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Submission + - SCO, Linux and Rob Enderle

Submitted by Peter Kern
Peter Kern writes: With SCO laying flat on the floor, there are lots of open stories surrounding the Linux lawsuit story are also finding their conclusions. One of the more interesting side aspects of the whole SCO debacle was an article and a keynote of analyst Rob Enderle that put him in the midst of a firestorm and according to him, brought several death threats. The recent events prompted Enderle, just like Forbes' Dan Lyons, to recall the events from a few years ago and reflect on them from today's view. As Lyons, he also said that he was misled by SCO, but has some words for the Linux community as well. It's interesting read and teaches not just Enderle, but us all a lesson to step back and take a deep breath before making hasty judgments based on our emotions.
Communications

Submission + - Swedish Government Surveillance - The Other Way! (gnuheter.com)

Submitted by
pawal
pawal writes: "With a list of Swedish government agencies and armed programming knowledge I decided to make a statement about the discussion about surveillance of the Internet in Sweden. I made a service called Creeper that I released in May this year. Anyone can use the service by linking a PNG-file on their homepage or blog, and my software will then match each request from the list of IP-addresses that I have collected. Now anybody surfing to the webpages that has this PNG is logged if the IP-address is a match. Already we have discovered government people being admins of Torrent-sites and surfing porn. There is a German version called Uberwach.de, and it would be great to see this service in other countries as well."
The Courts

Submission + - SCO bankrupt

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: SCO has just filed for bankruptcy according to this story on Yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070914/laf040.html?.v=101 It seems reasonable to guess that they did this at this time so they could go into chapter 11 bankruptcy. That leaves the current management in charge of the company. They are going to lose big at the trial on Monday. It is likely that the judge would slap a constructive trust on them. Novell could then sue them into chapter 7 bankruptcy. A trustee would replace the management and this whole sordid mess would be over rather quickly. SCO's problem is that bankruptcy does not end the court cases. They also have the problem that bankruptcy does not protect them from Novell's claim that they misappropriated money belonging to Novell. That is different than if they owed money to Novell. The money in this case belongs to Novell and SCO has wrongfully has it. Novell gets the money and the creditors get to fight over what's left (a negative number). So, other than a bit of delay, it is hard to see how going into chapter 11 is going to do much for SCO ... but we knew they were doomed anyway, didn't we.
Power

Submission + - 20 YR OLD Captures Abusive Police Officer on Tape (wikinews.org)

Submitted by
teambpsi
teambpsi writes: ""Brett Darrow, 20, had installed a hidden camera inside his car, much like the way some police officers do, and caught the entire incident on tape. Darrow then posted the video on the internet on places like YouTube.com."

Combine this with a GPS and a in-car monitoring system and we could kick off a "Bigger-Sister" project to counter Big Brother :)"
Security

Submission + - New OpenSSL module up for validation

Submitted by
lisah
lisah writes: "The last time the Open Source Software Institute submitted the OpenSSL toolkit for Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation, it wasn't exactly a picnic. Now that an updated version of the module has been sent in for testing and validation, will things go more smoothly? OSSI's Executive Director thinks so because 'We don't expect the hassle we got the first time around.'"
Mars

Submission + - Race to Mars

Submitted by smightyducks
smightyducks writes: 300 scientists and space-experts contributed to what's billed as "a realistic vision of the first Human Mission to Mars" — Race to Mars. Discovery Channel Canada used Hollywood special effects, but for added realism rather than ray-guns and aliens. On the website, you can argue about whether they got it right. Is there a movement to get accurate science in the movies (or, in this case, on TV), and does it still make for good entertainment? This uses Serious Games as part of education, too: www.racetomars.ca
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Sony Forum Mods Deleted DRM in psn Warhawk Post

Submitted by im just cannonfodder
im just cannonfodder writes: I posted a news release from sony about the inclusion of restrictive DRM in the psn version of WarHawk on the official sony forum and a sony rep, user name neerg came in and said i was trolling and before i could refresh the page, to my amazement it was gone. So i posted it again and within a few minuets the topic was locked and i received a warning from the mods telling me i was trolling and faced my account being banned for this apparent violation of their rules by posting this information!

