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Submission + - Latest Bin Laden Video a Forgery (boomantribune.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A blogger at BoomanTribune.com points out that all audio references to current events in the much-hyped Osama Bin Laden 9/11 sixth anniversary commemorative video recently released over the Internet occur at times when the video image is curiously frozen.
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Y2K says Bioshock is licensed per user not per PC (2kgames.com) 2

Submitted by ScaredOfTheMan
ScaredOfTheMan writes: According to the Y2K forums a Bioshock PC install is only valid per one user (the one you were logged in as when you installed it). Any attempt to play the game from a different user account will require further activation. All I can say is Weak! Check out the metaphor of why your brother should not play the game you purchased.
Portables

Submission + - Dell Ubuntu not for Consumers

Submitted by
jshriverWVU
jshriverWVU writes: "Dell doesn't sell Ubuntu n-series machines to consumers only businesses. Having a new job and going to school part time I thought I'd vote with my wallet and went online to order a Dell notebook with Ubuntu. After a while of declining a ton of extras (even windows software) I finally get to the order form. Then proceed to checkout only to be asked for a business ID or tax ID to make the purchase. Being an individual I found no way around this so I called Dell sales directly to see if I could order it that way. After 15 minutes on the phone I am told that I can't get the laptop as an individual and they are only sold to businesses. So without a business ID I couldn't get one. WTF?"
Security

Submission + - Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers (washingtonpost.com) 1

Submitted by
Abdul
Abdul writes: "The network of compromised Microsoft Windows computers under the thumb of the criminals who control the Storm Worm has grown so huge that it now has more raw distributed computing power than all of the world's top supercomputers, security experts say. In a posting today to a data security mailing list, Peter Gutmann, a computer science professor with the University of Auckland in New Zealand, said the Storm botnet could easily outperform IBM's BlueGene/L, currently the top-ranked supercomputer on the planet.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08 /storm_worm_dwarfs_worlds_top_s_1.html"
Google

Submission + - New Google Linux Apps Coming Soon !! (techrythm.com) 2

Submitted by
techoon
techoon writes: "The goal of the Google Linux Client Team is to develop Linux desktop applications, such as what we have seen from Google Earth and Google Picasa with official Linux versions. Google had also made an interesting splash at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus) during a presentation by the Google Linux Client Team. What was it? Well, there are some "significant accomplishments" and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform."
Handhelds

Submission + - Mot's Linux phone arrives at U.S. stores (linuxdevices.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Motorola today sent out a mass email inviting recipients to "experience" its Linux-based RAZR2 V8 phone "at your nearest mobile phone store." The phone will be offered by all major U.S. GSM/GPRS providers, including AT&T (formerly Cingular), Sprint, and T-Mobile, according to reports. Motorola's mobile division hasn't been doing so well lately, and some analysts have called the RAZR2 a "make or break" product for the company. Can Linux save Mot's mobile phone business?
Google

Submission + - Google Earth Flight Simulator (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
marcog123
marcog123 writes: "Last week Google launched Google Sky as an addition to Google Earth. However, what they didn't tell us is that the sneaked in another key addition — a flight simulator. They appear to have held back on publicising this new feature, although it could be considered by some as more useful than Google Sky. It is currently limited to an F16 and SR22, but the selection of runways is impressive for an under-the-radar release. It's a great new addition that complements Google Earth well!"
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - The power of a PS2 Modchip in a Memory Card (maxconsole.net)

Submitted by
MaxConsole
MaxConsole writes: "120 million PS2/PStwo consoles prepare to become modded via the use of a plug 'n play advanced custom memory card! A new product is preparing to be launched within the next two weeks which gives PS2/PSTwo owners all the functions of an advanced PS2 mod chip but directly from an advanced memory card. That means no masses of wires to be soldered, no voiding of the warranty, just a simple insertion of a special memory card known as 'Vast' which will fully unlock ANY PS2 console just as would a hard wired mod chip would do so."
The Internet

Submission + - Comcast getting threats from irate customers

Submitted by
pcjunky
pcjunky writes: "It seems some customers can't take it anymore. Comcast has received two threats in as many weeks. It seems a 75 year old man threatened to throw has cable box through their window. Reported in our local news paper. The original story can be read here."
Handhelds

Submission + - Completed NES Emulator Touts all iPhone Features

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's only been a few short weeks since hacker NerveGas forked and re-engineered the first Nintendo Emulator for iPhone. Over a few weekends of insane work, NES.app has been nearly completed and demonstrates all of the touted features of the iPhone. iPhone developers are now able to use the application's source tree to figure out code for MultiTouch, Sensors, and all of the core features and optimizations used in iPhone's SDK, which was reverse engineered from scratch by the iPhone development team. While the application itself is now completely playable with sound, full screen, and Game Genie support, the real achievements are in source code examples made available to other developers under the GPL.
Linux Business

Submission + - Sourcefire Acquires ClamAV

Submitted by Huh?
Huh? writes: Looks like another popular open source project is getting gobbled up this month . Open source innovator and SNORT (R) creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), today announced that it has acquired ClamAV(TM), a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project. Sourcefire's first acquisition since its Initial Public Offering in March 2007, ClamAV will broaden the company's open source footprint while providing the technology foundation for new products and services that will extend the company's Enterprise Threat Management network security portfolio. I sure hope Sourcefire doesn't put a 30 day delay on the ClamAV database updates for community users (i.e. non paying) like it did to the Snort VRT rules.
Media

Submission + - YouTube for Science? (scivee.tv)

Submitted by Shipud
Shipud writes: The National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have partnered to set up what can best be described as a "YouTube for scientists", SciVee". Scientists can upload their research papers, accompanied by a video where they describe the work in the form of a short lecture, accompanied by a presentation. The formulaic, technical style of scientific writing, the heavy jargonization and the need for careful elaboration often renders reading papers a laborious effort. SciVee's creators hope that that the appeal of a video or audio explanation of paper will make it easier for others to more quickly grasp the concepts of a paper and make it more digestible both to colleagues and to the general public.

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