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Submission + - Night vision firm fined $100 million for espionage

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay a $100 million penalty, according to federal prosecutors. ITT, based in Virginia, exported classified or sensitive technical data to China, Singapore and Britain without authorization. U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said: "American soldiers are "the principal victims of ITT's crimes."
Movies

Submission + - Jack Valenti (former MPAA head) Suffers Stroke

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Seumas
Seumas writes: "Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly four decades, has suffered a stroke and has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, officials said. Valenti was central to creating the MPAA rating system — now G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — as a way to rate films as appropriate for certain age groups."
Movies

Submission + - Jack Valenti Suffers Stroke

Submitted by
luciferxmachina
luciferxmachina writes: "Former Hollywood lobbyist and presidential adviser Jack Valenti has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O4MTD80& show_article=1 Valenti is the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, where he devised the ratings system for films. He also served as an adviser to President Johnson."
GNU is Not Unix

Introducing GNU/Linux Via Applications 223

Posted by kdawson from the in-the-side-door dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A common problem with GNU/Linux for new users is not the operating system, but the switch in applications they must undertake to use it. Many who try to make the switch have little experience with the common open source applications available under GNU/Linux. The Kutztown GNU/Linux User Group, in Pennsylvania, is helping to change that on a large scale by distributing open source applications to faculty on Microsoft Windows machines first. Instead of selling GNU/Linux, the group is selling open source. Faculty at the school have been provided discs containing a number of popular open source applications compatible with Windows as part of a larger program to get more users to consider switching operating systems."
Space

Submission + - Hexagonal Vortex Spotted on Saturn

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SeaDour
SeaDour writes: "NASA's Cassini space probe made headlines last fall when it spotted a massive hurricane-like storm at the planet's south pole. Now, through a series of thermal images, scientists have confirmed the continued presence of a bizzare hexagon-shaped vortex around the north pole which was first glimpsed by the Voyager probes. "This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team. "We've never seen anything like this on any other planet." The feature is big enough to hold nearly four Earths, making it significantly larger than Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot."
Republicans

Submission + - McCain's MySpace Misuses IP, Pays Consequences

Submitted by Nakanai_de
Nakanai_de writes: We all know how the 2008 Presidential candidates are looking to integrate their campaigns with the internet as much as possible. It should therefore come as no surprise that Clinton, McCain, Edwards, and Obama all have MySpace pages. Well, as TechCrunch and Newsvine are reporting, John McCain's page used a template made by Mike Davidson without proper attribution, and even used images on his server without permission. As payback, Mr. Davidson changed one of the links so that instead of listing contact info, McCain now proclaims his support for gay marriage!
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The Ultimate Geek Clothing Collection

Submitted by Geek Guy
Geek Guy writes: The Uber-Review has put together a roundup of the geekiest clothing around. On the list is a Pong dress, NES belt buckle, USB Shirt and a shoe that charges the cell phone. From the article, ``You're a geek and you are proud of it, now it's time to show the world through your unique sense of style. Here is a collection of clothing that will make you stand out in the crowd even amongst the most hardcore of geeks.``

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