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Submission + - Matt Groening Final Boss in Simpsons EA Game (filefront.com) 1

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Announced at E3, Mr. Groening will be the final boss in the Simpsons game. Mr. Groening commented on the game: "They did a send-up of videogames. It's a videogame about videogames; and I'm in the videogame. I'm a boss that you have to fight at the end of the game. It was really fun recording a million ways of dying, going 'UGGH, ARGGH, EUURGH!'""
Security

Submission + - iPhone hacked for Shell Access (engadget.com)

Submitted by
edward350z
edward350z writes: "The Apple iPhone has been hacked to allow access to the bootloader shell. By using an iPod dock connector-to-RS232 cable, the guys at #iPhone have managed to get access to useful commands such as tftp and eload. It seems like those passwords discovered in the iPhone restore image were not a false trail after all!"
United States

Submission + - DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript

Submitted by good soldier svejk
good soldier svejk writes:
It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked "top secret." And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and wonder what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it.
That is what happened to Washington D.C. attorney Wendell Belew. His lawsuit takes on special significance given today's Sixth Circuit Court ruling that surveillance victims can only sue the DOJ if they can prove they were affected. Also in light of that decision we can safely add Catch-22 to the list of literary references above.
Security

Submission + - iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell (beskerming.com)

Submitted by
SkiifGeek
SkiifGeek writes: "A team of researchers (#iphone @ irc.osx86.hu) dedicated to finding means to fully control and interact with the new Apple iPhone claim to have successfully gained an interactive shell on the device. In order to achieve this feat physical access to the phone is required, as it relies on some minor electronics to be created and connected to the phone's serial port.

It is believed that general control over the iPhone will be available to the enterprising researchers within a week (after all, it has only just been a week since the iPhone was released), with the promise of enough control to allow for self-propagating code not very far away."
Television

AppleTV Hits the Streets 474

Posted by samzenpus from the apple-toaster-available-soon dept.
Stories are starting to pop up all over the web about the AppleTV, which evidently means that Apple has set loose the hounds of marketing and the units are (or will be tomorrow) available in Apple stores. Still no word on whether or not it plays DivX files. That will be the key to me purchasing one.
Music

Submission + - CD music sales down 20% in Q1 2007

Submitted by
prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "Music sales are not just falling, they're plummeting by as much as 20%, when you take the data for January-March period in 2007, and compare that to 2006 numbers. Wall Street Journal lists several factors contributing to the rapid decline: Tower Records being out of business, diminishing record sales during the week 1 of the release (you only need 65,000 CDs sold in a single week to top the charts in 2007, while in 2005 this number would not even get you into top 30), and increasingly negative attitude towards CD sales from big retailers such as Best Buy, who now dedicate less floor space to CDs in favor of better-selling items."
Programming

Submission + - Be a Developer not a Coder

Submitted by yavori
yavori writes: An interesting point of view where Developers are not Coders and programming languages are compared at level of job done and problems solved is discussed here. The author seems to make a comparison of Ruby on Rails and two of the most used programming languages PHP and Java.
Privacy

Submission + - RIAA must turn over attorney billing records

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Usually most people settle with the RIAA for a few thousand dollars, but Debbie took the case to court and asked for the RIAA to produce records of what files she supposedly downloaded, along with the dates of the downloads. The RIAA couldn't produce the records and offered to withdraw the case. Now here is where it gets interesting, Debbie asked to be awarded reasonable attorneys fees for her ordeal and submitted her expenses to the court. The RIAA argued that the mother was asking for too much, to which the judge basically said, "Well if you think her fees are too much, show me yours."
The Courts

Submission + - Supreme Court to Hear 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' Monday

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "In 2002, 18-year-old Joseph Frederick held up a 14-foot banner saying 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' as the Olympic torch passed by his Juneau high school, sparking a feud with the principal that heads to the Supreme Court on Monday. Legal experts say Morse v. Frederick could be the most significant case on student free speech since the days of Vietnam War protests."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft pays companies to use LiveSearch

Submitted by
tsa
tsa writes: "On John Battelle's Searchblog there is a piece about how Microsoft pays companies to not only have them use MS's Live Search engine, but also get information about the amount of users and PC's in the company. Companies get paid a fee per PC. The height of the fee depends on the usage of the MS LiveSearch engine. The use of IE7 is mandatory for this, because MS wants the companies to use a plugin for this browser to be able to keep track of the user's searching habits. If you ask me, this is bribery."
Linux Business

Journal Journal: Off-the-shelf dual-boot linux PCs 1

Journal by ironfrost
I was surprised today to see an advert from Founder, one of China's major computer manufacturers. It caught my eye because it was promoting the company's new line of dual-boot Windows+Linux desktop machines. Although selling computers with Linux preinstalled isn't particularly strange here, this is an encouraging sign because it shows that the reasons for offering Linux aren't just to save money any more - previous Linux offerings in China seem to have a
Quickies

Submission + - High School Student Builds Fusion Reactor

Submitted by
deblau
deblau writes: "In 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. A bright plasma "star in a jar" demonstrated his success. "The temperature of the plasma is around 200 million degrees," Olson says modestly, "several times hotter than the core of the sun.""
Data Storage

Journal Journal: Life of CDs for archiving data

Journal by Jeff1946
One of the science fair entries I judged today was on the use of CDs to archive data and the expected lifetime. The students did accelerated lifetime testing at 80C to determine the failure rate of the cyanine dye on which is written the data. They didn't have enough time at 80C to detect any failures. Of more interest to me and /. folks is conversations they had with people at NIST and the Library of Congress. The students learned that CDs lifetimes have greatly improved d

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