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11/21/2009 10:17 AM
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Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties?
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Mr2001 writes "Consumerist reports that Apple is refusing to work on computers that have been used in smoking households. 'The Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, [the warranty has been voided] and they refuse to work on ...
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11/21/2009 09:14 AM
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Pittsburgh To Tax Students
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societyofrobots writes "Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has proposed taxing college and professional students for the privilege of receiving an education in the city. The proposed tax will charge students in the city at a rate of 1% of their yearly tuition — which, at Carnegie Mellon, would ...
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11/21/2009 08:12 AM
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Major Electronics Firms Support Ending Use of "Conflict Minerals"
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tburton writes "The US House of Representatives yesterday released the Conflict Minerals Trade Act (HR 4128) to try and end the international trade of tungsten, tantalum and col-tan, the mining of which is accused of fueling violent rape and murder in eastern Congo. Since the very same minerals ...
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11/21/2009 05:08 AM
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Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries
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boggis writes "Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft's Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government (like certain others). The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese ...
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11/21/2009 02:02 AM
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Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009
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angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that ...
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11/21/2009 12:00 AM
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RFID Fingerprints To Fight Tag Cloning
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Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags. Passive tags typically wait for a reader to transmit a signal of the appropriate strength and frequency before sending their own transmission. The scientists found ...
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11/20/2009 09:55 PM
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Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine
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itwbennett writes "Some very generous Alpha OS geeks have snagged the Chrome OS source code and compiled a version to share with the rest of us, writes blogger Peter Smith. 'The build comes in the form of a virtual machine, which means you'll need VMWare or VirtualBox running, and of course the ...
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11/20/2009 07:52 PM
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iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception"
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An anonymous reader writes "Many game developers don't think of the iPhone as being a system which has extensive game piracy. But recent comments by developers and analysts have shown otherwise, and Gamasutra speaks to multiple parties to evaluate the size of the problem and whether there's ...
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11/20/2009 06:57 PM
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New Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias
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An anonymous reader writes with this quote from a story at El Reg about an early look at the Silverlight 4 beta: "There are ... major changes to Silverlight's out-of-browser functionality, a loose equivalent to Adobe Systems' AIR runtime for Flash. Even when fully sandboxed, which means having the ...
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11/20/2009 06:08 PM
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How Heavy Is the Internet?
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An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how much the internet physically weighs? 498,438,559,990kg, according to CNET. To reach this figure, they added together public data on the weight of every computer, server and connecting cable. To this they added 6,075,000kg of iPhones, and over ...
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