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Submission + - What happens to my on-line accounts when I die ?

Submitted by on Sunday March 18, 2007 @01:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Seriously, I had to think about this. I consider half of my life is on-line and should be for most of you. Except for living in with family, friends etc. Everything else is now on-line, even planing that hiking trip.

Be it photo albums, bloging, radio all are web2.0 they say !

Seriously, what happens to all of my on-line life and related accounts the day I be hit by a truck ?

Submission + - Telcos block FreeConference phone numbers

Submitted by

ygslash

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:01PM

ygslash writes: "FreeConference.com claims that AT&T/Cingular, Sprint, and Qwest are blocking access to some of the telephone numbers that access their free conference call service. In an email sent out to all of their customers, FreeConference.com encourages all affected customers to file a complaint with the FCC or email their State Attorney General to "complain about this monopolistic practice". More information is available."

Submission + - Jack Thompson responds to Take Two

Submitted by

novalogic

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:41PM

novalogic writes: ""Yesterday we reported that Take Two launched a preemptive lawsuit against Jack Thompson aimed at preventing him from pursuing claims in court later this year when both Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV debut.

Thompson contacted Ars Technica with a response to the suit, and because we wouldn't want to be unfair, here it is in its entirety""

Submission + - Xbox live servers hacked?

Submitted by on Saturday March 17, 2007 @05:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: A recent post to the Full-Disclosure mailing list spreads the rumour that "Bungie.net was hacked and that a portion of Xbox live has been taken over because of it. Some folks are having their Microsoft points stolen and or points purchased via their stolen gamer tag." Furthermore, the post quotes a MS Tech: "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it"

Submission + - take-two's suit against me, jack thompson

Submitted by

jack thompson

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @04:16PM

jack thompson writes: "Heads-Up to Video Game Industry Press Re Take-Two Lawsuit Against Jack Thompson From: Jack Thompson Dear Gamers and Gamer Publications on the Internet and Elsewhere: I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb — even dumber than what they have to date done — that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered. This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law — while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding. I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David, which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it), but for those who don't own a Bible or who think their hands will catch on fire if they touch one, here is the salient portion that applies to this lawsuit: 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back. Oh, and by the way, the entire Take-Two management and board will be gone on March 23, so this pit-digging comes at a very bad time indeed. Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even of video games. Jack Thompson Copy: The currently licensed Blank Rome lawyers"

Submission + - Beware the "Do not Call" list

Submitted by SubliminalVortex on Saturday March 17, 2007 @03:04PM

SubliminalVortex writes: After wondering how I was contacted by some telemarketer, by recorded telephone message, after being put on the "Do Not Call" list, I wondered whether or not it was all a farce. After going to the site which harbors the "Do Not Call" list, I find the following:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/alerts/al t129.htm
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32. What's my liability if my company inadvertently calls a number on the registry?
The TSR has a "safe harbor" for inadvertent mistakes. If a seller or telemarketer can show that, as part of its routine business practice, it meets all the requirements of the safe harbor, it will not be subject to civil penalties or sanctions for mistakenly calling a consumer who has asked for no more calls, or for calling a person on the registry. To meet the safe harbor requirements, the seller or telemarketer must demonstrate that: it has written procedures to comply with the do not call requirements it trains its personnel in those procedures it monitors and enforces compliance with these procedures it maintains a company-specific list of telephone numbers that it may not call it accesses the national registry no more than 31 days (starting January 1, 2005) before calling any consumer, and maintains records documenting this process any call made in violation of the do not call rules was the result of an error.er agreement:
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I have to wonder if the company that called me this weekend had "safe harbor", especially when they were trying to sell me on a cruise and make sure my passport was up-to-date. By the way "safe harbor" turns up nothing more on that page than in the paragraph it's mentioned. Just exactly what is considered "safe harbor" when it comes to being 'intrusive'?

Submission + - A single-photon server

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @02:50PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "A team of German physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has built a single-photon server with just one atom. They've trapped ultra cold atoms of rubidium in a vacuum chamber and applied laser pulses from one side. The generated photons were of 'high quality,' meaning their energy was very similar from one test to another, and that their properties could be controlled. The researchers think this new way to generate single photons will help the field of quantum information processing. Read more for additional references about what supercomputing might be tomorrow."

