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Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux Is Officially Dead 190

ndogg writes "There is no longer any uncertainty surrounding the release of Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux. It's official: the port is now dead. No reasons were given, but no one should be waiting for it anymore, if anyone still was."

Comment seems fairly tautological (Score 1) 240

almost all sexual activity is genetic in some way - with very few exceptions that are the gifts of sentience, my personal favorite being bdsm xD the need to propagate the species and compete for mating partners/territory is fairly well understood - why apply it specifically to 'one night stands'? im sure anyone with that DRD4 gene seeks risk/impulsive behavior, and to those of us who have had the ONS as dane cook puts it know that most of the time it is more exciting than a typical sex act with a committed partner.
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Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe 266

Not even the tranquility of FarmVille can save you from the long arm of debt collectors. Melanie Beacham says that a collector from MarkOne Financial contacted her relatives about her past due car note via Facebook. She is filing suit alleging that the company is harassing her family. Tampa based consumer attorney Billy Howard of Morgan & Morgan says, "Now Facebook does a debt collectors work for them. Now it's not only family members, it's all of your associates. It's a very powerful tool for debt collectors to use."

Comment Newsworthy? (Score -1) 338

And this is newsworthy.... how? DOS is still Microsoft's property, regardless of how thoroughly reverse engineered it has become. This is like dedicating an article to YouTube making a video unavailable because a record label said take it down.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Executive Management vs IT. Suggestions to resolve the disconnect?

I work for a Medium Sized law firm as a Sysadmin/Network Engineer and as most people saddled with this type of work, I have an aging undocumented infrastructure that creates more labor than my budget gives me the ability to standardize. I finally caused enough of a scene that I am allowed to write up a proposal to simply compare COO vs ROI, however even in my first draft document I realize I am being too technical for them to understand what I am saying. How have my peers handled this type of

User Journal

Submission + - The Trouble with Virtualization: Cranky IT Staffs (cio.com) 3

lgmac writes: "A new survey on enterprises' results from virtualization to date shows that the ROI is spreading a lot of love. What's killing the party? Political squabbles among IT staffers, fighting for turf after being forced to work together in new ways. Seems some people still don't know how to play nicely with others."
Privacy

Submission + - Google subpoenaed for a Blogger poster's IP

Jawfish writes: "Santa Barbara based Blogabarbara says today that an anonymous post to the Google-hosted blog has attracted the litigious attention of local billionaire newspaper owner Wendy McCaw, subject of the posting. The owner of Blogabarbara says Google has been subpoenaed for the IP address of this anonymous blogger and that Google may well provide the data.

http://blogabarbara.blogspot.com/2007/03/subpoena- to-anonymous-made-by-ampersand.html

This sounds like a privacy problem to me.

To understand the wild and wacky background of this, you need to go to http://www.craigsmithsblog.com/ and read about how this wannabe publisher has wrecked a pretty good local paper, the Santa Barbara News-Press. The NLRB is investigating. also of interest: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/artic le_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003547492"
Media

Submission + - DefectiveByDesign open letter to Steve Jobs

SanityInAnarchy writes: "We all remember Steve Jobs' blog entry calling for a world without DRM. DefectiveByDesign is sending him an open letter suggesting that he show us how serious he is. From the article:

You can set the ethical example and be the first "major" to drop DRM, by freeing independent artists.... You can set the example in the arena of video and movies. Disney can be the first "major" to drop DRM. You have the direct power to do this.
You can sign the letter as a petition. Their goal is 1000 signatures by April 1."
Patents

What the GPLv3 Means for MS-Novell Agreement 161

eldavojohn writes to mention IT Business Edge has a dry but interesting interview with a lawyer (Antoinette Tease) on the effects the GPLv3 on the Microsoft & Novell alliance. From her answers: "Unlike prior versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which did not address patent rights, the current draft of the GPL version 3 has several provisions that address patent rights. Section 2 states that the license to use the open source code 'terminates if you bring suit against anyone for patent infringement of any of your essential patent claims' based on any version of the open source program." She goes on to say "the GPLv3 as currently drafted would impose an obligation on Novell to somehow 'shield' its customers from patent lawsuits brought by Microsoft, or, alternatively, to make the source code publicly available..."
Microsoft

Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No 403

Aviran writes "When you start WGA setup and get to the license agreement page but decided NOT to install the highly controversial WGA component and cancel the installation, the setup program will send information stored in your registry and the fact that you choose not to install WGA back to Microsoft's servers."
Privacy

Submission + - Private database of student info open to Google

deeceent writes: A community college student who was Googling himself last month found some disconcerting information when he typed his name into the popular Internet search engine: a database file from his college popped up that included his name, birth date and Social Security number. The file also contained data on about 2,000 other students.

"We didn't think the information was open to Google," said Susie Williams, a spokeswoman for the Los Rios schools. "It was a shock to learn they were able to do it."

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