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The Courts

Submission + - Court Questions Unchecked Gov't Eavesdropping (physorg.com)

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals started asking questions about the feds unchecked eavesdropping Wednesday. Unfortunately, in response to these two cases, "The government argued that it has a 'privilege' to dismiss lawsuits that threaten 'state secrets,' even when sensitive documents are accidentally turned over." The consensus on these cases still seem to be up in the air. One thing is certain, the government doesn't see itself doing anything wrong and continues to eavesdrop without a safety net."
Graphics

Submission + - GIMP 2.4 on the Home Stretch (cybernetnews.com)

Submitted by johnr
johnr writes: GIMP 2.4 is on the home stretch, and just today they made the first release candidate available. The new version sports a refreshed look with some eye-pleasing icons, advanced selection tools, fullscreen editing, and much more. They've also begun the process of creating a new site that has a Web 2.0 feel to it!
United States

Submission + - FBI snaps up Napoleon III's gun from online sales (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The FBI doesn't usually find itself in the business of retrieving guns but last week it made an exception: a rare Gastinne Renette carbine taken from a Paris military museum during World War II while the Germans occupied Paris that once belonged to Napoleon III. French authorities have searched for the 37-inch gun ever since and when it popped up on the Web site gunsamerica.com, French officials contacted Interpol, which in then enlisted help from the FBI.An undercover operation was initiated by local FBI agents, and agents from the FBI's Art Crime Team, which resulted in the safe recovery of the weapon last week. The Art Crime Team is the FBI's 12-member rapid-deployment unit responsible for investigating cases involving cultural property and artwork. To date, the Team is responsible for recovering more than 850 items worth more than $65million. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18373"
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - A new possible Playstation 3 Exploit (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by
DaMan1970
DaMan1970 writes: "Team PS3HAX has released a new possible Playstation 3 Exploit, which allows you to run backups, or homebrew.

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/content/view/120/1/

By copying a special prepared TIFF image to a USB/SD card & opening it in the Playstation 3, causes a unusual response in which the Playstation 3 controls & XMB are still fully functional & ables you to launch a game.

You can watch the hack on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kwnlsq9Jmc"
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Israeli researchers say 'time travel possible' (vnunet.com) 2

Submitted by
linuxuser3.14
linuxuser3.14 writes: "Isreali scientists, have decided it is possible to travel through time.

From the article:

Israeli researchers today published research detailing how a time machine could, theoretically, be created. According to the boffins at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, the theory could allow future generations to travel into the past.

"In order to travel back in time, the spacetime structure must be engineered appropriately," said Professor Amos Ori of the Technion's Faculty of Physics."
NASA

Submission + - Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data (dailytech.com)

Submitted by Moschaef
Moschaef writes: NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.
United States

Submission + - Leading global warming researcher accused of fraud

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A leading global warming research, Wei-Chyung Wang at SUNY, has been accused of fraud in his research. The research was one of the main reasons that urban heat islands were considered to be insignificant for global warming studies. This could potentially mean that the global warming is not as large as previously thought. The researcher who discovered the fraud has previously published about other bogus research.
Microsoft

Submission + - OOXML or ODF - BIS debates on its vote to ISO (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by Karthik
Karthik writes: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has formed a commitee to decide on its ISO vote for document standards between Microsoft's OOXML and IBM & Sun backed ODF. Various high profile Indian institues and companies have joined different sides of the debate as the September 2 deadline for submission to ISO nears.
Censorship

Submission + - AT&T proves Net Neutrality fears well founded

Submitted by
LinearBob
LinearBob writes: "The Chicago Tribune has an article describing in detail how AT&T censored a live concert by Pearl Jam. Here is a link to the Chicago Tribune article.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-th u_jam_0809aug09,1,6237615.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

The following was quoted from the Tribune article:

"A live Internet broadcast of Pearl Jam's performance at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival Sunday went off without a hitch — until singer Eddie Vedder criticized President Bush.

Lyrics critical of the president didn't make it past editors of the show's Webcast, the band complained Wednesday on its Web site.

The performance, sponsored by AT&T Inc. and carried on AT&T's "Blue Room" site, omitted the lyrics "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find yourself another home" as part of a version of the song "Daughter," according to the Pearl Jam Web site.

An AT&T spokeswoman confirmed the omission Wednesday, saying that it had been a mistake made by someone working for the agency hired by AT&T to handle its Blue Room content.

"We don't have a policy in place to censor," said AT&T's Tiffany Nels. "We have a policy on excessive profanity. This was an honest mistake. There was no censorship intended."

Nels said that there is a delay of a few seconds between the performance and its streaming to the Web so that an editor can cut out profane language because the Web site is available to all ages and AT&T doesn't want foul language going out.

End quote

Perhaps there was no censorship intended, but censorship IS what AT&T did here. I find AT&T's explanation for the missing lyrics to be disingenuous at best. To me, this is a clear case of censorship, and is precisely why we need "Net Neutrality" now."
Space

Submission + - Time may not exist ! by discovermagazine.com (animatedhomepage.com)

Submitted by
faffou
faffou writes: "I found this Article on discovermagazine.com . German scientists claim that Time does not exist in the quantical level of the physics... " It is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. It may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time — that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless ""
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Make your own Plasma Weapon! (rmcybernetics.com)

Submitted by Rich
Rich writes: Here's a use for that old cordless drill you have lying around. Ok, so it won't shoot balls of plasma through the hulls of alien space craft, but it does look pretty cool.
This thing is made from some ignition coils a tesla coil and an old cordless drill!
SuSE

Submission + - Lenovo intros ThinkPads with preloaded Linux (electronista.com)

Submitted by
JonathanF
JonathanF writes: "Sounds like an ideal mix for Linux geeks: Lenovo said today that they'll ship their rock-steady ThinkPads near the end of the year with Novell's SUSE Linux distro preloaded — and supported by Lenovo itself. No word on specs, but having a solid PC with an open-source OS sounds very appealing. Like the author of the article, though, I wonder whether Lenovo is offering Novell's distro because it's worried about that Microsoft Sword of Damocles hanging over its head if it chose an alternative like Red Hat or Ubuntu."

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