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  Nintendo faces Wii, GameCube sales ban 2008-07-22 19:01 New_Age_Reform_Act

Submitted by New_Age_Reform_Act on Tuesday July 22, @07:01PM
New_Age_Reform_Act writes "Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of handheld game machines, is facing a ban on sales of the Wii and GameCube systems after it lost a bid to overturn a $21 million patent-infringement verdict."
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by wiIIyhilI on Sunday July 20, @03:03PM (#24264535)
Attached to: Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting

No because it is politically incorrect to do so, thanks to the liberal Jews who give too much power to the niggers.

LED lights should be as close as to the nigger color as possible.

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by vvillyhill on Friday July 11, @01:03AM (#24147301)
Attached to: Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix

No. It is part of the Jew World Domination.

Michael Dell is a Jew.

http://www.israelnewsagency.com/jewisrael194800.html

"Michael Dell (born 1965), Jew founder of Dell Computer Corporation."

And you know, RIAA is a cartel controlled by music companies largely controlled by Jews.

Got it?

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by vvillyhill on Friday July 11, @12:03AM (#24147373)
Attached to: Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix

or better yet, exterminate Jew Power in America. We need a dictatorship.

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Posted by timothy on Friday June 20, @12:01AM
from the and-by-under-wraps-we-meant-welcome-to-china dept.
natenovs writes "China's intellectual-property rights enforcer said the government isn't probing Microsoft Corp. for breaching antitrust laws, denying yesterday's report by a state-owned newspaper. 'We are not conducting an anti-monopoly investigation against Microsoft and have no plans to do so,' Yin Xintian, a spokesman and legal director at the State Intellectual Property Office, said by telephone today in Beijing. The newspaper's report is 'completely untrue,' the agency said on its Web site."
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 [+] story, yro, microsoft, court, china, toobad, antitrust

  CCTV boom fails to reduce crime 2008-05-06 12:20 New_Age_Reform_Act

Submitted by New_Age_Reform_Act on Tuesday May 06, @12:20PM
New_Age_Reform_Act writes "Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact , despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe."
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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 15, @06:02AM
from the wonder-whose-chips-those-are dept.
crazyeyes writes "Those crazy counterfeiters have done it again. First they made counterfeit Intel boxed processors, now they are counterfeiting DFI motherboards! Quoting: 'The detail to the packaging, documentation and the motherboard printing really makes you wonder if the people responsible for this have only limited their activities to DFI motherboards. It's quite possible that there are fake ASUS or Gigabyte motherboards in the market as well.'" Update: 04/15 12:59 GMT by Z : As noted in the comments, the articles offer no speculation as to the origins of the counterfeits. Updated to clarify that.
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 [+] story, hardware, technology, china, flamebait, motherboard
Posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 10, @07:07PM
from the war-on-malware dept.
ahess247 brings us a lengthy BusinessWeek story on the increasing amount of attacks against the US government's online presence as well as its contacts in the private sector. Hackers are gaining a greater awareness of where valuable data might reside, and that awareness is leading to more precise, more sophisticated attacks. Quoting: "The U.S. government, and its sprawl of defense contractors, have been the victims of an unprecedented rash of similar cyber attacks over the last two years, say current and former U.S. government officials. 'It's espionage on a massive scale,' says Paul B. Kurtz, a former high-ranking national security official. Government agencies reported 12,986 cyber security incidents to the U.S. Homeland Security Dept. last fiscal year, triple the number from two years earlier. Incursions on the military's networks were up 55% last year, says Lieutenant General Charles E. Croom, head of the Pentagon's Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations. Private targets like Booz Allen are just as vulnerable and pose just as much potential security risk. 'They have our information on their networks. They're building our weapon systems. You wouldn't want that in enemy hands,' Croom says. Cyber attackers 'are not denying, disrupting, or destroying operations--yet. But that doesn't mean they don't have the capability.'"
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 [+] story, it, security, government, military, china, espionage
Journal by New_Age_Reform_Act on Monday April 07, @06:39PM
Faced with a lawsuit by a Pittsburgh couple who claims that their privacy was invaded by Google's "Street View" mapping technology, the search giant has removed images of the family's home from its servers. Several photos of the Oakridge Lane home of Aaron and Christine Boring have been yanked from Google Maps and replaced with a black image, as seen below. But while photos of the Boring property have been scrubbed, a more intrusive series of photos of a neighboring home remain on Google (and can be found here). The home of Janet and George McKee is the only property on Goldenbrook Lane, a narrow, gravel path off Oakleaf Lane, a two-way street. The McKee residence is at the end of Goldenbrook Lane, which the family was able to name at the time their home was built in 1993. As the "Street View" images show, a Google vehicle--outfitted with a roof-mounted camera taking 360-degree images--drove down the gravel path and onto the paved driveway leading to the McKee home. The Google car continued past the steps leading to the McKees's front door and came to a stop outside the house's three-car garage (and next to the family's trampoline and portable basketball rim). Taking photos all the time, the Google vehicle was squarely on private property, a fact that presumably should have been apparent when the gravel path became paved. Janet McKee, who was unaware of the "Street View" images until contacted by TSG, said that it was "a little bit creepy to think of someone filming our home without me knowing about it." She said that the property line began with the paved driveway. A photo of the McKee property can be found on Allegheny County's Office of Property Assessments web site, but that image was snapped from a distance--not from the family's backyard, as was Google's preference.
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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 01, @05:21PM
from the privacy-under-pressure dept.
AngryDad writes "Beginning last September, all vehicles sold in the US have been required to have Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) installed. An article up at HexView enumerates privacy issues introduced by TPMS, and some of them look pretty scary. Did you know that traffic sensors on highways can be adopted to read TPMS data and track individual vehicles? How about an explosive device that sets itself off when the right vehicle passes nearby? TPMS has been discussed in the past, but I haven't seen its privacy implications analyzed before. Fortunately the problem is easy to fix: encrypt TPMS data the way keyless entry systems do."
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 [+] story, yro, privacy, transportation, bigbrother, tinfoilhat, paranoia
Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 26, @01:23PM
from the now-we-just-need-a-good-rigger dept.
Catoonsis writes "Reuters is reporting that 'Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky technology to beef up their fight against crime.' The police force is planning to make use of a small aerial drone, capable of hovering and quick maneuvers, to monitor the Miami-Dade area and alert officers of potential problems. The device, manufactured by Honeywell, is awaiting FAA approval before it can be put into use. This decision is just the latest chapter in the developing relationship between law enforcement and robotic assistants. 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been flying drones over the Arizona desert and southwest border with Mexico since 2006 and will soon deploy one in North Dakota to patrol the Canadian border as well. This month, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Juan Munoz Torres said the agency would also begin test flights of a modified version of its large Predator B drones, built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, over the Gulf of Mexico.'"
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 [+] story, tech, government, privacy, robot, technology, skynet
Journal by New_Age_Reform_Act on Wednesday March 19, @11:56AM

Are you operating a blog or a forum for college students to rant or vent their fumes? Chances are you may be prosecuted if you are in New Jersey.

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