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Comment Re:Nobody likes ELF. Not even their "allies." (Score 2, Informative) 616

I'm really not trolling here, but PETA has been funding ELF for years.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/general/columns/story?columnist=guest_columnist&page=g_col_PETA_ELF_NYPost has a reprinted article from the NY Post.

I don't see many stories that are very recent, outside of what seem like blogs and bash-fests, but since PETA has denied ties all along, it doesn't make much difference to me whether they claim to have stopped or not.

Networking

Should Network Cables Be Replaced? 524

Jyms writes "As technology changes, so hubs routers and switches are upgraded, but does the cabling need replacing, and if so, how often? Coax gave way to CAT 5 and CAT 5e replaced that. If you are running a 100Mbit/s network on old CAT 5, can that affect performance? Do CAT 5(e) cables get old?"
The Courts

Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case 315

Hugh Pickens writes "The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion affirming a ruling that will be cheered by digital fair use proponents for allowing a fair use of students' work when their teachers electronically file students' written work with the turnitin.com Web site so that newly submitted work can be compared against Turnitin's database of existing student work to assess whether the new work is the result of plagiarism. The court stepped through the fair use analysis, dropping positive notes that affirm commercial uses can be fair uses, that a use can be transformative 'in function or purpose without altering or actually adding to the original work,' and that the entirety of a work can be used without precluding a finding of fair use. Techdirt suggests that all of these points could have been helpful to Google in defending its book scanning efforts, 'since it could make pretty much the identical arguments on all points.' Unfortunately Google caved in that lawsuit and settled, 'denying a strong fair use precedent and making Google look like an easy place for struggling industries to demand cash.'"
Games

Bethesda Announces New Fallout Game For 2010 254

On Monday Bethesda announced a new title in the popular Fallout series called New Vegas, set for release sometime in 2010. It's planned for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. They said it wasn't a sequel to the highly-acclaimed Fallout 3, but rather a brand new game set in the same universe, though they confirmed that it will be similar in style to Fallout 3. The new game will be developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a studio containing members of the original Fallout team, which Bethesda's Pete Hines discussed in an interview with Shacknews. The Fallout series also made headlines earlier this week when Bethesda trademarked the name for TV and film.

Comment Re:What driver issues? (Score 1) 466

It's been my experience that Atheros chipsets have "some issues" (like they don't ever work) "out of the box" on the *.10 releases of Ubuntu. I thought I read somewhere that the *.10 are *secretly experimental* releases. That's certainly been my experience. Maybe he should try 8.04.

Comment Re:Missing Address (Score 4, Informative) 168

Let's also not overlook that while some stores/merchants may have a policy to ask for address when doing Cardless Transactions, the processing houses (at least the ones I've used) will more than happily process the transaction successfully without anything more than the card number and the expiration date.

Some processors will refuse to process transactions within the month that the card expires, but you simply add 4 years to the date and it'll go through just fine.

The Credit Card companies have pushed very hard and very long to make credit transactions more painless than cash. You have to drop some safeguards to do that though.

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