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Submission + - Demonoid Going Down For Canadians (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Looce
Looce writes: TorrentFreak.com reports that people outside Canada will now see on the Demonoid.com homepage a news story saying:

We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
... and people in Canada will see this instead, without the site navigation:

We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
The CRIA is the Canadian Recording Industry Association, an equivalent to the RIAA.
Communications

Submission + - 5 Hotspots Where Languages Are Becoming Extinct (anthropology.net)

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "Anthropology.net shares an alarming report on the rate of extinction of languages . It says, "Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth — many of them never yet recorded — will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works." Seen on Neatorama."
Censorship

Submission + - China Bans TV, Radio Ads for Push-Up Bras

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Frosty Piss
Frosty Piss writes: "China has banned TV and radio ads for push-up bras and figure-enhancing underwear in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution. "They not only seriously mislead consumers, harm the people's health, pollute the social environment, and corrupt social mores, but also directly harm the credibility of public broadcasting and affect the image of the Communist Party and the government," the notice said."
Intel

Submission + - Intel To Announce End-Of-Life Processors (techarp.com)

Submitted by DC
DC writes: Word has just come in from the grapevine that Intel will announce the discontinuation of six Intel Core 2 processors and four Intel Pentium D processors in November 2007. Do note that this is based on a leaked report and may still be subject to change.

The Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 will continue to be priced at $183 while the Intel Pentium 4 651 will remain at the $74 price point for the foreseeable future. Oddly enough, Intel is scheduled to drop the price of the soon-to-be-discontinued Intel Pentium 4 631 from $69 to $59 on October 21, 2007.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Virtualizing the machine within the machine

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Saying that virtualization is a hot technology today is an understatement. In a single month, there was the IPO for VMware, Citrix Systems announced plans to purchase XenSource, and new virtualization start-ups appeared out of nowhere. New niches are continually being found in what turns out to be an astronomically massive virtualization market. This article gets you acquainted with QEMU virtualization on Linux, which achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU.
Editorial

Submission + - The least understood challenge of our time (talkclimatechange.com)

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Mark from TalkClimateChange
Mark from TalkClimateChange writes: "The greatest challenge of our time, but the least well understood.

George W. Bush recently described Climate Change as one of the "greatest challenges of our time". That Bush failed to follow his speech with concrete action was of no surprise, because climate change also appears to be one of the most complex and least understood challenges in our history.

The popular media have reduced the topic, with is complex science, critical unanswered questions, endless political and social ramifications and countless untested mitigation possibilities into a simple set of nightmare scenarios brought about by Co2, the new icon of our sinful existence.

This makes climate change the ideal political tool, the perfect excuse for anything unpopular that you need to do anyway. But the real solutions are far away — with our current level of knowledge any meaningful action would require measures so drastic as to spell instant disaster at the polls. Quite simply, a serious green politician is unelectable.

The truth is that we are only now beginning to apply human ingenuity to the problem. The underlying science needs to be refined, new technologies need to be developed, and political barriers need to be broken down. The consequences will no doubt be severe for some. Many will suffer, and much change will be required. But it will happen in good time, as today's media and political debate matures into a more measurable and answerable set of problems.

More debate on this subject at http://www.talkclimatechange.com/"
Censorship

Submission + - Privacy in the UK, kiss it goodbye.

Submitted by Wowsers
Wowsers writes: The UK is about to have a new law in place that allows a vast number of public bodies to have access to a whole range of private data, most notably phone call information, finally completing the current UK governments project of making the country's population as spied upon and subjugated as the East German Stazi did on their population. It is of interest that the UK already has the most CCTV cameras in the world per population, and the largest criminal DNA database in the world (with over 1 million innocent people on it including 6 month olds).

Officials from the top of Government to lowly council officers will be given unprecedented powers to access details of every phone call in Britain under laws coming into force tomorrow. The new rules compel phone companies to retain information, however private, about all landline and mobile calls, and make them available to some 795 public bodies and quangos. The move, enacted by the personal decree of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, will give police and security services a right they have long demanded: to delve at will into the phone records of British citizens and businesses.

By 2009 the Government plans to extend the rules to cover internet use: the websites we have visited, the people we have emailed and phone calls made over the net.
Full story here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=484752
Movies

Submission + - The "real" Miss Moneypenny has died.

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: BBC reports: Actress Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in a string of James Bond movies, has died aged 80.
The Internet

Submission + - Was T-shirt suspension story a Texas tall tale?

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "It was all over the 'Net last week: Digg, Reddit, DailyKos, etc. A Texas kid was suspended just for wearing a "John Edwards for President" T-shirt to school, or so we were told. However, the mainstream press has completely ignored the juicy story ... presuming there was a real story there to ignore. As for the Edwards campaign, it didn't reply to a Network World inquiry about the tale, which started on a blog on the campaign's Web site. The campaign did, however, use the journalist's newly harvested e-mail address to send spam asking for a contribution.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20042"
Bug

Submission + - Don't swim: Brain-eating bug cases on the rise! (indystar.com)

Submitted by zahl2
zahl2 writes: It sounds like science fiction, but there really is a brain-eating amoeba you can catch from swimming in warm freshwater lakes, entering your body through the nose. There is treatment, but you have to get it fast, and most people die. Global warming is expected to increase cases. Watch those noseplug sales increase!
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - iPod Video Review on Squidoo (squidoo.com)

Submitted by
sodoku1
sodoku1 writes: "Watching a movie on a small screen under 3 inches is difficult and uncomfortable for the eyes. Most people would rather 'snack' on short clips like youtube or music videos on their iPods. The iPod is best used while waiting in lines at stores, airports or when commuting."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Run Windows virtually on a Beowulf Cluster?

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: I am just wondering if it is possible to set up a virtual computer (running win2k or XP) on a Beowulf cluster (or any kind of cluster for that matter)? I am trying to help a class at my school, because they do not have enough money to buy new computers, but there is an abundance of 400mhz AMD and PIII based computers that are scheduled to be thrown away. I need to be able to run windows, because the computers need to run InDesign CS2. I had this idea, but I do not have any idea where to begin, besides getting the hardware.
Any good operating systems? Keep in mind the age of the equipment, and the fact that I will have to either fully automate everything up to the point windows starts, or be able to teach a high-school teacher/students how to command line boot programs.
Slashback

Submission + - The Deterioration of a Grand Old Institution (scienceblogs.com)

Submitted by
grrlscientist
grrlscientist writes: "This country is spending billions of dollars to bomb the innocents in Iraq, but we can't even spare a fraction of that cost to fix our premier museum and zoo, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Zoo??

From the story: Picture this: holding street corner bake sales to raise enough funds to protect this country's national treasures while we mortgage our future to bomb one country that is 6,000 miles away because we are afraid of the citizens in yet another, even more distant, country that we believe to be our friends."

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