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Submission + - Open Letter to Steve Jobs, re: Anti-DRM blog post

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08, 2007 @01:55AM

An anonymous reader writes: Defective by Design is hosting an Open Letter to Steve Jobs, imploring him to put his money where his mouth is regarding his recent pledge to eliminate DRM. I'm sure some Slashdot readers wouldn't mind getting behind this cause.

Submission + - Samsung hybrid hard drives shipping

Submitted by ejwong on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @10:01PM

ejwong writes: Samsung's hybrid flash hard-disk drive are finally shipping.

Submission + - Intel Provides Hints at Mac Roadmap?

Submitted by turnitover on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @09:53PM

turnitover writes: Anyone know what hardware Apple's going to be releasing in 2007? Anyone? Anyone who can talk? Predicting this has long been about as accurate and profitable as handicapping cat races, but since Apple's move to Intel, you can at least see the skeletal outlines of Apple's options for hardware speed bumps in 2007. Standard disclaimers apply: no inside knowledge was leveraged, no bets are made and Steve Jobs has the last word, as always.

Submission + - Google takes down "Overlords" sign

Submitted by Burns on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:42AM

Burns writes: Company puts a sign up welcoming their new (land/over)lords. Google quickly takes it down.

http://www.become.com/pocketchange/2007/02/one_thi ng_is_for_certain_there.html

Submission + - Sandia backhacker talks about ordeal

Submitted by on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Shawn Carpenter a former network intrusion analyst at Sandia National Laboratories says he was intimated and threatened by his supervisors after he shared information from an internal network investigation with the FBI and Army intelligence. Carpenter was fired from Sandia in Jan 2005 because of what Sandia claimed was his improper sharing of confidential information. Carpenter, says he did so in the national interest, after his back-hacking activities showed that the intruders who had broken into Sandia belonged to a Chinese hacker group called Titan Rain that had carried out similar attacks against other government and commercial networks. He recently was awarded $4.3 million for wrongful termination by a New Mexico jury. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011832&intsrc=hm_ list

Submission + - Is An Income Tax Legal Or Illegal?

Submitted by

SleepingCobra1

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:25AM

SleepingCobra1 writes: "It may be so that an Income Tax is actually illegal. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-431273027 7175242198&pr=goog-sl Many who are not paying this tax are being arrested for doing nothing wrong. Robert sleepingcobra1"

Submission + - Wii Virtual Console to Get MSX, Neo Geo Titles

Submitted by

on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: Things just keep getting better and better for the Wii's Virtual Console, as Nintendo has announced the introduction of two new systems to the service: the MSX and the Neo Geo. However, the announcement right now only pertains to Japanese Wiis; no North American or European news has been released as of yet.

Submission + - How to Get Yourself Permanently Banned

Submitted by

Stinkerbelle

on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:49PM

Stinkerbelle writes: "www.WanderingGoblin.com is covering a story of a dedicated World of Warcraft player and the royal screwing he received at the hands of a gold-selling company. The goblin staffers give the scoop on how Booz the Mage got used, lied to, mistreated, and even managed to get all his accounts permanently banned from World of Warcraft. On top of everything else, Booz paid them to do it to him."

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