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Sony announces Playstation Move
(Sony unveils their first motion controller for the Playstation 3.)
GDC: What's next for video game AI?
(Game AI, when done right, means it's closer to acting and reacting like humans. Find out what some developers are doing to shake things up.)
TurboTax announces Glenn Beck ad pull via Twitter
(After feedback from its Twitter followers, the tax-preparation software company decides to remove its advertising from the show hosted by Fox's most entertaining presenter.)
Springpad bookmarks the world
(Neat little clipping and saving service works on Web and iPhone.)
LimeWire enlists AVG for user protection
(Notorious as a malware ghetto, LimeWire takes its first steps to integrate authoritative threat protection by signing on AVG to provide premium users with download scanning and blocking.)
Windows Phone 7 won't kill Zune HD
(But Microsoft is telling game developers to concentrate on the phones.)
Sony unveils Move--its PS3 motion controller
(The PlayStation maker gives those gathered at a press conference during the Game Developers Conference a sneak peek at its motion-sensitive controller.)
GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of gameplay
(roundup This week's Game Developers Conference brings together designers, programmers, publishers, and others for the latest from the world of video play.)
Net oversight board to consider .xxx domains
(ICM Registry is again urging ICANN to allow adult sites to add .xxx to their names, creating what some have called a red-light district in cyberspace.)
Next Conversation: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
(In our next interview for CNET Conversations, we'll ask FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski about everything from free broadband to exclusive wireless agreements to the NBC-Comcast deal. What's your question?)
Classic Videogames Mutate in 'Game Over' Art Show
(Street Fighter gets bendy. Ms. Pac-Man hops a tandem bike. And plenty of other classic characters get similarly strange treatments in Giant Robot's videogame-inspired exhibit.
Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit
(Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?"
Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Eclipses Concept Album Classics
(With its heady mix of heavy themes and technology, The Dark Side of the Moon remains the best concept album ever, even 37 years after its release. Plus: 10 more concept albums in Dark Side's shadow that deserve a slice of the spotlight.
'Galactica: Sabotage' Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup
(A YouTube artist whips up a precise, shot-for-shot re-creation of Spike Jonze's amazing music video using clips from the late, great Battlestar Galactica.
European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord
(European Parliament is coming out in opposition to a U.S.-backed intellectual property treaty accord, and is demanding the treaty's secret text become public.
Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps
(App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools.
Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes
(The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple's downloadable media megastore where no computer has gone before.
Google's Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End 'Soon'
(Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt.
No-Fly List Includes the Dead
(Even though people might be dying to get off the government's no-fly list, it includes names of the dead on purpose. Following the "Underwear Bomber" incident Christmas day the list has ballooned.
Playlist: Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and a Tribute to Mark Linkous
(Hear a track from Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration between the late Sparklehorse leader, David Lynch and Danger Mouse. Also on the podcast: more music from The Ferocious Few, Flying Lotus and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.
Am I a Rebel? Chris Hedges wouldn’t think so.
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By Dave Belden. Crossposted from Tikkun Daily. Chris Hedges put up another vehement piece on Truthdig on Monday: ''Calling All Rebels.'' Representative quotes: There are no constraints left to halt America's slide into a totalitarian capitalism… The old game of blaming the weak and the marginal, a staple of despotic regimes, will empower the dark [...]
Why Are Republicans a Bunch of Whiners? Cause It Works for Them Politically
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This post was originally published on No More Mister Nice Blog. Responding to the complaint by Chief Justice Roberts that President Obama’s Supreme Court criticism in the State of the Union address was “troubling,” John Cole writes: When did the Republicans become such whiners? Was it always this way, because right now the entire party seems to be [...]
Do You Know Where Your Milk Is Coming From?
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A new web site helps consumers figure out where their dairy products originated.
Restrictionist Front Group Still Pushing Green Xenophobia
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Blaming immigrants for pollution, dependence on fossil fuels, or the emissions systems on automobiles won’t fix the environment or the dysfunctional immigration system.
Unemployment Still Rising — On the Bright Side, Rich People Are Doing Great!
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This post was published on the Booman Tribune. Which shall it be first? Oh, heck let’s go with the bad news, because that will make the good news all the more impressive: WASHINGTON — Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country.The [...]
YOU Are the Center of Glenn Beck’s Latest Conspiracy Theory
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When I’ve had a particularly long day, all I want to do is go home and unwind. Comedy helps. And nothing is more darkly hilarious than watching Glenn Beck whip around his studio, drawing conspiratorial chicken-scratch on his whiteboard. And now I get to be part of it myself. As part of a new campaign jointly [...]
"They Have No Right to Kill Me": Is Texas Gearing Up to Execute An Innocent Man?
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Death row prisoner Hank Skinner swears DNA evidence will exonerate him, but prosecutors say the case is closed. He has two weeks to change their minds.
Mountains of Student Debt, and Solutions Are at Hand
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It's time to kick profit-seeking private student lenders out of the loaning process.
