Submission + - ps3 warranty voided due to dust (foxbusiness.com)
bonkeydcow writes: If you don't open your PS3 and dust it out, thereby voiding the warranty, you may void the warranty.
Submission + - Google Ads vs. Adblockers - more to follow? (schucan.com)
Luzi Schucan writes: "Google seems to be the first to have attacked the bastion of adblock software — by finally doing the obvious, yet server-side expensive. Ad URLs are now dynamically renamed so adblockers can't distinguish them from content anymore. Let's watch the progress on this front! more"
Submission + - Astronomers Announce 5-planet System
An anonymous reader writes: Astronomers have detected a record-breaking 5th planet orbiting the star 55 Cancri. This planet orbits within the Habitable Zone, where water could presumably exist, but it's probably another gas like Saturn, so any liquid water would have to be on a moon. There's still a big gap between this planet and the outermost planet where no planets detected yet, so there could yet be a rocky planet in the system.
Submission + - More RIAA Foolishness
budohorseman writes: "In an article posted on The Motley Fool financial web site titled Piracy 101: A Lesson in Suboptimal Lawsuits, Alyce Lomax covers the recent RIAA attempts to get colleges and universities to help them track down file sharing. She also goes on to describe how the RIAA sidesteps the DCMA, attempts to use 1984 laws that apply to cable companies and how it's costing the RIAA millions, all while alienating their strongest consumer base."
Submission + - OiNK P2P music site raided, admin arrested in UK (bbc.co.uk)
tubegeek writes: UK & Dutch Police raided the OiNK P2P server location and its admin's house today, arresting the admin. The site is pingable but not responding.
Submission + - OiNK BitTorrent site raided, closed (bbc.co.uk)
Gossi writes: "OiNK, one of the largest invitation only BitTorrent sites on the internet, has been raided by police in the UK and Amsterdam, reports the BBC. From the article — "A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning. [..] At the same time his employer — a large multi-national company — and his father's home were also raided." Unsurprisingly, the site is now offline."
Submission + - OiNK Raided 1
EnvyRAM writes: "British and Dutch police shut down one of the world's largest sources of illegal pre-release music on Tuesday and arrested a 24-year-old man.
The raids, in Amsterdam and Middlesbrough, followed a two-year investigation into a members-only Web site, www.OiNK.cd, which allowed users to upload and download albums before their release."
Submission + - Famous music torrent tracker shut down (thisisthenortheast.co.uk)
Submission + - Pentagon hacker gets law lords appeal
E5Rebel writes: "Three judges have agreed that hacker Gary McKinnon who has been found guilty of breaking into US defence systems can appeal to the House of Lords against his extradition order to the US.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index.cfm?newsid=5785"
Submission + - British Television in the 21st Century.
archtitan writes: "How the multimedia wars are affecting traditional television viewing and computer/internet use.
http://www.nowpublic.com/british_television_in_the _21st_century"
Journal Journal: Curiosity killed the cat and created gods .... 5
/. Zonk Post: Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/04/1925246
No genetics and survival of the fittest depends on knowing what others fear, deny, and/or evade.
Curiosity, depends on genetics and survival of the fittest, to have the courage to overcome our
fear, deny flight/fight lower brain functions, and invade the unknown to learn and survive.
Submission + - Linux on the Playstation Portable
chris_mulhearn writes: "Hi, I recently ported the uClinux 2.4.19 kernel to the Playstation Portable. It is available here. Currently supports the custom Allegrex CPU, the headphone jack serial port, the infrared port, the video hardware, and most recently the 3169WW Palm wireless keyboard. It boots into a minimal statically linked userland with a framebuffer console and has a working port of the SDL graphics library. Check it out, pretty pictures inside."
Submission + - Defragment windows up to 10X faster
crazlunatic writes: "Windows users have long been complaining about extremely long defrag times. In Vista, the situation is worsened as users are forced to go thorugh the analyze process and are sometimes left with a defrag session that doesn't end! VistaRewired has written up an easy tutorial for XP and Vista users who want to greatly decrease their time spent defragging. Using this tutorial, the author managed to defrag 20 gigabytes in only 8 minutes compared to 75 minutes using the Windows defrag tool . A combination of software including contig.exe and Power Defragmenter
are used."
Submission + - U.S. plans for new nuclear weapons
oitotheworld writes: "The Bush administration is planning a secret meeting in August to discuss the construction of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including "mini-nukes", "bunker-busters" and neutron bombs designed to destroy chemical or biological agents, according to a leaked Pentagon document. ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,8985 50,00.html) is the article.
These smaller nuclear weapons are meant to fit in with the Bush doctrine of preemptive strikes. It is thought that smaller nuclear weapons will be seen as more of a threat by foreign countries because there will be less hesitation about using them than its current arsenal of planet decimating warheads. It is in fact an expansion of our existing nuclear arsenal, as the U.S. has no intention of decommissioning any of its existing nukes."
Submission + - Slashdot FireHose Beta Sneak Preview
Davak writes: "The old fogey slashdot has announced a new (dare I say, Web 2.0) youthful, digg-like voting system-Firehose. This new code is described as a "collaborative system designed to allow users to assist editors in the story selection process." This review of the Firehose describes the new features and implications of this new system. For example, much of Firehose's AJAX eye candy is built around yahoo's ajax toolkit."
