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Comment Quality that lasts. (Score 3, Informative) 533

by Qwrk (#28649485) Attached to: Getting a Classic PC Working After 25 Years?
Getting these things up and running is no surprise to me. It seems that they used quality stuff in them days. I have loads of these oldies that haven't been booted for 10+ years and upon plugging them in they start off as if nothing ever happened. Drives with a ST-506 interface in particular seem to be of an indistructible kind of quality-make. Feel free to contact me for disks, or as stated; check eBay of contact Bruce Damer of the DigiBarn [http://www.digibarn.com/].
Google

Submission + - Google politically correct on the Olympics?

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Qwrk
Qwrk writes: "I didn't check out a thing on the Olympics, apart from the special Google logos that get racked in automagically by a script [through Wget]. Yesterday I noticed they had two separate logos for the closing day. Upon checking subdirectories I noticed that they were having a censored version for Muslim countries, as the dog and the pig were missing. I this a new attempt by Google on being PC, or are they bowing their heads in more and other directions [read; totalitarian states / beliefs]?"
Censorship

Submission + - Gary McKinnon loses extradition appeal

Submitted by Qwrk
Qwrk writes: The BBC [amongst others] reports that Gary McKinnon lost his extradition appeal.

"A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if found guilty of gaining access to 97 American military and Nasa computers from his London home. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon admits breaking into the computers but says he was trying to find information on UFOs."
Google

Submission + - Google as anonymous eBay critic

Submitted by defiant1
defiant1 writes: I bet google is not very happy at the Australian competition watchdog. SMH writes "The Australian competition watchdog has accidentally revealed Google as the anonymous source of a submission that is highly critical of eBay's proposal to force its users onto the PayPal payments system." http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/google-exposed-as-anonymous-ebay-critic/2008/05/30/1211654272331.html
Privacy

Submission + - LiveLeak bins Fitna after threats.

Submitted by Qwrk
Qwrk writes: Just one day after LiveLeak [http://www.liveleak.com/] started hosting 'Fitna', the controversial anti-Islam film by right-wing politician Geert Wilders, they've decided to pull it off the grid after receiving undisclosed threats.

"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers. This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one. Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture. We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."

Exit freedom of speech?
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The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History 113

Posted by Soulskill from the extreme-carpet-cleaning-2-the-revenge dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Not every game involves taking an axe to the head of a criminal; some classics from the 80's involved massacring camels from aircraft, or in the case of "How to Be a Complete Bastard" for the C64, something altogether different(unless you're a camel). CNet has collected the 30 most ridiculous game names and concepts from the last 25 years. Quite frankly, how some of these — including "Touch Dic" from Korea — ever made it onto store shelves is beyond me."
The Courts

Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit 731

Posted by Zonk from the this-looks-like-a-job-for-superman dept.
smooth wombat writes "In what can only be considered a bizarre court case, a former nuclear safety officer and others are suing the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science Foundation and CERN to stop the use of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) until its safety is reassessed. The plaintiffs cite three possible 'doomsday' scenarios which might occur if the LHC becomes operational: the creation of microscopic black holes which would grow and swallow matter, the creation of strangelets which, if they touch other matter, would convert that matter into strangelets or the creation of magnetic monopoles which could start a chain reaction and convert atoms to other forms of matter. CERN will hold a public open house meeting on April 6 with word having been spread to some researchers to be prepared to answer questions on microscopic black holes and strangelets if asked."
Censorship

China's Battle to Police the Web 171

Posted by Zonk from the losing-battle dept.
What_the_deuce writes "For the first time in years, internet browsers are able to visit the BBC's website. In turn, the BBC turns a lens on the Chinese web-browsing experience, exploring one of the government's strongest methods of controlling the communication and information accessible to the public. 'China does not block content or web pages in this way. Instead the technology deployed by the Chinese government, called Golden Shield, scans data flowing across its section of the net for banned words or web addresses. There are five gateways which connect China to the internet and the filtering happens as data is passed through those ports. When the filtering system spots a banned term it sends instructions to the source server and destination PC to stop the flow of data.'"

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