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Submission + - OMG Ponies

Submitted by jibjibjib
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Security

Submission + - Police Shut Down LAN Tournament

Submitted by
Sibko
Sibko writes: "17 year old Zach Wigal, a Saline High School student, spent 9 months organizing a Halo 2 LAN tournament that was to be held on March 20th, spending $650 of his own money to help launch the event. He had talked to school officials, printed fliers to help advertise, and had parents and teachers agree to be chaperones. Everything was fine, until his father called the local police to inquire about the availability of a uniformed officer. This raised concerns with departmental community coordinator Ritchie Coleman who serves on the Southeast Michigan Chapter of the Parents TV Council.

"I'm not saying boycott the game, I just think that kids 17 and under playing an M-rated game for money is not something appropriate for the high school,'' Phillips said.
Due to the police involvement just four days prior to the event, it had to be shut down."
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Top 10 April Fools Stories 234

Posted by Zonk from the true-history-in-the-making dept.
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ddelmonte writes with a link to a brietbart story on the top ten April Fools Day hoaxes, as determined by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes. Two great British examples: "In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse."
Power

Submission + - Death of the cell phone charger

Submitted by
jerthebear
jerthebear writes: "How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked agreements with it, is about to start finding out. Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air.

Link to story"
Microsoft

Journal Journal: Mozilla Foundation sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing 149

Journal by Alphager
According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7.
The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California.
The Foundation wants that MS imediately
Programming

Submission + - Python Elegance and Warts

Submitted by IdaAshley
IdaAshley writes: Python has greatly increased its number of syntactic features and built-in functions and types, making it no longer a language that experienced programmers can pick up "in an afternoon." This article discusses the new features that have been added to Python, and weighs in on which ones are truly valuable and which just add unnecessary complication.
Privacy

Submission + - UK "data rape" centres open tomorrow

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: 26th March, or ID-Day marks the opening of the first interrogation centres in the UK. Anyone applying for, or renewing a passport will have to surrender to data rape, fingerprinting, digitised face and iris scans.

All those who signed the official e-petition (propaganda mailing list) received an e-mail from Tony Blair, including reassurances that the database will go ahead and all its glorious biometric data will be fully open to fishing expeditions.
GUI

Submission + - Are Beryl and Compiz are about to reunite?

Submitted by
**loki969**
**loki969** writes: "It seems that Beryl and Compiz are about to reunite. According to an email on beryls dev-ML, most devs seem to be looking forward to reuniting the effort of developing a decent 3D desktop for Linux, even though Beryl has forked off Compiz not too long ago because of dissension about the chosen MIT license of Compiz. And it seems that they already found a name for this new project: Coral"
Security

Submission + - Digg.com Accounts Compromised

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There is a cross-site scripting vulnerbility on the registration page of popular social networking site Digg.com. The hole allows cookies and sessions of logged-in users to be hijacked, compromising the account. The exploit can be triggered simply by a user clicking a maliciously-crafted link. A full explanation and sample exploit code is available here
Education

Submission + - Citizendium open for reading

Submitted by
Electrawn
Electrawn writes: "Citizendium is now open for everyone to view. Major AP stories hit wire in the next hour. Site moves from a pilot phase to a beta phase. -Jason Potkanski, Citizendium"
Bug

Submission + - World's most expensive train ticket?

Submitted by BeerCat
BeerCat writes: The UK National Rail site can search for journeys between different destinations, and will also display the likely fare. Unless, the journey is from Oxford to Hawarden (about 170 miles by road, according to Google Maps), travelling tomorrow from 08:00, in which case the fare will be £179,769,313,486,231,570,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000.00

The site even notes "We are sorry, but we couldn't find any First Class tickets available. You can try searching in different times or dates for available First Class tickets". Which is probably just as well.
Novell

Submission + - De Icaza Pleads for Cooperation Between Mono, .Net

Submitted by
suka
suka writes: "In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper "DER STANDARD", Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsofts .Net: 'I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration'. The whole interview has some other interesting bits, like de Icazas thoughts on an open sourced java and infos about upcomping versions of Mono."

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