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  $10,000 donation to a free NVIDIA driver? 2006-12-21 14:36 blueser

Submitted by blueser on Thursday December 21 2006, @02:36PM
blueser writes "David Nielsen committed to donate at least $10.00 to the Nouveau driver project if 1,000 other people do so. These guys intend to reverse engineer NVIDIA Linux driver to produce a 100% open source alternative with 3D acceleration. From their page you can see there's still a lot of ground to cover: "Currently, nothing works. If you're not a developer, you're not interested in this at all." Could this work? Would this free driver be able to keep up with newest NVIDIA hardware as it comes out? This is not an unreasonable scenario as some might think: NVIDIA dropped their own nForce network driver in favor of the open source, reverse-engineered 'forcedeth' driver."
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  RIAA Drops Suit Against Santangelo 2006-12-21 14:34 VE3OGG

Submitted by VE3OGG on Thursday December 21 2006, @02:34PM
VE3OGG writes "The RIAA, in an expected motion has recently dismissed the case against Patti Santangelo, one of the most famous targets of the RIAA lawsuits — who was featured on Slahsdot several months back — and who was described by the judge prosiding as an ""internet-illiterate parent, who does not know Kazaa from kazoo." This would seem like good news at first, however the RIAA is still pursuing its case against two of Mrs. Santangelo's children. To make matters worse, the RIAA has also dismissed the case 'without prejudice', meaning that they could, in theory, take action against her again later on.

The RIAA alledges that Santangelo's children downloaded and subsequently distributed more than 1,000 songs. The damages they seek are presently unknown"
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Submitted by theodp on Thursday December 21 2006, @02:19PM
theodp writes "The USPTO apparently has enough spare time these days to open their own Art Gallery and train Indian patent and trademark examiners."
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  copy protection 2006-12-21 14:14 aristofanes

Submitted by aristofanes on Thursday December 21 2006, @02:14PM
aristofanes writes "from New Scientist the copy-protection in the new Blu-ray and HD-DVD players has been specially designed so that it can be modified at any time in the future; without the owner even knowing it. The modification instructions are to be hidden in movie discs, so Hollywood could yet opt to adopt Philips' new system. Read the full regional-coding protection patent. http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10817-in vention-taser-gets-tougher.html"
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  Robots could demand legal rights 2006-12-21 13:57 celardore

Submitted by celardore on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:57PM
celardore writes "Robots could demand legal rights according to this BBC article."
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  Computing in the cloud 2006-12-21 13:48 jcatcw

Submitted by jcatcw on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:48PM
jcatcw writes "Amazon is getting into the on-demand server business. Its Elastic Compute Cloud, affectionately known as EC2 and still in beta, offers computing services on a pay as you go model. Books, then toys, then gadgets, then clothes, ... Amazon believes its own experience is now a revenue source.

"Put in the simplest terms, Amazon rents out virtual servers, which it called instances, from its data centers, which are grids. Each instance has the approximate power of a server with a 1.7Ghz Xeon processor, 1.75GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and a 250Mbit/sec. Internet connection that can communicate in bursts of up to 1Gbit/sec.

You pay 10 cents per hour for each instance, plus 20 cents per gigabyte of data transfer. You can also combine it with S3 and pay 15 cents per gigabyte per month for storage. In the future, Amazon will likely roll out other tiers of instances, with more powerful instances costing more per hour.""
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  Question to Slashdotters... 2006-12-21 13:48 Dave

Submitted by Dave on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:48PM
Dave writes "Here is a question to slashdotters that I'm not sure it has been asked before.
I the network admin for a bank here in the US and we are mainly a Novell shop.
Interoperability of eDirectory with Windows has been a nightmare. Many departments have purchased products without knowledge or consent from IT that run only on Microsoft. We are trying to put a hold on that.
Our only Linux server is one web server we use as our Intranet. We are looking into running OES in SuSE for eDirectory.
I have been following the story of the Microsoft/Novell deal. We are getting many PR emails from Novell about it. I am trying to get unbiased information however. Leaving our personal opinion aside if possible as I know many hate "Micro$oft" ^_^
For me to do something about this, like move to another vendor such as Red Hat, I need business reasons to present my superiors. Unfortunately our account processing is done through an outside company that only supports Windows clients for their software so, at least the client PCs will need to stay that way.
So here is (are) my question(s)
How will this deal affect my company (or companies in general)? If there actually is a bad impact, what will this be? What can I do to mitigate this impact?
I understand if you include your personal feelings but I do need answers I can present up the corporate ladder.
Thank you,"
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Submitted by Wowzer on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:41PM
Wowzer writes "Sega today announced that their arcade fighting game Virtua Fighter 5, originally announced at E3 in May as a PS3-exclusive, will make its way onto the Xbox 360. From the article: "Virtua Fighter 5 is scheduled for release on Xbox 360 in North America and in Europe during late summer 2007. The game will also be available for the PS3 on February 20th, 2007 in North America and will be available in Europe simultaneously with the system's launch in March 2007." No new footage was revealed, as the official VF5 website is still showing the game only with a PS3 movie and screenshots."
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  Amazon to offer DRM-free MP3s 2006-12-21 13:35 et764

