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Submission + - Linux Ported to Dingoo A320

Submitted by Busshy on Saturday May 30, 2009 @03:51PM

Busshy writes: Linux has arrived on the Dingoo, a console that was recently released in Asia (Bundled with emulators for 16bit consoles)and looks like the bottom half of a DS Lite and has an XMB that closely resembles those that PSP and PS3 owners are used to. Homebrew Coders have already ported ScummVM, PRBoom (Doom Engine) to Dingoo Linux.

Comment Possible alternate explaination (Score 1) 364

by ayana on Saturday May 10, 2008 @02:53PM (#23362722) Attached to: Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links

I'm one of the seemingly many who submitted this to Slashdot, and it certainly annoys me, however... I was thinking, what if Microsoft are doing this because of Youtube having rather a lot of unauthorised copyrighted content? You can often find whole episodes or even whole seasons of TV shows on Youtube, split up into 10 minute segments in Youtube's fantastic, high resolution better-than-bluray quality, and perhaps Microsoft had some legal paranoia that if they allow links to potentially copyrighted material, they could get in legal trouble... either that or they're in so deep with the media companies that they want to act as "Copyright Cops". In favour of this theory, there's that whole story posted recently about the Zune potentially refusing to play "pirated" content. On the other hand, I've not heard anything about them blocking popular torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, and if they're setting up a competing service I can see them pulling this sort of crap. Whatever the truth turns out to be, this whole thing is very, very weird.

Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France 201

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday May 10, 2008 @01:34AM from the not-surrendering dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Google has begun to scan the streets of Paris as part of its Street View service, but the company may be hindered from publishing them unedited. The reason? French privacy laws. Google may be forced to blur faces or use low-resolution versions of the photographs. The Embassy of France in the US has a page devoted to French privacy laws, that says the laws are needed to 'avoid infringing the individual's right to privacy and right to his or her picture (photograph or drawing), both of them rights of personality.'"

UK Uses CCTV, Terrorism Laws, Against Pooping Dogs 303

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 09, 2008 @06:11PM from the let-this-be-a-lesson dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that it seems the UK is trying make up for their judicious use of surveillance cameras that, according to recent research, do not actually deter crime, by using the surveillance network to prosecute petty crimes. "Conjuring up the bogeymen of terrorists, online pedophiles and cybercriminals, the U.K. passed a comprehensive surveillance law, The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, in 2000. The law allows 'the interception of communications, carrying out of surveillance, and the use of covert human intelligence sources' to help prevent crime, including terrorism. Recent reports in the U.K. media indicate that the laws are being used for everything but terrorism investigations."

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