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Club Nintendo Goes Live 59

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @01:32AM from the who-doesn't-love-proprietary-currency dept.

AKAImBatman writes "Nintendo has launched their new North American Club Nintendo service that allows customers to earn 'coins' for purchasing Nintendo products. Coins can then be redeemed for items like exclusive DS games, playing cards, Wii Remote holders, DS cases, and other Nintendo branded items. Points are earned by registering Wii games (50 points), DS games (30 points), or by purchasing Wii Shop items (10 points) after your Wii Shop account has been linked to your Club Nintendo account. Users may link their account under the 'Settings' area of the Wii Shop channel. Prices range from 300 coins for a Wii Remote holder to 800 coins for the Game & Watch Collection for the Nintendo DS."

Submission + - Microsoft advises IE users to use another browser. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Zelse on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @05:18AM

Zelse writes: Users of the world's most common web browser have been advised to switch to another browser until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say. Microsoft is investigating the problem and preparing an emergency software patch to resolve it, it says. "Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.

Submission + - Penny Arcade's Child's Play Music CD 2008 (oneupstudios.com)

Submitted by

nz17

on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:27AM

nz17 writes: "The Internet's best VG music mixers have teamed up with Penny Arcade to produce a CD full of fantastic remixes of both classic and modern video games. All proceed from this CD go to support the Child's Play charity, which gives games and toys to children in hospitals.
The music includes tracks from:

Final Fantasy VI
Mega Man 2
Tetris
Portal ("Still Alive" played by Jonathan Coulton)
EarthBound
and original songs too!

If you could buy the CD that would be great as all proceeds go to help children's hospitals. The money is used to buy toys and video games so the kids can be entertained while they are healing which helps speed up the recovery process and distracts them from their pain. Even if you can't purchase the CD, letting people know about it will help ensure more people buy it which will help get more money into the hands of the hospitals. Thanks.

The site for the CD includes samples from all the music on the disc."

Submission + - Mac OS X root escalation through AppleScript

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: Half the Mac OS X boxes in the world (confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) can be rooted through AppleScript: osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"'; Works for normal users and admins, provided the normal user wasn't switched to via fast user switching. Secure? I think not.

Submission + - Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29, 2007 @11:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Canadian theater chain has been sued for an abusive search for camcording equipment. A Montreal woman is seeking $60,000 in damages for the search, which comes after the Canadian government caved to U.S. pressure and enacted anti-camcording legislation.

Submission + - Move 10000s of Attorney E-mails away from Outlook?

Submitted by nz17 on Friday July 27, 2007 @06:58AM

nz17 writes: Some longtime customers of mine are a pair of county attorneys. Part of their job includes receiving and replying to thousands of e-mails every month. As might probably be easily guessed, they use Microsoft Outlook Express. However over time they have become unhappy. While this application might work for some people with small amounts of e-mail, the sheer volume of all this is too overwhelming for Microsoft's e-mail client to handle.

As a result, they must make their almost daily e-mail backups to rewritable DVD media (it is now too large to be stored on ZIP disks or CD-R) to store all of their messages for at least three years. The reason: it is a requirement as part of their occupation, and Outlook Express crashes easily once too many e-mails are stored within it. The e-mails seem to take a large amount of storage space on the HDD as well. Perhaps as a result of OE?

Part of the problem is the POP method used to get their e-mail. Besides choosing Microsoft, they also chose to use a small town ISP that doesn't use IMAP, but rather POP for their e-mail. They don't want to change e-mail addresses because so many people rely on easily and quickly contacting them. However, instead of sitting on a nice server with comfortable growing room, their POP e-mail account is limited to 10 MB. This results in the constant download of e-mail, and difficulty in sharing e-mail between their computers.

They don't care what they move to, but of course they want to perfectly preserve their past communiques. Equal or superior mail filtering of both the message contents and attachment names in comparison to Outlook Express in speed and flexibility is warranted as well. Simple or automated backup is a requirement. A database backend of some sort might be necessary. But the question is "What to use?" Surely there must be a solution to this dilemma.

Submission + - Hans Reiser Assigned New Judge, Jury Delayed (cbs5.com)

Submitted by

nz17

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @06:24AM

nz17 writes: "After being assigned to Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman, Hans Reiser, main programmer and designer behind the Reiser File System (Reiser FS), has agreed to a delay on jury selection until August 28. His trial is most likely to begin in October or September. Reiser stands accused of the murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, from whom he is separated. The news article on KPIX TV has the history of the trial, news video segments about its events, and the official statement of the police department in this matter."

Submission + - Software Freedom Day's Schwag Deadline Is July 31 (softwarefreedomday.org)

Submitted by

nz17

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @05:30AM

nz17 writes: "Software Freedom Day is happening once again this year but with perhaps the greatest lineup of sponsors yet. Some of those supporting SFD 2007 are the Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, The International Open Source Network, and TheOpenCD. These organizations have donated funds to produce and distribute shirts, stickers, and hundreds of CDs filled with Free Software to people around the world. But the deadline is encroaching, and unless your computer club or Linux user group registers by July 31, it will not be eligible for the free printed and pressed materials. Find all the details to register your group at the official Software Freedom Day Web site."

World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest 245

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 30, 2007 @08:14PM from the like-insects-in-amber dept.

solitas writes in with news from last week of the discovery of a fossilized forest in Illinois. The forest was found in the ceiling of a working coal mine, 250 feet below the surface. It was drowned 300 million years ago in an earthquake, its discoverers speculate — here is a graphic of its formation. Geologists are excited because the huge fossilized forest, over 25 square miles in extent, preserves trees and other plants upright, as they grew.

Submission + - SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30, 2007 @08:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: Documents filed by IBM on Friday contain a copy of a letter from SCO to IBM's lawyers which state that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO. The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, a Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants.

Submission + - Dell to choose Ubuntu

Submitted by

flakeman2

on Monday April 30, 2007 @07:57PM

flakeman2 writes: "That the word on the street is that Dell has settled on Feisty Fawn 7.04 Ubuntu to be the Linux Distro to be distributed on a few select systems."

Submission + - Virginia Tech and Hydrogen Cars

Submitted by

hydrokevin

on Monday April 30, 2007 @07:49PM

hydrokevin writes: "With all the tragic news of late, one fact that has been overlooked by most is that Virginia Tech is heavy into the research and development of hydrogen cars. See http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog/2007/04/virgin ia-tech-and-hydrogen-cars.html"

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