Submitted by et764 on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:35PM
et764 writes "A post on Hypebot reports that Amazon is planning to launch an online music store early next year. This store will offer only MP3s without DRM and offer variable pricing. From the article:

What is most surprising (and exciting) about Amazon's new store is that the online giant is apparently telling labels that they will only sell DRM free mp3's and will offer variable pricing.
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  Get RSS feeds for scientific literature 2006-12-21 13:35 gmsieling

Submitted by gmsieling on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:35PM
gmsieling writes "After working to improve the quality of our code base at work, I thought it would be interesting to get alerts when people published papers on software engineering. I found a site that will create the feeds from search results automatically, or if you prefer, send you email alerts when new results appear. I wrote up a description of how to do this."
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  Why Ecma for OOXML? Press Releases Tell the Tale 2006-12-21 13:29 Andy Updegrove

Submitted by Andy Updegrove on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:29PM
Andy Updegrove writes "Earlier this month Ecma, a Europe-based standard setting consortium, approved Microsoft's OOXML formats. When Microsoft submitted the formats to Ecma a year ago, ODF proponents called Ecma a "rubber stamp" organization that would do as it was told. Was that fair? Ecma's press releases for the past year may provide a clue: during that time period, it issued three press releases announcing the general adoption of a total of 32 standards at General Assemblies, and twelve press releases on individual standards projects — all but one of which were dedicated to Microsoft's OOXML specification. It would appear that either Ecma doesn't think much of what it's doing these days is very important, or that there is a great deal it can gain from being associated with the OOXML project — or both. This may be why it agreed to charter a Technical Committee with an unusually specific charge for a standards organization: to produce a standard that is "fully compatible" with the formats used by a single vendor. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/articl e.php?story=20061221065155844"
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Submitted by Keith on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:14PM
Keith writes "A very interesting report came out today from DisplaySearch: Nearly one in four LCD televisions shipped worldwide in the third quarter of 2006 were not manufactured by the company whose name is on the front of the set according to a recent report by DisplaySearch. Something that most people do not realize is that HDMI cables are the same way! There are only a handful of licensed makers of HDMI cables. Why pay $150 for the same cables that can be bought for $6.99?"
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  Buying the Right to Pollute 2006-12-21 13:11 CDMA_Demo

Submitted by CDMA_Demo on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:11PM
CDMA_Demo writes "DailyKos is running a story on how some businesses , as reported in the New York Times are exploiting loopholes in the Kyoto Protocol to avoid cleaning up their own plants. From the report: "Arrangements like this still make sense to the foreign companies financing them because they are a lot less expensive, despite the large profit for others, than cleaning up their own operations.""
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  Hosted AJAX Based CRM available for Free 2006-12-21 13:01 Tazz_ben

Submitted by Tazz_ben on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:01PM
Tazz_ben writes "It seems that WBP SYSTEMS is giving away an AJAX based CRM for a few months. It includes features like messages, contact management, calendars and it uses AJAX for most of its functions. It also has RSS, iCal and a bunch of other buzz words integrated into it. It should be an interesting product, especially for small business."
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  Women CIOs: How To Smash the Glass Ceiling 2006-12-21 13:01 lizzyben

Submitted by lizzyben on Thursday December 21 2006, @01:01PM
lizzyben writes "While women CIOs are hard to come by, their numbers are growing, Baseline is reporting. The magazine talked to five women CIOs and executives to learn how women tech workers can give their careers a jolt. Advice for climbing the corporate tech ladder include: Manage by facts, play to win and know your incompetencies."
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