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Ultracapacitor LED Flashlight Charges In 90 Seconds 131

Posted by timothy from the doubles-as-a-stun-gun dept.
Iddo Genuth writes "The California based company 5.11 Tactical has recently introduced a new innovative flashlight — 'Light For Life' UC3.400. Unlike regular flashlights requiring constant battery changing this new LED torch offers a rechargeable battery that can be recharged in as little as 90 seconds using ultracapacitor technology. Various military and rescue units might benefit from this new development, ensuring them a light source at all times."
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Porn Star Screenshot-sm 4

Posted by samzenpus from the false-advertising dept.
She has the matching shorts that say "Juicy."
Idle

Tetris the Movie Screenshot-sm 2

Posted by samzenpus
If you think cinema reached it's pinnacle when "BloodRayne" was released or the actors in "Street Fighter" were robbed when the Oscar nominations were announced, then maybe, just maybe, Tetris the Movie is for you.
Movies

Submission + - Holllywood Trying to Starve Canadian Pirates

Submitted by
KenAndCorey
KenAndCorey writes: "From an article on the CTV News web site, Warner Brothers has decided it won't be giving Canadians previews of its summer blockbusters.

Citing a failure by the government of Canada to make illegal the recording of movies directly from the screen by camcorder, the studio will not issue advance screenings of such audience pleasers like "Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix" and "Ocean's 13."
This is total crap, as we already know that the Canadian Movie Piracy Claim is Mostly Fiction. But as is the norm in Canada, we try to make it sound like it's not as bad as it may first appear. Douglas Frith of the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association says,

We're not looking at the individuals who go in for fun to camcord a film in a theatre. It's organized crime. People are going in, they get paid between $5,000 to $7,000 for a very good copy of a film."
Well, not yet, anyway."
Movies

Submission + - Warner Bros. bans previews in Canada

Submitted by Shambly
Shambly writes: In an article by the cbc Warner Bros announces that it will cancel all previews of Movies in Canada citing its reason it says "Recently, the U.S. International Intellectual Property Alliance put Canada on a watchlist of countries it believes responsible for illegal filming and copying of movies. The group alleged that the recording, movie and software industries lose $225 million a year due to illegal trafficking in Canada."
Spam

Submission + - 'Major' Anti-Spam Lawsuit to Be Filed in Virginia

Submitted by
Rick Zeman
Rick Zeman writes: "According to the Washington Post, a John Doe suit will be filed in U.S. District Court Thursday in spam-unfriendly Alexandria, Virginia on behalf of Project Honey Pot seeking the identity of individuals responsible for harvesting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.
From the article: 'The company is filing the suit on behalf of some 20,000 people who use its anti-spam tool. Web site owners use the project's free software to generate pages that feature unique "spam trap" e-mail addresses each time those pages are visited. The software then records the Internet address of the visitor and the date and time of the visit. Because those addresses are never used to sign up for e-mail lists, the software can help investigators draw connections between harvesters and spammers if an address generated by a spam trap or "honey pot" later receives junk e-mail.'"
Businesses

Submission + - Carbon Credit Fraud

Submitted by
WED Fan
WED Fan writes: "As mentioned, the carbon credit industry is quickly falling into disrepute. The Financial Times conducted an investigation and found some very disturbing things.

Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on "carbon credit" projects that yield few if any environmental benefits.
A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.


This is a shell game that will kill the environmental movement with the general public if the movement doesn't clean themselves up, quickly."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Extracting to temp and copying? 10

Journal by drinkypoo
Not submitting this one to the queue or anything, but why in hell is it that practically every archiver on Windows extracts to the temp folder and then copies the file to the target destination? This approach makes certain archives unusable. For example, let's say you have an archive with two archives inside it and need to extract a file from one of them; you have enough room for the archive, one of the archives inside the archive, and one file inside THAT, but you can't get it out beca

Feed Microwave Your Kitchen Sponge To Keep It Clean (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
Every kitchen has at some time or another been home to a sponge, that oh-so-versatile cleaning tool. It wipes up messes on countertops and absorbs liquid droplets quickly. Best of all, it's reusable. Now researchers can tell you two easy ways to keep it clean.
The Media

Submission + - Jack Thompsons Blames Microsoft for VT Shooting

Submitted by strwrsxprt
strwrsxprt writes: Jack Thompson is leeching off of the coverage of the latest school shooting tragedy at Virgina Tech, once again blaming violent videogames for all of America's problems. His latest directed attack is against Microsoft with an open letter addressed to Bill Gates. Game Almighty has obtained a copy of the letter, but here's a quick sample:
"Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. You knew five years ago that your on-line game, Counterstrike, so clearly figured in the massacre by a student in Erfurt that the event and the game impacted the race for Chancellor in Germany at the time!"
Media

Submission + - Linux in the Indy 500

Submitted by dmf
dmf writes: Tux 500 Our goal is simple: we want to collect community donations to enter a Linux sponsored car in the 2007 Indianapolis 500. We need your help! If less than 1% of the Linux community donates $1, this will happen... will you do your part?
Movies

Submission + - 5 Years for a movie?

Submitted by
Thrawn01
Thrawn01 writes: "A good friend of mine has just been convicted of seeding Star Wars episode III and is facing up to 5 years of jail time

I do not condone his actions and agree he should be punished but 5 Years in a federal prison for sharing a 35$ movie with no personal financial gain? Drug dealers that "SELL" drugs get 5 years in prison. So I ask the slashdot community. Why should my friend who has no financial gain from sharing the copyrighted material suffer the same sentence as a drug dealer? Why such a high price for giving away a movie? What is a reasonable penalty for seeding copyrighted material? How can I help my friend and get this law changed?

Thanks."

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