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Submission + - Vista: Simple trick bypass anti-piracy technology.

Submitted by
Mikel
Mikel writes: "Descriptions on how to crack the anti-piracy technology of Vista have been surfacing all over the internet over the past weeks. Most of them requiring rather sophisticated techniques. It's all water under the bridge now: We found out that here is a rather simple trick, one you may not believe at first -at least we didn't. Soon, our main question was how Microsoft could have missed something so obvious. The whole news about this finding: http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/66430/index.htm l"
Businesses

Submission + - ChaCha.com, the next Google?

Submitted by
SuperStretchy
SuperStretchy writes: "A new search engine has arisen in the past few months and has started to gain a minute share of search engine traffic. Chacha offers the normal search engine (similar in results to Google), but with a new twist: Guides. Guides are trained persons who will help you if you choose so.

Picking a guide is done for you, based on the system's perception of your search terms- terms that correlate with keywords chosen by guides trained in them.

From the outset, it seems like this service is unnecessary (for the most part it is), but say you have a grandma who wants to find a super-obscure result, but cannot handle the concept of using quotes or operators. This would be a great service for her.

Communication to your guide is done via a chat interface, where they will display several links that match what you're looking for. After the search is completed, you have the option to rate your guide, whose profile is also listed on there "Underground" page. From looking at most of the profiles, they seem to be largely stay-at-home wives."
Math

Submission + - New rules outlaw melting pennies, nickels

Submitted by
ealbers
ealbers writes: " USA Today is reporting that the treasury department would liek to remind people that melting pennies and nickels for profit is illegal. Currently a pennies metal is worth 1.12 cents! (12% profit) And a Nickel is 6.99 cents or 39% profit! The FED needs to stop printing so much money, soon it will be cheap to wallpaper your walls with dollar bills (currently $9.60/sq foot)"
The Internet

Is Internet Addiction a Medical Condition? 227

Posted by kdawson from the depraved-on-accounta-he's-deprived dept.
PreacherTom writes "Arising from such cases as a recent lawsuit with IBM over employee termination due to online sex chatting at work, recent debate over whether Internet abuse is a legitimate addiction, akin to alcoholism, is heating up. From the article: 'Attorneys say recognition by a court — whether in this or some future litigation — that Internet abuse is an uncontrollable addiction, and not just a bad habit, could redefine the condition as a psychological impairment worthy of protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act.' The condition could even make it into the next edition of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM, making it a full-blown neurosis. It wouldn't be a huge surprise, with a recent Stanford study showing that 14% of people state it would be 'hard to stay away from the Net for even a few days in a row."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Complete Tron Costume Forsale on Ebay!

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "A Complete hero costume from Tron is now up for sale on Ebay!

Link to Auction This complete costume consists of a full-length body suit, a helmet, corresponding left and right shoulder armor and forearm plates and a pair of boots. The special detailing on the helmet and armor were hand-applied to resemble electronic circuits. The costume pieces are attributed to a number of different leading characters/actors which are noted inside the pieces: "Cindy", "Flynn", "Bruce" and "BB" . Very few of these costumes survived production due to their fragile nature. The helmet is especially rare, as it still retains its back neck protector. This is believed to be one of the most complete Tron costumes in existence."

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Launches Robotics Developer Kit

Submitted by JPriest
JPriest writes: Microsoft on Wednesday launched 'Microsoft Robotics Studio SDK'. The software allows you to build your robot and test it in a virtual environment with physics that let it interact with other objects. The idea is that the platform will allow for greater code re-use and sharing. There is a video segment about the SDK here showing the virtual environment near the end. If you don't have the domain filtered yet, you can always find the project home page at http://microsoft.com/robotics/
User Journal

Journal Journal: Adobe Flash made easy...

