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Comment Re:I'm 31 (Score 1) 418

by rafa (#34343896) Attached to: Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo?
I approve of your exploration into Scotch. In my opinion, there's no better way to dive into Whisky than to join the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (www.smws.co.uk, local branches or their equivalent are hopefully available where you are at). The tipples they provide are unique, and they are very good at helping you find just the right one for you.
The Internet

Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server 273

Posted by kdawson from the nail-after-nail-in-the-coffin dept.
DukeTech writes "This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its start at Duke University more than 30 years ago. On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis." Rantastic and other readers wrote about the shutdown of the British Usenet indexer Newzbin today; the site sank under the weight of a lawsuit and outstanding debt. Combine these stories with the recent news of Microsoft shuttering its newsgroups, along with other recent stories, and the picture does not look bright for Usenet.

Comment More achievements (Score 1) 1582

by rafa (#27416337) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements
I'd like to see some PvP achievements added to /.
  • Cutting retort modded funny.
  • Successfully goatsed someone with the /. badge.
  • Made another poster cry with a crushing, accurate observation.
  • Corrected the factual contents of a +5 funny post.
  • Followed up someone's +4 Funny with a +5 Funny.
  • Derailed a +N informative thread with a +M other.
  • Corrected another member's unix syntax.
Media

Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox 310

Posted by timothy from the funny-name-and-all dept.
YA_Python_dev writes "The Xiph.Org Foundation announced Monday the release of Theora 1.0. Theora is a free/open source video codec with a small CPU footprint that offers easy portability and requires no patent royalties. Upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera will play natively Ogg/Theora videos with the new HTML5 element <video src="file.ogv"></video>, and ffmpeg2theora offers an easy way to create content. Theora developers are already working on a 1.1 encoder that offers better quality/bitrate ratio, while producing streams backward-compatible with the current decoder." Adds reader logfish: "Since its bit-stream freeze in June of 2004 there have been numerous speed-ups and bug-fixes. Although Nokia claimed it to be proprietary almost a year ago, nothing has been proven. So now it's time to help it take over the internet, and finally push for video sites filled with Theora encoded vlogs, blurts and idle nonsense."
Intel

Submission + - Intel Core 2 "Penryn" and Linux (linuxhardware.org)

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LHoAugustus
LHoAugustus writes: "Linux Hardware has posted a look at the new Intel "Penryn" processor and how the new processor will work with Linux. "Intel recently released the new "Penryn" Core 2 processor with many new features. So what are these features and how will they equate into benefits to Linux users? That's what Linux Hardware is here to unravel. In this review I'll cover all the high points of the new "Penryn" core and talk to a couple Linux projects about the impact on end-user performance.""
United States

Submission + - Defense Contractor Halliburton Moving HQ to Dubai

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theodp
theodp writes: "Much-maligned defense contractor Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai's friendly tax laws will add to Halliburton's bottom line. Last year, it earned $2.3B in profits. Sen. Patrick Leahy called the company's move 'corporate greed at its worst.' Halliburton, once headed by VP Dick Cheney, has received contracts valued at an estimated $25.7B for its work in Iraq."
Networking

Submission + - Internet2 turns 10 and upgrades

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As an update to a previous story, Internet2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Chicago this week at it's fall conference. In addition, they're announcing the initial stages of their second significant network upgrade of their backbone network. Engineers are providing daily blog updates of the network install process as the old network is transitioned to the new. In addition to changing to a Level3-managed and Internet2-provisioned DWDM transport system for backbone capacity, I2 is implementing a new connection-oriented backbone network based on the Ciena CoreDirector platform in concert with the routed IP network.
Security

Submission + - The Case for OpenID

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: VeriSign and NetMesh are making the case for OpenID, the grass-roots, decentralized digital identity system already supported by LiveJournal, Six Apart, Technorati, VeriSign and many startups, reportedly growing 5% every single week. They say OpenID "is fundamentally different from other identity technologies" because it is a "fully decentralized system" and has a "much lighter cost structure" than any alternative, like Microsoft Passport, CardSpace or Liberty Alliance.

Time to remove username and password from your site and add OpenID libraries instead, so visitors can authenticate with their blog URL?

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