DramaGeek - Slashdot User

Submission + - Why would I want to make you mad?

Submitted by obtuse on Monday May 14, 2007 @04:48PM

obtuse writes: With a finding that may explain internet trolls or at least building contractors, U Michigan researchers find that individuals with high testosterone find an angry face unconsciously rewarding.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/07051 1095337.htm

Submission + - Evolutionist manufactures Creationist hit piece

Submitted by

starrsoft

on Monday May 14, 2007 @10:18AM

starrsoft writes: "A Ph.D. macroevolution student from the University of Bristol wrote an interesting post (featured on Digg) highlighting some outlandish claims made by the new Creation Museum, specifically that the T. Rex ate coconuts. There is only one problem: the museum is not open yet, her facts don't line up with reality, and it appears likely she invented the entire tale."

Submission + - US wants everyone else to destroy the climate too

Submitted by minuszero on Monday May 14, 2007 @08:07AM

minuszero writes: BBC news Is reporting on some of the changes the US wants to put in the new G8 climate texts.

Such changes include:
Striking out "climate change is speeding up and will seriously damage our common natural environment and severely weaken (the) global economy... resolute action is urgently needed in order to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions".
and "we are deeply concerned about the latest findings confirmed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)".

Yet, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality claims "The US continues to lead the global effort on climate change."

Question is, did she mean stopping climate change, or encouraging it?

Submission + - YouTube Username Dispute

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23, 2007 @01:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: Hi there, I am user NativeInstruments in the YouTube community. I have received a request from the head of public relations of Native Instruments gmbh to handover the account because they would like to open their own channel. I asked what I could expect for my trouble. He has offered me $500 and threatened legal action if I do not respond by this sunday because they want to open the channel ASAP. So my questions to the slashdot community are mostly; is this what YouTube and communities are about? Are there any potential legal actions that can be taken against me? Are there examples of YouTube or Google accomodating corporate interest over individuals? Should I just give them the account? Any advice is appreciated since I value slashdot contributors' insight highly. Thank you!

Commodore Returns with New Gaming PCs 281

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:40AM from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

JamesO writes "Commodore is a name which will bring memories flooding back to many a gamer and it's been announced that the legendary brand is to return with a new range of high specification gaming PCs. The new Commodore PCs optimized for gaming will be launched at the CeBIT show in Germany on March 15 and attendees will be offered the chance to play the latest PC games using the purpose-built PCs."

Submission + - Beware how much your WiFi is sharing about you!

Submitted by

QuantumCrypto

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @12:47AM

QuantumCrypto writes: "Errata has developed a new network sniffer that looks for traffic using 25 protocols, including those for the popular instant message clients as well as DHCP, SNMP, DNS and HTTP. This means the sniffer will capture requests for network addresses, network management tools, Web sites queries, Web traffic and more. "You don't realize how much you're making public, so I wrote a tool that tells you," said Robert Graham, Errata's chief executive. The tool will soon be released publicly on the Black Hat Web site. Anyone with a wireless card will be able to run it, Graham said. Errata also plans to release the source code on its Web site."

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