I was a few years off. Of course — that is if they let you cancel... http://wafflesandmilk.com/2010/02/time-warner-worst-customer-service-nightmare/

Comment when dinosaurs... (Score 1) 460

CO2 PPM ..2500ppm Co2 today? less than 400ppm. I'm quite sure the earth isn't going to stop it's natural cycles because of our pathetic existence. Especially not because of CO2, which is a common byproduct of most lifeforms on planet. In the grand scheme of things we are truly insignificant. any extra we put out just means the earth can support more plant life. I see this as an opportunistic piece to point at and convince people of the new terrorism. I'd be all for a cleaner environment and conserving resources if it weren't wrapped in sensationalist tyrannical agendas out to control the population.

Comment Dictatorship (Score 1) 260

Apparently the president is dictating that America should sign a treaty that directly violates the constitution. Checks and balances would normally kick in....but no. There is something fundamentally wrong with our society(US) at the moment. I just hope we snap out of it before we go over the falls. I fear I might already feel that moment when you adjust to the sensation of gravity fading away.

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