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Comment This is a special report from *** News: (Score -1) 274

by soccer_Dude88888 on Wednesday March 26, 2008 @01:28PM (#22871246) Attached to: Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami

"Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The City of Miami has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of flying drones. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the drones will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new robotic overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground crack houses."

Journal Journal: Freedom of Internet Speech in danger at Hong Kong

Journal by soccer_Dude88888 on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @11:48PM

A series of arrests of Internet users in Hong Kong, for posting photos and videos of what appear to be some of Asia's best-known singers engaged in sex acts, has triggered a debate over free speech and whether the police here are selectively enforcing anti-pornography laws.

Journal Journal: A Geek Squad Copycat

Journal by soccer_Dude88888 on Sunday February 10, 2008 @11:01PM

A computer technician who allegedly dishonestly accessed a computer related to the release of nude photographs of celebrities on the internet was released on bail yesterday. Eastern Court Principal Magistrate Garry Tallentire granted bail after he ruled that the prosecution had failed to show defendant Sze Ho-chun, 23, was likely not to appear at subsequent hearings or to interfere with prosecution witnesses. This has cause uproar i

EA Chicago Studio To Close 58

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @11:29PM from the less-fights-more-nights dept.

Geoff Keighley, who is guest-editing Kotaku this week, has the official release from EA that their Chicago studio is closing. The 150 employees that used to work at the site are trying to be placed throughout the rest of the EA structure, while the games on tap for development there are currently on hold. The release is fairly terse when describing the reason the studio is being closed: "Each team is responsible for staying on a reasonable path to profitability. Sticking to that strategy is what gives us the financial resources and flexibility to take risks on new projects. Unfortunately, EA Chicago hasn't been able to meet that standard. The location has grown dramatically in the past three years while revenue from the games developed there has not. The number of employees has grown from 49 in 2004 to 146 people currently in the new facility in downtown Chicago. As it stands, EA Chicago has no expectation of hitting our profitability targets until FY2011 or later."

German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server 428

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 16, 2007 @01:36PM from the good-guys-never-win dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a data center, over 500km away. In the last year, Germany has passed a draconian new anti-security research law and raided seven different data centers to seize Tor servers. While back in 2003, A German court ordered the developers of a different anonymity network to build a back-door into their system."

Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS 248

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @06:54PM from the adoption-by-ramrod dept.

narramissic writes "Microsoft is tying its Windows Live services directly to Vista — a move that should sound vaguely familiar, as it is precisely what the company did to make IE ubiquitous among Internet users. 'A new unified installer for Windows Live services will help users download Wednesday's updates of photo-sharing, mail, instant messaging, online safety and other services, the company said on its Windows Live Wire blog. The new installer also will automatically update those services on Windows Vista and XP going forward.'"

Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray for HD-DVD 476

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 20, 2007 @08:43PM from the eggs-and-baskets dept.

JM78 writes to tell us The New York Times is reporting that Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation will be dropping support for Blu-ray Disc and going solely with HD-DVD for their next gen DVDs. "Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, said consumers seeking to switch to high-definition DVDs will be enticed by the movies available for HD-DVD players. He added the lower price for the Toshiba devices will appeal to the family market. 'It's a game-changer, what they're doing, and it's why we decided to throw in with them,' Katzenberg said."

Comment Re:From the horse's mouth (Score 1) 289

by yamansalahi on Saturday June 16, 2007 @10:48PM (#19537493) Attached to: Student Blogger Loses Defamation Case

I wrote TFP, and I can tell you that this appeal was not conducted differently in any way from the original hearing. The only difference was that I had a lawyer who spoke instead of me; but he was still asked not to provide any legal arguments. What kind of appeal does not allow you to argue the law?

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