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6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive 504

Posted by timothy on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:24AM from the buck-beats-scapegoat dept.

nandemoari writes "A six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game has been criticized by parent groups and crusaders (or in the eyes of gamers, nincompoops) like former lawyer Jack Thompson for years (Thompson once tried to link the Virginia Tech slayings to late-night Counterstrike sessions. He's since been disbarred). However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft."

Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon 264

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:29AM from the what-no-ipv5 dept.

fuzzel writes "Today Google announced Google over IPv6 where ISPs can sign up their DNS nameservers so that their users will get access to an almost fully IPv6-enabled Google, including http://www.google.com, images and maps, etc., just like in IPv4. Without this only http://ipv6.google.com is available, but then you go to IPv4 for most services. So, start kicking your ISPs to support IPv6 too, and let them sign up. Check this list of ISPs that already do native IPv6 to your doorstep. The question that now remains is: when will Slashdot follow?"

Comment Wait, what? (Score 4, Insightful) 227

by KingJ on Friday January 02, 2009 @10:50AM (#26299645) Attached to: Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse

A way to finally contact Google? It's so difficult to get in contact with them normally - even if you're paying them (in the case of AdWords). Perhaps we can finally start talking to real people at Google, or at least have them read some of our grievances.

Submission + - SOCAN goes after p2pnet

Submitted by

newtley

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:16PM

newtley writes: "SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is after me for using a parody pic based on its logo in my p2pnet story headlined SOCAN goes after hair dressers. "Your unauthorised use of the mark unavoidably infringes our rights in the SOCAN trade-mark," it says in a threatening letter. — Jon"

Submission + - Do Not Call Registry gets wake-up call (networkworld.com) 2

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:58PM

coondoggie writes: "If you signed up for the federal or your state's Do Not Call Registry a few years ago, you might want to thing about refreshing it. Pennsylvanians this week got a wake up call, so to speak from the state's Attorney General Tom Corbett who kicked off a public awareness campaign designed to remind people what many have forgotten or never knew — that the 2002 law set registrations to expire after five years. That is of course unless you want to start hearing from those telemarketers as you sit down to dinner. Corbett said about 2 million people signed up in the immediate aftermath of the law taking effect and those who do not act by Sept. 15 will have their numbers dropped from the registry on Nov. 1. The Pennsylvania action is a reminder that the National Do Not Call Registry has a five year life span as well. The Federal Trade Commission is set to being a nation campaign in Spring 2008 to remind all US citizens to refresh their federal Do Not Call Registry standing. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18066"

Submission + - Gmail accounts hacked - no response from Google (livejournal.com)

Submitted by jared51 on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:20PM

jared51 writes: A few friends have recently had their Gmail accounts hacked, causing immense life complications. With Gmail storing all information (many people have a handy label "Accounts" making life easier) that has ever been emailed, a hijacker can easily move on to eBay, PayPal and credit card accounts to turn the crime into cash. Making matters worse, Google is impossible to contact by human. Hijacked users must contend with an endless series of forms.

Submission + - UCLA Probe Finds Taser Incident Out Of Policy (ucla.edu)

Submitted by Bandor Mia on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:10PM

Bandor Mia writes: Last November, it was reported that UCLA cops Tasered a student, who forgot to bring his ID, at the UCLA library. While an internal probe by UCLAPD cleared the officers of any wrongdoing, an outside probe by Police Assessment Resource Center has found that the police actions on Mostafa Tabatabainejad were indeed out of UCLA policy. The probe was conducted at the behest of acting UCLA Chancellor Norman Abrams.

From the report:
"In light of UCLAPD's general use of force policy and its specific policies on pain compliance techniques, Officer 2's three applications of the Taser, taken together, were out of policy. Officer 2 did not take advantage of other options and opportunities reasonably available to de-escalate the situation without the use of the Taser. Reasonable campus police officers, upon assessing the circumstances, likely would have embraced different choices and options that appear likely to have been more consistent both with UCLAPD policy and general best law enforcement practices."

