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Submission + - Australian Labour Party PM Candidate Eats Ear Wax (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: YouTube has done it again. This weeks TOP PICK is of Australian PM hopeful, Kevin Rudd, and his nasty earwax eating habit. You may not have heard this in the mainstream press. This is because Rudd is a liberal, going against a conservative party which has backed Bush. Of course, if this video was of Bush, it would probably be part of the 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION right now... Enjoy.
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Submission + - Officials Accidently Crash RC Boat into Wrong Boat

Submitted by coastal984
coastal984 writes: NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia recently reported how officials from the Department of Game & Inland Fisheries, in a first-ever test of crashing two full-sized boats into each other, accidently hit the wrong boat — instead of the two remotely controlled vessels colliding, they missed, and one veered off and hit a manned chase boat. From the article: "At first the two [remote control] boats were heading straight at each other. Then something went wrong." No people were hurt, but a 225 horsepower engine is a new reef for the fishies at the bottom of the James River. The article has video showing the crash from two different angles.
The Courts

Submission + - Seagate to pay for inaccurate kilobyte (zdnet.co.uk) 2

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard-drive maker, is offering customers a five percent refund on drives bought during the last six years following a lawsuit over the definition of a "gigabyte". As an alternative, customers can choose to receive free backup software.

Four people sued the company, saying they expected its drives to offer greater capacity than that actually provided. Seagate manufactures its drives based on powers of ten, with 1KB equalling 1,000 bytes. The claimants argued that 1KB of storage should compromise 1,024 bytes.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39290393,00.htm"
Programming

Submission + - Intro to Reverse Engineering - Part 2 (ethicalhacker.net)

Submitted by
ddonzal
ddonzal writes: "In Part 1, Intro to Reverse Engineering — No Assembly Required, we extended the series of coding articles for non-programmers with an area of high interest in the infosec community. We're proud to be able to bring you the highly anticipated follow-up complete with screen shots, sample code and applications. This one is long and detailed, so strap yourselves in for some great educational content. This paper is designed to outline some essential reverse engineering concepts, tools and techniques — primarily, debuggers and using the debugging process to reverse engineer application functions and algorithms. It is assumed you have knowledge of basic assembly and C programming. This tutorial does not necessarily have to be read in order (although it is strongly advised), as some sections do not contain information that directly relates to subsequent sections. http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/165/2/"
The Courts

Submission + - Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal 8

Submitted by penguin_dance
penguin_dance writes: A Pennsylvania mom is fighting back, suing Universal Music Publishing Group for having a home movie taken down off of YouTube. The movie, featuring her 18-month old bouncing to Prince's song, "Let's Go Crazy," was cited for removal by the Group for copyright infringement. Mom Stephanie Lenz was first afraid they'd come after her — then she got angry. She got YouTube to put the video back up and now she's enlisted the help of Electronic Frontier Foundation and filed a civil lawsuit.

"I thought even though I didn't do anything wrong that they might want to file some kind of suit against me, take my house, come after me. And I didn't like feeling afraid," she continued. "I didn't like feeling that I could get in trouble for something as simple as posting a home video for my friends and family to see."
Windows

Submission + - The money machine that is Microsoft

Submitted by
westlake
westlake writes: "Microsoft's Q1 financials are enough to drive a Geek into cardiac arrest. Sales up 27%. Earnings per share up 29%. Halo grossing $300 million in its first week. Vista and Office 2007 doing very, very, well and Microsoft's server products not far behind. MSN and Live! losing money as usual, but nothing to lose sleep over. Microsoft Soars 11% After Blowout Q1 On Vista Demand"
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Halo 3 Rocket Deflection Double Kill (mlgpro.com)

Submitted by
Brickv
Brickv writes: "Shows off the crazy physics in Halo 3. In this vid: grenade explosion redirects a rockets path preventing one kill but resulting in an extremely unlikely double-kill."
Censorship

Submission + - "Don't tase me bro" police cleared

Submitted by Fozzyuw
Fozzyuw writes: WFTV.com's website has news on the University of Florida police involved in the Andrew Meyer tasering have been cleared of using excessive force. It also includes a link to the full report, which shares details of the incident and events leading up to the incident.
Music

Submission + - Homeland Security Confiscates Indie Rock Music (nielsenhayden.com)

Submitted by
ErikInterlude
ErikInterlude writes: "I don't know if this has already been submitted, but it was too bizarre not to send it. Apparently Homeland Security decided to confiscate a hard drive containing new music by the band Deathcab for Cutie. The link is very light on details, but apparently a courier was bringing freshly produced tracks in from Canada. Apparently he got stopped and the hard drive containing the songs got whisked away. No one knows where it is now or what anyone is looking for on it.

