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Submission + - NYPD Targeting Media Teams During Ongoing Protest (gothamist.com)

Submitted by phx_zs on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @02:16PM

phx_zs writes: Today marks the tenth consecutive day that thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of Manhattan, specifically the financial district. If this is the first you've heard of it that's probably because nearly all mainstream media outlets are completely ignoring the escalating situation. Sunday marked a change of events as high-ranking NYPD officers exhibited brutal, unprovoked aggression on the peaceful group and reportedly arresting at least 80 people. Many photos and videos have surfaced of NYPD officers slamming protesters on the ground or into parked cars, and in one well-covered incident a NYPD officer (with pending police brutality charges from 2004) maced innocent female protesters point blank for no apparent reason. Many eyewitnesses and several news articles report that the NYPD specifically targeted photographers and media teams streaming the event live on the internet.

Submission + - Firefox 7 Is Faster And Uses Less Memory (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by

tekgoblin

on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @01:36PM

tekgoblin writes: "Mozilla has released Firefox 7 the next version of their popular web browser. This new version of Firefox is supposed to see as much as a 50% reduction in memory use from its previous versions. This is good news for me as I use multiple tabs and can see Firefox using up to 1GB of memory sometimes."

Submission + - Facebook Fixes Cookie Behavior After Logging Out

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: Over the weekend, self-proclaimed hacker Nik Cubrilovic accused Facebook of tracking its users even if they log out of the social network. The company responded by denying the claims and offering an explanation as to why its cookies behave the way they do. Now, Cubrilovic says Facebook has made changes to the logout process, and detailed what each cookie is responsible for.

Comment Minature turbines? (Score 1) 937

by Seeker999 on Friday August 12, 2011 @01:52PM (#37070890) Attached to: 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars

Ok, so you've got heat. What about the mini turbines? Do the turbines that would fit in this car exist and can they do what they are expected to do? 227 kilos is a fairly heavy engine. Would its weight be largely the turbines? How well does it scale? Could you build a tractor-trailer around it?

Submission + - News Corp. looking to sell MySpace (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by rudy_wayne on Thursday April 28, 2011 @07:43PM

rudy_wayne writes: "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that News. Corp is trying to sell MySpace for $100 Million, a fraction of the $580 Million that it originally paid in 2005. Parties reportedly interested in acquiring MySpace include private equity firm THL Partners, Redscout Ventures and Criterion Capital, owner of social network Bebo (the company AOL bought for $850 Million and then sold for $10 Million). Chinese Internet holding company Tencent is also reportedly interested and so is Myspace co-founder Chris De Wolfe. What’s not yet clear is what any of these companies plan to do with MySpace if a sale goes through."

Submission + - If you're going to kill it, open source it! (makezine.com) 2

Submitted by

ptorrone

on Thursday April 28, 2011 @06:19PM

ptorrone writes: "MAKE Magzine is proposing big companies like Cisco and Sony consider "open sourcing" their failed or discontinued products. The list includes: Sony's AIBO & QRIO robots, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer, Ricochet Wireless, Potenco’s Pull-Cord Generator, Palm, Microsoft’s SPOT Watch, CISCO Flip Camera and more. MAKE is also encourage everyone to post about what products they'd like to see open sourced. What does the Slashdot community want opened up?"

Submission + - Ubuntu Powered Tablet Spotted! (gadgetizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903 on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @02:06AM

dkd903 writes: The year 2010 had been all buzz with tablets and a similar trend is expected during the year 2011 too. We have already seen a lot of Android powered tablets. But how does a tablet powered by Ubuntu sound? A Chinese manufacturer TENQ has launched a tablet called P07. The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant.

RIP, SunSolve 100

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:56PM from the to-the-moon-instead dept.

Kymermosst writes "Today marks the last day that SunSolve will be available. Oracle sent the final pre-deployment details today for the retirement of SunSolve and the transition to its replacement, My Oracle Support Release 5.2, which begins tomorrow. People who work with Sun's hardware and software have long used SunSolve as a central location for specifications, patches, and documentation."

1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? 685

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 28, 2010 @02:17PM from the I-hate-time-travel-stories dept.

Many of you have submitted a story about Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who claims to have found a person using a cellphone in the "unused footage" section of the DVD The Circus, a Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in 1928. To me the bigger mystery is how someone who appears to be the offspring of Ram-Man and The Penguin got into a movie in the first place, especially if they were talking to a little metal box on set. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @10:40PM from the get-me-off-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

Comment Re:Too Soon, I Suppose (Score 1) 671

by Seeker999 on Monday August 16, 2010 @07:05PM (#33269516) Attached to: Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In <em>Medal of Honor</em>

I remember when I first started playing the Return to Castle Wolfenstein multiplayer demo. I had to pause before I started playing as an Axis soldier. What was I doing playing a Nazi? I'm older than most gamers and my parents went through WWII. It wasn't ancient history to them and it wasn't to me either. My father was interned as a child by the Japanese. The war affected me profoundly in an identafiable way even though I was born more than two decades after the guns stopped firing. My father's temperment had been shaped by the screaming rages that the Japanese who guarded him had indulged in. But the war was "ancient history" to most of the people I played with. They didn't personally identify with it at all it seemed. However I got over my initial qualms about playing the Germans. As other people noted, they seemed to have better weapons. So I have sympathy for those who think this games in poor taste. I also don't want people glossing over the differences between the ideals of western civilization embodied in things like English common law and totalitarian versions of Islam espoused by the taliban(I'm somewhat sympathetic to arguments that that's the only kind).

Wine 1.2 Released 427

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:36PM from the pop-the-cork dept.

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."

Dragon Age 2 Announced 183

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 08, 2010 @12:46PM from the enchantment?-enchantment! dept.

Today BioWare announced a sequel to Dragon Age: Origins, titled Dragon Age 2. They've opened an official site for the game, which shares some vague details and concept art, and promises a trailer in mid-August. The story will apparently span an entire decade and involve a new hero, but it will be located in the same world as the original game. The site says there will be "dynamic new combat mechanics," though the same three basic classes will be available. More information should be forthcoming in this month's issue of Game Informer.

Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux 272

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 11, 2010 @10:32AM from the how-rude dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that with the release of the 10.1 security patches, Adobe has, at least temporarily, killed 64-bit Flash for Linux. The statement says: 'The Flash Player 10.1 64-bit Linux beta is closed. We remain committed to delivering 64-bit support in a future release of Flash Player. No further information is available at this time. Please feel free to continue your discussions on the Flash Player 10.1 desktop forums.' The 64-bit forum has been set to read-only."

Open Source Developer Knighted 101

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 02, 2010 @06:02PM from the knights-who-say-free dept.

unixfan writes "Georg Greve, developer of Open Document Format and active FOSS developer, has received a knighthood in Germany for his work. From the article: 'Some weeks ago I received news that the embassy in Berne had unsuccessfully been trying to contact me under FSFE's old office address in Zurich. This was a bit odd and unexpected. So you can probably understand my surprise to be told by the embassy upon contacting them that on 18 December 2009 I had been awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) by the Federal Republic of Germany. As you might expect, my first reaction was one of disbelief. I was, in fact, rather shaken. You could also say shocked. Quick Wikipedia research revealed this to be part of the orders of knighthood, making this a Knight's Cross.'"

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