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Submission + - Symantec CEO says bad service fix only temporary (computerworld.com)

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Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: "Symantec's CEO John Thompson says the company is still struggling with its consolidated ERP system and that it has only thrown bodies and not technology at the post-Veritas buyout issues that created poor customer service. 'I've kind of lost track where we are timing-wise...but we threw an awful lot of head count at this wait-time problem. Wait times from their peak of well over an hour are down to now under two minutes,' he said."
Media

Submission + - Man extradited to US from AUS over copyright

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bricko
bricko writes: "How did this get this far....Hew Griffiths, a 44-year-old Australian, has been extradited to the U.S. to face criminal copyright charges. Griffiths was the leader of a group named "Drink Or Die," which (again, according to the article) "cracked copy-protected software and media products and distributed them free of cost." http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_06-2007 _05_12.shtml#1178810434 Copyright is not an extraditable offense...is it, plus he did not do this in the US? http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/06/11783 90140855.html"
Space

Submission + - NASA to discuss Hubble Ring Of Dark Matter finding

Submitted by mknewman
mknewman writes: NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on May 15 to discuss the strongest evidence to date that dark matter exists. This evidence was found in a ghostly ring of dark matter in the cluster CL0024+17, discovered using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The ring is the first detection of dark matter with a unique structure different from the distribution of both the galaxies and the hot gas in the cluster. The discovery will be featured in the June 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/may/HQ_M07051 a_HST_Dark_Matter_update.html

Feed Remnants Of Ice Age Linger In Gravity (sciencedaily.com)

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Researchers have uncovered a large area of low but increasing gravity over North America -- the lingering effect of the last ice age when sheets of ice sometimes three kilometres thick covered nearly all of Canada and the northeastern U.S.
Music

Submission + - Pandora blocked outside of U.S.

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Skidge
Skidge writes: "Pandora, the popular personalized internet radio station, has blocked users outside of the US, UK, & Canada from accessing their music streams. From Pandora blog post, "It's hard to think of anything more anathema to who we are than turning off someone's radio, but the current legal realities leave us no choice. While the DMCA provides us a blanket license in the U.S., there is no equivalent in other countries.""

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