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Censorship

Submission + - ABC Censorship

Submitted by
tres3
tres3 writes: "ABC News is in a running battle right now to censor Dr. Paul and his supporters from their online activities. Their phones are flooded (Call 212-456-2700 and ask to be connected with "dot com". Talk to the gentleman there about it.) and they are scrambling to remove posts that support Dr. Paul as fast as they can. The site in question is changing constantly as people are trying to get their comments reposted. The story is also all over Digg and the Digg Bury brigade 2 3 is in overdrive trying to stop it but the submission keep coming in ( 1 2 3 4 5 6) This stated with ABC leaving Dr. Paul off of their online poll. We have managed to get them to adjust that but he still isn't in their candidate guide so please call ABC's Dot Com desk and explain to them that this is why they are loosing the hearts and minds of their listeners/readers. This is the Internet generation and people want to be heard!"
Censorship

Submission + - Favorite way to coneal a hex number?

Submitted by EvilGoodGuy
EvilGoodGuy writes: Winning Loterry Numbers
Binary
Any other base
Scare tactics
Luggage Combination
Little Orphan Annie radio broadcasts
Lie, the number != hex09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
Cowboy Neal's Social Security Number
Enlightenment

Submission + - World Videogame Culture

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "GWN writes: "Crashing through the immense cultural barriers that separate the world's gamers is something every developer has been trying to accomplish ever since Nintendo first used Donkey Kong to seduce America. But no matter how close they might get, and no matter how many games unexpectedly capture the attention on an unintended market, the complex parameters of cross-cultural appeal seem altogether too intricate to quantify."

Read the full feature article here."

Soldat 1.4 Released 78

Posted by Zonk from the go-shoot-someone dept.
FliesLikeABrick writes "Soldat 1.4 has finally been released. After 19 months since the announcement, this version adds multi-byte language support, many new features available to registered players, a ton of bugfixes, and a new lobby server and protocol. It took a lot of time and effort, but the largest update to Soldat has finally been posted and made available. While there are surely going to be some new bugs introduced, the new version is available for free at the game's site. From the site: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, I know you have all been (im)patiently waiting for Soldat 1.4. Thanks to all that contributed to this version. This version was a collaborative effort and it wouldn`t happen without you. ... So without further delay, it is with your encouragement, criticism and support from you all that I can happily release Soldat 1.4 to you all to enjoy. Please use the torrent link provided to help distribute Soldat 1.4 for others and ease server load, and seed for as long as you can.'"
Quickies

Submission + - Baby Boomers Go Broadband, But Don't Get Their...

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "DSL/Broadband Reports says it is a myth that the "baby boomer" generation is technologically less tuned-in than the generations which follow it, at least according to a study. The study found that over seventy percent of people aged forty and up have a broadband connection in their homes, a percentage which is higher than that for any other age group. However, an unrelated study by another organization indicates that baby boomers may be online but they aren't getting their news there; younger generations are more than three times more likely than boomers to get their news information from the Internet as opposed to more traditional sources..."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The easiest way to social free pizza!

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Thanks to human stupidity, socially engineering pizza is simple. With these two tutorials, all the responses are layed out for you, including a fail safe coupon to give the driver. This method is much easier than other methods, like the one seen on TheBroken. You do not even need to drive to the pizza place!

Enjoy this guide, and impress your friends with free pizza and your new social engineering skills."
Music

Submission + - Georgian government selling mp3s online?

