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by Darkness404 on Thursday June 19, @09:03PM (#23865009)
Attached to: Wikipedia's Content Ripped Off More Egregiously Than Usual
This is perfect! Next time a teacher or other person in authority says I can't use Wikipedia because it is unreliable I just get the content from this site and I can say that it wasn't Wikipedia!
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  Science: Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved 2007-12-05 17:39

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 05 2007, @05:39PM
from the publicity-stunts dept.
mytrip writes "A controversy over last week's photo of the lunar surface, allegedly from China's lunar spacecraft Chang'e, appears to be resolved. It's real but it isn't. An expert says the photo's resolution shows that it is of recent origin. However, for some inexplicable reason, someone on Earth edited the photo and moved a crater to a different location. 'In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe. The photo from China's Chang'e 1 orbiter is clearly a higher-resolution view, with sunlight streaming from the northwest rather than the north. The mission's chief scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, told the Beijing News that a new crater had been spotted on the Chang'e imagery — a crater that didn't appear on the US imagery. Lakdawalla determined that the crater in question wasn't exactly new — instead, it appeared to be a crater that had been moved from one spot on the picture to another spot slightly south.'"
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  Politics: House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney 2007-11-07 18:00

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 07 2007, @06:00PM
from the sweep-it-under-the-committee-rug dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday successfully moved articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary committee. 'Today's resolution from Kucinich (D-Ohio) was essentially the same as the legislation he introduced earlier this year, which included three articles of impeachment against Cheney based largely on allegations that he manipulated intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. The last article accuses Cheney of threatening "aggression" against Iran "absent any real threat."'"
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Submitted by Conrad on Thursday October 04 2007, @06:35PM
Conrad writes "The Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas verdict is in, with a jury finding her liable of willful copyright infringement for all 24 songs. At $9,250 per song, the grand total is $222,000. The RIAA is pleased with the verdict: 'The plaintiffs' legal team spent a few minutes talking to the jury after the verdict was announced, finally emerging from the courthouse to take questions from the media. The first question asked of Gabriel was whether the RIAA would enforce and try to collect the judgment. Gabriel replied that he hadn't had the chance to talk to the client about that yet. He said that the jury did not explain how they arrived at the $9,250 figure, but that they expressed to the legal team that the case was "clear and well-presented." Gabriel also noted the magnitude of the case in response to a question. "We appreciate the opportunity to put out in daylight the facts and evidence collected in this case," he replied. "This does send a message, we hope, that both downloading and distributing music is no joke." When asked if there was an end game in sight for the series of lawsuits, Gabriel said that it was up to the RIAA to decide.'"
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071004-verdict-is-in.html?bub
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  Sony trashes Halo 3 on Wikipedia[->] 2007-09-04 22:57 scottyatari

Submitted by scottyatari on Tuesday September 04 2007, @10:57PM
scottyatari writes "First the CIA and the Pope, and now Sony edits wikipedia. http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/14404/Sony-Trashes-H alo-3-on-Wikipedia/"
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/14404/Sony-Trashes-Halo-3-on-Wikipedia/
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  Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair[->] 2007-07-10 16:10 GillBates0

Submitted by GillBates0 on Tuesday July 10 2007, @04:10PM
GillBates0 writes "CNN is reporting that Kent Couch managed to fly 193 miles in a lawn chair fitted with 105 helium balloons. The flight lasted approximately 9 hours, after which he touched down safely in an Oregon farm. As he made about 25 miles an hour, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and the dog followed him from below. In 1982, Larry Walters tried a similar feat in Los Angeles and surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair. His wife was quoted as saying "I know he'd be thinking about it more and more, it would always be on his mind. This way, at least he's fulfilled his dream.""
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/10/flying.lawn.chair.ap/index.html
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  Tear-Down of The HotWheels Radar Gun[->] 2007-06-27 13:42 ewhac

Submitted by ewhac on Wednesday June 27 2007, @01:42PM
ewhac writes "You didn't know Mattel made an actual, functioning radar gun? Well, they do, and PlanetAnalog tears one apart to see what makes it tick. Even though the gun retails for only USD$30.00, it still uses sound radio engineering principles to come up with a fairly accurate instrument."
http://www.planetanalog.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200000776
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  Comcast Redefines Definition of HD Channels[->] 2007-06-13 14:55 SchlimpyChicken

