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Submission + - Guitar Hero's Publishers Got Sued By A Rock Band (xuecast.com)

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XueCast
XueCast writes: "The Romantics, a classic rock band from the United States has just filed a lawsuit against the popular Guitar Hero's developer and publishers, which are : Harmonix Music Systems, Activision and RedOctane. In Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s game title, Harmonix used sound-alike musicians in recording a song from the Romantics rock band in order to reduce cost, but according to the members of the rock band, the sound-alike musicians sound too much like them."
The Internet

Submission + - Copyright Alliance Presses Presidential Candidates (arstechnica.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Not satisfied with the current life plus seventy copyright terms and huge financial liabilities for infringement, the Copyright Alliance is pressuring presidential candidates for stronger copyright laws. In particular, they want the candidates to divert police resources to punish even non-commercial copyright infringement. After all, without copyright, what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?"
Security

Submission + - Phishing, DOS using inline CSS (disenchant.ch)

Submitted by l0b0
l0b0 writes: Cross site image overlaying (XSIO) could easily be used for phishing, denial of service, or defamation, according to a recent paper. Countermeasures should be simple to implement, but how will exploitable sites like MySpace handle it?
Censorship

Submission + - Broadband forum sued over user comments

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weighn
weighn writes: "PC World (Australia) and The SMH report that "A software firm is suing a community website over comments published on its forum. 2Clix is suing the owner of the popular broadband community site Whirlpool, Simon Wright, for "injurious falsehood", asking for $AUS150,000 in damages and an injunction requiring Whirlpool to remove forum threads highly critical of 2Clix's accounting software.
Dale Clapperton, chairman of the online users lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said 2Clix was using the law to silence its critics. Whirlpool users have begun donating money to the site to help Wright cover any legal costs."
Books

Submission + - The Edge Of Science - Inferior Design

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weighn
weighn writes: "Christopher Mims directs New Scientist readers to a review of intelligent design poster boy Michael J. Behe's latest tome, The Edge Of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism. The review itself is by Richard Dawkins " — who should need no introduction, but who will get one anyway — author of the Selfish Gene, coiner of the term 'meme', and currently famous for being perhaps the most argumentative and visible atheist on Earth — You probably don't need me to tell you how it went. Beatings this savage don't often appear in print". Bede is sticking to his guns despite his views being publicly disowned by his own university. Should science merely shine a light on the truth or is it justified to brutally tear apart the works of creation "scientists"?"
Google

Submission + - Google Desktop now available for Linux

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weighn
weighn writes: "The Official Google Blog brings us news that Google Desktop for Linux is now available. "Just a few months after Google Desktop became available for the Mac, I'm [Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager] happy to tell you it's now available for Linux users too. Google Desktop for Linux makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google". So, what's wrong with grep?"
Security

Submission + - "Tinfoil hat" for your home blocks comms

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weighn
weighn writes: "Scientific American reports of a window film that can block wi-fi signals, cell phone transmissions and even the fabled electromagnetic pulse. "Once manufactured under an exclusive contract with the U.S. government, this recently declassified window film is now available to the public." Obviously, you would also need to include it in the walls to secure the average home."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - choose your morning poison

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weighn
weighn writes: "Choose your morning poison:
decaf
aspartame
skim milk
tepid water, urn/microwave dead
CowboyNeal took my mug"
Security

Submission + - STEAM Hacked, Credit Cards stolen

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3Y3
3Y3 writes: "DailyTech is reporting that VALVe's STEAM system has been hacked into by a hacker known only as "MaddoxX", who has wasted no time gloating and publicly releasing internal information, such as credit card numbers, on the anti-Steam website No-Steam."
Security

Submission + - The Death of the Anti-Virus Software

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Paul Mah
Paul Mah writes: "http://www.techatplay.com/2007/04/18/the-death-of- the-anti-virus-software/

It has been 25 years since the first computer virus appeared in 1982. Dismally, the only progress we seemed to have made thus far is in the maintaining of increasingly larger virus databases of virus signatures that is nowhere like the new and advanced menaces we see almost on a continuous basis. White-listing, the only solution that has a viable chance of real success has been largely ignored by the large AV companies. I believe that it is high time we start putting the pressure on them for the necessary paradigm shift."
Biotech

Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning And Memory 56

Posted by samzenpus from the programmed-to-learn dept.
Researchers have theorized that certain genes must be activated to alter neuron activity inside the brain for learning and memory to take place. Finding and cataloging all the genes involved in learning is a formidable job. Scientists have now developed a computational approach to provide a rapid way to identify the likely members of this sought-after set of genes.
Censorship

Submission + - Chinese youth "corrupted by online filth"

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emakinen
emakinen writes: "In it's struggle against the internet, Chinese officials are now arguing that being online makes you commit crimes offline. Chinese police spokesman said to Reuters that "in recent years from the cases we have discovered, the proportion of young people guilty of cheating, rape or robbery who are given to using the Internet or have been corrupted by online filth, is very high.""
The Internet

Submission + - Online photo editors reviewed

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prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "ExtremeTech reviews online photo editors that run within a Web browser, be it via a Flash interface or Asynchronous JavaScript passing XML back and forth. They review Fauxto (and find it most feature-complete when comparing to Adobe Photoshop capabilities), Picnik (and find its interface one of the most convenient for quick photo retouching), Picture2Life (and find its filter and effects selection one of the best), Pixenate (which doesn't require registration, at the same time providing pretty decent functionality) and Snipshot (which wins the award for the simplest interface). The review looks forward to Adobe coming up with a browser-based version of PhotoShop, but overall finds Fauxto the closest PhotoShop clone so far, with Picnik being the closest Picasa clone available."

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