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Education

Submission + - TN buys $9.5M monitoring system despite layoffs (wired.com)

RobotsDinner writes: "Facing a $43.7 million dollar budget shortfall, staff cuts, and increasing tuition, Tennessee's public university system has made a $9.5 million investment in an RIAA-recommended monitoring system. Says governor Phil Bredesen: "The illegal downloading of music has a profoundly negative effect on the music industry. As home to so many record companies, music publishers, writers and artists, I am proud that Tennessee is taking action to prevent it."

Perhaps laid-off state employees might do well to look for a new career in country music?"

Privacy

Submission + - UK Planning Internet Black Boxes

RobotsDinner writes: In what sounds like a dystopian sci-fi plot, the Home Office has made public plans to outfit the country's internet with upstream data recorders to log pretty much everything that passes through.

Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.

The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers earlier this week.

HP

Submission + - How HP could turn a novelty into a revolution 1

RobotsDinner writes: HP's TouchSmart desktop is cool, but a blogger suggests it could be the beginning of a revolution if HP were to finally make the move of ditching Windows and building a Linux distro around the TouchSmart UI.

Hello, HP.

The UI of your latest TouchSmart computer says something about you. You may not have recognized your own weaving-in of meaning, but it comes across quite clearly if one reads just right: You want out. You want to escape the world of Windows to which Microsoft has sequestered you for the better part of two decades.

Ah, but you can. No longer does Bill Gates stand guard outside your cell. Ballmer is busy in the lavatory. It's time to ditch Windows and build a Linux distro around the TouchSmart UI.

Handhelds

Submission + - iPhone tethering app appears, disappears (macrumors.com)

StreetStealth writes: Macrumors reports on the unannounced appearance and sudden disappearance in Apple's iTunes App Store of a supposedly Apple-sanctioned tethering app from Nullriver, creators of the pre-SDK Installer app. iPhone users have asked for this feature since the original iPhone last year, but Apple's response has thus far been one of apathy.

It's inclusion in the App Store is a curiosity, as Apple must have manually approved its inclusion. It's unclear if the Application would go against AT&T user agreements. AT&T typically charges Smart Phone users $30/month extra to use tethering applications.

Only minutes later does the amendment appear:

Update: The application appears to have gone missing from the App Store. If you try to purchase it now, iTunes says "The item you tried to buy is no longer available".


Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Could the Wii end up competing against its remote?

StreetStealth writes: Now that the Wii's motion sensing and infrared triangulation have been hacked, intercepted, and utilized by PCs, the Wii's central feature is no longer exclusive to itself. What happens when a platform's revolutionary feature is an accessory that can be easily appropriated by anything with a Bluetooth transceiver? "No Substance / All Eloquence" explores the possibilities.

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