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Nintendo

Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game 287

An anonymous reader writes "A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the loss was caused when James Burt made New Super Mario Bros Wii available for illegal download a week ahead of its official Australian release in November of last year. Nintendo applied for and was granted a search order by the Federal Court, forcing Burt to disclose the whereabouts of all his computers, disks and electronic storage devices in November. He was also ordered to allow access, including passwords, to his social networking sites, email accounts and websites."
Microsoft

Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"
Space

A Hyper-Velocity Impact In the Asteroid Belt? 114

astroengine writes "Astronomers have spotted something rather odd in the asteroid belt. It looks like a comet, but it's got a circular orbit, similar to an asteroid. Whether it's an asteroid or a comet, it has a long, comet-like tail, suggesting something is being vented into space. Some experts think it could be a very rare comet/asteroid hybrid being heated by the sun, but there's an even more exciting possibility: It could be the first ever observation of two asteroids colliding in the asteroid belt."

Comment Re:Streissand has a point (Score 3, Informative) 744

I didn't put her name on the website. Our site has the ability for users to caption photographs. One of the users of our site captioned that one. Our policy is to leave captions that are not profane, not libelous, and accurately describe some part of the frame. This information is already available elsewhere -- go to Google and search for "Streisand and Malibu".

With so much data, there is a "relevance" problem in finding what you want on our web site. The captioning system is a valuable way for users of our web site to exchange what they know about the photographs. The identification of her estate is of interest to the public because she has made it newsworthy -- for example, as recently as a week ago she lost a lawsuit with a neighbor over the height of their house.

I don't disagree with her professed politics. The quote about her leaving the country was made jokingly. I really have no malice torwards Ms. Streisand and don't understand why she has singled me out for this treatment. It is, however, a little difficult at times to suppress the natural anger you develop towards someone when they sue you.

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