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Submission + - Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!
Underholdning writes: "As part of an experiment security researcher Didier Stevens bought a Google ad six months ago that said, "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" 409 people clicked on the ad. Didier writes that during those six months, the ad was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. 98% of the machines ran Windows. Now that's a pretty cheap way of acquiring zombies."
A Reprieve For Net Radio? 115
Porsupah writes "The Register reports that "Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the 'Internet Radio Equality Act,' which aims to stop the controversial March 2 decision which puts royalty of a .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio," as imposed by a recent decision from the Copyright Royalty Board. "If passed, today's bill would set new rates at 7.5 percent of the webcaster's revenue — the same rate paid by satellite radio.""
Submission + - Review: Ubuntu Linux Versus Vista
An anonymous reader writes: InformationWeek pits Ubuntu Linux versus Windows Vista in a detailed comparison. The results are unusual for this type of review because it straddles the fence. The verdict is: "a tie, but only because both platforms fall short in some ways. Vista's roster of backup features aren't available in every SKU of the product; Ubuntu doesn't have anything like Vista's shadow copy system and its user-friendly backup tools are pretty rudimentary." Do you agree?
Submission + - Video Game Cheats
zehrila writes: "Game Cheats is purely a video game cheats site covering cheats ( either discovered by users or gathered through press releases)
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some hard game and thats where gamecheats.eu kicks in. Site is covering cheats for almost all gaming consoles and games e.g nes, game cube games, xbox games, playstation games, xbox games, wii games, and other nintendo games and most popular Pc Game Cheats.
Site contains a forum where you can buy or sell consoles, rent or buy games and find best cheats for games, share your tips and tricks with fellow members. site has very easy navigation and designed in a way which helps users to locate their favorite cheats easily e.g on home page site has sections like Most Popular Cheats, Top Rated Cheats, Latest Cheats and Just visited. Hope this little resource shall be handy for you while you are struggling with your games."
Submission + - China to force Olympic rain
OffTheLip writes: Chinese meteorologists claim to be able to force rain (http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070425/ap/d8onm45g0.ht ml) to fall before the 2008 Olympics begin thus insuring clean, clear air for the games. After years of work on cloud seeding the meteorologists hope their efforts can improve the probability that rain will not fall during the events.
"Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office said they fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies. They claimed it provoked a chemical reaction in clouds that forced four-tenths of an inch of rain."
Beijing's air pollution is among the worst in the world but can this be a good thing?
"Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office said they fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies. They claimed it provoked a chemical reaction in clouds that forced four-tenths of an inch of rain."
Beijing's air pollution is among the worst in the world but can this be a good thing?
Submission + - Nintendo doubles console targets
ukhackster writes: The ongoing Wii supply problems haven't dampened Nintendo's ambitions. It posted a big leap in profits today, thanks to strong sales of both the Wii and the DS console. It shipped 150 million games last year, and has told journalists it wants to double that to 300 million.
Bold ambition — but unless it manages to get more Wiis into the market it may struggle.....
