Valthan - Slashdot User

MySpace profile and a statutory rape conviction-> 0

Submitted by

drhamad

on Thursday August 16 2007, @10:56AM

drhamad writes "A man convicted of statutory rape attempted to use a MySpace profile to show that the girl was putting herself out to be over the age of 18. The court denied him because he couldn't prove he saw it prior to the "rape". Whether or not you believe that it should be admitted in this case, it's an interesting example of our reliance on internet information and how cases in the future may be looked at."
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Comment: Re:Was I the only one? (Score 1) 223

by Valthan on Wednesday June 27 2007, @12:34PM (#19665491) Attached to: NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment"

Well you can add another person out of the 13 that is from St Kitts

US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS 217

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21 2007, @11:20AM
from the give-ya-five-bucks-for-it dept.

greysky writes "On the 45th anniversary of his first trip into space, astronaut John Glenn says the U.S. is not getting it's money's worth out of the International Space Station. From the article: "Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush's goal of sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is preventing some scientific experiments on the space station"."

TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.6 release

Submitted by

Christophe GRENIER

on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:46AM

Christophe GRENIER writes "TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.6 have been released. TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery program! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted. The encase expert witness compression format is now supported, so computer forensic experts can use TestDisk and PhotoRec more easily. Remember, Slashdot article Memories of a Media Card, PhotoRec was the tool used to recover lost files from apparently formatted cards. PhotoRec 6.6 comes with a new methode to handle fragmented files: it's faster and more reliable."

Journal: World is going to end in 2036 0

Journal by 140Mandak262Jamuna on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:44AM

UN urged to take action to avert asteroid collision in 2036. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10424822

The collision could wipe out a country the size of England the article says.

Vista anti-spyware to be renamed Windows Emmental

Submitted by ronniekray on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:43AM

ronniekray writes "http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1308.html An independent test of Windows Defender against third party vendors has demonstrated holes in Microsoft Vista's spyware protection. Calls of Swiss Cheese could be heard coming from the direction of Spyware Doctor vendor PC Tools which commissioned Australian concern Enex Testlab to evaluate how Windows Defender compared to its own and other products."

Journal: Thoughts on the new console generation 0

Journal by RogueyWon on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:36AM

Now that I've had over 2 weeks with the PS3, I'm perhaps in a position to offer some thoughts on how things stand with the new generation. The opinions below are based on significant hands-on experience with each of the new consoles although obviously, due to the length of time that it has been in the wild, I have had significantly more time with the 360 than with the other two machines.

Journal: Vista Upgrade 0

Journal by Cybertroll on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:35AM

I am not sure how things go for those poor beings who decided to do an upgrade from XP to Vista... somehow I have this weird feeling it will be as bad as the 98 to XP change. The horror of the Vista Upgrade must be even worse for a simple user such as this guy in his webcomic :)

The Top 100 Alternative Vendors

Submitted by

Anonymous

on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:34AM

Anonymous writes "Everyone can name the market leaders in different technology segments. HP has overtaken Dell in PCs and is the undisputed market-share leader in printers. Microsoft holds the title for operating systems. Symantec stands at the top of the hill for antivirus software. Cisco is king in data and voice networking. And EMC ranks ahead of all others in storage hardware. Alternative vendors? They're everyone else, with innovative technologies that complement hardware and software offered by market-share leaders. And, according to VARBusiness.com, they often offer higher margins and better sales opportunities. Here are 100 you should know across 10 key technology segments."

Exploring the Texas Instruments homebrew scene

Submitted by

marcellizot

on Tuesday February 20 2007, @08:31AM

marcellizot writes "Modding hardware and writing homebrew applications is a bloody-minded activity at the best of times; it's all about the square pegs and the round holes. But in the Texas Instruments (TI) range of scientific calculators, the modding/homebrew community has found its Everest. It's hard not to admire this sort of absurd stubbornness, so in homage to this noble gaming pursuit Pocket Gamer has explored the TI scene and rounded up some key TI homebrew games, mods and resources to shed a little light on the modding/homebrew world's most shadowy precipice."