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Submission + - Paypal's at it again (tumblr.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 10, 2010 @10:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: Paypal seems to be up to their old tricks again, and limiting legitimate accounts once the owners start trying to withdraw their money. Under the guise of "a suspicious withdrawal or deposit", on the 25th of last month they decided to limit the account of indie game dev Notch(Of Minecraft and Wurm fame), preventing him from withdrawing his over 600,000 euros. This comes at a crucial point in the titles development, after recently being in talks with huge studios such as Valve and Bungie, and attempting to get office space and hire an entire team to help work on the game.

Submission + - Android and Linux kernel not exactly hand in hand (computerworld.com)

Submitted by mu22le on Friday September 10, 2010 @07:54AM

mu22le writes: You could argue that Google's Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There's only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart from the Linux mainstream.

Comment They are "committed to conclude ACTA in 2010" (Score 3, Interesting) 87

by phypsilon on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @12:54PM (#31171278) Attached to: ACTA Document Leaks With Details On Mexico Talks

The document is very sparse on details. They seem to be negotiating four topics:
1. civil enforcements
2. customs
3. internet
4. transparency (wtf??)

But the most interesting quote is: "Parties remain committed to conclude ACTA in 2010."

Dead Birds Do Tell Tales 21

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 09, 2009 @04:15AM from the break-me-off-a-piece-of-great-auk dept.

grrlscientist writes "While many natural history museum study skin collections have specimens that are more than 100 years old, most museum tissue collections are very recent — in fact, many were initiated during the 1980s. Due to the perishable nature of tissues, they are expensive to maintain and must be carefully managed and continually replenished. Unfortunately, funding shortages and other considerations have made it more difficult for museums to collect animals as often as they did in the past. Therefore, tissues from both wild and captive animals are limited, particularly those from rare and difficult-to-collect animals, such as lories."

Comment The Window of Opportunity closes (Score 1, Troll) 672

by phypsilon on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:23PM (#26377363) Attached to: Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES

- sarcasm on -
Congratulations to all of us open source enthusiasts and fellow nerds.
We managed to do even worse then vista and couldn't get linux to be accepted on the desktop. Now we will be crushed between 7 and X.
- sarcasm off -

phypsilon

Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone 111

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @10:24AM from the a-whole-lotta-smart-stuff dept.

ocean_soul writes "Last week the free and open access repository for scientific (mainly physics but also math, computer sciences...) papers arXiv got past 500,000 different papers, not counting older versions of the same article. Especially for physicists, it is the number-one resource for the latest scientific results. Most researchers publish their papers on arXiv before they are published in a 'normal' journal. A famous example is Grisha Perelman, who published his award-winning paper exclusively on arXiv."

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