Submitted by SchlimpyChicken on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:55PM
SchlimpyChicken writes "In an apparent attempt to "one-up" DirecTV's announcement that it will have over 100 HD channels online this year, Comcast cable announced it will have 400 "HD Channel Choices" by the end of the year and a total of 800 by the end of 2008. On first blush it sounds too good to be true — apparently with good reason. The article at Audioholics reports that the problem is that Comcast has completely redefined what an "HD Channel" is — and the end result is that their claim is not much more than smoke and mirrors."
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/comcast-to-offer-800-hd-channels-not.html
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Submitted by Citizen Pain on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:50PM
Citizen Pain writes "President Bush today appointed as his counselor a man who received $820,000 from Microsoft to lobby during negotiations over its antitrust settlement as well as to oppose the use, especially within the government, of "open source" systems such as Linux. Enron also paid him $700,000 in 2001 alone to lobby on the "California energy crisis" and thwart efforts to re-regulate the Western electricity market through price controls."
http://pressesc.com/01181759904_bush_counselor
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From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:32PM
Blog: A team has just unveiled a sprawling 3D digital simulation of the ancient city as it appeared at the height of its development as the capital of the Roman Empire.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9729127-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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Submitted by Itninja on Wednesday June 13 2007, @02:16PM
Itninja writes "The AP is reporting a story of a judge that is suing a small dry-cleaner for $54,000,000.00 in damages. Apparently, while recounting the trauma of losing a pair of slacks, the judge began to openly weep and had to leave the courtroom."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070612/D8PNI9AO0.html
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  Happy 10th Birthday, Duke Nukem Forever 2007-04-27 16:44 GotWookiee

Submitted by GotWookiee on Friday April 27 2007, @04:44PM
GotWookiee writes "That's right, ten years ago today on Sunday, April 27tn, 1997, 3D Realms formally announced the development of Duke Nukem Forever, the sequel to Duke Nukem 3D. Ten years later, it is still in development.

Major development milestones:
April '97: 3D Realms announces the development of the game.
August '97: PC Gamer magazine publishes the first screen shots.
November '97: Scott Miller states that the intended release date is in 1998.
December '97: 3D Realms gets the Quake II engine source code.
May '98: 3D Realms unveils a first demo footage at E3.
June '98: 3D Realms switches to the Unreal engine. George Broussard states that DNF will be out in 1999. Lots of content is scrapped.
'99: DNF upgrades to the Unreal Tournament engine.
December '99: More DNF screenshots. DNF releases a Christmas card implying it will be out soon.
'00: DNF gets 2nd place in Wired magazines Vaporware Award.
December '00: Another Christmas card.
'01: DNF wins 1st place in the Wired Vaporware Awards.
May '01: Another demo video at E3. The last to date.
'02: DNF wins the Vaporware award again.
'02: New programmers are hired and the game engine is retooled. 95% of previous content is scrapped according to Broussard.
'03: Wired gives DNF the Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award, created solely for DNF.
September '04: Karma physics engine replaced with Meqon engine.
'05 and '06: DNF wins the Vaporware Award two years in a row, again.
January, '07: In-game screen shot released.

During DNF's record 10 years of development, many things have transpired. Also, many historical events have taken less time than DNF's development. Here are some things that have happened in less time than DNF's development:

1) The production and release of all 3 Star Wars prequels, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, along with every Pixar movie except Toy Story.
2) It took less time for NASA and its contractor's to put a man on the moon and return him to the Earth, from Kennedy's pledge before congress to Armstrong's historic "small step."
3) The career's of Britney Spears and Collin Farrel.
4) The two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars where they have been exploring the surface for over 2.5 years.
5) The U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (the largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world) was in contract, built, launched, comissioned, and began active duty.
6) The Wright brothers designed and flew the first airplane.
7) The American Revolutionary War, Civil War, World Wars I and II, the development of the Atomic Bomb, and the US involvement in Vietnam each took less time than DNF's development.

For a more complete list, check out The Duke Nukem Forever List.

In 2008, George Broussard will make you his bitch!"
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  RIAA Wants Student Out of Class for Deposition 2007-04-18 16:30 NewYorkCountryLawyer

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Wednesday April 18 2007, @04:30PM
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a Houston, Texas, case, UMG v. Hightower, the RIAA has served a subpoena on the defendant's son, a high school student, on one day's notice, telling him to be at a lawyer's office at 9:00 a.m. the next day, a School day, for a deposition. The defendant's lawyer objected (pdf)."
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  Worlds Longest Tunnel 2007-04-18 14:23

Journal by WED Fan on Wednesday April 18 2007, @02:23PM

Russia is planning on building the World's Longest Tunnel to connect it and Alaska.

Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.

A joint project between the U.S. and Russia could draw upon lessons of Chunnel construction, and become a new "Wonder of the World".

(Cue: Soviet Russia joke in...5...4...3...2...in Soviet Russia, tunnel digs you.) Now that's out of the way...

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  The Return Of The 8 Bits? 2007-04-18 14:22

Submitted by on Wednesday April 18 2007, @02:22PM
An anonymous reader writes "In this speculative OSNews article, the author explores the laudable areas of the 8 bit microcomputer era and ponders whether certain aspects could be brought forward into the world of present day home computing.

From the article:

"In this article, I'm going to explore the idea that the 8 bit home computer not only had a great deal to offer the prehistoric early-humans of 1985 but that it may also have a place in the modern world; perhaps, there is something that we can learn from it. Having identified the laudable, worthwhile elements of this class of machine, I'm going to make some suggestions towards a scheme that would embody these characteristics in the form of a machine that would have a place within the modern world.""
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