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Submission + - Movie about Steve Jobs (reelz.com)

Submitted by hcs_$reboot on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:08AM

hcs_$reboot writes: It is reported that Sony bought the rights to a biopic on the life of Steve Jobs with the intent of making a movie. The biography on which the movie would be based was written by former CNN chairman and current managing editor of Time magazine, Walter Isaacson (biography to be released October 24).
There are discussions about what could be the best title, and which actor would fit the best for the main role.
While the biography was approved by Mr Jobs, what about some other people who crossed Steve's life and who may not have always been portrayed in a friendly way in his other biographies (the most famous one being probably Bill Gates).
Is Sony able to provide an unbiased work, without having Steve Jobs around to make sure they do?

Submission + - Detect major earthquakes? (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by hcs_$reboot on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @08:24PM

hcs_$reboot writes: According to a Japanese researcher, the electrons count escalation high in the atmosphere could indicate that a major earthquake is going to happen within 30~40 minutes.
That phenomenon was observed before three earthquakes since 2004.
If confirmed, the earthquake detection system could save thousands of lives.

Submission + - Company fined €25,000 for altering Wikipedia (google.com)

Submitted by hcs_$reboot on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @11:59AM

hcs_$reboot writes: A French court ordered a company to pay 25,000 Euros to a competitor which she had removed the name of a Wikipedia entry dedicated to her field. Google translation from French. Hi-Media, the defendant, was identified thanks to her IP address found from the Wikipedia page.

Submission + - Japanese space craft misses Venus (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Submitted by hcs_$reboot on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @08:51AM

hcs_$reboot writes: "A Japanese space probe on a £190 million mission to orbit Venus has missed the planet completely – but could be more successful when it next passes by in six years' time, scientists said."

While the reason of the failure is not confirmed, it is likely the probe didn't slow down enough when approaching Venus.

Submission + - Guy Fined For Posting Links To Official Broadcast (techdirt.com) 1

Submitted by hcs_$reboot on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:37AM

hcs_$reboot writes: Over in Sweden, it appears that a guy has been fined for linking to an online broadcast of a hockey game. We've heard stories of people getting in trouble merely for linking to unauthorized content, but this story is even more ridiculous. The guy wasn't linking to unauthorized content. He was linking to an online video feed from the official broadcaster, Canal Plus.
The issue was that Canal Plus was apparently technically incompetent in how they set up the feeds, and never intended to make the feeds public.

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