Why Progressives Need to Support Obama
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I can already imagine the onslaught of criticism: Obama is no different than Bush. Obama has buckled under even the slightest pressure from the right. Just look at the case of civilian trials for terror suspects. Just look at his administration’s unwillingness to prosecute Bush-era officials. Just look at his failure to close Guantanamo Bay. His efforts to appease the Republicans [...]
Union Leaders to Punish Dems Who Vote Against Health Bill
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This post was originally published on the Daily Kos. I’m loving the new and aggressive labor approach to primaries. As health care reform enters its do-or-die stage in Congress, union leaders on Tuesday began threatening that they will work to ‘take out’ Democratic lawmakers who vote against the bill [...] In a series of conversations with the Huffington [...]
Former TSA Analyst Charged With Computer Tampering
(angry tapir writes "A Transportation Security Administration analyst has been indicted with tampering with databases used by the TSA to identify possible terrorists who may be trying to fly in the US. If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup
(An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later. A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth, using an MIT holiday month to hire 20 college student interns to get all their work done and quadrupling its productivity."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out
(itwbennett writes "Niney of the 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight when two ISPs, named Troyak and Group 3, were taken offline. Whoever was behind the takedown 'just decided to knock out a large area of cybercrime, and this was probably one of the easiest ways to do it,' said Kevin Stevens, a researcher with SecureWorks. As with the McColo takedown of just over a year ago, Troyak's upstream providers seem to have knocked it off the Internet, Cisco said in a statement. 'The ISP was "De-peered,"' Cisco said. 'Troyak's upstream network providers effectively pulled the plug on Troyak's router, refusing to transmit its traffic.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June
(adeelarshad82 writes "After eight years of development, remote gaming service OnLive is scheduled to roll out on June 17 for Windows and Mac. The company also announced its service pricing: users will need to pay $14.95 per month, which will allow them access to the service. However, the company did not disclose the price to rent or purchase games. 'It is partnering in this launch with publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The games will also include new releases like Mass Effect 2, Borderlands, Assassin’s Creed II, as well as a bunch of other titles. Perlman anticipates anywhere from a dozen to 25 titles to be available at launch time, and more after that, depending on how negotiations with other publishers proceed.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google Opens Apps Marketplace
(snydeq writes "Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google's own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gmail, Documents, Sites, and Calendar. All told, the effort begins with 50 vendors participating, including Atlassian, NetSuite, Skytap, and Zoho. Participation in Google Apps Marketplace is open to customers of the Premier, Standard, and Education editions of Google Apps. Applications are linked to the marketplace via REST Web services and APIs including OpenID and OAuth."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps?
(alobar72 writes "I have quite a few old maps (several hundreds; 100+ years old, some are already damaged – so time is not on my side). What I want to do is to digitize them and to apply geo-coordinates to them so I can use them as overlays for openstreetmap data or such. Obviously I cannot put those maps onto my €80 scanner and go. Some of them are really large (1.5m x 1.5m roughly, I believe) and they need to be treated with great care because the paper is partly damaged. So firstly I need a method or service provider that can do the digitizing without damaging them. Secondly I need a hint what the best method is to apply geo coordinates to those maps then. The maps are old and landscape and places have changed, it maybe difficult to identify exact spots. So: are there any experiences or tips I could use?"
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Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein
(ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back
(An anonymous reader writes "'Alien' and 'Star Wars' art director Roger Christian was given £25,000 by George Lucas in 1979 to make a 25-minute medieval B-feature called 'Black Angel.' This spiritual tale of a knight on a strange quest was inspired by Christian's near-fatal fever when he fell ill in Mexico making 'Lucky Lady.' 'Black Angel' made a huge impression, not least because it shared the dark tone of 'Empire Strikes Back.' John Boorman showed it to the crew of 'Excalibur' as a template for how he wanted his film to look, and 'Black Angel' went on to influence films such as 'Dragonslayer' and 'Legend' throughout the 1980s and beyond. But it has not been seen by anyone since 'Empire' finished its theatrical run. Two weeks ago Roger Christian unearthed a print of a film that was thought lost forever, and in this interview he talks about 'Black Angel,' and provides the only picture from the film that has ever hit the Internet."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OpenSSH 5.4 Released
(HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed
(Zordak writes "Amazon's infamous '1-click' patent has been in reexamination at the USPTO for almost four years. Patently-O now reports that 'the USPTO confirmed the patentability of original claims 6-10 and amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-of amendment adds the seeming trivial limitation that the one-click system operates as part of a 'shopping cart model.' Thus, to infringe the new version of the patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click) alongside of the 1-click version. Because most retail eCommerce sites still use the shopping cart model, the added limitation appears to have no practical impact on the patent scope.'" Also covered at TechFlash.
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Note: I did have trouble with the Alternet.org feed. I suspect that it is encoded in UTF-8, and there is a patch to convert that into ISO-... whatever TWiki likes. I'll try to apply it soon. -- NatePerryThistle - 23 Jul 2004 Way cool - thanks Nate :_ -- FloydPerryThistle - 23 Jul 2004 UPDATE: With the patch that I just applied I was able to get the alternet.org feed. -- NatePerryThistle - 02 Sep 2004
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