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Comment Ian M Banks (Score 1) 392

by speedwaystar (#30403704) Attached to: How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine

Space opera author Iain M Banks' spaceships (from his various Culture novels) are propelled by "traction fields" which engage with the "energy grid" (sic) underlying the universe. Banks readily admits that this is purest gibberish with no basis in any known science. Perhaps in light of this research he can backtrack and claim to have been describing a form of quantum propulsion all along?
Privacy

Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Enters Beta Testing 137

Posted by samzenpus from the counting-grains-of-sand dept.
schliz writes "Developers of The Pirate Bay have launched their new Virtual Private Network (VPN) service to some 180,000 pre-registered beta testers. An e-mail to beta testers read. 'IPREDator does not store any personal details about its clients. IPREDator does not store any traffic habits you might have. IPREDator is the key to a free internet in the renaissance of censorship!' The new service was launched to protect file sharers in response to the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into effect in April."
Communications

You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? 635

Posted by timothy from the copper-makes-great-bullet-jackets dept.
smurphmeister writes "My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house? My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?"

Comment Re:CopTube (Score 1) 238

by speedwaystar (#27706719) Attached to: Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses

I'm more interested in a mobile phone YouTube to report misdeeds and abuses by police officers.

I assume you're familiar with this ongoing investigation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tomlinson

If it wasn't for mobile phone cameras, the completely unprovoked police brutality which led to Ian Tomlinson's death would been neatly covered up with a bogus "natural causes" finding.

Comment Here's a few freeware tools (Score 1) 219

by speedwaystar (#25730163) Attached to: Good Freeware System Snapshot Tool For Windows?

SelfImage 1.2.1.92
SelfImage is a disk imaging program for Windows. It's capable of making an image file of any hard disk or partition on your system. It can even make images of partitions that Windows doesn't recognize or assign a drive letter to (ie: Linux partitions). Perfect for the dual-boot system.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/SelfImage/1134441375/1

DiskTools ImageMaker 1.1
DiskTools ImageMaker is a lightweight disk backup software. It enables you to make exact images of your entire hard drive, or separate partitions on a hard drive, to disk files. The images then may be restored to the initial or any other hard drive or volume, regardless of a file system it is formatted in.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/DiskTools_ImageMaker/1055944044/1

DriveImage XML 2.01
# Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
# Browse these images, view and extract files
# Restore these images to the same or a different drive
# Copy directly from drive to drive
# Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler
Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use.
Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools.
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm\

ODIN 0.11 Beta
ODIN is a utility for easy backup of hard drive volumes or complete hard drives under Windows. A disk image can be created or restored. Only used clusters can be backuped, compression on the fly is possible.
http://odin-win.sourceforge.net/
Media

Submission + - College Students Illegally Sharing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The IndyStar has an article about how copyright infringement is rampant on college campuses here. The article explains that if the schools do nothing about it, they could be subject to lawsuits. However, the punishments used by the school don't appear to be too harsh for the first couple offenses.
Movies

Journal Journal: Review: Wild Hogs 1

Journal by Short Circuit

I attended a screening of Wild Hogs tonight. It stars Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta and William H. Macy, as middle-aged professionals who ride bikes as a hobby, and are each going through a midlife crisis. Therein lies the irony; All of the stars have been in major roles in blockbusters at some point in their lives, but haven't had much exposure Hollywood since. Essentially, unintentionally, the actors play themselves. It's for this reason I went to see the movie.
The Internet

Submission + - ICANN gives RegisterFly ultimatum; accreditation

Submitted by
kimvette
kimvette writes: "A letter from ICANN to Registerfly has been published at http://www.icann.org/correspondence/ for public review. Apparently the issues with RegisterFly are even worse than revealed a couple of days ago and they have 15 working days to address outstanding issues and come into compliance with ICANN's guidelines.

A snippet from the Conclusion section of the letter:

As noted above, section 5.3.4 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement agreed in October 2004 between Registerfly and ICANN provides that notice of termination of Registerfly's accreditation may be given if these breaches are not cured within 15 working days.


Computer Business Review Online ran a story on this issue the other day and a new article is about to be published by them. Minute-by-minute developments of these issues can be learned at Registerflies.com, a "support" and customer advocate site set up in response to RegisterFly's ongoing poor customer service and fraudulent billing practices. Millions of customer domains remain under the jurisdiction of RegisterFly and customers' maintaining ownership and control of these domains is now in question.

Some are speculating the RegisterFly will be folding in the coming days, so if you have domains registered through them transfer them out NOW."
Communications

Submission + - Canada's Telus Ends Sales of Cell-Phone Porn

Submitted by westlake
westlake writes: Telus, Canada's No. 2 phone company, has ended sales of soft core porn to it's cell phone customers following complaints from the Roman Catholic Church and others. Telus was the first North American carrier to offer adult content for download. $3 for stills, $4 for videos. Access to adult content on the web remains unrestricted, but Telus seems to have badly underestimated resistance to the public download of porn and the risks for a carrier in becoming a dealer in porn. Telus bows to pressure, ends phone porn downloads
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Submission + - Now you see it, now you don't -News Escrow needed?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This story from computerworld (keyword: scareware) was up for one day and has now disappeared. Infoworld still has the story. The issue is that I posted a comment and not only is my comment gone but the whole story (from computerworld). It's as if they never posted the story. But a search on computerworld.com's site (using "scarewaer") shows the summary of the story but it links to the web root (computerworld.com/). I've seen this a few times before and IMHO destroys the integrity of journalism. They can simply change the story or remove it from their servers when they see fit. And please, I request no argument pertaining to 'private company, capitalism, free market, etc'. You can no longer say "it's there in black and white". You pass the fresh link onto your friends who think you're crazy because no such story exists when they attempt to access it, or even worse; the story's content (and meaning) is changed on the fly without any record of the change. Google it: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=scareware+msn +live InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/20/HNmicros oftscareware_1.html Computerworld search for scareware: http://computerworld.com/action/googleSearch.do?cx =014839440456418836424%3A-khvkt1lc-e&q=scareware&c of=FORID%3A9#479 There should be some sort of editorial escrow site that accepts news and updates but does not allow the "original record" to change.
Wireless Networking

Skype Asks FCC to Open Cellular Networks 292

Posted by samzenpus from the level-the-field dept.
Milwaukee's_Best writes "Skype has just asked the FCC to force wireless phone companies to open their networks to all comers. Skype essentially wants to turn the wireless phone companies into just another network of the kind currently operated on the ground. This would require carriers to allow any phone to be used on their networks, and for any application. Users would simply purchase a voice or data plan (though these could easily converge into a data plan if VoIP calling is used) and then use the device of their choice to access the network of their choice. Think of it as network neutrality for cell networks. Given the competition that exists within the industry, is this needed?"
The Media

Submission + - Apple, Cisco settle iPhone trademark lawsuit

Submitted by warrior_s
warrior_s writes: Cisco Systems and Apple said Wednesday they have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit over the use of the iPhone name for Apple's new multimedia phone.
The agreement allows Apple and Cisco to use the iPhone brand on their own products. Also, the companies said that they would explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, consumer and business communications.

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