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Submission + - The world is safe from Iraqi WMDs!

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palewook

on Monday June 18, 2007 @08:15AM

palewook writes: "Four years after Saddam's government ended in Iraqi, the search for Weapon's of Mass Distraction appears over. The United States and Britain circulated a joint proposal within the United Nations Security Council to end the Iraq Arms Inspection Program."

Submission + - Space station's computers fail.

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palewook

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @07:37AM

palewook writes: "A torn heat-resistant blanket on the orbiting shuttle, now the space station's oxygen and water computers failed. Russian engineers have yet to confirm what caused the computers failure, engineers suspect the computers' failure could be linked to a power source. The space station has a 56 day supply of oxygen left."

Submission + - AT&T : the new Death star 3.0

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palewook

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @05:35PM

palewook writes: "First, Frontline detailed AT&T's co-operation with the NSA's domestic data logging program in Spying On The Home Front. Now, AT&T has decided to work on implementing a deep data packet inspection program of their own. After all, the NSA already logs AT&T network data to keep you safe, why not deploy technology to keep you safe from pirated content on AT&T's network. AT&T claims they will not violate user privacy or FCC directives. James W. Cicconi, an AT&T senior vice president, started working last week with the MPAA and the RIAA to develop anti-piracy technology. The old AT&T death star logo joke appears relevant again."

Submission + - Arrest a Ninja.

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palewook

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @03:36PM

palewook writes: "For all the people that ponder who wins in Pirates vs Ninjas, it's the police. Italian Police arrested a former Russian soldier, who had been robbing farmers in Northern Italy. Dressed in an all black suit, a black head bandana, wielding a bow, and carrying a knife tied to his leg; the ninja's luck ran out yesterday. Attempting to elude police using his escape prowess and a bicycle, police found the ninja bandit hiding in an abandoned farmhouse."

Submission + - Robot Chicken's sunday Star Wars special.

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palewook

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @10:07AM

palewook writes: "June 17th, 2007 at 10pm (est) the Cartoon Network finally premieres Robot Chicken's 30 minute Star Wars special episode. Here's a sample of what Adultswim has done to the force."

Submission + - India plans tag & release humans.

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palewook

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:05PM

palewook writes: "Swadhin Kshatriya, the State Housing Department Principal Secretary, approved a plan to begin tagging residents living in the slums of Mumbai, India with a Bio-ID. The biometric identification system is based on creating an individual's unique number from the image of their eyeball and thumb impression. The Indian state of Maharashtra has yet to reveal how many of the 4.5 million people living in affected area of Mumbai will be placed into the "identification process"."

Submission + - Torrentspy court ordered to log users.

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palewook

on Monday June 11, 2007 @12:18PM

palewook writes: "Unsealed on June 8th, a May 29th court decision, reveals Torrentspy is now under court order to keep user logs. The logs will record visitors and track user activity. Ira Rothken, TorrentSpy's attorney, has until June 12th to file an appeal. Torrentspy's Privacy Policy has not been updated to reflect the court order because the site is still fighting the court order."

Submission + - TWiT premieres episode 100.

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palewook

on Monday June 11, 2007 @08:43AM

palewook writes: "Remember the Screen Savers on TechTv? After E! turned TechTv into a smoking husk known as G4, the Screen Savers got axed. Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and John C. Dvorak continue working in the tech field. Among their various projects, websites, and podcasts; TWiT remains a strong homage to what made the Screen Savers work."

Submission + - Transformers fanmade video beats official trailers

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palewook

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @10:59AM

palewook writes: "Evilresident93 posted a compilation of all Transformers movie trailers and teasers into a video. He used the Mutemath theme song from the upcoming Transformers' soundtrack."

Submission + - SoundExchange: Billion Dollar Administrative Fee

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palewook

on Friday June 08, 2007 @09:11AM

palewook writes: "On June 7th, Yahoo, RealNetworks, Pandora, and Live365 sent letters to US lawmakers emphasizing they owe SoundExchange "administrative fees" of more than $1 billion dollars a year for collecting the increased CRB royalities effective July 15th unless the Internet Radio Equality Act passes Congress. SoundExchange, the non-profit music industry entity, admits the levied charge of $500 per "channel" is supposed to only cover their administrative costs. Last year, SoundExchange collected a total of $20 million dollars from the Internet radio industry. Examining the new "administrative fee", means that RealNetworks which hosted 400,000 unique subscribed channels in 2006, would owe an annual administrative charge of 200 million dollars in addition to the retroactive 2006 rate hike per song played."

Submission + - iPredict a Cease-and-Desist letter.

Submitted by palewook on Friday June 08, 2007 @07:47AM

palewook writes: Last week, MSNBC debuted a new service on their news site. Rex Sorgatz, Executive Producer at MSNBC.com, calls the service, "answers visualized over time". The service, iPredict is aggregated news. Propelled by user's votes with annotated changes in the news story marked on a graph. IPredict resembles a Statistical Process Control graph compressed into a timeline covering topical news headlines. Presently, MSNBC has yet to ask the risky questions using the service. When should the USA leave Iraqi? Should Paris have been released? When will Apple send a Cease-and-Desist letter over the name?

Submission + - Photosynth: the Microsoft & BBC 3D image exhib

Submitted by palewook on Thursday June 07, 2007 @03:58PM

palewook writes: MicroSoft's Photosynth project unveiled an exhibit containing three-dimensional images of Ely Cathedral, Burghley House, Royal Crescent, Bath, Blackpool Ballroom, Scottish Parliament Building, and Trafalgar Square. The visualizations are compiled from numerous photos stitched over digital wireframes. And will be featured in the BBC series, "How We Built Britain."

Submission + - How big will iPhone become?

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palewook

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @07:35AM

palewook writes: "Combine an iPod with a BlackBerry, toss in the Apple marque and Apple's marketing power, what do you get? Around 2009, when the lower cost version of iPhone appears, Business Week believes the yearly market for iPhones will be over 10 billion dollars a year. Its an interesting prediction, if those numbers come to pass, iPhone could become 10% of Apple's yearly market cap."

Submission + - Safemedia's CEO tells Congress, he can stop P2P.

Submitted by palewook on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @10:55AM

palewook writes: Yesterday, Safwat Fahmy appeared in front of the House Science and Technology Committee. During Fahmy's testimony, he claimed Safemedia's "P2P Disaggregator" technology uses traffic-shaping systems and network-filtering systems that can destroy contaminated P2P networks. And Clouseau will make it impossible to send or receive any illegal P2P transmission on any installed network. However, Clouseau allows tunneling and SSH and never opens packets to determine file legality.

Submission + - Pac-man tribute goes live on Xbox Live today.

Submitted by palewook on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @09:05AM

palewook writes: Reuters reports the designer of Pac-man is retiring from Namco. Pac Man Championship Edition went live this morning on Xbox Live as a final tribute to Toru Iwatani's work.

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