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Submission + - Microsoft applies for patent on Tufte's sparklines (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by jenkin sear
jenkin sear writes: Data Visualization Guru Edward Tufte developed Sparklines, a great way to display condensed data as an inline graphic. Excel's new version has incorporated the design element- and Microsoft has applied for a patent on them- without so much as a by-your-leave from Tufte. So much for a kinder, gentler Microsoft.

Submission + - BlueHippo scam collected $15M, only shipped one PC (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Turns out that those Blue Hippo commercials advertising financing for computers and other electronics for anybody, regardless of credit, were way more sleazy than you thought. The FTC brought this fraud down, but not too soon.

Submission + - Russian Whistleblower Cop on YouTube (globalpost.com)

Submitted by AHuxley
AHuxley writes: Russian police officer Alexei Dymovsky has released a series of videos in full full uniform calling out corruption and asking Prime Minister Putin to act.
“Maybe you don’t know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I’m ready to tell you everything. I’m not scared of my own death,”
"“I will show you the life of cops in Russia, how it is lived, with all the corruption and all the rest – with ignorance, rudeness, recklessness, with honest officers killed because they have stupid bosses.”"
His series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and have spread across Russia.
Dymovsky was promptly fired after the clips spread across the internet, and a local prosecutor has opened an investigation into libel.
An interior ministry source accused him of working for foreign agents and hinted that the format of Dymovsky’s complaint was a problem, using a medium that remains largely free of government control.

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PC Games (Games)

America's Army 3 Has Rough Launch, Development Team Canned 150

Posted by Soulskill from the no-stop-loss-here dept.
incognito84 writes "The development team responsible for the creation of the freeware game America's Army 3 has been canned, days after the launch of the highly flawed game, which was distributed mostly via Steam. 'The anonymous America's Army 3 developers in touch with Kotaku unsurprisingly didn't sound too pleased with the current situation, venting that "a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours on this game that was butchered by outside sources.' The game's launch was plagued by massive server authentication issues which inhibited most players from playing it even two days afterward. One of the developers made a post on the official forums saying they were 'effectively stabbed in the back,' and that much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy. A patch has been released to address some of the game's issues."

Comment Re:Wow, it only took 30,000 complaints... (Score 1) 361

by jenkin sear (#27981577) Attached to: FTC Targets Massive Car Warranty Robocall Scheme

They aren't complaining about legal behavior, are they? These dirtbags are breaking the law.

If it took 30,000 calls to the cops before they got off their butts and investigated a robbery, would that be appropriate?

If they have 100 credible reports of an organization involved in lawbreaking, they should investigate. And they should get off their fat asses far quicker to save everyone the enormous time and trouble.
Image

Dormitory Turned Into Huge Color Display 69

Posted by samzenpus from the color-your-windows dept.
macson_g writes "Students from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) once again turned one of their dormitories into huge display. The project is called P.I.W.O. (B.E.E.R.). This time they converted a 10-story building into 4-color, 12x10 display. The business was used to display animations, and to play interactive games as well. On the project page (in Polish, Google translation here) you can watch an almost hour-long video, featuring music videos, a Tetris session, a dancing Michael Jackson, Duke Nukem and Mario."
Media

Submission + - CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb writes: "This weekend CNN is re-launching its website as an enhanced multimedia site — packed with web 2.0 features such as recommendations and user generated content. Over the past year or so many mainstream publications have 'web 2.0-ized' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Now it's CNN's turn.

The new CNN.com features a big increase in multimedia, including live video content that was previously only available via the subscription-only CNN Pipeline. It is also now in Flash, rather than Windows Media format. The video content has been integrated into the main site and is available for free. CNN has beefed up its content with that web 2.0 favorite, "user-generated content". Also there is a recommendation feature called "We Recommend" — which is based on past browsing."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Eben Moglen: Global Software Industry Post-GPL3

Submitted by
Dan Shearer
Dan Shearer writes: "Three days before GPLv3 was released, Eben Moglen delivered the annual lecture of The Scottish Society of Computers and Law in Edinburgh, Scotland giving his thoughts on The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3. The text transcription, audio and 384kbit video are up at archive.org. Eben looks back at the "legislative action" achieved by the GPLv3 community over the last 18 months, and also from the 22nd century. A riveting presentation for all present."

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