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The Courts

Submission + - Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina's Body

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An anonymous reader writes: According to anonymous reports from the prosecution, Hans Reiser is considering whether to reveal the location of his wife Nina's corpse, in the hopes that it will lighten his sentence. However, the likelihood of the deal still depends on whether an autopsy of Nina's body might reveal evidence of first degree murder, which would have the opposite effect as what he wants. The story is at Wired Blogs.
Programming

Submission + - In-depth with Qt 4.4 (arstechnica.com)

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QtPi writes: Trolltech has announced the availability of Qt 4.4. Ars Technica has an in-depth look at the release, which include an integrated WebKit-based HTML rendering engine, the new Phonon multimedia framework, support for Windows CE, and significant improvements to the QGraphicsView system. 'Qt 4.4 brings a lot of rich new capabilities to the toolkit that are sure to please open source and commercial software developers. It sounds like Trolltech already has some nice plans for Qt 4.5, and we will hopefully get to hear more about the long-term roadmap after Nokia completes its acquisition.'
Music

Submission + - More Free Music: Nine Inch Nails (thewizardsmanse.com) 1

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TheDawgLives
TheDawgLives writes: "Continuing to prove his theory that circumventing the music labels can be much more profitable for bands, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor has released another CD online, completely free.
Here's the release:

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com. the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options — all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits. for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon.
"
The Military

Submission + - Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand (nytimes.com)

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gollum123
gollum123 writes: "From the NyTimes, Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity of military analysts on the major networks, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin ) The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air. several dozen of the military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks. Analysts have been wooed in hundreds of private briefings with senior military leaders, including officials with significant influence over contracting and budget matters, records show. They have been taken on tours of Iraq and given access to classified intelligence. In turn, members of this group have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. Some analysts acknowledge they suppressed doubts because they feared jeopardizing their access. So much for objectivity in the media."
Privacy

Submission + - British Police Get 'Military-Style' UAVs

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: More police UAVs are being planned for use in the UK, reports The Times. The BAe HERTI autonomous UAVs which were previously a classified 'black' project are expected to be used by the Kent and Essex Police forces and in London. The craft can be equipped with four missiles and a 70mm cannon, along with full motion video, infra red camera and Synthetic Aperture Radar.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Slashdot Article Is Self Referencing (slashdot.org)

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QuantumG
QuantumG writes: "An article on Slashdot has been submitted which refers to itself. Scientists suggest such self-referential technology may soon be available commercially. The article is otherwise devoid of content and the link it contains might not work. Will future dupes of this article reference itself or a previous article? Only time will tell."
Editorial

Journal Journal: Why I'm boycotting China. 8

Journal by tomhudson

I have made it a point of always boycotting the Olympics - they're meaningless, at least to me. You want to enjoy a sport, then go out and PLAY IT. Sitting around watching someone else participate is about as meaningful as trying to lose weight by watching someone else work the StairMaster.

The Media

Submission + - Red scientology tomato rotting in Firehose? (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A posting to the Slashdot Firehose related to a Wikinews story on Wikileaks and legal threats from Scientology, seems to be stuck in the Slashdot firehose red as a ripe tomato for more than 24 hours.
The story that covers a recent press release on Wikileaks relating to copyright claims made by the Church's legal representatives towards the published "Operating Thetan" cult manual, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in scam money, already spawned a hot discussion on the Wikinews portal. With critics of cult-critics trying to shut the story down for hours, it finally went online. And now seems stuck in the Firehose. One can only hope not for the wrong reasons.
Editorial

Submission + - The Register: Scientology Contacts Wikileaks (theregister.co.uk)

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msheekhah
msheekhah writes: "The Register covers Scientology's latest act of internet suppression: Wikileaks. Considering their main server is hosted by The Pirate Bay, how do you think this is going to turn out? From the article: "The Church of Scientology has acknowledged that Wikileaks is offering the world quick and easy access to the church's top-secret "bibles". Or should that be formerly top-secret? On March 24, the swashbuckling truth-seekers at Wikileaks.org published what they referred to as "the collected secret 'bibles' of Scientology," and three days later, church-friendly lawyers threatened the site with legal action if the documents weren't taken down. Calling them "Advanced Technology of the Scientology religion," the lawyers pointed out that the documents are copyrighted works registered to the Religious Technology Center (RIC), a church-related holding company. Wikileaks did not remove the documents. But it did tell the world their veracity has been verified." At the end of the article is a scathing indictment of the Church of Scientology and Western Media. Wow, it's like they (wikileaks and thepiratebay) were twins seperated at birth..."

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