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Emulation (Games)

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill from the super-mario-takedown dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
Security

Submission + - Worm Infections in the Enterprise Rose by 100% (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009 over the preceding six months. Rogue security software remains a major threat to customers; however, 20 percent fewer customers were affected by rogue infections during the past six months. Worms rely heavily on access to unsecured file shares and removable storage volumes, both of which are plentiful in enterprise environments.

Submission + - China has earliest snowfall in a decade (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems the Chinese have been playing too much Red Alert and have now managed to succeed in manipulating the weather. The BBC states that "Chinese meteorologists have brought about Beijing's earliest snowfall in a decade, after seeding rain clouds with silver iodide to ease a drought." They have of course done this before and the process of cloud seeding has been in use since its invention after WW2
Space

Submission + - Europe launches pair of new satellites (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by nk497
nk497 writes: The European Space Agency has launched a pair of new satellites from the Plesestk Cosmodrome in northern Russia last night. The first is a 685kg satellite that can measure the temperature of the earth to test for water salinity and soil moisture. The smaller second satellite piggybacked on the second before separating off with its payload of 17 new technologies for testing, including a camera with a wide angle view of 120 degrees, a dual frequency GPS space reciever, a cold gas generator, tools to study the sun and something called a "xenon-fed resistojet thruster".
Education

US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490

Posted by CmdrTaco from the talking-to-you-cliff dept.
theodp writes "Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students. You'll find identical pitches made by the University of Delaware, the University of Cincinnati, Kansas State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and other public colleges and universities. The same message is also echoed by private schools, such as John Hopkins University, Brown University, Rollins College and Loyola University Chicago."

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