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Comment Credibility? (Score 5, Interesting) 264

I may be breaking the fundamental rules of Slashdot, but ...
- the "article" is a single post on a recently created blog
- they misspell "lose"
- a quick google of Brett Wooldrige doesn't bring up anything exciting (a Forbes blog account with no content?)

This is the very definition of "nothing to see here, move along".

Movies

Submission + - Swedish firm to offer lawful alternative to piracy

Karol writes: A Swedish company believes it may have discovered a lawful solution to the movie industry's long-running file sharing quandary. By merging peer to peer file sharing methods with advanced watermarking technology, Stockholm firm Headweb hopes to beat the internet pirates at their own game and offer consumers a legal alternative. Customers will be given the opportunity to pay for movies, download them legally using BitTorrent technology and view them using a regular DVD player.
Announcements

Submission + - Koji Kondo Performs at GDC

njkid1 writes: "The CMP Game Group today announced that Video Games Live will be performing during the final night of the Game Developers Conference (GDC). This concert will be taking place at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium on Friday, March 9 at 8 PM. As a special treat, Koji Kondo, the music composer for games like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Star Fox, will make an appearance and perform one of his favorite songs. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=15278&n cid=AOLGAM000500000000020"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Homework!?

An anonymous reader writes: With all the talk about Blizzard lately, I was asked a question about Guild Wars and World of Warcraft. While both games address different aspects, how would you get Blizzard to drop the monthly fee for WoW without trying to generate a force needed to compensate for the entropy of the players' need to play the game? After all, the no monthly free works for Guild Wars, so the model itself is fine. Or perhaps the question should be stated, how would you get this model to be the accepted form for all MMORPGs? Also, assume that the person asking me will not accept impossible for an answer. I would like to know your thoughts.
Censorship

Submission + - Wikipedia Blocked by Schools

Malkara writes: "Apparently my school system, in Central Florida, has blocked Wikipedia access on all school computers. I had known wikipedia was blocked for the last week, but I was just recently informed that it had indeed been a conscious decision. Apparently they're worried about people quoting directly from Wikipedia, and decided to take the easy way out by simply completely blocking the website in all schools from Elementary to High School."
Security

Submission + - Teleworkers need strict rules, security

coondoggie writes: "When it comes to securing remote employees, it takes more than awareness. Arlington Ocunty in Va., has layered a number of technologies in order to secure the endpoints, installing Symantec's Client Security on government-issued computers that offers virus, spyware, and intrusion protection as well as personal firewall features. The computers are physically protected by Absolute Software's Computrace — "the LoJack of computer hardware," which lets the county trace the location of a computer. In addition, the county secures network access with firewalls and uses SSL for authentication. "A lot of organizations still believe that a security strategy is antivirus, and that simply doesn't work anymore," says Natalie Lambert, senior analyst at Forrester Research. "Now attacks are nefarious, extracting corporate information, and there's a lot of organized crime and going after competitors . . . attacks these days are very targeted." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/022007-heigh tened-awareness.html"

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