More (well, not much more...) here."
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Submission + - 75-Year-Old Woman Takes Hammer to Comcast Office (cepro.com)

Submitted by
unger814
unger814 writes: "Mona Shaw, a 75-year-old Bristow, Va. woman, recently went on a rampage at her local Comcast office after the service provider missed a scheduled appointment, came without completing the installation, and then cut off her service. She went to the Comcast office with her hammer, broke keyboards, phones and a monitor, then received a $345 fine."
Microsoft

Submission + - Another Microsoft unwanted update... IE6 --> IE (google.com) 5

Submitted by A little Frenchie
A little Frenchie writes: On Friday, October 5, Microsoft has made an update without our consent. We have more than 70 computers, 95% were using IE6 (Win98 WinXP SP1 and 2).

Our network responsible was on leave that day. However, during lunch time, a lot of computers have been restarted with the return, IE7 installed. Yet our responsibility did not authorize this update and all the computers had the option to upgrade automatic non-active (it is the system that pushes updates, usually on Wednesday).

It's as if Microsoft had forced an update of which nobody wanted! We are under Novell and information logs indicated that the update had not been accepted. But it happened anyway!
Sci-Fi

Submission + - EVE Online Has been hacked

Submitted by
jkcity
jkcity writes: "on the 19/10/2007the EVE Online servers were taken down for 10 hours after it was discovered, that someone had hacked into the CCP network and managed to gain direct entry to the eve online databses and used the access to add stuff to his account in eve online. There were many rumours during the outages as they took down all websites and only form of communication was from IRC chat channels which no one knew if was actually real or not."
Google

Submission + - Collecting YouTube Fingerprinting False Positives (vortex.com)

Submitted by
Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: "In the hopes of enabling better public understanding of the effects of YouTube/Google's new video fingerprinting DRM system, I'm now collecting reports from anyone who feels that their video submissions to YouTube were incorrectly or inappropriately tagged as in conflict with video rights owners, resulting in takedowns, refused submissions, or the like. Please see the PFIR YouTube "False Positive" Reporting Form for the details. Your assistance with this effort is much appreciated! Thanks. — Lauren — Lauren Weinstein Co-Founder, PFIR — People For Internet Responsibility"
Censorship

Submission + - Is China Hijacking Google,Microsoft,Yahoo'sTraffic (techluver.com)

Submitted by
Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes: "TheRegister is reporting via TechCrunch, on Chinese internet providers China Netcom, China Telecom bowing to pressure from Chinese Government Authorities and hi-jacking Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's search traffic to re-route / re-direct it to Baidu. When TheRegister contacted Google, "the company confirmed that the Chinese are up to their old tricks. "We've had numerous reports that Google.cn and other search engines have been blocked in China and traffic redirected to other sites," said a company spokesman. " While Microsoft said "it was looking into the matter." ( http://techluver.com/2007/10/18/is-china-hijacking-google-microsoft-and-yahoos-traffic/ )"
Quickies

Submission + - Ann Arbor Becomes LED City, to Cut 2,425 Tons CO2 (techluver.com)

Submitted by
JagsLive
JagsLive writes: "Ann Arbor, MI Embraces LED Technology to Reduce Energy Consumption, Greenhouse Gas Emissions. City to install more than 1,000 LED streetlights, joining Raleigh and Toronto in growing LED City community. ANN ARBOR, MI., OCT. 16, 2007 — Cree Inc, a leader in LED solid-state lighting components, and the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced that Ann Arbor will join Raleigh, N.C. and Toronto, in the growing LED City(TM) initiative. In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, Ann Arbor plans to become the first U.S. city to convert 100 percent of its downtown streetlights to LED technology. Ann Arbor expects to install more than 1,000 LED streetlights beginning next month. The City anticipates a 3.8-year payback on its initial investment. The LED lights typically burn five times longer than the bulbs they replace and require less than half the energy. Each fixture draws 56 watts and is projected to last 10 years, replacing fixtures with bulbs that use more than 120 watts and last only two years. Full implementation of LEDs is projected to cut Ann Arbor's public lighting energy use in half and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2,425 tons of CO2 annually. ( http://techluver.com/2007/10/18/ann-arbor-mi-becomes-an-led-city-to-cut-2425-tons-of-co2-annually/ )"

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