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Comment Re:National Archives of Australia have them anyway (Score 2) 150

In October 1996, Australian Doctor Who fans Damian Shanahan and Ellen Parry discovered a collection of the censored clips – several from missing episodes which do not exist in their entirety – in the records of the National Archives of Australia.[12] The clips had been sent by the Commonwealth Film Censorship Board (now the Office of Film and Literature Classification) to the Archives as evidence of the required edits having been made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes#Censor_clips

Piracy

Submission + - Feds Seize Movie Download Portals (torrentfreak.com)

SharkLaser writes: Homeland Security’s ICE unit has just started another phase of Operation In Our Sites. Last week the seized sites were selling counterfeit goods, but this time the list consists solely of movie download sites. ICE has now seized the domains of 11 Korean movie download portals. This is first time Operation In Our Sites has been expanded to include sites targeting non-US nationals and non-english sites. ICE has since added a message in Korean to the seized sites. Interestingly, while the sites were in Korean, the domain names are all connected to a Seattle-based company World Multimedia Group, Inc.
AMD

Submission + - AMD Realizes That Bulldozer Has 800 Million Less T (techpowerup.com)

Robadob writes: It has come to light that AMD PR had originally reported that the new Bulldozer processor's transistor count was 2 billion. AMD PR are now asking reviewers to correct this count to 1.2 billion from the original amount they provided ~3 months ago.
Games

Submission + - Notch Stepping Down From Minecraft Lead (coderetard.com)

BigSes writes: Mark Perrson, better known as Notch, is stepping down as Minecraft Lead Developer. Now that Minecraft is "completed" and has been released, Notch is planning to step away from game development for a time. The lead role will be handled by long-time Mojang team member Jens Bergensten. Notch plans to continue to contribute to Minecraft, but what is to be expected without its founder at the helm?

Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 1) 186

With o2 you are supposed to be able to disable it by spending £1 on a card which is refunded as £5 discount on your phone bill, this functionality wasn't working when i was using my phone out of town and wanted to get on certain forums. I went into the local o2 store stated that the online system was down and asked them to confirm me 18, the guy in the store hadn't got a clue, asked his manager played with the pc for a couple of minutes then said that their system was down as well.

When i returned home my friend who works at o2 suggested i just give him the details required so he could do it for me, before giving him the details i tried with the card again which also failed, however this friend managed to disable it just fine for me.

Just shows how much people who don't know what they're doing bullshit you in stores.

Comment Re:Give customers a decent product (Score 1) 360

Increasingly more and more studios are using expensive actors/locations/effects to compensate for boring/predictable plots. If they spent time writing decent worthwhile storylines they wouldn't need to rely on expensive gimmicks as much.
There are loads of good older movies which don't have flashy effects or scenes set in multiple countries.

Also hollywood accounting is another method they use to increase the 'cost' to produce movies;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

Apple

Submission + - Prior Art Can Make Apple's iPad Design Invalid (muktware.com)

sfcrazy writes: The heart of the issue is the 'generic/broad' design of a tablet that Apple got approved as EC community design. One may wonder how such a generic design, which cover an entire range of product and overlaps with other already existing products be patented to one single company?

I lot of bloggers like Ken Hess and Apple fans are defending Apple. Ken has defended Apple for patenting the iPad design. The question is how unique is the iPad's design, are there prior arts?

Muktware has gather prior art examples which may make the iPad design patent invalid.

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