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Submission + - MV-5000U hard drive enclosure with video and audio (allcoolandnew.com)

Submitted by odiers
odiers writes: the Mvix MV-5000U is a USB 2.0 3.5 inch hard drive enclosure with a twist. On the back of its case are all kinds of media output possibilities to connect it to your television or audio system so you'll be able to play all audio and video files you put on the hard drive. http://www.allcoolandnew.com/mvix_mv_5000u_harddri ve_enclosure_with_video_and_audio_output.html
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - $4.5 billion "bin Laden trade" 1

Submitted by djp928
djp928 writes: Looks like somebody is betting the stock market will crash by 30% or more by the third week in September. tinfoil hat sites are giving the story the most play, but at least a few non-kook sites have also analyzed this disturbing trade. It also happened on the European market as well.
Star Wars Prequels

Submission + - NASA to send Luke's lightsaber into space

Submitted by Verunks
Verunks writes: In honor of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, NASA will launch Luke Skywalker's original Jedi lightsaber into space along with the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. The launch is slated for October.
Enlightenment

Submission + - Artists created "anti-social network" proj (10zenmonkeys.com)

Submitted by
destinyland
destinyland writes: "Three geeky artists created an experiment where people meet in public spaces and then don't communicate in any way — no conversations, no interactions, and especially no text messages. ("The NoSo Project" remains committed "to fulfilling all your needs for greater social isolation.") Billed as "a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from your social networking environment," it's actually commenting on the "over-connectivity" some people are experiencing. The artists were inspired by Brian Eno's "silent nightclub" concept, but say it's since hit a nerve with the "over-networked" population."
The Internet

Submission + - Video Interview with Stephen Fry (videojug.com)

Submitted by
anish1411
anish1411 writes: "Everyone in the UK and beyond loves Stephen Fry. I found these interview clips a delight to watch.

'Stephen Fry is well known as an actor, author, comedian, presenter, film director, playwright and all round intellect. He's also a passionate technophile. He was the second person in England to get a Mac computer, just after the author Douglas Adams; the first person he knew on the internet and he's currently obsessed by smart phones (he admits he should get out more). VideoJug went along to ask him about what new technology excites him today and where we're heading in the future.'"
Movies

Submission + - Patriot Act Database Protects Movie Trailer

Submitted by akahige
akahige writes: In hunting down the trailer for Clive Owen's new movie Shoot 'Em Up, I landed on the official website. There's a section of material that is unavailable to minors, however, instead of the usual remedial JS applet to calculate age based on an inputted birthdate, the studio is using a "fraud prevention" service with a Patriot Act-compliant database to crossreference your name and birthdate to the zip code on record with your government issued ID. So if you don't live in the US, or you're over 17 and don't have a driver's license or government issued ID, or maybe you just don't want to be tracked... you're SOL. Just because you wanted to watch a movie trailer. The movie looks like it could be really cool, but this kind of fascist corporate decision is enough to make me avoid anything with New Line's name on it. Anyone else seeing this sort of insidious behavior creeping into our everyday lives?
Upgrades

Submission + - Replacing a Voice Mail System

Submitted by
mikey1134
mikey1134 writes: "I am a Network Technician for medium-sized business firm in the north-eastern US. I have been charged with creating a backup to our voicemail system. The current implementation is a Lucent Intuity Audix system running on SCO Unixware system (let the joking ensue) The system is no longer supported by the installers and the only choice offered for a redundant system is a complete replacement with a price tag upwards of $20,000. We are looking at replicating the current system, but hardware for it (PXO, cards etc.) is hard to come by. I've considered suggesting something like Asterisk but I've never personally seen a voicemail-only implimentation. Can anyone point me in the right direction for either keeping the old system going (new hardware, etc.) or failing that, suggestions for a drop-in replacement system, preferably utilizing free software."
Censorship

Submission + - German Jews about to sue youtube (heise.de)

Submitted by
sebsa
sebsa writes: "The German news site heise.de reports that the "Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland" ("Central Council of Jews in Germany") considers to file a charge against youtube. They see the availability of videos like the nazi propaganda movie "Jud Süß" or music videos by neo nazi groups on the portal as an "incitement of the people", accusable by German law."
Supercomputing

Submission + - Japan to develop processor will be 10 times faster

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After unveiling ambitious plans to replace the Internet the Japanese are now planning to develop a high-performance computer chip with a processing speed 10 times faster than existing ones in cooperation with local industry. To be developed in co-opearation with the industry it aims to significantly enhance semiconductor performance by making a "3-D" semiconductor current chips are flat and use it to realize "dream technologies," such as domestic robots. The US and South Korea have been developing the chip since quite some time and Japan is aiming to beat them.
Businesses

Submission + - Fantasy Football? Not any more! (independent.co.uk)

Submitted by
AskChopper
AskChopper writes: "A nice article on a website started up with the intention of everyone pooling their cash to buy a football club. http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/artic le2878781.ece

Please note the Independent article refers to myfootballclub.com and it should be http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/ Football.com is just a dead site with ads on it (and I haven't linked its URL for that very reason).

Anyone fancy a slice of Leeds United (currently the top club of choice for the subscribers) for £35?"
Quickies

Submission + - Student finds 5000-year-old chewing gum (kierikki.fi)

Submitted by
itsthebin
itsthebin writes: "Sarah Pickin, 23, found the lump of birch bark tar — complete with neolithic tooth prints — on a dig in Finland. Ms Pickin's tutor at the University of Derby, Professor Trevor Brown, said birch bark tar contained phenols, which are antiseptic compounds. "It is generally believed that neolithic people found that by chewing this stuff if they had gum infections it helped to treat the condition. It's particularly significant because well-defined tooth imprints were found on the gum which Sarah discovered," he said. Ms Pickin was on a volunteer program at the Kierikki Centre on the west coast of Finland when she made the find. It is not for sale on Ebay yet :-)"
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - The power of a PS2 Modchip in a Memory Card (maxconsole.net)

Submitted by
MaxConsole
MaxConsole writes: "120 million PS2/PStwo consoles prepare to become modded via the use of a plug 'n play advanced custom memory card! A new product is preparing to be launched within the next two weeks which gives PS2/PSTwo owners all the functions of an advanced PS2 mod chip but directly from an advanced memory card. That means no masses of wires to be soldered, no voiding of the warranty, just a simple insertion of a special memory card known as 'Vast' which will fully unlock ANY PS2 console just as would a hard wired mod chip would do so."
Biotech

Submission + - Generated healthy mice - no males involved.

Submitted by
ThinkPad760
ThinkPad760 writes: "It appears that a team of Japanese scientists have found a way to breed mice that does not require a male to be present. From the news story "the construction of ovary cells, or oocytes, from fully grown oocytes and non-growing oocytes that were engineered to allow imprinted genes to function in ova. Without such engineering, they function only when they were transmitted via sperm cells." The orginal article can be found here http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/in dex.html but at a cost."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Porn Collecting - What tools are best?

Submitted by BenEnglishAtHome
BenEnglishAtHome writes: What tools do you need to best build a porn collection? It's a geek in-joke that there are serious porn collectors in our ranks but it's also true. Anybody can get a usenet server account and try to grab all the binaries in the alt.* hierarchy or use a spidering program and grab a million files off the web. However, it takes serious tools and commitment to handle the resulting 100,000-file directories. How would you set up your ideal porn-collection system (OS, file system, hardware minimums, setup tuning tips)? What programs make it easy to edit/sort/file/view millions of media files? How do you identify and toss the dross that inevitably makes up 99% of what you download? Share, brother geeks, and make life better for us all.

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