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Big debate on Climate Change & Global Warming 0

Submitted by

Mark

on Sunday September 23 2007, @12:06PM

Mark writes "A new website has been launched with a specific mission to inform its readers by engaging them in an active debate on Global Warming and Climate Change.

www.TalkClimateChange.com has been specifically designed in order to appeal to those on both sides of the climate change debate since we believe that it is only through intelligent discourse that we can bring the discussion forwards, improve understanding and promote change for a better planet.

Members are encouraged to join either the Green Team or the Red Team, depending on their side of the debating table and regular news updates are provided on a broad range of Climate Change and Global Warming related topics, to which users are invited to offer their views and opinions.

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Europe Gets Nerfed PS3: No Motion Sensing

Submitted by

AbsoluteXyro

on Saturday February 24 2007, @04:13AM

AbsoluteXyro writes "In an effort to control costs Sony has nerfed some PS3 functionality for the upcoming PAL launch. Most notably, Wii-like motion sensing control has been ditched. This is another kick in the behoogies for PAL territories, after long delays and the recent news that backwards compatibility would be limited. Sucks to be those guys."

Boycott the RIAA in March

Submitted by

bblboy54

on Friday February 23 2007, @11:58PM

bblboy54 writes "Gizmodo has declared March the month to boycott the RIAA. Sound The Sirens and p2p.net have both already shown their support for this.
From the article:
Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. Am I saying you should start pirating music? Not at all. You can continue to support the artists you enjoy and respect in a number of ways."

Matt Groening talks about Futurama's comeback

Submitted by

Joel Keller

on Friday February 02 2007, @03:46PM

Joel Keller writes "When I was at the Television Critics Association press tour earlier this month, I briefly talked to Matt Groening about Futurama's comeback. I posted the interview to TV Squad a couple of days ago:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/31/matt-groening-ta lks-about-futuramas-comeback/

I figured this was in /.'s wheelhouse..."

The Troops Also Need to Support the American Peopl

Submitted by mdonley on Friday February 02 2007, @03:08PM

mdonley writes "http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/0 1/the_troops_also_need_to_suppor.html"

Super Bowl Web site hacked, Seeded with Exploits

Submitted by

Adri00la

on Friday February 02 2007, @02:26PM

Adri00la writes "ZDNet is reporting that the official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday's Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws. In the attack, the server hosting the site was breached and a link to a malicious JavaScript file was inserted into the header of the front page of the site. Visitors to the site execute the script, which attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities to load keyloggers/backdoors."

Superbowl Site Harbors Password-Stealing Trojan

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2007, @02:07PM

An anonymous reader writes "Just days before the most-watched sporting event in America, the official site of Dolphins Stadium — the location of Super XLI — has been infected with a trojan downloader that uses a month-old flaw in Windows to drop a password stealing program, the Washingtonpost.com reports. Websense says the site is getting a ton of traffic at the ment, as it comes up very prominently when you search for Superbowl-related terms."

World Safecracking Champion Takes Down Bank Vault

Submitted by

Bob Slidell

on Sunday January 21 2007, @12:52AM

Bob Slidell writes "http://technofart.com/index.php/2007/01/20/world-s afecracking-champion-takes-down-bank-vault-in-5-mi nutes-19-seconds-video/ Keep in mind that he's doing this entirely BY TOUCH-no drilling, no x-ray machines, no thermic lance, just his fingers. Jeff Sitar is, essentially, the world's greatest living safecracker. He has won the Lockmaster's International Safecracking Competition SEVEN times. In this video from the Discovery Channel show 'More Than Human', they have Jeff set up with 3 safe dials, each of which has a certain object attached to the ends of them (their spindles) which barely touches a post at a specific number on the dial: one dial, the easiest one, has a toothpick attached to it, another dial has a post-it note attached to it, and the third, and most difficult one, has a feather attached to it. The next thing they do is have him try cracking a locked gun safe, which he does in 4 minutes and 57 seconds, and lastly they set him up at a real bank in New Jersey (they won't say which one) to see if he can crack their vault: 5 minutes and 19 seconds. Cool"

Ubuntu Studio revealed

Submitted by

lukeknipe

on Saturday January 20 2007, @08:56PM

lukeknipe writes "Ubuntu announces the April release of the Ubuntu Studio. An exceptionally ambitious project, it is described by Ubuntu as a "multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment.""