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Submission + - European Parliament rules sharing isn't illegal

Submitted by andyteleco on Thursday April 26, 2007 @12:50PM

andyteleco writes: Yesterday, 25/04/2007, the European Parliament voted in favour of a proposal to modify the EU Parliament and Congress directive regarding penal measures destined to enforce Intellectual Property rights. the directive finally establishes in Article 3 that the member states will be responsible of considering as a criminal infraction all intentional IP offences committed at a commercial scale, as well as complicity and/or incitement to these offences. According to Amendment 13, Article 2 of the directive excludes culpability of the acts performed by private users for personal non-profit usage. Read the entire text

Submission + - World of Warcraft Prequel Announced!

Submitted by Rebelgecko on Sunday April 01, 2007 @01:48PM

Rebelgecko writes: Today, Blizzard has announced a new game in the Warcraft universe, Warcraft: Heroes of Azeroth Warcraft: Heroes of Azeroth (or just WHOA for short). Like the first three Warcraft games, it will be a real-time strategy game. There will be not one, not two, but FOUR different available box covers. The events of the game occur 15 years after the end of the Second War.

Feed Larry Ellison becomes Chief Monk Officer (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Sunday April 01, 2007 @01:12PM

Finds god after brain glaze

Larry Ellison on Thursday came to the startling yet enlightening realization that he is not god. As a result, Oracle's CEO has gone totally monastic.

Submission + - Citizendium open for reading

Submitted by

Electrawn

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @02:24PM

Electrawn writes: "Citizendium is now open for everyone to view. Major AP stories hit wire in the next hour. Site moves from a pilot phase to a beta phase. -Jason Potkanski, Citizendium"

Submission + - World's most expensive train ticket?

Submitted by BeerCat on Sunday March 25, 2007 @02:24PM

BeerCat writes: The UK National Rail site can search for journeys between different destinations, and will also display the likely fare. Unless, the journey is from Oxford to Hawarden (about 170 miles by road, according to Google Maps), travelling tomorrow from 08:00, in which case the fare will be £179,769,313,486,231,570,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000.00

The site even notes "We are sorry, but we couldn't find any First Class tickets available. You can try searching in different times or dates for available First Class tickets". Which is probably just as well.

Submission + - De Icaza Pleads for Cooperation Between Mono, .Net

Submitted by

suka

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @02:19PM

suka writes: "In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper "DER STANDARD", Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsofts .Net: 'I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration'. The whole interview has some other interesting bits, like de Icazas thoughts on an open sourced java and infos about upcomping versions of Mono."

Submission + - OGRE 1.4.0 Released!

Submitted by Game_Ender on Sunday March 25, 2007 @12:08PM

Game_Ender writes: The OGRE Team is proud to announce the release of OGRE 1.4.0, codenamed 'Eihort'. OGRE is an open-source, cross-platform real-time 3D rendering engine including all the latest features you would expect, and this version introduces such things as SSE/SIMD support, more advanced lighting and shadowing techniques, threaded loading and much more. Full details can be obtained from the official announcement and change log.

Submission + - Microsoft owns up to Xbox Live pretexting

Submitted by

jcatcw

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @10:28AM

jcatcw writes: "Reports of account theft on Xbox Live have been making the rounds of its member forums since at least December. Microsoft yesterday finally admitted that the service's support staff is at fault — victims of "pretexting." But Microsoft responded only after noted security researcher — Kevin Finisterre of "Month of Apple Bugs" fame — last week went public about how his account was hijacked."

Journal Journal: HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" DVD is Released 2

Journal by TruthLaser on Saturday March 24, 2007 @09:41PM

The controversial HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" DVD is released on Tuesday, March 27th, including footage never seen before. Filmed over three years this exposé follows the investigations of Black Box Voting and their team of citizen activists as they take on the electronic voting industry and target the Diebold corporation. The film reveals incendiary evidence from the trash cans of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and electi

Submission + - How social search is shaking things up.

Submitted by John stevens on Saturday March 24, 2007 @07:53PM

John stevens writes: Recently, a new search engine 'Younanimous' has been getting alot of attention from bloggers and searchers alike. It functions by taking results from google, msn and yahoo and using the already sorted results, then applying a voting algorithm on top, to further sift through the results. Other notable features are Blacklisting, Alexa and Pagerank per query results and alot more. The question here is- Can you effectively sort through googles existing results and come up with more relative content, or are you just mashing up existing data?

Submission + - Is Google making a cell phone?

Submitted by Kuan Yew on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @11:44AM

Kuan Yew writes: Two months ago Engadget posted pictures of a device they dubbed the Google Switch, a device that was allegedly co-designed by Google and Samsung. Recently, a technologist-turned-entrepreneur called Simeon Simeonov continued the story by suggesting that Google's acquisition of mobile services like Reqwireless and Skia were further hints of a Google phone in development. The question remains, however, is Google really developing a cell phone or is this all part of the great Google hype machine?

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