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Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 416

by agm1101 on Friday October 09, 2009 @02:14PM (#29697135) Attached to: What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro?

Buy Playon software ($40, but on sale frequently for $20 or $30) and install in on your windows PC. You can stream all kinds of video sites to your xbox 360 including youtube, hulu, etc. They have a 14 day trial for you to check out if it works for you.

UK Government Wants To Bypass Data Protection Act 262

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 02, 2009 @08:05PM from the you-have-none dept.

rar42 writes "Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently being debated by the UK Parliament, would allow any Minister by order to take from anywhere any information gathered for one purpose, and use it for any other purpose. Personal information arbitrarily used without consent or even knowledge: the very opposite of 'Data Protection.' An 'Information Sharing Order', as defined in Clause 152, would permit personal information to be trafficked and abused, not only all across government and the public sector — it would also reach into the private sector. And it would even allow transfer of information across international borders. NO2ID has launched a Facebook group to challenge this threat to data protection."

Comment Re:I bought it (Score 1) 454

by agm1101 on Friday October 24, 2008 @10:09AM (#25497999) Attached to: Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone?

IPhone can do skype - just install fring from www.fring.com. It can also do Gtalk and MSN voice chat. You can also do SIP calls using the same software.

Mimicking Electric Eel Cells 71

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @05:23PM from the positively-shocking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of US researchers has asked the following question in the new field of systems biology: 'Do we understand how a cell produces electricity well enough to design one, and to optimize that design?' They believe it should be possible to build artificial cells replicating the electrical behavior of electric eel cells. In fact, such artificial cells could deliver better performance — as much as 40% more energy than real eel cells, a computer model suggests. They could be used to power medical implants and other small devices."

The Pirate Bay — "Just a Very Large Hobby" 214

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @12:36PM from the but-robin-hood-wasn't-a-rude-hidebound-dreamer dept.

praps writes "In a fascinating interview with two of the founders of The Pirate Bay entitled 'Are they baby-eating monsters or what?,' Swedish news site The Local discovers that far from being the radical Robin Hoods of the digital age, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij are actually 'polite, humorous and down-to-earth.' They may run one of the biggest sites in the world but 'it's just a hobby that's grown to be very, very large.' Financially, they are 'happy as long as it doesn't make a loss,' and both hold down regular IT day jobs. And apparently they spend a lot of time with a Bedouin in the Sinai desert."

Submission + - World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users (videogamesblogger.com)

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Wowzer

on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @01:22PM

Wowzer writes: "Blizzard today announced that their MMORPG World of Warcraft is now played by more than 9 million gamers around the world. From the article: "That's half a million more than the number of monthly players WoW had back in March five months ago. — It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden." Also revealed this week was that DC Comics are creating World of Warcraft Comic Books based on the MMORPG, with the first issue appearing on November 14th. The ongoing monthly series will be written by industry veteran Walter Simonson (Thor, Orion) and feature art by Ludo Lullabi and inker Sandra Hope."

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