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Submission + - BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters (hardwarecanucks.com)

Submitted by SKYMTL
SKYMTL writes: Once one of NVIDIA's primary board partners, BFG Tech has now officially started denying RMA requests of their supposedly "lifetime warranty" graphics cards. According to a letter from BFG, the are "...winding down business" and are "unable to replace" any non-working product. A sad turn of events for the thousands how bought BFG's graphics cards and power supplies.
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Submission + - Canadian Prime Minister loses to Onion Ring (facebook.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On February 2nd, a group was started entitled "Can this Onion Ring get more fans than Stephen Harper?", and just a few days later, the group has almost triple as many fans as the Canadian Prime Minister. The group has over 86,000 fans at the time of this writing, and Stephen Harper has only 30,000. This is just another example of how much Canadian youth disapproves of the elected leader. My contrast, Barack Obama has over 7 million fans — over 200 the amount of Harper — when the population of the USA is approximately 10 times that of Canada. Canada also has proportionally many more Facebook users, which pushes the disparity even further.
Censorship

Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors 418

Posted by kdawson from the you-are-what-you-block dept.
unlametheweak recommends an Ars Technica report that the US Senate has unanimously passed a bill requiring the FCC to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." "...the law does focus on empowering parents to take control of new media technologies to deal with undesired content, rather than handing the job over to the government. It asks the FCC to focus the inquiry on blocking systems for a 'wide variety of distribution platforms,' including wireless and Internet, and an array of devices, including DVD players, set top boxes, and wireless applications."
Transportation

Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here 495

Posted by kdawson from the fiull-'er-up dept.
Wired is running a story about the small but vocal, and growing, number of people who aren't waiting for automakers to deliver plug-in hybrids. They're shelling out big money to have already thrifty cars converted into full-on plug-in hybrids capable of triple-digit fuel economy. "The conversions aren't cheap, and top-of-the-line kits with lithium-ion batteries can set you back as much as $35,000. Even a kit with lead-acid batteries — the type under the hood of the car you drive now — starts at five grand. That explains why most converted plug-ins are in the motor pools of places like Southern California Edison... No more than 150 or so belong to people like [extreme skiing champion Alison] Gannett, who had her $30,000 Ford Escape converted in December. Yes, that's right. The conversion cost more than the truck."

SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival 142

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the welcoming-various-overlords dept.
PacoCheezdom writes "Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called 'Swarm OS'. The robots are able to work together as a group not by communicating with all members of the group at once, but by talking only to their neighbors, and model other similar behaviors performed by bees and ants. "
Programming

Python On Planes Supersunday Release 135

Posted by Zonk from the sunday-sunday-sunday dept.
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spo0nman writes "The PythonOnPlanes release team has just published PythonOnPlanes-1.3.07 aka. 'the SuperSunday' release. For those in the know PythonOnPlanes is a rapid development framework for Python which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association DataMapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables Python users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.'Major highlights in the release include Active Scrum Manager 1, Sanity Preserver 3.13 and Lart 22.21. This is also the first release with the *PythonOnPlanes Live CD Installer* officially debuting on the x86 platform.'"
Google

Google Releases Customized IE 7 198

Posted by Zonk from the they-were-bored dept.
narramissic writes "Google has released a customized version of Internet Explorer 7 that uses Google as the default search engine and provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. Perhaps not exactly what Microsoft intended when they released the Internet Explorer Administration Kit, which allows developers to customize IE."
Security

Experts Say Ajax Not Inherently Insecure 82

Posted by Zonk from the good-to-know dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Jeremiah Grossman (CTO of WhiteHat Security) has published Myth-Busting - an article dismissing the hyped-up claims that AJAX is insecure. He says: 'The hype surrounding AJAX and security risks is hard to miss. Supposedly, this hot new technology responsible for compelling web-based applications like Gmail and Google Maps harbors a dark secret that opens the door to malicious hackers. Not exactly true ... Word on the cyber-street is that AJAX is the harbinger of larger attack surfaces, increased complexity, fake requests, denial of service, deadly cross-site scripting (XSS) , reliance on client-side security, and more. In reality, these issues existed well before AJAX. And, the recommended security best practices remain unchanged.'"
Security

Vista Hackers Get Busy 215

Posted by CowboyNeal from the fresh-meat-for-the-wolves dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's long-awaited Windows Vista release Thursday for business customers will get more than just the passing attention of network administrators. That's because hackers will be eagerly waiting to do what hackers do best: start some mischief." Some folks on the Black Hat set got a sneak peek at Vista earlier this year, so they've had time to prepare.

Comment Re:StarOffice 5.2 != OpenSource (Score 1) 204

by rowenc (#127723) Attached to: Dept. of Defense Adopts StarOffice
I didn't, because it would slow everything down more than it should have been. It took about 35 secs to load up Staroffice 5.2 while it takes about 12 for openoffice.

Mail/news program should be seperate. BTW, there is going to be "integration" with mail/news programs, just not with "bundled" mail/news programs. YOu'll be able to click on a url and it will load a webpage, or click on an email address and it will compose with say evolution or whatever mail program you have installed.

As for the desktop? It seemed that SO was trying to emulate the windows desktop, which I think was stupid. Anyways

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