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Conspiracy_Of_Doves (236787)

  Technology: Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" 2008-07-03 13:58

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 03, @01:58PM
from the get-spied-on-at-lower-speeds dept.
Barence writes "The majority of dial-up Internet users say they don't want to upgrade their connection to broadband, according to a new study in the US. The Pew Internet & American Life research found that 62% of dial-up users had no interest in upgrading to a high-speed connection." (CNN is carrying the AP's story on the study, too.)
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 [+] story, tech, internet, usa, communications, it, luddites

  Ten Golden Rules of the anti-videogames lobby[->] 2008-05-06 09:14 Conspiracy_Of_Doves

Submitted by Conspiracy_Of_Doves on Tuesday May 06, @09:14AM
Conspiracy_Of_Doves writes "Be they concerned and clueless parents who want to save the chilluns or outraged hardline Christian campaigners Hell-bent on the collapse of the evil games industry, those who are part of the league against gaming have to adhere to a set of rules like everyone else — in fact, these guys crave laws and regulations more than anybody. How fitting, then, that they too have their Ten Golden Rules."
http://www.destructoid.com/ten-golden-rules-of-the-anti-videogames-lobby-84638.phtml
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 [+] submission, humor

  SPORE release date announced 2008-02-12 14:12 costela

Submitted by costela on Tuesday February 12, @02:12PM
costela writes "From this press release:

Electronic Arts Inc. and Maxis today announced that Spore(TM), the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims(TM), will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7. Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS(TM), and mobile phones.
"
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 [+] submission, games, rts

  Spore Release Date Announced 2008-02-12 14:04

Journal by ichthy on Tuesday February 12, @02:04PM
EA have announced Spore's release date in the form of a teaser movie. September 7th 2008 is perhaps a bit later than hoped by a lot of people.


From the email newsletter:

Hi, I'm Will Wright and I'm working on a new game called Spore(TM). You've heard of it? Oh, that's right, you signed up to get the Official Spore Newsletter. According to my notes, we haven't sent a single newsletter out. Maybe that's why I've been hearing from so many fans wanting some new information on Spore.

While we finish up the game over the next few months, we'll be sharing more information with you and other fans. As a newsletter subscriber, you'll be among the first to get new Spore information, screenshots, videos and other cool features from the Spore team. Check out our launch date teaser, and of course you can visit Spore.com for updates anytime.

Update: As pointed out by costela there is also this press release.

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 [+] journal, pcgames

  Linux: 10K Filing Suggests Grim Outlook for SCO 2008-02-05 09:41

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 05, @09:41AM
from the truly-a-stunning-development dept.
dacarr writes "SCO has filed their 10K with the SEC — and according to this, their own assessment of the company's outlook is pretty grim. As usual, PJ of Groklaw has a good synopsis of the filing highlights. In short, it boils down to one thing: unless there's a miracle, even SCO doesn't think they're going to come out of this. 'As a result of the Chapter 11 filings, realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities are subject to uncertainty. While operating as debtors-in-possession under the protection of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Debtors may sell or otherwise dispose of assets and liquidate or settle liabilities for amounts other than those reflected in the consolidated financial statements, in the ordinary course of business, or, if outside the ordinary course of business, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval. In addition, under the priority scheme established by the Bankruptcy Code, unless creditors agree otherwise, post-petition liabilities and prepetition liabilities must be satisfied in full before stockholders are entitled to receive any distribution or retain any property under a plan of reorganization.'"
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 [+] story, linux, caldera, sco, money, dingdongthewitchisdead

  Science: Artificial Bases Added to DNA 2008-01-30 11:55

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, @11:55AM
from the totally-faked-you-out-man dept.
holy_calamity writes "Researchers have successfully added two 'unnatural' DNA letters to the code of life. They created two artificial base pairs that are treated as normal by an enzyme that replicates and fixes DNA inside cells. This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering."
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 [+] story, science, biotech, dna, garciaisawhiner, !whatcouldpossiblygowrong

  Science: Some People Just Never Learn 2008-01-24 19:27

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 24 2008, @07:27PM
from the i-could-use-a-dose-of-anti-a1 dept.
Iddo Genuth writes "German scientists recently showed what many of us suspected but could not prove — some people just don't learn. The German researchers have found a genetic factor that affects our ability to learn from our errors. The scientists demonstrated that men carrying the A1 mutation are less successful at learning to avoid mistakes than men who do not carry this genetic mutation. This finding has the potential to improve our understanding of the causes of addictive and compulsive behaviors."
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 [+] story, science, biotech, republicans, homer, w

  IT: Penetration Testing TV Series Coming 2007-12-19 00:50

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 19 2007, @12:50AM
from the tiger-team dept.
ChazeFroy writes "CourtTV (TruTV) has a new series starting Dec. 25 at 11 pm called 'Tiger Team.' It follows a group of elite penetration testers hired to test organizations' security using social engineering, wired/wireless penetration testing, and physically defeating security mechanisms (lock picking, dumpster diving, going through air vents/windows). They do all of this while avoiding the organizations' various security defenses as well as law enforcement. The stars of the show also did a radio spot this morning in Denver." Wonder how they socially engineer away the presence of a camera team in the air vents.

