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Submission + - Get Sued for Linking to Cingular.com

Submitted by

Desktop Nexus

on Monday April 30, 2007 @04:44PM

Desktop Nexus writes: "The official Terms and Conditions of Cingular now restrict the anchor text you can use to link to Cingular's homepage. Harry Maugans discovered a paragraph of the TOS that states:

You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a hypertext link to the homepage of the Sites, provided such link does not portray Cingular Wireless or any of its products and services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise defamatory manner. [...] This limited right may be revoked at any time.
I'm sure this is not legally standing, however it is amusing they'd attempt to restrict your links."

Submission + - The F-bomb most popular, N-word most offensive

Submitted by

word munger

on Monday April 30, 2007 @03:23PM

word munger writes: "The F-word is censored from nearly all U.S. broadcast TV (except when someone like Bono slips it into a live telecast), but people use it every day in casual conversation. Meanwhile vicious insults like "nappy-headed ho," while they did result in Don Imus's firing, are repeated ad nauseum on every newscast covering the event. What curse words are truly offensive, and who do they offend the most? On Cognitive Daily, we surveyed over 700 readers to find out. The results? The F-word is only mildly offensive — not even as offensive as "ho." What's more, as people get older, they react more negatively to some words, like "suck" and "ho," but other words bother them less. It all suggests that censoring particular words makes less sense than evaluating words in context. Depending on who is watching and when, the FCC might want to reassess its censorship policy."

Submission + - nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB - Halving the memory

Submitted by

TheAmazingSam

on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:11AM

TheAmazingSam writes: "nVidia are releasing their GeForce 8800GTS 320MB graphics card today which is around 20% cheaper than the regular 640MB version. TweakTown has spent some time with the card and compared it to the more expensive edition. Can we halve the memory and not see a major reduction in 3D gaming performance? Looks like it!"

Submission + - A Lifetime of E-mail

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:42AM

An anonymous reader writes: Does anyone else think e-mail is completely out of control? If so, what can be done about it? Is there any way out of e-mail hell? My only hope is that e-mail will eventually collapse under its own weight. I work at an office where e-mail is the primary communication mechanism, or rather, it was. I get 100 e-mails a day, and can only get to about half that number — if I stay late an extra hour or two. The volume of e-mail is so overwhelming now that my boss is considering a permanent out of office reply telling senders to call her if it's important because it could be days before current e-mail is read. Then I come home to at least 30 new e-mails in my personal inbox. Who enjoys the thought of spending their whole life reading and responding to e-mails? The movie "You've Got Mail" was cute in its day, but will we soon see a new movie akin to "Office Space" that, rather than denouncing cubicle life, will comment on the horrors of living a life sifting, sorting, reading, and replying to endless and increasingly meaningless electronic messages?

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