Comment: Is he serious? (Score 1) 1010
This is only because Microsoft believes that Linux was developed on Mars
Comment: Yes, but can you arrange your icons by penis? (Score 1) 432
Comment: Sounds like Pirate Radio (Score 1) 259
Sounds like they might be attempting the equivalent of Pirate Radio and could be a way to avoid a lot of different national laws and regulations. I'm sure there is not a lot of copyright or patent protection in Maritime Law.
101 Free Games for 2008 40
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from the one-of-the-best-kind dept.
from the one-of-the-best-kind dept.
From Angry Boulders to Wormux, 1up and Games for Windows magazine offers a massive list of 101 free games. "While you're waiting around for the next Orange Territory: Biogate Crisis-- Tournament in Conflict to appear, hundreds of little independent and free games piling up unplayed. And believe it or not, saving pennies can put you on the cutting edge, as today's freebies are résumés for tomorrow's gaming greats: The team that created Portal cut its teeth on Narbacular Drop; the PlayStation 3 downloadable hit Everyday Shooter got its start as potential PC freeware--until Sony scooped it up after a gangbusters Game Developers Conference showing. So make a new Year's resolution: Let 2008 be the Year of Freeware."
SPAM: IC3 issues FBI fraud warning
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coondoggie writes "The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) today issued a warning that it has receieved reports of fraudulent schemes misrepresenting FBI agents, officials and/or FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. The fraudulent e-mails give the appearance of legitimacy due to the usage of pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letterhead, and/or banners. The types of schemes utilizing the names of FBI agents, officials, or the Director's name are typically lottery endorsements and inheritance notifications.Some observers think 2008 is going to be nasty year for security-related problems. Look for a rising number of compromised Web sites that quietly attack unsuspecting visitors, "parasitic" malware that eats desktop files, and a stream of exploits targeting high-profile events such as the 2008 Olympics and the U.S. presidential elections, experts warn.
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HD DVD Prices Slashed By Toshiba 414
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Zonk
from the i-think-that-bell-has-rung dept.
from the i-think-that-bell-has-rung dept.
Hellburner writes "Hoping to stop the inevitable, Toshiba has slashed the price of entry-level HD DVD players to $150 — down from the previous $300. 'It's a half-empty, half-full moment for retailers, who could see a sales boost at the same time that some may be faced with price matching from holiday sales ... The theory: play up the acceptance by consumers who have already paid for HD DVD versus those who get it with something else like a gaming console, get more players out there--and dare studios to ignore those consumers. In addition to the sales cuts, Toshiba will launch major initiatives, including joint advertising campaigns with studios.'"
Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism 298
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from the nice-theory-though dept.
from the nice-theory-though dept.
jamie found an article over at Washington Monthly discussing the recent finding that there is no link between thimerosal and autism. It seems that after the mercury-based vaccine preservative was withdrawn from use in 1999, no drop in autism rates has been observed in a large California study. Here's the Science Daily writeup on the study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
States to Track Drivers Through RFID Licenses->
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Matt writes "Arizona, Michigan, Vermont and Washington are going to begin using RFID chips in drivers' licenses as part of a lets-track-everyone-in-the-western-hemisphere project. Well, at least privacy was nice while it lasted."
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USPTO looking for prior art on progress bar-> 2
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VomitInc writes "The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is giving the public 12 more days to comment on a proposed patent from IBM on dynamic readjustment and interpolation of progress method and system, aka, a progress bar."
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RIAA-fighting Maine law professor speaks out
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a fascinating interview with Jon Newton of p2pnet, Prof. Deirdre Smith of the University of Maine Law School's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, which is the first law school legal clinic in the U.S. to have taken on the RIAA, says that "our students are enthusiastic about being directly connected to a case with a national scope and significance". She went on to say that the case (Arista v. Does 1-27 (Portland, ME)) is probably one of the first intellectual property cases the clinic has ever taken on, and that if it proceeds further, she expects to also "draw on the considerable expertise in IP among members of our faculty and the Maine Center for Law and Innovation, another program of the Law School". Congratulations to the University of Maine School of Law for giving its law students the opportunity for hands-on experience fighting the RIAA's effort to rewrite copyright law."