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Submission + - Microsoft wanted to "whack" Dell

Submitted by pboyd2004 on Friday January 26, 2007 @11:29PM

pboyd2004 writes: According to emails obtained in Iowa's antitrust case against Microsoft. Microsoft wanted to "whack" Dell over their Linux sales. "We should whack them, we should make sure they understand our value," wrote Paul Flessner, a senior vice president in Microsoft's server applications unit. The email exchange can be found here.

Feed Warning: This TV Set Is Obsolete (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday January 26, 2007 @08:12PM

Proposed labeling would alert consumers about televisions that can't receive digital signals. In Gadget Lab.

Submission + - New Call Of Duty 3 Maps Non-Functioning

Submitted by

jayintune

on Thursday January 18, 2007 @03:18PM

jayintune writes: "2old2play is reporting that the new Valor Map Pack for Call of Duty 3 on the Xbox 360 does not work for most of the Xbox Live community. Apparently, when a Live member downloads the new pack (and pays), none of the maps will actually show up in the game. After a laundry list of problem with the COD franchise, gamers in the Xbox forums are ready to give up and prepare for class action."

Submission + - Doctor Who: Series 2 DVD Massacre bug

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18, 2007 @02:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: The 1st disc of the Doctor Who: Series 2, episode #2 "New Earth" cuts out around minute 32 and shows a graphic bloody stump scene from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning". I don't think a disc cleaner will solve this problem. These are discs from Netflix. Not sure if this was manufactured into the region 1 consumer box sets as well.

Submission + - Germany Condemns FFVII As "Killer Game"

Submitted by

Imaria

on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @12:26AM

Imaria writes: "Kotaku writes to inform that Germany has a new "killerspiele" or "killer game" on the block: Final Fantasy VII. It seems two 17 year old murderers, when captured, gave their names as Reno and Sephiroth. A search of their computer discovered an installed copy of FFVII, leading to the game being marked as a danger to society. Clearly, the decade-old game was the root cause of their psychopathic tendencies."

Feed Is Live Sex On-Demand Coming to Hotel TVs? (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @12:12AM

In the world of on-demand viewing of sexually explicit material, the next step could be the ability to watch live performers from the privacy of a hotel room.

Submission + - isohunt.com down

Submitted by

AP23

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @11:55PM

AP23 writes: "As of 9:45 CST isohunt.com is down, there is an small notice in their site:
Update, Jan. 16, 2007 Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt about our lawsuit brought by the MPAA. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from another ISP (already working on that).

Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time. While it last.

— The isoHunt crew

Where am I supposed to get that Serenity torrent now?"

Submission + - isoHunt website shut down

Submitted by ATAMAH on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @11:48PM

ATAMAH writes: isoHunt (www.isohunt.com) has been shut down without notice, following a lawsuit from MPAA. Currently the message displayed on the website reads: "Jan. 16, 2007 Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt about our lawsuit brought by the MPAA. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from another ISP (already working on that). Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time. While it last. — The isoHunt crew"

Submission + - Will Wheaton's Epiphony

Submitted by Ada_Rules on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @11:15PM

Ada_Rules writes: It has been a few months since we've had a good Will Wheaton story (Wesley Crusher on Star Trek : The Next Generation, but if you did not know that you probably are at the wrong website). I've always been pretty amazed that he appears to have managed to gain a healthy perspective on his time on the show and the way fans treated him. His recent posting on Suicide Girls probably is the the definitive writing on the subject. He has gone from acceptance to nostalgia. I think we all must just be getting old.

Submission + - Futurama themed rock and/or Roll EP

Submitted by

AsnFkr

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @11:02PM

AsnFkr writes: "Remember that amazing episode of Futurama, The Sting? Well, this is a (free to download) EP recorded specifically following the storyline of that episode. Thought I'd pass it along as it is...after all....free."

Journal Journal: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers 150

Journal by Alien54 on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @10:10PM

Requiring permission to innovate? Feeling entitled to search others' property? Getting the power to act like law enforcement in order to fine or arrest those who are taking part in activities that challenge your business model? Don't these all sound quite familiar? Centuries from now (hopefully much, much sooner), the actions of the RIAA, MPAA and others that match these of the weavers and button-makers of 17th century France will

Submission + - It's What's for Breakfast

Submitted by Crash McBang on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:54PM

Crash McBang writes: Apparently many are foregoing the morning coffee for something sweeter, according to this article: "There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning," said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. What gets Slashdotters going after waking up?

Submission + - Sega to Discontinue GDroms - Death of Dreamcast

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:57PM

Croakyvoice writes: The Dreamcast games Last Hope , Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games for the Dreamcast because from february Sega Japan are to stop production of GDRoms, the death of GDroms will mean no more Dreamcast or Naomi Arcade games. The Dreamcast Community have sent emails to Sega Japan to ask for a rethink on this issue.

Submission + - Troy Hurtubise develops exoskeleton

Submitted by

sneezinglion

on Monday January 15, 2007 @11:42PM

sneezinglion writes: "It looks like something right out of starship troopers(the book), but it is real!
From the article: Hamilton-born Troy Hurtubise has developed a feature-filled suit of armour out of high-impact plastic, ceramic bullet protection and ballistic foam. Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military By Wade Hemsworth The Hamilton Spectator (Jan 11, 2007) The grizzly man is back, and this time he's ready to take on bullets and bombs. Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and U.S. soldiers in Iraq."

"Series of Tubes" Metaphor Implemented 266

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 15, 2007 @09:54PM from the drop-here-pop-there dept.

meisteg writes to tell us about Tubes: a beta application that uses a tube metaphor to enable users to share files over the Internet. The Windows-only app is free and the company hopes to make money on an enhanced version targeted at businesses. See this video for some details of how Tubes works. From the article: "[Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens] endured ridicule last year for his assertion that the Internet is 'a series of tubes.' But one Web startup hopes to bring that metaphor to life with a new service that makes it easy for people to share videos, songs, pictures and other big files."

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