Submission + - Borders.com Email Database Stolen? (google.com)

Submitted by

borderstheft

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @10:59AM

borderstheft writes: "Two nights ago, the plus-based address I gave to Borders.com started receiving spam and virus-containing emails. No other plus-based address at the domain has been receiving spam of any kind. I attempted to contact Borders.com but they won't acknowledge there is a problem. If there email database has been stolen, what else could be at risk? Can anyone else serve as verification of the problem?"

Submission + - Britain "Failing" 'net speed tests

Submitted by Penguin_me on Thursday August 02, 2007 @09:00AM

Penguin_me writes: The BBC has an article about how "Britain is 'Failing' speed tests" (link: BBC)
From the article: A survey by consumer group Which? found that broadband packages promising speeds of up to 8Mbps (megabits per second) actually achieved far less. Tests of 300 customers' net connections revealed that the average download speed they were getting was 2.7Mbps.

Submission + - mininova authors lauch new version of youtube

Submitted by gerrysteele on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:10AM

gerrysteele writes: The authors of mininova have launched a new youtube like video sharing site called http://www.snotr.com/ which one assumes won't quite suffer from the copyright issues of the corporate version. From the FAQ:

Snotr is a source for short and funny or interesting videos. Everyone can submit a video, which will be reviewed by our team. If we accept your video, it will be listed on the front page and other pages.

Submission + - IP based tracking of Bush govt. emails?

Submitted by edg176 on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:43AM

edg176 writes: Is it possible there's a way for Congress to track emails back and forth between the White House and it's minions? A way that is IP based, but that the White House could not erase, and is tracked by third parties or Congressional auditors.

Over at Daily Kos there's a looooong diary by an anonymous commenter who claims there is some "other way" to track workflows and email logs. I don't fully understand what the guy is saying, but is this even possible? The diary goes on to talk about Congressional auditors setting up "trap" organizations to see if the Executive branch auditors are destroying emails, by the use of hidden meta data collected by "third parties." Said meta data is supposed to be already disclosed and fully legal to collect.

What gives? What do Slashdotters think?

Submission + - 12 Hidden Windows Vista Network Tools (yahoolearn.info)

Submitted by

DAYNOS

on Sunday July 08, 2007 @03:46AM

DAYNOS writes: "Windows Vista delivers an impressive line up of network tools that can be used to keep the operating system connectivity on a short leash. The total of 12 command-line tools can be used to manage all aspects of Vista networking"

Submission + - RIAA tried to shake down 10-year-old daugter (theregister.com)

Submitted by kurmudgeon on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @03:44PM

kurmudgeon writes: The Register has the latest on Tanya Andersen's two-plus-year run-in with the RIAA. According to a suit she filed last week, RIAA attorneys demanded they be allowed to depose Andersen's 10-year-old daughter as part of an attempt to coerce the unemployed single mother. The daughter also received suspicious phone calls at home and school, some from someone claiming to be the girl's grandmother. Andersen's suit invokes RICO statutes against the RIAA, and several of its partners, including MediaSentry.

Submission + - click fraud at goclick/marchex

Submitted by

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

on Monday May 28, 2007 @12:58PM

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan writes: "everyone's getting excited about domain parked websites and the money they generate, but if you're a publisher or marketer, beware of some click fraud cases like the one I unearthed here: GoClick/Marchex's click fraud problem: http://www.watchmojo.com/web/blog/?p=1608"

Submission + - OOXML Balloting Begun

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: The ISO has started the balloting process for the Open Office XML format (aka "ISO/IEC DIS 29500" — all 6000 pages of it). If you want your opinion heard, now is the time to contact your country's local standard body so they can then decide how to vote. Contact information is available for the US, Canada, Germany, and over 100 other countries. The ISO standard will cost you CHF64 to read, but ECMA 376 is available as DOCX and PDF files.

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