Submitted by
FankySpunner
FankySpunner writes: "I had just installed the No Script Firefox add-on and was searching the web haphazardly when I ran across what I can only assume to be the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia official website. While the scripts were blocked the main page showed some English links where you can presumably download music such as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. With the scripts enabled the links disappear. The links direct you to pages within the website that consist of an album/artist index and a search engine. I couldn't actually find any music to download so I suppose it's either still in the making or is being dismantled. Google returns results that make it out to be an online mp3 store. The ENG button doesn't seem to work so I can't find out if they mention it on the main page. I'm not sure if this is above board or not. Is this a case of a website being hijacked or are they really selling mp3s on a government website? Both sound pretty interesting."
Music

Submission + - Court rules playlist customization not interactive

Submitted by
prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "Is music played via customized playlist delivered interactively (i.e., via user participation) or non-interactive (i.e., decisions are made on the server side)? The question does seem metaphysical, but it took Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Yahoo! six years to figure it out. User-driven playlists are bucketed with on-demand music services, while server-driven playlists are equaled to broadcasts, thereby causing different licensing mechanisms to take place. Yahoo! inherited the legal wrangle when it purchased a music startup Launch, which built a music recommendation feature. Court decision determined that recommendation algorithms that rely on usage data to build playlists server-side are still eligible for broadcast license, thereby substantially lowering the costs of operating a music recommendation site."

Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss 267

Posted by Zonk from the not-tony-danza dept.
jcatcw writes "Microsoft knows how you like your Office Suite. You like Ribbons ... they're a given, right? Well, if not, Computerworld reviews some third-party packages that allow you to customize the software's interface. Classic Menu gives you an Office-2003-like set of menus. It'll help you navigate old menu structures to find favorite commands, but don't expect to use all the familiar keyboard shortcuts. ToolbarToggle lets you customize the menus. However, Classic Menu has two advantages over ToolbarToggle: It's available for PowerPoint today, and it includes Office 2007 commands on its menus, a modification you can't make to ToolbarToggle menus. RibbonCustomizer works within the Ribbon's own constraints to let you change the display of icons and commands on existing tabs or any new ones you create."
Movies

Kaleidescape Triumphant in Court Case, DVD Ripping Ruled Legal 213

Posted by Zonk from the only-when-you-own-it-netflixers dept.
Jim Buzbee writes "Ever wanted to rip all your DVDs to a big network server so that you could select and play them back to your TV? Up until now, manufacturers have been wary of building a device to allow this type of usage because they've been afraid a lawsuit. The DVD Copy Control Association had claimed this was contractually forbidden, but now a judge says otherwise stating, 'nothing in the agreement prevents you from making copies of DVDs. Nothing requires that a DVD be present during playback.' Kaleidescape has finally won their long-standing lawsuit, a case we first talked about early in 2005."
Google

Google's Stomach Pangs - Adjusting to DoubleClick 98

Posted by Zonk from the hard-to-digest dept.
An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is reporting on some trouble Google is having integrating DoubleClick into their family of products. External problems, like antitrust allegations and privacy concerns, are bad enough. The worst problems might come from within, though, as a division within DoubleClick was essentially created to game the very systems the Google search engine is founded on. '"Google is treading in dangerous waters right now," writes Ross Dunn of WebProNews.com. Google's search results "are supposed to be unbiased and highly relevant," but with Performics, "Google is put into the conflicted position of trying to generate profits by providing result-oriented organic ranking services for its own unbiased organic search results." The worry, in other words, is that Google's search results could be compromised by operating a division with an interest in skewing those results in favor of clients.' The article goes on to say how this Performics division is likely to be sold off to make sure everything stays above board."
United States

Submission + - Chinese Industry Produces Contaminated Food

Submitted by
reporter
reporter writes: "Investigative reporters at the "International Herald Tribune" have just discovered that China has an entire industry devoted to directly or indirectly adding contaminants to food destined for human consumption. According to their report, "In recent years, for instance, China's food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair, to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim . [...] for years melamine has been quietly mixed into Chinese animal feed and then sold to unsuspecting farmers as protein-rich pig, poultry and fish feed.""
Wii

Submission + - Wiimote controlled loop machine

Submitted by
`PEZ
`PEZ writes: "from site "This weekend I finished the Wii Loop Machine software that I started a few weeks ago. It's a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time." http://theamazingrolo.blogspot.com/2007/03/wii-loo p-machine.html Complete with video of creator using the wiimote. I do not have bluetooth on my apple so I can not test the software."

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