  Your Rights Online: IBM Files DVD Spam Patent Application 2007-11-26 07:08

Posted by Zonk on Monday November 26 2007, @07:08AM
from the truly-value-added-content dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mark Wilson of Gizmodo.com reports that IBM is applying for a patent for DVDs that contain or download 'on demand' commercials that cannot be skipped. Consumers would be able to purchase these DVDs at a lower price than regular DVDs and pay extra to enjoy their purchase ad-free without having to buy a second DVD. Perhaps this is part of the massive shift in advertising that IBM predicts."
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 [+] story, yro, patents, ibm, media, spam, divx

  Your Rights Online: White House Ordered to Preserve All Email 2007-11-13 09:41

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 13 2007, @09:41AM
from the IT-at-that-place-just-got-harder dept.
Verunks writes "A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether e-mails have been destroyed in violation of federal law. The issue surfaced in the leak probe of administration officials who disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity. ' The Federal Records Act details strict standards prohibiting the destruction of government documents including electronic messages, unless first approved by the archivist of the United States. Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes. The judge's order "should stop any future destruction of e-mails, but the White House stopped archiving its e-mail in 2003 and we don't know if some backup tapes for those e-mails were already taped over before we went to court. It's a mystery," said Meredith Fuchs, a lawyer for the National Security Archive.'"

  Where Are the Flying Cars? 2007-11-10 12:28

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 10 2007, @12:28PM
from the not-yet-in-the-flying-garage dept.
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Complaints of the non-existence of flying cars as expressions of disappointment in the failure of the present to measure up to the glory of past predictions have long been a staple of popular culture but all that is about to change when Terrafugia introduces their $148,000 "Transition," a 19-foot, two-seater that the company describes as a roadable light-sport aircraft. The problem is that the U.S. doesn't have the infrastructure in place to make landing in front of your house a viable alternative yet and a sky filled with people who don't have pilot's licenses could also be a problem. The idea is to take advantage of the 6,000 public airports in the U.S. so a pilot can fly into a small airport (video) and instead of getting a rental car, just fold up the wings on the aircraft and drive away. Terrafugia expects the first production model to be ready in 2009 and says they've already received advanced orders for 30 to 50 Transitions."

  Your Rights Online: How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter 2007-10-08 12:39

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 08 2007, @12:39PM
from the love-seeing-bullies-get-bullied dept.
In our overly litigious society it seems that many companies are all too happy to fire off a cease-and-desist letter if they see something they don't like. Many times these letters end up online just causing further embarrassment for the company. One such company has decided to try scaring their targets out of this response by including a copyright notice for their cease-and-desist letter. Public Citizen has fielded one of these dumb letters and has invited them to try to assert their cease-and-desist copyright (which isn't even registered).
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 [+] story, yro, court, haha, internet, pdf, factcheck

  Your Rights Online: SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 2007-09-18 14:22

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 18 2007, @02:22PM
from the comment-write-themselves dept.
Stony Stevenson writes "SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is now claiming that competition from Linux was behind the company's filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 'In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""
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 [+] story, yro, court, haha, sco, caldera, linux, business

  Your Rights Online: SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 2007-09-14 16:19

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 14 2007, @04:19PM
from the a-true-catastrophy dept.
Can you say "the SCO, the" in German? writes "Trading of SCO's stock has been halted on news that SCO has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. This move just so happens to fall on the eve of SCO's trial with Novell. One would think that their prior boasts were mostly bluster, that they believe they have almost no chance of prevailing at trial, and that they're now desperate to protect their executives from SCO's creditors while seeking yet another delay. From the release: 'The SCO Group intends to maintain all normal business operations throughout the bankruptcy proceedings. Subject to court approval, SCO and its subsidiaries will use the cash flow from their consolidated operations to meet their capital needs during the reorganization process. "We want to assure our customers and partners that they can continue to rely on SCO products, support and services for their business critical operations," said Darl McBride, President and CEO, The SCO Group. "Chapter 11 reorganization provides the Company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans."'"
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 [+] story, yro, caldera, haha, justdesserts, justdeserts, linux

  Jackon may be involved with Hobbit after all 2007-08-13 13:57 Conspiracy_Of_Doves

Submitted by Conspiracy_Of_Doves on Monday August 13 2007, @01:57PM
Conspiracy_Of_Doves writes "Sci-Fi Wire is reporting that New Line co-chairman Robert Shaye is attempting to patch up his argument with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and wants Jackson to be "creatively involved in some way in The Hobbit."

Slashdot previously reported that Jackson would most likely not be directing the movie version of The Hobbit"
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 [+] submission, lotr

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