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Submitted by IrenaCB on Tuesday March 11, @10:03PM
IrenaCB writes "Omnidate is a dating site, where you choose a virtual person to represent you in a 3D restaurant or bar. By going through a virtual dating experience allows you to relax, have fun and really create a bond with a person before meeting them in real life."
http://www.1888pressrelease.com/guilt-free-dating-for-single-parents-pr-04nx62u8o.html
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 [+] submission, features, rpg
Submitted by on Tuesday March 11, @09:59PM
An anonymous reader writes "Larry Dignan at ZDNET:

"what really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation that was flagged by suspicious activity reports (SARs) that banks have to file with the Treasury to surface everything from money laundering to terrorist activity. This network has been around for a while, but its importance escalated following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."
Dignan goes on to give an overview of FinCen's operation.

Then again maybe what caught Spitzer was the new incarnation of Total Information Awareness, and then FinCen was used to sanitize the information.

Also under question is whether this information was just stumbled upon, or whether Spitzer was targeted for any dirt. Scott Horton says

All of these facts are consistent with a process which is not the investigation of a crime, but rather an attempt to target and build a case against an individual.
and how much a politicized DOJ is responsible for pushing the story."
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 [+] submission, yro, privacy

  EverQuest 2 Developers Leak Strategies to Guild[->] 2008-03-11 20:11 Sydney Carton

Submitted by Sydney Carton on Tuesday March 11, @08:11PM
Sydney Carton writes "In response to a decision yesterday by Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest 2 management to cut off contact with the notorious fan-run forum EQ2Flames, players began outing the developers' characters. Among the characters revealed were several within one of the game's top raiding guilds, which claimed a worldwide first kill of the hardest encounter currently in-game within the last week. Unfortunately for them, EQ2Flames posters also got their hands on an e-mail from one of the developers within the guild using their inside knowledge to explain the encounter down to the smallest minutiae.

Created as a free speech zone to oppose the increasingly draconian moderation on the official forums, the Flames site attracts a large portion of the community, and many of them are wondering what other improprieties are lurking behind the scenes in the wake of this scandal and another recent issue involving against-policy character transfers pushed through by development. Can the apple fall far from the tree even in the entertainment branch of Sony?"
http://www.eq2flames.com/
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 [+] submission, games, sony

  "DonorGate" Is Latest Scandal To Hit Wikipedia 2008-03-11 18:20

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 11, @06:20PM
from the who-to-believe dept.
MSTCrow5429 writes "In the latest of a long train of scandals to hit Wikipedia, the Sydney Morning Herald reports on an accusation that founder and Wikia President Jimmy Wales traded a multi-thousand dollar donation for an article re-write. Jeff Merkey, formerly of Novell, claims that Wales approached him in 2006 and said that for a fee, Wales would personally see to it that the article on Merkey, which had cast him in a negative light, would be re-written in Merkey's favor. Merkey claims that after he donated $5,000, Wales followed through on this quid pro quo. The Wikipedia edit history does indicate that Wales wiped out the article on Merkey, and then personally re-wrote it. The SMH reports that Wales has called the allegation 'nonsense.'" Merkey filed a harassment lawsuit in 2005 against a number of people and organizations, including Slashdot. Slashdot was removed from the suit on 2005-07-20.

Update: 03/12 00:39 GMT by KD : Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh provided this official statement: "Current allegations relating to Jimmy Wales soliciting donations for the Wikimedia Foundation in order to protect or edit Wikipedia articles are completely false. The Wikimedia Foundation has never accepted nor solicited donations in order to protect or make edits to a Wikipedia article — nor has Jimmy Wales. This is a practice the Wikimedia Foundation would never condone."
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 [+] story, internet, jimbowales, wikipedia, multithousand, netkook

  Mac, BSD prone to decade old attacks 2008-02-06 19:43 BSDer

Submitted by BSDer on Wednesday February 06, @07:43PM
BSDer writes "An Israeli security researcher published a paper few hours ago, detailing attacks against Mac, OpenBSD and other BSD-style operating systems. The attacks, says Amit Klein from Trusteer enable DNS cache poisoning, IP level traffic analysis, host detection, O/S fingerprinting and in some cases even TCP blind data injection. The irony is that OpenBSD boasted their protection mechanism against those exact attacks when a similar attack against the BIND DNS server was disclosed by the same researcher mid 2007. It seems now that OpenBSD may need to revisit their code and their statements. According to the researcher, another affected party, Apple, refused to commit to any fix timelines. It would be interesting to see their reaction now that this paper is public."
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 [+] submission, it, security, whatcouldpossiblygowrong

  Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop 2007-09-24 11:10

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 24 2007, @11:10AM
from the why-are-my-ads-all-about-boobs dept.
Dekortage writes "Today, Pudding Media is introducing an Internet phone service similar to Skype's online service, but without any toll charges. The catch: they are eavesdropping on phone calls with voice recognition software to monitor calls, then push conversation-relevant the ads to the subscriber's computer screen. Interestingly, during tests, "conversations [were] actually changing based on what was on the screen," said the president. "Our ability to influence the conversation was remarkable.""

  Hardware: Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista 2006-11-15 17:13

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 15 2006, @05:13PM
from the dungeons-but-not-dragons dept.
danimrich writes "According to a report by AppleInsider and a Microsoft support document the software for the Zune player is not compatible with Windows Vista."
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 [+] story, hardware, microsoft, zune, vista, haha, itsatrap

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