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Submission + - Vista SP1 due Monday

Submitted by

headkase

on Thursday January 31, 2008 @10:26PM

headkase writes: "Tech ARP brings word that the long awaited Service Pack 1 Final for Windows Vista is due to be released on Monday, February 4th, 2008. Initially it will only be available in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. Another version will be release one to two weeks later that supports all 36 basic languages."

Submission + - The Fermi Paradox: Back with a vengeance

Submitted by nettxzl on Sunday August 05, 2007 @09:31AM

nettxzl writes: "(urls fixed) Sentient Developments revisits the Fermi Paradox which is "the contradictory and counter-intuitive observation that we have yet to see any evidence for the existence of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) although the size and age of the Universe suggests that many technologically advanced ETI's ought to exist." Sentient Development's blog post on the Fermi Paradox states that "a number of inter-disciplinary breakthroughs and insights have contributed to the Fermi Paradox gaining credence as an unsolved scientific problem" Amongst these are "(1)Improved quantification and conceptualization of our cosmological environment, (2) Improved understanding of planet formation, composition and the presence of habitable zones, (3) The discovery of extrasolar planets, (4) Confirmation of the rapid origination of life on Earth (5) Growing legitimacy of panspermia theories" and more ... So, where is everyone?

Submission + - New Milestone Demoscene Releases. (pouet.net) 4

Submitted by on Sunday August 05, 2007 @08:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: With over 3000 visitors one of the biggest computer festivals, the Assembly 2007, just closed doors. The event saw the release of some of the best demoscene productions of this year. Among them the first good demos for the XBOX 360, but also for platforms as obscure as the Atari VCS2600 from 1976. The main demo competition was won by Lifeforce, one of the most acclaimed demoscene demos ever. Other releases can be found here.

Submission + - Hackers Extract Main Key to iPhone Unlocking (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05, 2007 @07:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: After reverse-engineering Nucleus, the iPhone's radio/multimedia chip RTOS, the iPhone Dev Team has achieved the next big milestone to free the iPhone from the AT&T network: they have extracted the full content of the S-Gold2 chip's NOR memory. Bluntly put, these are the plans for the damn Death Star and "is the main key to achieve true unlocking." They are also calling for donations to help them keep their efforts.

Submission + - "Viagra spam" emperor gets 30 years behin (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by

juct

on Sunday August 05, 2007 @05:40AM

juct writes: "A Federal Court in Minneapolis has sentenced Christopher William Smith, master spammer and web dealer in illegal pharmaceuticals, to 30 years in prison. But despite the CAN-Spam Act introduced in his honour, the charges did not include spamming. Arrested in September 2006, Smith apparently tampered with the prison phone system to evade automatic call recording, and then attempted to negotiate hits on the family of a witness in his trial and of his own wife. The unusually severe sentence is ascribed as much to Smith's general behaviour (absconding and making death threats) as to the specific offences with which he was charged. Strangely, despite the CAN-Spam Act, none of the charges related directly to his use of spam."

Submission + - Google Local Business Referrals (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04, 2007 @10:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Apparently anyone can sign up to get payed by Google going door-to-door to businesses. An interesting program. I haven't seen any publicity for this anywhere. Maybe it is a limited test, but you can sign up to be put on a waitlist today at http://www.google.com/local/referral/

Submission + - iD and Valve violating GPL

Submitted by frooge on Saturday August 04, 2007 @09:54PM

frooge writes: With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release.

Submission + - Distraction is the Best Way to Calm a Belligerent (associatedcontent.com)

Submitted by

Phil Weiss

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @11:43AM

Phil Weiss writes: "The next time a bar brawl breaks out in your local pub, blame it on the brain, not the beer. A new study, published in the July issue of Psychological Science, has found that it's possible to calm aggressive drunks if they're given a rewarding task that tests their powers of concentration."

Submission + - Medison comes out in open regarding $150 laptop 3

Submitted by

Vinit

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @11:33AM

Vinit writes: "Medison's representatives have come out in open to say they aren't fakes and the controversial $150 laptop is on it's way for 15 August release (hopefully). In a press conference in Sweden, Medison displayed the notebook in front of ten journalists and defended itself against accusations of fraud. Regarding the low price of it's laptop, Medison said it's not their main revenue source. They plan to make money by advertising on it's site. http://www.pclaunches.com/notebooks/medison_comes_ out_in_open_regarding_celebrity_laptop.php"

Submission + - Judge Lets RIAA Subpoena Defendant's Employer

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @08:19AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "A judge has ruled that the RIAA can subpoena the defendant's employer in a case pending in Manhattan federal court, Atlantic v. Shutovsky. The judge's order (pdf) contained eight (8) separate rulings deciding 19 pages of discovery disputes (pdf), resolving virtually all of them in favor of the RIAA."

Submission + - New build of Leopard seeded, FC next month (macscoop.com)

Submitted by

Alexandros Roussos

on Thursday July 26, 2007 @08:23AM

Alexandros Roussos writes: "Apple has seeded a new build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to developers, labeled "9A499", several reports indicate. The development team is now heading towards the Final Candidate build. More on MacScoop."

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