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Encryption

Submission + - Final AACS key found

Submitted by julie-h
julie-h writes: The PowerDVD AACS private key for playing Blu-Ray and HD-DVD's have been found. This was the last key needed. What does this mean? We don't have to sniff/snoop Volume IDs anymore. We can create a program that can decrypt (or play if you will) a disc without any need for WinDVD or PowerDVD. So no sniffing/extracting of keys anymore. And more over: it can work on all platforms... In other words: we can make our own independent, user friendly player (or decrypter).
Handhelds

Submission + - How iPhone Stacks Up to other Mobiles

Submitted by DECS
DECS writes: RoughlyDrafted has a series of articles looking at how Apple's iPhone compares to other smartphones, including the Motorola Q famously cited by Steve Ballmer, other popular or high-end smartphones including the Sony Ericsson P990, HTC TyTN, Palm Treo and RIM BlackBerry, and of course, the LG Prada phone. Also noted is why Apple put OS X on the iPhone but not other PCs, a comparison of how Palm and Windows Mobile phones differ in Flash RAM use, and how the minimal version of OS X on the iPhone differs from Microsoft's WinCE on the Windows Mobile platform.
Television

Submission + - New HD Formats: Why Should We Care?

Submitted by Kent Gershengorn
Kent Gershengorn writes: Should we really care about HD-DVD or BlueRay technology? FastSilicon.com has written an article that discusses the future of these formats, and ultimately, how they're going to fail. With more illegal movie downloads than ever before, and the transition to streaming media in the household, this is one article you can't pass up.

From the article: Because of these issues, we tend to think that it honestly doesn't matter which of the high definition media formats ultimately wins the "war", perhaps because it's a war being fought over an already apathetic consumer in the first place. And by the time high definition media (whether it's HD-DVD or Blueray) is ubiquitous, plentiful, and cheap, we feel the average consumer might possibly be too busy downloading or streaming their content to care.
NASA

Submission + - NFL cheerleader is also NASA engineer

Submitted by A Smitten Rocket Scientist
A Smitten Rocket Scientist writes: As reported in Sports Illustrated, Summer Williams is a full time aerospace engineer who works on the International Space Station. But she's got a side gig as a cheerleader for the Houston Texans! The fantasy woman of Slashdot readers everywhere actually exists....
Security

Submission + - Image Spam Becoming a Growing Challenge

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Image spam is a serious and growing problem, not least because of its ability to circumvent traditional email spam filters to clog servers and inboxes. In just half a year, the problem of image spam has become general enough to be representative of 35 per cent of all junk mail. Not only this, but image spam is taking up 70 per cent of the bandwidth bulge on account of the large file sizes every single one represents.
Software

Submission + - Open source Flickr-like app?

Submitted by Zanguinar
Zanguinar writes: I've been a Gallery user for years now. I have a ton of photos, organized by albums, mainly just for use by my family and close friends. However, some of my friends have begun using Flickr. I can't say I blame them. It's got a great design, and I love the tagging concept. However, I'm not eager to store my photos on somebody else's server, and don't want to pay for the privilege, especially since I already run my own web server. But I can't find any Flickr-like software to run on my home LAMP setup. All I want is to be able to tag my photos like Flickr and be able to display them by tag, tag intersection, date, etc. Why hasn't anybody published some OSS to do this yet?
Privacy

Submission + - Re-shipping scams skyrocketting

Submitted by sorry-scammed-loser
sorry-scammed-loser writes: A new online threat, reshipping fraud, is emerging in the form of a massive organized crime ring that is recruiting people in the US and Europe as "shipment handlers", and having them re-ship items to Russia. The criminals are using stolen Visa card details to pay for shipments from many large retail and auction sites (including ebay.com and amazon.com), and having the items shipped to their recruits who re-ship them to addresses they have been provided with. I personally lost a laptop this way that I had auctioned on ebay — I shipped the laptop after verifying that the funds had been deposited into my PayPal account, and two days later was contacted by PayPal who said that the account holder had not authorized the transaction. Now I have no money and no laptop. In my case, the scammers had recruited my re-shipper through an online job posting site, which pointed her to a legit-looking website called expertdelivery.biz that claims to operate offices in Minnesota and the UK (but is hosted in Belize). This reads like an episode of "24"... Please get the word out about this scam, at this point consumer education is the best protection against perpetuation of these scams.
Editorial