Submission + - CPR not as effective as chest compressions alone

Submitted by

patiwat

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @02:38PM

patiwat writes: "A Japanese study has found that people suffering from cardiac arrest were more likely to recover without brain damage if rescuers focused on chest compressions rather than on rescue breaths, and some experts advised dropping the mouth-to-mouth part of CPR altogether. Interrupting chest compression to perform mouth-to-mouth ventilation might do more harm than good if blood flow to the heart was not properly re-established, a researcher from Tokyo's Surugadai Nihon University Hospital said. Also, people could be too squeamish to lock lips with a stranger, whereas more might be prepared to attempt hands-only resuscitation, noted the study published in the current issue of The Lancet. Dr Gordon Ewy, the chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, wrote in the same journal that the results "should lead to a prompt interim revision of the guidelines for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest." More than 300,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest each year. Roughly 9 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims die before they get to a hospital — partly because they do not get CPR."

Submission + - A Lesson in Security:The Student vs Hacker Rematch

Submitted by monkeyboy44 on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:32AM

monkeyboy44 writes: After last years entertaining hacker vs. student showdown, InformIT.com once again covered the annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition where college students are put to the test. During the three day event, small teams from eight of the areas colleges are handed insecure networks that they have to lockdown and keep running — all while a team of hackers attempt to gain access any way they can. To keep it interesting, the teams also had to perform various tasks, such as program web applications, install IDS systems and more — and if hacked, the US Secret Service was on hand to determine if their was enough data to start an investigation. Once again, the hackers dominated — but not without a few surprises.

Submission + - Dutch e-voting manufacturer blackmailed government

Submitted by vvpt on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:21AM

vvpt writes: After the Dutch group 'We don't trust voting computers' showed how easy the Nedap voting computers can be manipulated the company is under heavy fire. An independent commission is investigating how the future of Dutch voting should look like (the outcome is expected by October but everyone knows it is going to be very different from now). Nedap knows they are toast unless they can lure the government into buying their stock. So company executive Jan Groenendaal told a Dutch minister: Buy my company or we will withdraw all our services for the next elections. Not an empty threat: 99% of all votes are cast on their equipment. Dutch elections are impossible without the help of Nedap. The blackmail is now revealed by 'We don't trust voting computers' after obtaining letters and e-mails between the government and Groenendaal through a successful FOIA request.

Journal Journal: SCO says GNU doesn't have a license

Journal by Ritchie70 on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:54AM

I was browsing SCO's website trying to figure out development tool options for SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 (I know, I know) and stumbled across this.

It describes one of the three options for OpenServer 5.0.7 as:

Submission + - Play video games with your brain, eyes and muscles

Submitted by jmke on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:40AM

jmke writes: At Cebit there was a device being demoed at the OCZ Booth which tracks movement of your eyes, monitors brain waves and picks up facial muscle movements, it uses these recorded signals to link them to input commands on the computer, allowing you to play Tetris or even a first person shooter like UT2004. Here is a live demo and more technical details on how this works. Will this technology change the way you interact with your PC?

Submission + - Wearable Biomonitors for Special Forces & Athl

Submitted by

oldwindways

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:35AM

oldwindways writes: "Zephyr, a New Zealand company, has apparently revealed field ready biosensors incorporated into clothing. They already have a deal with the United States Department of Defense to equip Special Forces units with their products, and they foresee a market for medical applications as well as casual and competitive athletes."

Submission + - Good Teaching Tools for the Kids

Submitted by jdramer on Saturday March 17, 2007 @09:30AM

jdramer writes: I was recently asked by someone who home-schools her kids what kind of programs are available for teaching kids about what you can do with computers. She was thinking things like computer animation, drawing programs; basically anything that encourages creativity. So I'm wondering what programs are out there that would be good for young children in primary school?

Submission + - Add Google Desktop Gadgets To Vista's Sidebar

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17, 2007 @05:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: In 5 tips to improve your Google searches, IWeek points out you can supplement Windows Vista's very thin launch complement of Sidebar Gadgets by grabbing Google Desktop gadgets, and converting them to run on Vista using the free Amnesty Widgets generator. Does this highlight yet again how Vista's main eye-candy(the Aero interface and Gadgets) are clones of Mac OS X, but is it also another indication that Vista could indeed appeal to consumers?

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