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Submission + - Fox bust Fox over Wolverine leak. (nytimes.com) 1

justinchudgar writes: "

Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, discovered over the weekend just what Rupert Murdoch means by "zero tolerance" when it comes to movie piracy. On Friday, the film studio 20th Century Fox — owned by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate ruled by Mr. Murdoch — became angry after reading Mr. Friedman's latest column. The subject was "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," a big-budget movie that was leaked in unfinished form on the Web last week.

Mr. Friedman posted a minireview, adding, "It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer."

The film studio, which enlisted the F.B.I. last week to hunt the pirate, put out a statement calling Mr. Friedman's column "reprehensible," among other things. Then the News Corporation weighed in with its own statement, saying it asked had Fox News to remove the column from its Web site. (It did.)

Maybe Fox can get NewsCorp to get the FBI to raid Fox's datacenter? If they would kindly leave the Simpsons, please."

Security

Submission + - P2P App Breaches Marine One Security (foxnews.com)

justinchudgar writes: "A Pennsylvania company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Obama's helicopter, Marine One, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported. Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employees at an IP address in Tehran. Tiversa CEO Bob Boback said a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file sharing program on one of their systems that contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One and financial information about the cost of the helicopter."
Businesses

How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? 411

bakamaki writes "I work for a small manufacturing company as a SysAdmin. My boss is a DBA. We are the only IT employees. He recently decided to record hours spent on his projects and then evaluate how much time the databases he writes save the employees. Then he translates that into a $ figure. He's asking me to do something similar but I'm kinda at a loss. It seems most of the stuff I do is preventative, IE care and feeding of servers and network infrastructure in addition to all the break fix stuff I do for the user base with their desktops. When in this position what do you folks usually do?"

Comment Re:the goose cocks proved unsatisfying (Score 2, Funny) 380

I see what you did there. Very clever. How is that working out for you? ...Dr. Phil?! Is that you?

OK, Smartguy. Please explain the difference in logical content between these three conversations:

"Nobody voted for Nader." "I did."

Translation: Nader received a negligible quantity of votes. Your vote was one of the negligible few.

"There was no demand for this product." "I bought one."

Translation: There was so little demand for this product that it was not viable. There were so few of you who purchased this product that it was not profitable.

"P is an empty set." "I am a member of P."

Translation: P is an empty set. You are an element of P. You are NULL.

Technology

Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior 189

Betsy Carroll writes "The Stanford research group on virtual teams discusses how the appearance of one's avatar in virtual worlds has an effect on real life behavior in an NPR interview. The researcher they speak with focuses on the concept of vicarious reinforcement for changing behavior. They also talk a bit about identity issues surrounding the avatar and the 'real' physical self."
The Internet

Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 241

Andy King writes "Within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, narrowband users have been left behind." The article breaks down a number of changes besides just page size, including image types and video duration.
Businesses

Submission + - SPAM: Much more to sustainability in IT than being green

WirePosted writes: "The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is leading the charge to make 2008 'the year of the sustainable workplace' but says the concept of a sustainability in IT must be much wider than environment or 'green' issues and must address the threat posed to the industry's long term viability by a diminishing pool of human resources and increased competition for those resources."
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Linux Business

Submission + - Needed: Simple Business Management Software

justinchudgar writes: "I'm starting to work as an independent IT consultant; and, I have pretty much switched to Linux on my systems. Overall, I am very happy with the transition away from proprietary software; but, I need a software package to manage the dirty details of my business. For me, that is basically tracking my time and creating invoices/statements for clients and then receiving payments against them. I do not resell hardware as a line of business; and, I do not (yet) have employees which makes it easier for now. What I want is:
  • integration with standard calendaring packages so that billable time can be entered via a browser anywhere and be accessible to the AR package
  • handle different bill rates for different service classes
  • generate invoices and statements without much manual labor
  • track account balances and service charges
  • have the capability to integrate credit card payment processing
  • not require endless hours of HOWTO or manpage slogging to get up and running


While I can muddle through with OO.org documents and spreadsheets + evolution calendar; this is not very efficient or clean. I have searched around the web, read innumerable articles, blogs and tried a bunch of stuff. Yet, I have yet to find a nice simple and user friendly package for my needs.

Compiere/Adempiere are overkill for what I need, and the personal finance apps that I managed to find are not good at doing things like handling multiple bill-rates and tracking receivables. I know that it is possible to get SlowBooks running with CrossOver or Wine, but, I have had so much misery with Intuit products in my clients offices that I will not allow them in mine.

I would really appreciate learning what open-source or commercial Linux apps you have seen working well for professional services firms that you run or serve. Thanks!"
NASA

Submission + - Lunar Eclipse, Saturday, March 3rd

Quince alPillan writes: According to NASA's website, the will be a total lunar eclipse Saturday evening visible from every continent.

In the USA, the eclipse will already be underway when the moon rises on Saturday evening. ... Rising moons are often reddened by clouds or pollution, but this moon will be the deep, extraordinary red only seen during a lunar eclipse.
Businesses

Submission + - Businesses Can't Quantify Outsourcing Value

narramissic writes: "According to a KPMG survey of CIOs and senior executives at more than 650 major enterprises worldwide, more than 4 in 10 businesses are unable to quantify the benefits of their outsourcing deals. And nearly 4 out of 5 respondents admitted they did not accurately know the cost of selecting their outsourcing providers. Still, the 'overall sentiment of the companies surveyed was that they were generally happy with their outsourcing arrangements,' giving credence to the old adage that ignorance is bliss."
Displays

Submission + - Protecting your eyesight in tech

trainsnpep writes: "I'm a sophomore undergrad CS major. I'm also lucky enough to have better-than-average eyesight. Now how do I keep the two? I've heard from various anecdotal sources that staring at a monitor too long is bad for your eyes, but I don't recall ever seeing an actual scientific study on it. How long is it safe to work before I should take an eye break, and how long should the break be? Do you know of any way to ease the supposed strain on my sight? Is it even an issue?"
Businesses

Submission + - End of life for small businesses wireless email?

BillS writes: "Good Technology (now owned by Motorola) recently announced they will not support their Good messaging product for mobile wireless email after May 31, 2007. As an IT manager for a small business, I'm asking the Slashdot community what to do? We have come to depend on this product and cannot justify upgrading to an Exchange Enterprise (including purchasing new hardware) just to keep this functionality. Furthermore, after having Exchange run in-house for many years, how could we possibly consider a hosted option. Are any of the open-source products ready for small business prime time?"

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