Submission + - The Games Industry's Biggest '07 Challenges

Submitted by Ground Glass
Ground Glass writes: Next Generation has taken a look at the recent history of the games industry (naturally including the fallout of the newly-birthed console war) and has come up with seven major challenges that must be solved in 2007. This includes some obvious things (avoiding major marketing mistakes like alliwantforchristmasisapsp.com) to hairy problems (how to encourage new intellectual property growth).
Quickies

Submission + - Sleep Disturbances associated with suicide

Submitted by brainvoid
brainvoid writes: In the first known report of its kind, a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that sleep disturbances are common among suicide attempters, and that nightmares are associated with suicidality.
The study, conducted by Nisse Sjöström, RN, and colleagues of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg, Sweden, focused on 165 patients between the ages of 18-68, who were admitted to medical units or psychiatric wards at Sahlgrenska after a suicide attempt. It was discovered that 89 percent of subjects reported some kind of sleep disturbance. The most common complaint was difficulties initiating sleep (73 percent), followed by difficulties maintaining sleep (69 percent), nightmares (66 percent) and early morning awakening (58 percent). Nightmares were associated with a five-fold increase in risk for high suicidality.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?ne wsid=59937
Google

Submission + - Google drop tips service

Submitted by
Koninklijke
Koninklijke writes: "Google have decided to remove the Google tips feature after some prominent bloggers questioned their impartiality. These tips were a way of promoting other services that Google offered by placing a notice above the search results whenever certain search terms were entered. Although most people admitted that the tips weren't a reason to distrust Google they believed it was a step in the wrong direction as Google as set high standards for itself in the past."
Sony

Submission + - French court slaps down Sony DRM

Submitted by john-da-luthrun
john-da-luthrun writes: A French court has ruled that Sony's CONNECT Store infringes French consumer law, reports the TechnoLlama IP blog. Under French law, it is illegal to tie the purchase of a service (such as downloading a music file) to the purchase of a another product, so Sony were held to be breaking the law by selling music files that required a Sony player in order to access them. The court also found that Sony had failed to inform customers that its ATRAC 3 files can only be played on Sony digital players. A similar case in France involving Apple's iTunes/iPod tie-in is ongoing.
Linuxcare

Submission + - A sneek preview of the expected features in KDE 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In recent times, a lot of discussion has been generated about the state of KDE version 4.0 and as Linux users we are ever inquisitive about what the final user experience is going to be. This article throws light on some of the features that we can look forward to when KDE 4.0 is finally released some time this year. The article indicates that the most exciting fact about KDE 4.0 is going to be that it is developed using the Qt 4.0 library. This is significant because Qt 4.0 is released under a GPL license even for non-Unix platforms. So this clears the ideological path for KDE 4.0 to be ported to Windows and other non-unix/X11 platforms.
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: Linutop: A Linux based diskless computer system

Journal by OSTG Marketing
Small enough to almost fit into your palm, Linutop has designed a Linux based diskless computer system . "It runs on an AMD processor, weighs approximately 8 oz, has 256 MB of RAM and is packaged with most of the common utilities, software needed for the everyday light user and internet surfer (i.e. AbiWord Word Processor, Evince PDF reader, Firefox Web browser, Gaim instant messenger and Totem medi
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: Top ten PC product picks: CES 2007

Journal by OSTG Marketing
AMD has made it into Tech Blorge's top 10 list of 'neatest toys' for you PC at the International CES show this year. "7. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processors - The Athlon 64 Dual-Core processor for your desktop PC contains two processing cores on one chip; the result is a chip that is able to perform calculations on two streams of data simultaneously, thereby increasing the efficiency and sp

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