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Submission + - Law student facing expulsion over online joke

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The Xoxo Reader
The Xoxo Reader writes: "AutoAdmit/Xoxohth, the popular law student message board which has previously been criticized for its free speech policy, is in the news again. In the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, an anonymous poster started a thread titled "Just decided not to do a murder-suicide copycat at Hastings Law". Although most posters assumed it was a joke in the "anything goes" spirit of the board, UC Hastings officials decided the risk was serious enough to evacuate the school. The poster later came forward voluntarily and identified himself as a law student at UC Berkeley. Berkeley's dean is now recommending that the student be expelled. As more and more people adopt online personalities in internet communities and virtual worlds, will there always be some issues that can never be free of real-life implications?"
Intel

Submission + - A Pentium Bug for the new millenium?

Submitted by jetkins
jetkins writes: IBM and Lenovo have released BIOS updates for all their Core2 Duo-powered laptpo and desktop machines. The new code includes a microcode fix for a bug in the Core2 Duo processor. From IBM's System x3200 BIOS update page: "This BIOS flash image update contains an Intel errata patch to correct a possible processor marginality, resulting in unpredictable system behavior, such as machine check, system hang, blue screen, or kernel panic in Linux. The problem is industry-wide, the exposure is believed to be limited, but IBM strongly recommends that customers install this update as soon as possible to eliminate any exposures." Is this deja vu all over again?
PHP

Submission + - Lumen gives open source some SaaS

Submitted by jcasman
jcasman writes: There's a NetworkWorld article titled Lumen gives open source some SaaS about a company in Kansas City, MO, offering up its Lumenation SaaS development platform, an open source take on proprietary SaaS development approaches used by Salesforce.com or Microsoft's OfficeLive. It runs on a LAPP server stack (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL — instead of MySQL, and PHP) and has LAPP stack installers and an SDK available for developers. Lumen claims over 150,000 users currently.
Education

Submission + - HS principal suspended over 15 year old nude pic

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb
innocent_white_lamb writes: A BC high school principal has been suspended after a parent found an indistinct 15-year old photo of him on a nude beach posted on his personal family website. The school district chairman has demanded that he turn his personal computer over to them for forensic analysis to "see if there is any other potentially offensive material on it." The union has advised him not to hand it over. The board chairman stated that, "We would probably have handled this very, very quietly and differently had it not been sent to the press."
Windows

Submission + - How did we all end up with Windows?

Submitted by Hymer
Hymer writes: From the Register: It's amazing how many people who have Microsoft Windows everywhere look flummoxed when asked whether Windows is their "standard" for desktop computing.

The reason they are thrown by this question is typically because they haven't thought about it that way before. In all likelihood, they never actually made a proactive decision to select Windows, in the sense of looking at alternatives and making a conscious objective choice. So how did they end up with it?
...more here.
The Internet

RIAA Wins In Court Against UW Madison 200

Posted by Zonk from the when-you've-said-wisconsin-you've-said-it-all dept.
Billosaur writes "A judge has ordered the University of Wisconsin-Madison to turn over the names and contact information for the 53 UW-M students accused of file sharing over the university's networks by the RIAA. 'U.S. District Judge John Shabaz signed an order requiring UW-Madison to relinquish the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Media Access Control addresses for each of the 53 individuals.' The ruling came as no surprise to the university, which had previously rejected the request of the RIAA to hand out their settlement letters to alleged copyright violators on their campus. The school feels the RIAA will have a hard time tracking down who did the file-sharing anyway, as the IP addresses the RIAA has for the violations may be mapped to computers in common areas, making it difficult to determine just which people may have made the downloads."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - DIY Wireless Network Printer

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computerguru365
computerguru365 writes: "With everything going wireless, it's a logical choice to have a wireless printer. They can range from a couple hundred dollars to a couple thousand, depending on what kind of printer you choose. But you don't want to invest in a new printer when the one you have works perfectly. Well I found a solution! And it is very inexpensive! Combining a HP laserjet Printer and a Fonera router you can build your own wireless network printer.

http://computerguru365.blogspot.com/2007/04/diy-wi reless-network-printer.html

Using dd-wrt on the Fonera, not only can you make a wireless printer, but you can make THAT printer a wireless hotspot also!"

Feed BlueSky Positioning brings GPS down to SIM size (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS

BlueSky Positioning looks to have taken advantage of the altogether too cleverly-named SIMposium conference to trot out what is surely its biggest product to date: a complete GPS system embedded on a SIM card, The Register reports. Partly responsible for that shrinkage is the use of Assisted GPS (or A-GPS) instead of standard GPS, although they still had to contend with some serious power consumption challenges and the small matter of actually getting a signal. That was apparently accomplished by using the cellphone itself as a makeshift antenna, which supposedly provides just enough of a signal when the SIM card comes into contact with it. While its seems to have gotten the size right, BlueSky's SIM card does currently fall short in a few fey areas, failing to pass ISO tests for flexibility and robustness. That doesn't seem to be holding 'em back, however, with the first production samples reportedly on track for June.

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Submission + - Fark copyright grab

Submitted by Carnildo
Carnildo writes: Back in the day, people were up in arms when Geocities changed their copyright terms so that you were granting them a "perpetual, irrevocable" license to do whatever they pleased with your content. That's nothing compared to the new Fark terms of service. By submitting content to Fark, you are assigning the copyright of your submission to Fark, and in return, they are granting you a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, and royalty-free license to use your creation.

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