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by El-Wrongo (#22078242) Attached to: 10-year-old Microsoft Ticket Resurfaces?
Anyone other than me who think that this may be a planted story?

I mean look at it.

Some guy who noone knows who is, makes a post in his second blog about MS not calling him back, in this post he makes no smart remarks or anything about Microsoft and then Microsoft say that they are "investigating it".

In the end, this doesn't make MS look bad, and can actually be spun to be good PR if they follow it up correctly.
It's funny. Laugh.

Why You Feel Like Less of a Man Once You Marry

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theodp
theodp writes "Just in case you haven't picked up this month's Current Anthropology, it's official — getting married saps your testosterone. After measuring testosterone in 205 Ariaal men in Kenya, researchers found that those with one wife had lower levels of the hormone than unmarried men, and men with more than one wife had the lowest levels of all. 'Testosterone levels are lower among married men probably because they are investing less in mating effort,' said Peter Gray of the UNLV. Ball Finder, anyone?"
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Gore and U.N. Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize->

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Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes "OSLO (Reuters) — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their part in galvanising international action against global warming before it "moves beyond man's control".Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. "Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man's control," the citation said of rising temperatures that could bring more droughts, floods, rising seas. It was the second prize to a leading U.S. Democrat during the presidency of Republican George W. Bush. The 2002 prize went to former President Jimmy Carter.""
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Education

RIAA Settlement Campaign Leads to Campus Crackdown->

Submitted by Cbs228
Cbs228 writes "Less than twenty days after the RIAA sent its latest round of pre-litigation notices to the University of Missouri–Rolla, administration officials have made drastic changes to the campus's network use policy. Prior to these changes, internet access was largely unfettered, limited only by total bandwidth usage caps. Now, access to all P2P applications, for any purpose, has been blocked by default. According to UMR's news site, the new restrictions are a direct result of the RIAA settlement letters.

Along with these new restrictions, the campus has begun distributing a menacing new DMCA flyer (14 MB PDF) that claims that "unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copyrighted music is just as illegal as shoplifting." The flyer links to MusicUnited.org, a copyright propaganda website that—according to a quick whois search—is owned by the RIAA. The document's metadata indicates that the flyer was created just a few days ago, on August 3rd.

Students can temporarily restore P2P access for 6 hours at a time, but there is a catch: They must log in with their username and password, take a short quiz on P2P usage, and admit for the record that they are potentially breaking the law. The application logs each user's P2P activation history, and these records are retained for an undisclosed period of time. The logs provide convenient evidence for copyright prosecutors, placing the alleged violator at the computer in question and providing what amounts to a signed confession of guilt.

The new settlement letters represent a change of tactics for the RIAA. Instead of simply threatening to sue penniless students, the RIAA is now attempting to strong-arm organizations into changing their policies, encouraging them to restrict and monitor internet access. Even if the RIAA did not personally draft UMR's network access policy, the end result is the same: Our public academic institutions are now spies for the media industry."
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Is the mobile Internet going to change our lives?

Submitted by Richard Denoles
Richard Denoles writes "In a recent blog post by CNET's mobile phone editor, it is stated that 'there will be over 1.2 billion people using mobile broadband on mobile phones and laptops by 2012.' What interests the author and myself though isn't the huge number of people that will be browsing Google on their phones but how 'not being chained to a cable or wireless hotspot will create a real/virtual parallel so closely knitted it might be difficult to detach yourself from your phone or laptop even when interacting with other people or objects.' As someone who uses the Internet at home quite a lot I do wonder how high-speed mobile data access is going to affect my day-to-day life, and more importantly whether it will improve my relationships with other people or make the 'real' world seem more detached?"
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Time travel barriers overcome...->

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Samarian Hillbilly
Samarian Hillbilly writes "Israeli physicist Amos Ori claims to have overcome many of the theoretical obstacles to time travel. He claims that a space-time warp could "evolve" on it's own with a little bit of a "push". Caveats, travel would only be possible between times that have developed this technology and implemented the infrastructure.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/532037/"
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Ubuntu Logo- used with out permission?->

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An anonymous reader writes "The Ubuntu Logo was found in this movie advertisement in one of the local newspapers in Bengaluru(Bangalore). I think the designer just used the logo with out the consent from Canonical Ltd or without knowing what it is, but simply to fit it in the Ad's theme which has many circles around it. what does Canonical have to say about this? the link(if the image cant be seen) http://bp0.blogger.com/_MJRQymgGDAU/RrLXXSaPczI/AA AAAAAAAlE/WZlLPNHhXuk/s1600-h/cp+rt.jpg"
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