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Submission + - Office 2008 for Mac delayed until January 2008

Submitted by

thefickler

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM

thefickler writes: "Microsoft has announced that Office 2008 for Mac, originally slated for a 2007 release, will now be released in January 2008. No specific reasons were pinpointed in the announcement other than the software was not meeting its quality checkpoints in June and July of this year. Surprise, surprise."

Submission + - Forensics Expert says Al-Qaeda Images Altered

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:33PM

WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some veeeeeery interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images that our government loves to show off.

From the article: "Krawetz was also able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners (IntelCenter is an organization that monitors terrorist activity and As-Sahab is the video production branch of al Qaeda) were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says." Why would Al-Qaeda add an IntelCenter logo to their video? Why would IntelCenter add an Al-Qaeda logo? Methinks we have bigger fish to fry than Gonzo and his fired attorneys... }:-) The article contains links to Krawetz's presentation and the source code he used to analyze the photos.

Submission + - Do Not Call Registry gets wake-up call (networkworld.com) 2

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:58PM

coondoggie writes: "If you signed up for the federal or your state's Do Not Call Registry a few years ago, you might want to thing about refreshing it. Pennsylvanians this week got a wake up call, so to speak from the state's Attorney General Tom Corbett who kicked off a public awareness campaign designed to remind people what many have forgotten or never knew — that the 2002 law set registrations to expire after five years. That is of course unless you want to start hearing from those telemarketers as you sit down to dinner. Corbett said about 2 million people signed up in the immediate aftermath of the law taking effect and those who do not act by Sept. 15 will have their numbers dropped from the registry on Nov. 1. The Pennsylvania action is a reminder that the National Do Not Call Registry has a five year life span as well. The Federal Trade Commission is set to being a nation campaign in Spring 2008 to remind all US citizens to refresh their federal Do Not Call Registry standing. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18066"

Journal Journal: wii porn for wee tots

Journal by Suchetha on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @10:35AM

The NYTimes tech blog has an article that pretty much debunks the claims made in a news story by WFAA News in Dallas/Ft. Worth. According to the news article, parents should be careful of the PS3 and Wii "because the Wii, the PS3 and other game con

Submission + - wii porn for wee tots

Submitted by

Suchetha

on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @10:33AM

Suchetha writes: "The NYTimes tech blog has an article that pretty much debunks the claims made in a news story by WFAA News in Dallas/Ft. Worth. According to the news article, parents should be careful of the PS3 and Wii "because the Wii, the PS3 and other game consoles have Internet access, it's easy for kids to access porn." Other reasons are that the adult content sites are rewriting their content to be more "Wii friendly" . The NYTimes blog does a great job of deconstructing the news article and pointing out that one of the most damning quotes ("The first thing I thought of when I downloaded the Wii browser was also porn.") was not written by a child as claimed in the article but by an adult."

Submission + - home theater built like Star Trek bridge

Submitted by

gevmage

on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @10:03AM

gevmage writes: "Gary Reign, a guy with apparenlty way too much time on his hands, built a home theater in his basement. This is not unusual. However, the room is designed, floor to ceiling, as the bridge of a Star Trek style starship. See his photo page for details.

Although I don't remember seeing this on Slashdot, this has been around long enough to e featured in the books The Home Theater Book, Manspace, A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory, Electronic House Magazine, and Look what I did! on HGTV."

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