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Submission + - Gawker sued for leaking pages from Palin's book (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by irockash
irockash writes: HarperCollins filed a complaint against Gawker for leaking 21 pages from Sarah Palin's upcoming book, "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag." Other sites have published excerpts from the book, but refused to take them down after being sent a letter demanding the material taken down. "An item published the day before and titled "Sarah Palin Is Mad at Us for Leaking Pages From Her Book" defended the blog's actions and linked to websites defining the fair use doctrine of copyright law."

Comment Wow, an ETF that adds up (Score 1) 56

by irockash (#31070066) Attached to: Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee
Looking at the Google site, the phone costs $179 if you sign up with a T-Mobile plan. So if you cancel, you're out the $179 + $150 from Google, + $200 from T-Mobile... which brings the price to $529, which coincidentally, is the unlocked price of the phone. You are at a loss, however, of how many months you had the service before canceling (with T-Mobile's current discount for not subsidizing the device).
Government

Submission + - 22 Million missing emails from Bush Administration (foxnews.com)

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GNUALMAFUERTE
GNUALMAFUERTE writes: "Twenty-two million missing e-mails from the Bush White House have been found, according to two groups that are settling lawsuits they filed over the issue. A former Bush spokesman, though, dismissed the claim as overblown.

The announcement came from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive, both of which were settling lawsuits they filed in 2007 over the failure of the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system. The groups said computer technicians uncovered the missing e-mails.

Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to the National Security Archive, said "many poor choices were made during the Bush administration and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records despite the fact that they were contending with regular subpoenas for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records."

"We may never discover the full story of what happened here," said Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. "It seems like they just didn't want the e-mails preserved.""

Comment Re:As an Australian Resident,,, (Score 1) 277

Curious, how is violence shown in the media over there? I know in the states it's watered down compared to some international news I've watched (where you see actual bodies and not just a map of the general area). If anything, I think that helps people accept it and not feed into the hype around it. That said, this game would get an M rating over here, or from what I've read in the other comments, they need some sort of 18+ in Austrailia. As in, you won't be able to purchase the game unless you're 18, there's no valid "think of the children" excuse when you're old enough to buy cigarettes. Sure some kids will have their parents buy the game, but that's who should be putting the foot down. From your comment, it seems like you would decide not to purchase the game for your kids. Which is fine, as long as it's your decision and not the governments.
News

Submission + - Google to Limit Free News Access

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Ready for All the News That's Fit to Print 2.0? In a concession to media companies, Google announced that newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google. 'Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free,' Google explained in a blog post. 'Now, we've updated the programme so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing.' The same restrictions can also be imposed on any websites indexed in Google's Web Search. No word if the Fave 5 rule will apply to Sergey Brin's much-ballyhooed Library to Last Forever.
KDE

Submission + - K Desktop Environment is now Plasma Desktop (kde.org) 2

Submitted by Jiilik Oiolosse
Jiilik Oiolosse writes: After literally years of agonizing over the details, KDE has killed KDE. In what is essentially, this is the same process that Mozilla went through, originally being a browser, but now being an organization, the KDE community has killed to term K Desktop Environment (previously the Kool Desktop Environment). KDE had previously ambiguously referred to both the community, and the complete set of programs and tools produced by the KDE community which together formed a desktop user interface. This set of tools, including the window manager, panels and configuration utilities, which KDE terms a 'workspace', will now be shipped under the term "Plasma Desktop". This allows KDE to ship a separate workspace called "Plasma Netbook", and independently market the various KDE applications as usable in any workspace, whether it be the Plasma Desktop, Windows, or XFCE.

Comment Re:Possible Starcraft Solutions (Score 1) 367

by irockash (#30127190) Attached to: Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs?
I tried the Chaos Launcher (first link) the other day, and it has the ability to double the size (press Alt + F9). It definitely doubled it, but the game ran horrible. May have been something on my end, but scrolling accurately was impossible, movement was really slow. I didn't look into it, just went back to the normal windowed mode.

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