Hearst Corporation announce the development of a Kindle type gadget publishers can use to publish their last will and testament, their memoirs and their suicide notes.
Rupert Murdoch is first to place an advance order.

English speaking world.

There's footage of she and her relatives singing to her sister

There is footage of her and her relatives singing to her sister.
There fixed that for you.

And don't forget the kids, or all those Clash concerts. And the wine, mustn't forget the wine. Too busy with my fairly average slash dot real life involving not living in a basement or mmorping to really do a funny supportive message to this but you get my drift.

Yes it is a very traditional conservative paper, but it is well known for its high standards of journalism. Simply put if you grow potatoes in Idaho and buy iPods from China you grew iPods in Idaho. Let me dismiss the majority off negative comments on this with the observation that they demonstrate a fair lack of understanding here of either Marxist, Capitalist, or Modern economics. Not that this is terribly unusual since almost everyone thinks that they understand micro or macroeconomics. There are more armchair economists than generals.

What we need here is our very own prize awarding institution.
Then instead of sneering at the dumb choices of a bunch of dozy scandinavian academics we can employ the wisdom of the slashdotcrowd, which as we all know, is way smarter than the average crowd.
The existing categories of the Nobel Prize are a tad limiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_prize so I suggest we will need a call for categories to begin with.
It goes without saying that the prize is just kudos - no cash - and that nominations are of course free as in beer.
Well I suppose for the publicity photos there may be a small Gnubell made out of something standard - titanium alloy springs to mind...or of course transparent aluminium but that will be free too.

for a longtime. They have obviously never heard of the Streisand Effect.
(Does it really need a link here? Oh alright then. knock yourself out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect )

I live here and they have managed to reach out to me over the intraweb. I would never have thought of clicking the "english" button on that German wikipedia page either.
I know nothing-NOTHING!
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan's_heroes

Why is this news? Microsoft have been doing this since the days of the original Xbox. This is the reason my original Xbox with its 40 quid Xecutor chip running XBMC, serving films and music (I guess I should say "choons") and still playing Halo one and two, has never ever logged in to the games network. The Xecutor chip is switchable and can be turned off to do all that complicated online stuff however ... as long as you never feed it after midnight.

But the banking system here, requires the use of single use numbers for each online banking transaction. Your bank provides you with a unique sheet of them and if you lose it, you have to request a new one. Nor are credit cards popular with German consumers. Sites such as Amazon.de allow payment by bank transfer (Uberweisung). You can manually complete the transactions slip and give to your bank or do the same thing with your online banking. Any issue and the transfer has to be reversed. There are an awful lot more banks too - one just around the corner from me and at least three within a few minutes walk with real people working there and very, very friendly managers - if you're liquid!

This is a story about the law as it applies in England and Wales. Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland (that famous non-sovereign state -slashdot anon) has an entirely separate and distinctly different, Roman based system of law and no real equivalent of the infamous Carter Ruck (billed as a "British Law Firm" whatever that is) and subsequently no really litigious use of libel laws on the magnitude of those in England.
Scottish Judges are renowned for making anyone guilty of contempt spend at least one night in the cells - famous editors and briefs included. Much to the amusement to the mainly retired and unemployed audience in the public gallery.

Shutdown -p now you're a brick! A thousand thanks!

It was almost a cliche in the socialist movement in the UK in the early eighties for some of the most unreconstructed men to champion women's rights while living a private life that was not quite as pure as the driven snow with regard to women.
Since I don't know the author, I can't comment on that aspect of his life. However, he is guilty of grandstanding on the issues of group he is not actually part of. Laudable as this may be, I would suggest that in order to clarify the issue, the victims should come forward and bear witness.
You don't really see a great number of women down the pub knocking back 16 pints of lager every Friday night commenting on how Chelsea are doing and whether or not money will buy a team success but is that an example of sex based exclusion or is it because they have better things to do?

I have a grudging respect for XP professional edition that grew on me as I managed to turn off all of the rubbish and secure the system. I have not used it on since the Zone Alarm screw up, by which time I had migrated all my systems to Ubuntu. I just got completely fed up with the obscure methods of networking or anything to do with servers, apache and mysql - all much easier in the big U. I still use XP in a VM for my employers access database which really can't be migrated and since they are using Vista (comes with the new PCs) conversations about what to click on over the phone rapidly descend into farce.. (with apologies to Vista professionals, which I imagine, there must be.)
"Ok click on Tools"
"Where's that?"
"It's in the menu bar,oh wait a minute you don't have that. Can you see it on the left hand panel?"
"I can see the list of tables..."
"No that's the wrong view. Is it in the blobby display along the top of the screen?"
"What's the blobby display?"
"All those sort of chunky yellow icons at the top of the access window."
"Are they yellow?"
"I'm not sure, I thought they were sort of yellow the last time I looked at your GUI."
"My gooey? Where's that?"
"It's okay, it's your screen, along the top of the window, they're about a centimetre tall and chunky."
"No, I can't see anything called tools."
"Try clicking on the big MS circle in the top left-hand corner of the screen."
"A circle? I don't have a circle."
"It's a 3D ball, in blue with the Microsoft logo."
"What's a logo?"
"Hello, are you from the past?"

journalism was invented when print technology was the opportunity to arbitage information. The channel for this information was expensive - lots of postage, horses, carrier pigeons and sailing ships. Newspapers consolidated this information into neat bundles filtered according to readership. The source of almost all this information were letters from all over the known world.
The authors of these letters were in the main ordinary people writing to friends. Thus was born the correspondent. Most of them wrote long rambling tracts about stuff few people had any interest in. So the similarity to bloggers is obvious. They were not paid for their material which newspaper ran often verbatim.
Competition soon created professionals who wrote stuff worth reading that was entertaining. But now the channel is free, almost everyone has camera in their phone and we only really need professionals to shepherd the information. Apparently 17 year old kids can do that (in Europe,just read the news opt outs from Sky News that run during Fox News' almost ad free commercial break, to check the veracity of this statement).
Ruperts Rants are just the anguished growl of a dinosaur trapped in tar pit of technological change that a half-dead wombat could have predicted (and were - people, not wombats) more than twenty years ago. The decline in print media publishing especially magazines and newspapers has been easily observed over the past fifty years.

So it shouldn't be too long before bloggers and the interweb get to ask the question:

"Would the last person to leave The Sun offices in Wapping switch off the lights?"

Well we can chalk this up alongside: The termite colony in England that will soon devour the East Coast, the English Wallaby colony, The devouring rhododendron of Wales, the German Racoon Colony, and lets not forget all those other weeds busy clogging up the waterways of Europe nor the somewhat rampant (and delicious baked in a pie) American Grey Squirrel locked in a Star Wars type war with the Rebel Alliance of Red Squirrels - also in the UK.

Then there's the Florida Pythons (not a new comedy team), South American Fire ants and First Amongst Equals the Cane Toad in Oz.

However I do believe the English landed Gentry managed to finish off the last member of the Coypu Colony (sort of giant hamster) but have had no success with the now wild and thoroughly naturalised Mink which is doing an "Alien" along the clogged up waterways ripping everything with a heartbeat to shreds as it advances further and further North.

Thanks in most part to: Stupidity, Cack Science, well-meaning Animal Libbers, Globalisation and the simple fellow who thought it would be a great idea to have those charming racoons climbing in and out of German wheelie bins (a sort of Euro-dumpster)