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The Courts

Submission + - Facebook's demise eminent? (guardian.co.uk)

JazzLad writes: "Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook, will discover next week whether he faces legal action for claims he stole the idea for the $1bn website.

A US judge will decide next week whether Mark Zuckerberg should go to court after three former classmates accused him of stealing the idea, software and business plan for the social networking website.

The three former Harvard students say 23-year-old Zuckerberg stole the idea for the site while working as a programmer on their own social-networking site — called ConnectU, the UK Registar reported.

If successful, Facebook could be shut down it was suggested."

Microsoft

Submission + - Remote Management Applications (usmax.com)

Gilbert Palau writes: "I work in a large IT Service firm that administers IT NOC's for corporations in the eastern states (Md, DC, VA, NJ, etc). We have been looking for a enterprise size application for Remote Management and Image Deployment. The only one we have come accross that offers everything we want to do is Apple Remote Desktop. I have been searching in finding an application for Windows Server Environments and Networks with Windows XP Clients that has all the tools included in ARD, but I have only found it in separate products that one way or another fall short from the type of performance and tools we are looking. I specially can't believe that being part of the dominating OS species, I cannot find an application that does for Apple Networks, on the Windows Environment. We are looking for a tool where we can do Software Distribution, Asset Management, Remote Assistance, Remote Administration and scheduling of application deployment. I would appreciate if any IT engineers give me their input on what would be the best application to deploy for this type of work or which application compares or is better than apple remote desktop that is windows environment based."
The Internet

Submission + - Unique never seen before service (barginator.com)

John E writes: "A Torontonian launched a website that lets people meet others in their area when shopping for a new car, motorcycle etc...Promises to save thousands of dollars at the dealership because they than get a better price at the dealership. And just when you thought everything was already found online

Full story at Barginator's Blog or at Barginator.com "

Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Researchers create 'rubbery metal'

Space_donkey writes: Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new type of metal that also has the vibration-dampening properties of rubber. That's according to a patent filing discovered by New Scientist. Ultimately, it might be used in aircraft engines and other systems that experience a lot of vibration. In the shorter-term it could also be seen in sports equipment such as tennis rackets and baseball bats.
Linux Business

Submission + - A Linux Strategy you can easily tailor (itmanagementresource.com)

vratlhead writes: "Linux is a key component of your company's open source strategy. Having a formal Linux Strategy can help you educate non tech business leaders, calm their concerns, and provide a framework that shows if, when, how, and where Linux makes sense in the enterprise. Even if you don't have Linux deployed, it is a big enough hot topic that you will eventually be asked about it. Having a strategy document that explains why you do not use Linux shows you have researched and thought about the issue."
The Internet

Submission + - The Slashdot productivity paradox (wsj.com)

planetralph writes: "This article is a nice take on the paradox of how the Internet makes things dramatically easier yet we seem to spend more personal time on work and our personal lives don't seem that much more rewarding. It offers an explanation of why we end up spending a lot of time at work on "personal" Internet use and a lot of Internet time on low priority items."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Survey Says: Videogames Don't Cause Violence

beef623 writes: A recent survey conducted in England indicates that video games don't lead to violence after all.

The Board, which classifies up to 300 games a year, concluded that for gamers "The violence helps make the play exhilaratingly out of reach of ordinary life."

But it added "Gamers seem not to lose awareness that they are playing a game and do not mistake the game for real life."


Not surprisingly though, 2 out of the 3 story highlights CNN lists twist the context of the story to try to say otherwise.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - WiFi in the Sky: Internet While Flying Coming Soon

An anonymous reader writes: U.S. airlines plan to offer in-flight Internet connections within 12 months. Think of it as the airplane cabin becoming a WiFi "hotspot." Carriers will begin making announcements within a few months, and service will begin early next year. Read on for details (pricing, implementation, etc.): http://www.computers.net/2007/04/wifi_in_the_sky.h tml
Upgrades

Submission + - New speed record on rails

Melkman writes: Today the french TGV train set an new speed record. With 574km/h (357mph) it is the fastest train on wheels. Only the Japanese Maglev has set a higher speed record for trains with 581 km/h. Too bad they didn't push just a little harder. You can see a movie of the record here. Akamai should be able to withstand a slashdotting :-).

Feed Radio Shack Sued For Throwing Away Customer Information (techdirt.com)

We've had plenty of stories about companies and gov't agencies losing laptops or hard drives potentially revealing a a ton of private info, but apparently Radio Shack decided to go a more low tech route in exposing customer private info. The amusingly named Witty Nickname writes in to let us know that the Texas Attorney General has sued Radio Shack after it discovered that a store was simply throwing out paper records that included customer names, social security numbers and credit cards. All you had to do was walk by and pull some of the paperwork out of the company's trash bins and you could have all you needed for identity theft or credit card fraud. Of course, this raises another question: why was Radio Shack recording SSNs and credit cards in the first place?
Movies

Submission + - Movie pirates have a placed a bounty on two dogs.

An anonymous reader writes: Two trained Labradors have sniffed out 50,000 bootleg DVDs in their third success since being deployed last month in Malaysia's mounting crackdown on movie piracy. They are on loan from the mpaa and can sniff out dvd's by the chemicals used to manufacture them. My question is what is the range of the dogs and do the handlers just take them thru the neighborhood and see if they pick up on anything? http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/04/03/dogs -dvd-piracy.html

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