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Comment: What would you do with a billion dollars? (Score 0, Redundant) 758

by Hepneck on Wednesday August 29 2007, @12:40PM (#20400297) Attached to: What would your billionaire hobby be?

Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
I think if I were a billionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.

Nintendo Sponsors New York Film Festival

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Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:44AM

Anonymous Coward writes "Nintendo 's prestigious North American flagship store, Nintendo World, will be sponsoring a short film showcase as part of the upcoming New York film festival. Filmmarkers are invited to produce a short, 5-minute film based on a Nintendo theme of their choice for a top prize of USD 10,000 in cash."

Halo 2 for Windows XP

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:41AM

An anonymous reader writes "San Diego based Falling Leaf Systems claims that they will offer XP compatibility for Halo 2 and Shadowrun:"

Attempted copyright infringement to be a crime?

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mikesd81

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:34AM

mikesd81 writes "News.com reports that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy. The IPPA(careful, .pdf) would represent the most dramatic rewrite of copyright law since a 2005 measure dealing with prerelease piracy. For instance:

* Criminalize "attempting" to infringe copyright.
* Create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software.
* Permit more wiretaps for piracy investigations.

A representative of the Motion Picture Association of America states: "We appreciate the department's commitment to intellectual-property protection and look forward to working with both the department and Congress as the process moves ahead." What's still unclear is the kind of reception this legislation might encounter on Capitol Hill. Gonzales may not be terribly popular, but Democrats do tend to be more closely aligned with Hollywood and the recording industry than is the GOP."

Valve Software On User-created Content

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Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:28AM

Anonymous Coward writes "Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz this week, Valve Software marketing director Doug Lombardi stressed the importance of user-created content, suggesting that home videogames consoles are going to have to embrace them if "they want online to matter". "I would argue that it's the biggest component those guys have to get over if they want online to matter", stated Lombardi. "Half-Life 1 was okay as a multiplayer game and Team Fortress Classic was really good, but Counter-Strike kicked both their asses no question. And that came from a kid going to college in Canada and another kid going to high school in New Jersey, who had our code and thought it would be cool to play our game.""

OpenOffice vs. Google?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:25AM

An anonymous reader writes "There are several reasons why there is going to be more competition between OpenOffice and Google than between Office and Google, or even Office and OpenOffice. So who wins?"

Web sites liable for some user-generated content

Submitted by spiritraveller on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:25AM

spiritraveller writes "The New York Times reports on a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case (PDF) holding that website Roommates.com can be held liable for some content that user's post on it. The court seems to rely on the fact that Roommates.com created checkbox choices which are alleged to violate the Fair Housing Act. The court also held the web site could not be liable for submissions in the "additional preferences" field because the website was not involved in creating that content.

Does this mean we'll be seeing fewer textareas and more checkboxes from now on?"

Dell Does 180 On Its Sales Strategy

Submitted by somethinginmyeye on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:24AM

somethinginmyeye writes "Dell, the king of direct-only sales, is set to turn the page on 23 years of history by launching a major effort to engage commercial resellers and retail channels. http://www.crn.com/it-channel/199600505"

How image spam works

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Esther Schindler

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:04AM

Esther Schindler writes "CSO Magazine has an article about "The Scourge of Image Spam," with an explanation of its effect (a year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam; today, up to 40 percent are in that category, and image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006). You might already know about that, ho-hum. But what's even cooler is a interactive graphic page which demonstrates the various methods used by image spammers and how it works."

Amazon to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Store

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ubermiester

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:00AM

ubermiester writes "TheStreet.com is reporting that Amazon will soon launch an online MP3 store that will not utilize any kind of DRM. Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO, says "Our MP3-only strategy means all the music that customers buy on Amazon is always DRM-free and plays on any device". The store will apparently carry songs from "more that 12,000 labels", but no word yet on which labels are included or how much the songs will cost."