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Submission + - Universal Psychic Guild Bridges Psychics and the P (psychicguild.com)

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Neoli Marcos

on Monday July 09, 2007 @02:58AM

Neoli Marcos writes: "Melbourne, Australia, 6 July 2007 — Universal Psychic Guild redefines online psychic service with its new live webcam chat.
Now, With the new Webcam video Chat readings, clients can see and speak with a professional psychic from the privacy & comfort of their own computer with the assurance that they are receiving a genuine psychic reading.
Online psychics are a booming business in the Internet nowadays, but along with it is the proliferation of scams and fraudalent psychics. Universal Psychic Guild tries to guard the public against that.
For this service, clients need Flash Player Version 8 or 9 installed in their computer, preferably with a high speed broadband internet connection. This is to ensure that they get only the best quality feed available. Also, they will need a headset/ speaker/ microphone in order to hear and converse with the psychic. The webcam is entirely optional, and people can still consult with psychics.
Universal Psychic Guild's Live Psychic Chat via webcam goes for the same cost per minute rate as the regular service.

Universal Psychic Guild (ACN: 066 828 288) P.O. Box 7011 Hawthorn North Victoria 3122, Australia Phone- Australia: 1300 365 318 Fax: +61 3 9815 1544"

Submission + - NYC planning Street Security Cameras (nytimes.com)

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* * Beatles-Beatles

on Monday July 09, 2007 @02:38AM

* * Beatles-Beatles writes: "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/nyregion/09ring. html

Similar to the system in London — If the program is fully financed, it will include not only license plate readers but also 3,000 public and private security cameras below Canal Street, as well as a center staffed by the police and private security officers, and movable roadblocks"

Submission + - Broading the Definition of Life

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Monday July 09, 2007 @02:18AM

Dr. Eggman writes: Ars Technica reports on a book issued by the National Academies of Science, which criticizes NASA's narrow approach to searching for life beyond earth and suggests a broader definition of life:

* A thermodynamic disequilibrium of some sort, from which energy can be harvested.
* A chemical environment that allows the persistence of covalent bonds.
* A liquid environment.
* A molecular inheritance system that can support Darwinian evolution.

The intent of the definition is to allow our search to take into account exotic lifeforms with biology so vastly different that we overlook them in our quest for earth-like conditions and therefore earth-like biology. The book itself appears to be a very interesting read, and appears to have a free full text PDF offering as well.

Submission + - How open is "open" when Microsoft say it? (itwire.com.au)

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davidmwilliams

on Monday July 09, 2007 @02:11AM

davidmwilliams writes: "Microsoft are ratifying new open document formats through Ecma. On the one hand this is a good thing: open file formats help preserve data and make it available anywhere. Yet, is there a secret agenda to produce a raft of Microsoft-centric so-called standards? http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13391/53/"

Submission + - Sony slashes PS3 price to $500

Submitted by Peter Kern on Monday July 09, 2007 @01:53AM

Peter Kern writes: To cut or not to cut the price, that was the question for Sony in the past few days it seems. Now we know that the PS3 in fact gets a price cut, down from $599 to $499 and into the range of the Xbox 360 Elite, which has been offered for around $480 by stores such as Best Buy this weekend. Oh, and yes, we will be getting an 80 GB PS3 in the U.S. as well. The big question now is: Can Sony increase the shipment numbers of its PS3?

Submission + - Google Developing New Social Networking Site (blogspot.com)

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* * Beatles-Beatles

on Monday July 09, 2007 @01:46AM

* * Beatles-Beatles writes: "http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/googles-s ocial-networking-projects.html

Google already has a social network (orkut), but it's only popular in Brazil and India, doesn't have a Googlish interface and had a lot of security problems in the past. That's why last year Google sponsored a project at the Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute whose initial goal was to "rethink and reinvent online social networking"."

Submission + - Finnish court rules CSS "ineffective"

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25, 2007 @09:49AM

An anonymous reader writes: In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is "ineffective". The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of "effective technological measures". The legislation is based on EU Copyright Directive from 2001. According to both Finnish copyright law and the underlying directive, only such protection measure is effective, "which achieves the protection objective." http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=102

Submission + - Firefox 3.0 makes leap forward

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Kurtz'sKompund

on Friday May 25, 2007 @09:41AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes: "Mozilla has met a major milestone in its march to Firefox 3.0 by adding a major part of the new Places feature to the alpha product that is set for release late next week. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/internet /applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=3187"

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