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Submission + - Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings

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Frosty Piss
Frosty Piss writes: "Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent. One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park. Yet significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range of mountains, in a total surprise, is getting shorter. The findings, reported this month in the Journal of Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption."
Google

Submission + - Google Talk gadget

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google released a widget for Google Talk today. An interesting aspect of the gadget is that it's based on Flash instead of the usual Ajax used by Google. Is this the beginning of a new trend for Google?
Music

Submission + - iTunes - Not All Tracks Can Be Redownloaded

Submitted by Merls the Sneaky
Merls the Sneaky writes: "I'm sorry to hear the titles you purchased from the iTunes Store with account " — " were lost. I know how upsetting that can be, so Apple will let you redownload (at no charge) all the titles you purchased on this account that are still available. Please note that you may download your iTunes Store purchases only once, so this is a one-time exception."

Ok, sounds great. However, as I read on, I learned the dark secret of the iTunes store, namely, not all songs can be re-downloaded.

http://macenstein.com/default/archives/557
X

Submission + - Beryl Project releases version 0.2.0

Submitted by CajunArson
CajunArson writes: The Beryl Project which is a fork of the well-known Compiz desktop compositing project has just released version 0.2.0. The anouncement is here.

Having used Beryl from the SVN tree I can say that it has made quite a few improvements, and while it continues to borrow from the Compiz core it also has some fun plugins like the group plugin and wall plugin that can actually help usability on the desktop in addition to just being pretty eye-candy.

Feed U-Mich ID-ing Students to RIAA (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
The University of Michigan is apparently turning over the names of students accused of file-sharing to the RIAA as part of the organization's revitalized P2P crackdown. In Listening Post.


Communications

Submission + - Video Messaging Finally Here?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We've dreamed about videophones and video messaging forever. Live video chat is great, but what about when the other person isn't there, or lives across the world from you. Sure, you can always record a big video, attach it to an email, and send it as an attachment, but it's clunky. Or you can install special software on both ends to send/receive video messages.

There's a whole bunch of sites coming out offering their own twist on this however, primarily using flash as the solution, and streaming everything, making it much more seamless and easy-to-use.

Has video messaging time finally come?
Security

Submission + - OpenBSD's second remote exploit in ten years

Submitted by
numatrix
numatrix writes: "For only the second (public) time in 10 years, OpenBSD has a remotely exploitable vulnerability. To be fair, it's limited in scope unless you're running on a native IPv6 network, but still a serious exposure. Also worth noting, it looks like there were a few problems in the responsible-disclosure practices."
Media

Submission + - Why do film critics trash video games?

Submitted by Ben
Ben writes: Variety runs an opinion piece that questions why so many film critics who didn't like "300" compared it to a video game... as if that's obviously a bad thing??? "For today's movie critics, videogames are the new MTV musicvideo, a shorthand insult for any movie deemed too heavy on effects and visual panache at the expense of plot and coherence. Anyone who has spent much time playing videogames — a category in which, it seems safe to assume, few established film critics fall — knows the comparison is both artistically demeaning and substantively wrong."
Security

Submission + - Trend Micro Buys HijackThis

Submitted by Mo's Mountain
Mo's Mountain writes: ZDNet has a story about Trend Micro's acquisition of HijackThis, the freeware spyware-removal program preferred by security pros. A new new HijackThis 2.0 beta version is available for free with an "AnalyzeThis" function that allows users to see how prevalent the threats detected on their computers are when compared to other HijackThis users. Trend Micro also released a rival Web safety ratings service similar to McAfee's SiteAdvisor.
The Courts

Submission + - Man Sues Viacom for Sponge Bob Rights

Submitted by
mposth
mposth writes: "A Bay Area man is suing Viacom for $1.6 billion over rights to Sponge Bob Square Pants. Cartoonist Troy Walker claims he created Bob Spongee, an unemployed cartoon sponge, in 1991. Walker created a comic strip and sold 1,000 "Bob Spongie" dolls. Viacom's attorneys have said in court documents that "Sponge Bob" is different from "Bob Spongee." But Walker says: "It is more than ironic that two working class sponges are named Bob. Both characters are unemployed. Both characters live in a house concept.'' Walker filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco against Nickelodeon, Viacom Inc., Paramount Studios and Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob. Just Tuesday, Viacom slammed Google's YouTube with a $1 billion copyright infringement suit. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/l ocal/16872168.htm"
Privacy

Submission + - Judge drops charges against HP's Dunn

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "SAN JOSE, Calif. — A judge dropped all charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. board Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who was accused of fraud in the boardroom spying scheme that rocked one of Silicon Valley's most respected companies.

Three other defendants in the case also will avoid jail time after their lawyers entered no contest pleas Wednesday to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent wire communications in Santa Clara Superior Court.

Judge Ray E. Cunningham did not immediately accept the pleas by former HP ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker, and private investigators Ronald DeLia and Matthew DePante, and said the charges against them will also be dropped in September after they complete 96 hours of community service and make restitution.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/46 30942.html"
Programming

Submission + - Linux reversible debugger achieves 2.0 release

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: UndoDB is a debugger for Linux that can step programs backwards as well as forwards. A powerful concept, but it has only now gained support for programs that use threads and signals. Jacob Rideout, a KDE developer, says of his experience using UndoDB: "I found the idea of [the] product amazing and a boon to my productivity ... I already have been able to fix a deadlock that was driving me crazy for a week in only 10 minutes". Full story on linuxdevices.com. The software isn't open source, but it can be used for free (as in beer) for non-commercial use.

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