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Comment Re:Ah, the wonderful, screaming world of retail. (Score 0, Offtopic) 445

by me24 on Thursday May 22, 2008 @08:20PM (#23513020) Attached to: Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube

Fear the power of Twitter users. I saw a rather scary keynote at Microsoft's REMIX conf. this week - with a Twitter using describing the ability of Twitterer's to pool their collective twitterings to bring bad PR for companies/people they don't like. The speaker called it "Instant Karma". Like forums, but faster.

The Secret History of Star Wars 569

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 22, 2008 @12:48AM from the george-shot-first dept.

lennier writes "How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good? Did he really have a masterplan for six, nine, or even twelve episodes, and why did the official Lucasfilm position keep changing? And just how big an influence were the films of Akira Kurosawa on the whole saga? Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unauthorized, e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved. Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked."

Comcast Invests in P2P 76

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 19, 2008 @06:19PM from the evil-until-it-saves-the-man-some-money dept.

AHTuttle writes to mention Comcast, recently under fire for throttling P2P traffic, has decided to invest in a P2P video-delivery startup called GridNetworks. "Seattle-based GridNetworks on Monday said that Comcast would make an unspecified investment in the company and collaborate on developing so-called peer-to-peer file-sharing techniques that are 'friendly' to Internet service providers."

French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP 663

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 18, 2008 @11:06PM from the and-good-riddance dept.

Racketiciel writes "A French user asked for a refund after buying an ASUS computer that came with Windows XP and other software pre-installed. ASUS tried to apply a procedure which cost more money to the consumer than they will give back... The court ruled in favor of the user, who received back 130 Euro (~200 $) for the software. Here is the ruling (PDF, French). In France, this is the fourth victory for refund seekers during the last two years, and many people are now filing for refunds (in French). Two French associations (AFUL and April) published a press release on this victory the same day an important hearing happened." The English-language press release linked above gives a pretty good idea of what happened here, for those unsuited to wading through French.

Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified 152

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 16, 2008 @03:01PM from the going-the-wrong-way dept.

Peer writes "The Dutch government has officially decided that it will no longer use voting machines (Babel Fish Translation) for elections. So it's pencil and paper from now on. Activists have been campaigning against the use of voting machines for some time."

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