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Comment Re:Oh well (Score 1) 488

by jaronc (#30803176) Attached to: NY Times To Charge For Online Content

If every free web based news site were to go behind a pay wall I would have far more time at work for work. I would just devolve to watching free to air news on TV. Though I would probably set up my PVR to tape it and watch it at my convenience.

Comment Re:Vista (Score 1) 414

by jaronc (#29751645) Attached to: Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista

It stops my in-laws from screwing over their machine. I told them, "If that pops up and you didn't do anything to make it pop up, decline it". They also know that random web visits should not pop UAC up. Nor should things that people send them. Some updates confuse them, but over time they've created a handwritten whitelist of programs that might pop it up that it is ok to say yes to.
Entertainment

Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy 413

Posted by samzenpus from the drawn-to-please dept.
caffiend666 writes "'Marge Simpson is posing for Playboy . The magazine is giving the star of The Simpsons the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold. 'We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd,' said Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey. Playboy even convinced 7-Eleven to carry the magazine in its 1,200 corporate-owned stores, something the company has only done once before in more than 20 years." Worst issue ever!
Microsoft

Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista 414

Posted by CmdrTaco from the take-with-a-grain-of-salt dept.
harrymcc writes 'We now know that a remarkable percentage of consumers and businesses decided to spurn Windows Vista and stay with XP. But did the reviews of Vista serve as an early warning that it had major problems? I looked back at the evaluations in nine major publications and found that they expressed some caution--but on the whole, they were far from scathing. Some were downright enthusiastic.'
Linux

Submission + - LInux games for non-gamers

Submitted by
Nethead
Nethead writes: "Due to some down-time I'm looking for some Linux games to pass the time. I've been playing BattleMaster, a PHP web game but it's only two turns a day and I'd like something a bit faster. I've not really played PC games since the Doom era so I'm really out of touch here. I don't have a real gamer box, just a simple video card. What do the slashdotters think I should try? A simple FPS or some type of networked game would do. What's out there for Linux?"

Submission + - Bruce Sterling reviews new Pirate Party manifesto (wired.com)

Submitted by vkg
vkg writes: He's as terse as ever, but the Pirate's Platform is short, to the point, and quite interesting. What would happen if the pirate movement became more than a single issue party and moved in the direction outlined here?
Politics

Submission + - Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested 1

Submitted by mindbrane
mindbrane writes: A scientist working as a subcontractor on a peripheral LHC project has been arrested as a terrorist. The CBC is running a story outlining the arrest of a man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links. "CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said."

"The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous."

"Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on.""

Other than sabotage of the LHC and the creation of a world destroying black hole, the arrest begs the question what possible collateral damage could a terrorist achieve?

Submission + - Australia's Bizarre Classification System for Inte (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by stavros-59
stavros-59 writes: Australia's internet censorship watchdog, ACMA uses the current internet classification system, originally intended for children's PC filters. ACMA has now made what must be the most amazing recent decisions of the whole bizarre censorship debate.

The Register today has a story about ACMA's decision to force Apple to withdraw their ITMS gift feature from Australia on the basis that MA+ (over 15 and maybe sex) rated movies could not be given to children using the gift cards. The films are also banned on the internet but not at local video/DVD stores as detailed on this Whirlpool Forum post.

At the same time, the photographic work of Robert Mapplethorpe(not for the fainthearted) has been classified as PG (Parental Guidance) by the Classification Board which is not part of ACMA, but an agency under the Attorney General's Department.
Media (Apple)

Submission + - iTunes Music DRM free.

Submitted by Ziwcam
Ziwcam writes: Engadget is one of many locations reporting that Apple and EMI have announced a change with the iTunes store. Starting in May, EMI's entire catalogue will be available on iTunes sans-DRM.

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