Journal by agentbleu
A new site Filmator.net suprises Adobe Flash as it threatens to swipe a large portion of their market. Creators who want to animate content and publish online have until now been forced to invest heavily in advance. One agency MagnumPhotos who has used Flash to create their In Motion series, and contracted the prestigious Flash design studio
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Deformity

Journal by mercedo
10 billion dollars is going to be reduced soon in corporatin tax. Instead same dollars will be increased in income tax paid by salaried workers in a form of the abolition of fixed rate reduced tax. One figure minus one plus one is equal to the same figure, but this figure looks deformed.
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Podcasting with images and sound surprises Adobe

Submitted by
Agent bleu
Agent bleu writes: "A new site Filmator.net suprises Adobe Flash as it threatens to swipe a large portion of their market. Creators who want to animate content and publish online have until now been forced to invest heavily in advance. One agency MagnumPhotos who has used Flash to create their In Motion series, contracted the prestigious Flash design studio group94 to devolop a stand alone 'essay player' to achive this effect. This device cost MagnumPhotos (one of the most prestigious photo agencies in the world) a fortune in development as it was created from the ground up. Though investments like this do not phase a large agency as this, but smaller designers and companies trying to compile content using Flash in the same manor are slightly more intimidated when faced with shelling out 50K in design costs before they get their hands anywhere near the content. What has now changed is that by using the Filmator.net site, creators can upload their photos, audio and even videos, then compile them using the inbuilt patented content compiler and then publish the Filmations (as these are called) on the site or by embedding them on their own sites, and all of this is free. Adobe refused to make a comment but MagnumPhotos has said they are interested to see such a development and would consider using this software but have issues with publishing content on an 'open platform'. It will be interesting is to see how designers who have wanted to compile content using Flash in a documentary style — using pictures and sound, but who did not have 50K spare will gravitate towards this open platform and embrace the Filmation concept. Brian Jones (media consultant for PCI Ventures)"
Novell

Submission + - Novell Keeping Students from Restricted Websites

Submitted by
magickmaster
magickmaster writes: "In an educational environment we are constantly having to deal with students going to sites they are not supposed to go to. We have a content filter but students seem to get the password within a week after it has been changed. We were looking for a solution that the students would not be able to bypass by either finding out a password or loading another browser; ie: Mozilla Full story at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/18266.html "
Google

Google Patents the Design of Search Results Page 114

Posted by kdawson from the look-and-feel dept.
prostoalex writes "ZDNet is reporting that USPTO issued a patent to Google, Inc. for 'ornamental design for a graphical user interface'. This is not, as ZDNet points out, a software patent (which is usually issued as a utility patent), but a design patent, which governs the look and feel of the product and prevents others from directly copying it." Ironic, given Google's recent slip-up of copying a Yahoo page. In news on the flipside, Google has launched a patent search service (in beta).
Google

Submission + - Gmail down

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A lot of people have been complaining about not being able to access Gmail since yesterday (i.e., they still can't access their Gmail accounts). Is Gmail down globally? Anyone heard anything from Google about this?
Portables (Games)

Submission + - Sony Caught In the Act

Submitted by
JamieSI
JamieSI writes: "There was a PSP fan blog on the internet which many people suspected was done by Sony, people started digging and doing some research to try and find out if the site was just a marketing campaign or an actual real website done by two fans. Sony has now made a statement which admits they are behind the site.

""Busted. Nailed. Snagged. As many of you have figured out (maybe our speech was a little too funky fresh???), Peter isn't a real hip-hop maven and this site was actually developed by Sony. Guess we were trying to be just a little too clever. From this point forward, we will just stick to making cool products, and use this site to give you nothing but the facts on the PSP" More details here."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Surch.com The Victim Of A Family Feud

Submitted by
Dr phil
Dr phil writes: "Over the last couple of days the popular search engine surch.com has been parked at GoDaddy.

So what is the cause of this DNS catastrophe? Did surch.com not pay the bills? Are they moving server? Is this done while they make updates to the site? It's actually none of these reasons. The reason is more like something out of jerry Springer.

It turns out John, the owner of surch, Fell out with his father, Who owns the domain surch.com and funded surch.com's creation, over competing business plans when both men decided to start up a restaurant search engine. When Johns father found out he pulled the plug on surch.com"

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