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Comment Re:Google sends tiananmen square down a memory hol (Score 5, Insightful) 269

by Thorrablot (#20533593) Attached to: Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results

That's evil. The rest is icing on the cake.

It's OK to be importing an unprecedented amount of Chinese goods and exploit the cheap labor for every other aspect of the western economy, but Google is evil because they set up a satellite search service that institutes the required Chinese national policies?

Since the suppression of information is happening regardless of Google's presence, that should clarify that the root of the suppression is not due to U.S. companies agreeing to Chinese government demands, but is the Chinese government itself.

Frankly, it's also better for U.S. interests to have a "bubble" of Google servers that have a set of blacklisted/censored material for the time being, instead of watching Google lose out entirely in the fastest growing economy to the Chinese domestic engines (e.g. Baidu)

These politicians who (while it was a popular subject) wanted to crucify Google don't have any qualms about continuing to support China by importing their cheap goods and exploiting the cheap labor costs.

Hypocrits.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Id Announces New Title, RAGE (quakeunity.com)

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RogeR
RogeR writes: "id Software didn't let the huge crowd on hand for their QuakeCon 2007 press conference this year. id Software's CEO Todd hollenshead first came on stage announcing id's new game "RAGE" along with a flurry of other exciting things to come. The press conference was followed by John Carmack's annual keynote. He discussed id's upcoming game, his love for developing mobile gaming technology, the problems with porting games to consoles such as the PS3, and many other topics. Full coverage of these two events along with video that will be coming shortly is available on QuakeUnity.
  • id Software's next title will be named "Rage". It will be a post-apocalyptic style FPS/racing game. The game will most likely occupy 2 DVDs or 1 Blueray disc.
  • id had originally been working on a title codenamed Darkness, an island survival horror game but then decided against the game. It was under development for over a year until work was halted.
  • A QUAKE Arcade game will be coming to the XBOX360.
  • Quake0, a free web-based version of Quake3 is currently in development. The title will be supported by advertising.
  • id Software has hired a second team of developers to work on the "Quake 0" title along with other projects.
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars will be released on October 2nd, 2007.
  • A Wolfenstein movie is currently in development.
  • All id Software titles will be available on Steam for download.
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Supercomputing

Submission + - NASA to build largest Supercomputer ever (linuxworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by Onlyodin
Onlyodin writes: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics' (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.

Called Project Columbia and costing around $160-million, the 10,240-processor system will be used by researchers at the Advanced Supercomputing Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

What makes Project Columbia unique is the size of the multiprocessor Linux systems, or nodes, that it clusters together. It is common for supercomputers to be built of thousands of two-processor nodes, but the Ames system uses SGI's NUMAlink switching technology and ProPack Linux operating system enhancements to connect 512-processor nodes, each of which will have more than 1,000G bytes of memory.

Full Story at Linuxworld
Security

Submission + - McAfee launches free anti-rootkit tool

Submitted by Jerry Macorny
Jerry Macorny writes: McAfee has released a free anti-rootkit tool called 'Rootkit Detective', which has been in beta since January, will "help computer users clean their machines of increasingly prevalent hidden malicious code known as rootkits", McAfee said in a statement. Rootkit Detective lets administrators examine operating systems, uncovering hidden processes, registry entries and files, and lets users remove or disable these files upon system reboot and should only be used by "knowledgeable individuals" to prevent deletion of vital files.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - 85-year-old man learns he needn't lease his phone

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An anonymous reader writes: According to Bangor Daily News, a man from Hermon was still leasing his phone from AT&T. "Lloyd Overlock never had much reason to think about his telephone. The 85-year-old Hermon resident just paid his bills and knew the service was there if he needed it. But Overlock, who for five decades has been paying a monthly fee to lease his phone, found out recently that the arrangement is a pricey, outmoded throwback to the days of telephone industry monopoly." What's amazing is even when his niece, Roberta York, tried to cancel the service via customer services, the friendly operator on the other end attempted to dissuade her, "offering her uncle a 20 percent discount off his monthly rental fee and reminding York of the benefits of leasing. 'She said that if something goes wrong with that phone, they'd have a new one here the next business day,' she recalled. I was thinking to myself, 'If something goes wrong with that phone, I'll go to Wal-Mart and get one the next day.' But I didn't say it."

Feed Techdirt: Pump-And-Dump Scammers Move From PDF Prospectus To Excel Spreadsheets Touting St (techdirt.com)

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Last month, we wrote about pump-and-dump stock scammers creating and sending bogus prospectus PDF files to try to trick more people into buying shares. Apparently, they're now moving on to other attachments as well. Specifically, a few spammers are experimenting with sending spreadsheet files. It's not clear from the article if the spreadsheets just include text hyping the stock, or if it actually includes some sort of numerical spreadsheet analysis. The security firm that spotted this spam predicts (not unreasonably) that we'll soon see PowerPoint presentations for stock spam as well. Again, though, it makes you wonder why these stock spammers don't turn all that energy into actually becoming stock analysts. If you're going to go through all that work, why not be legit?

Feed The Register: Introducing Microsoft LINQ (theregister.com)

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A new approach to data query in the .NET world.

Book review Microsoft's Language Integrated Query (also known as LINQ), is one of the key features on the .NET horizon. Already out as a beta, it's slated for release as part of Visual Studio 2008 (which goes under the code name of Orcas, which conjures images of packs of killer whales rather than shrink-wrapped development software).
Space

Submission + - Can Space Nerds Get Along? (thespacereview.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Space Review asks whether space enthusiasts can ever get past the humans/robots and private/government flamewars. The article argues that space politics is a non-zero-sum game, and that space science, human spaceflight and private spaceflight can all co-exist. The debate between space and Earth is resolved in the same way: a non-zero-sum game that supports both Earth projects and space projects.
Security

Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Attack Alert For Word 483

Posted by kdawson from the incoming dept.
0xbl00d writes "Eweek.com is reporting a new Microsoft Word zero-day attack underway. Microsoft issued a security advisory to acknowledge the unpatched flaw, which affects Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they include Microsoft Word. Simply opening a word document will launch the exploit. There are no pre-patch workarounds or anti-virus signatures available. Microsoft suggests that users 'not open or save Word files,' even from trusted sources."

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