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Journal Journal: Goatse.cx for sale

Journal by Ergasiophobia on Saturday April 14, 2007 @10:53PM

That's right, the original home of that infamous hello.jpg that almost every slashdot user by this time has had the misfortune of seeing is currently up for auction. At the time of this writing the minimum bid is only $460, so step up and get yourself a piece of internet history. http://www.goatse.cx/ Is the original site for anyone who doesn't know, and the site to bid at is http://www.seobidding.com/b

Samsung to Launch Dual Blu-ray HD DVD Player 156

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 13, 2007 @04:01PM from the best-of-both-worlds dept.

narramissic writes "File this one under 'if you can't beat em, join em.' Samsung, one of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, Friday said it plans to release an optical disc player this year that will play both Blu-ray Disc and the rival HD DVD format. With the announcement, Samsung becomes the second company to shift from a single-format stance (LG launched a dual player in North America earlier this year.) 'Our main concern is with the consumer and not a particular technology,' said Samsung spokesman Kwak Bumjoon."

Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank 520

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @05:26AM from the we've-all-got-priorities dept.

Earnest writes "A prank MySpace page has led to a barrage of lawsuits and the misuse of school resources as the principal targeted by the pranksters attempted to find the perpetrators. In 2005, students at Hickory High School in Pennsylvania created a fake MySpace profile of principal Eric Trosch. As a result, the school's IT staff spent about 25 percent of his work time dealing with the issue and finding the culprits. That's not all. 'Trosch kept at it, even taking measures that led to the "cancellation of computer programming classes as well as usage of computers for research for class projects." Now the basic educational mission of the school was being compromised in order to keep students from visiting these profiles during school hours (students were still free to look at the profiles from home, of course).'"

Submission + - AACS cracked, again

Submitted by EmTeedee on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @05:20AM

EmTeedee writes: From a blog post on DLTV:

This time the target was the Xbox 360 HD DVD add on. Geremia on Doom9 forums has started a thread on how he has obtained the Volume ID without AACS authentication. With the aid of others like Arnezami they have managed to patch the Xbox 360 HD DVD add on.
and later in the same article:

It appears that XT5 has released a application that allows the Volume ID to be read without the need to rewrite the firmware. This would mean that anyone could simply plug in the HD DVD drive and obtain the Volume ID from any HD DVD without the hassle of flashing it.

Comment Re:PS3 (Score 1) 280

by GremlinDelirium on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @09:56PM (#18357255) Attached to: Blu-ray Disc Among Top Selling DVDs at Amazon

Wiiiiiiiiii... That's funny. I think the non-tech savvy simply won't care about the BluRay drive in PS3. Or at least as much as Sony hopes they do. This movie industry doesn't understand that most TV's will not play this stuff to their fullest. So, it's really going to come down to the *NEXT* console war to decide who's format will be better. But then again, I don't think its worth spending any money on both formats. Overall I feel DVD > HD-DVD > BluRay > VHS.

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