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Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311

Posted by Soulskill from the snakes-and-horsies dept.
ttsiod writes "When I was a kid, I used to play the Knight's Tour puzzle with pen and paper: you simply had to pass once from every square of a chess board, moving like a Knight. Nowadays, I no longer play chess; but somehow I remembered this nice little puzzle and coded a 60-line Python solver that can tackle even 100x100 boards in less than a second. Try beating this, fellow coders!"
Power

Submission + - Monitor draws zero power in standby

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fifthace
fifthace writes: "A new range of Fujitsu Siemens monitors don't draw power during standby. The technology uses capacitors and relays to avoid drawing power when no video signal is present.

With political parties all over Europe calling for a ban on standby, this small development could end up as one of the most significant advances in recent times. The British Government estimates eight percent of all domestic electricity is consumed by devices in standby."
Music

Submission + - Senators want Justice Department to sue P2P pirate (news.com)

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blast3r
blast3r writes: "News.com published a story that two senators, a Democrat and a Republican, introduced a bill on Wednesday that would unleash the world's largest law firm on Internet pirates. It would authorize the Justice Department to file civil lawsuits against people engaged in peer-to-peer copyright infringement — with the proceeds going to the company or person who owns the copyright."
Encryption

Submission + - Hushmail Gives Email Data to Feds (wired.com)

Submitted by
oostevo
oostevo writes: "According to Wired, Hushmail, who claim that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer" have given unencrypted email to investigators following a court order from a Canadian court in a steroid-related investigation.

In Hushmail's defense, however, it would seem that they were compelled to exploit a security vulnerability to steal user's passphrases and decrypt their mail. They also have been very frank in discussing the situation and their response [pdf link]."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Eve-Online, Developers caught cheating again

Submitted by (ars)lyme
(ars)lyme writes: Once again the developers of EVE online have been caught cheating to support their in game corporation Band of Brothers. Thousands of players have started to speak out on the www.eve-online.com forums only to have their threads locked, deleted, and then being banned from posting. Customer service for online games have never sank so low.. But is there anything anyone can do? http://goonfleet.com/open_letter_to_CCP.html
Google

Submission + - Google bans AdSense banners proximity to images

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Photocritic
Photocritic writes: "The practice of placing images above or next to adsense banners has been around for a while — the idea is to trick visitors into thinking that the Googe Ads are clickable image captions. Unsuspecting visitors click on the ads, and the webmasters make money. Now, google has officially announced that the practice is unwanted. The article includes examples."
Microsoft

Submission + - Gates - Not a fan of DRM

Submitted by TheNetAvenger
TheNetAvenger writes: Even though MS has provided DRM mechanisms for Windows Media, as many have stated before, it is out of necessity for the content providers and not something MS or even Gates himself sees as a good thing according comments he made in a recent blog roundtable. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8136/53

Even Microsoft founder Bill Gates finds it easier to "just buy a CD and rip it" than grapple with the copyright protection used by online music stores.
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Gates went on to say Digital Rights Management "causes too much pain for legitimate buyers" trying to distinguish between legal and illegal uses. He declined to elaborate on how Microsoft would address this.

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