The forum post can be found here: http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd264/im_just_c annonfodder/warhawk2_Page_1.jpg

The forum Violation Warning can be found here:
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd264/im_just_c annonfodder/OfficialPlayStationCommunity-Re_-1.jpg
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd264/im_just_c annonfodder/OfficialPlayStationCommunity-Re_War.jp g


the news release is here: http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=575
Media

Submission + - CNN is using subliminal advertising? (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by
krakman
krakman writes: "CNN has subliminal Advertising? I just got a email from a friend who said she was watching CNN over her DVR and had a clip that showed CNN's subliminal advertising. She uploaded the clip to youtube, and I extracted the frame, (go to http://brainwashingbycnn.blogspot.com/ to check it out) Innocent mistake by CNN or bigger plot to brainwash us...... I look forward to comments...."
Biotech

Submission + - Gehrig's Discovery Sparks Hope (thestar.com)

Submitted by
Raver32
Raver32 writes: "Hunched over her microscope at the University of Toronto, Janice Robertson is focused on innocuous-looking brown blobs. She's been hunting for life-saving clues into the mystery of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the muscle-destroying killer known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It has perplexed researchers for nearly 140 years and it is a mystery that has captivated Robertson as she watches the microscopic round cells — motor neurons in minuscule sections of human spinal cord and brain. In ALS, these motor neurons are killed by mutant genes that make defective proteins, she explains, causing paralysis and death usually within five years. Named for the New York Yankees player killed by the disease in 1941, Lou Gehrig's has also laid waste to physicist Stephen Hawking and claimed the lives of Sesame Street director Jon Stone, jazz legend Charlie Mingus, actor David Niven, composer Dimitri Shostakovich, and Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. Effective treatment and a cure do not exist. But Robertson and a Toronto team of scientists have developed the world's first antibody to the abnormal protein derived from the mutant superoxide-dimutase-1 (SOD1) gene, the only known cause of Lou Gehrig's, and responsible for 2 per cent of all cases. This antibody could be used to detect and remove the abnormal forms of the protein. The scientists say their findings, published in the June edition of Nature Medicine, open the door to ways for better treatments, prevention and earlier diagnosis."
Sony

Submission + - Sony insults Halo 3 on Wikipedia (n4g.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: N4G is reporting on the recent finding that Sony has edited the Halo article at Wikipedia to add a slur regarding Halo 3. The edit consisted in adding "(Halo 3) wont look any better than Halo 2.", and has been traced back to a computer at SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe). Since then, the article has been corrected and protected from further vandalism.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Employees fight invasive background check (iht.com)

Submitted by
Electron Barrage
Electron Barrage writes: "Longtime JPL scientists, many of whom do not work on classified materials, including rover drivers and Apollo veterans, sued NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce today to fight highly invasive background checks, which include financial information, any and all retail business transactions, and even sexual orientation."
The Courts

Submission + - Pirate Bay 'kept child porn link for two weeks' 1

Submitted by paulraps
paulraps writes: The Pirate Bay's legal position has just become decidedly murkier after it emerged that the torrent site hosted links to child pornography for two weeks after being made aware of its existence. The Swedish police say that it is a clear child pornography case, but the prosecutor says the Pirate Bay are not suspects since they did not actually host the material. What's more questionable is the response, grammar aside, of the site's moderator when the child pornography torrent was highlighted: "I don't give a **** if you folks are upset. Me and the other moderators job are NOT to have an opinion about if it is imoral or not."
Enlightenment

Submission + - VR goggles, stick provide out-of-body-experiences (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Flatliner
Flatliner writes: Researchers in two different studies were able to create out-of-body experiences using nothing more than a pair of VR goggles and a stick. 'A subject was set up with a pair of video cameras behind them; their images were projected into the goggles, presenting them with a view of their own back. When the researcher pressed a pen into their chest while simultaneously mimicking the motion near the cameras, subjects reported the illusion of being several feet away from their actual location. To confirm this, the researcher swung a hammer near their virtual location and measured higher skin conductance in the subjects, suggesting they found it stressful.' The second set of experiments got the same results by using a 3D projection and a poke in the back.
Windows

Submission + - Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harve (softpedia.com)

Submitted by ela_gervaise
ela_gervaise writes: There is a constant flow of communication between Windows Vista and Microsoft. A collection of features and services across Microsoft's latest desktop operating system exchange data with locations on the Internet, including those belonging to the Redmond company.

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