Archive for March 22, 2008

Movie leaked after years of suppression by Scientology

Years ago, in 2001, several film directors worked on a documentary called “The Profit”, indirectly telling the story about how the Scientology came to be what it is today.
Before it could be released, the CoS managed to get it banned, even after it claimed that it was totally unrelated to Scientology. But now it has been leaked. See for yourself.

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Sony gives option to build your laptop crapware-free

Sony is finally seeing the error of its ways, but instead of removing the crapware altogether, Sony has the nerve to offer a $50 “Fresh Start” option, which “scrubs” the machine clean before shipping it your way. At the moment you can only configure the TZ2000 crapware-free, but hopefully Sony will be rolling out the choice to the rest of its lapto

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First Proper Shots Of “Steel” MGS4 PS3 Console

First proper pics of the limited edition “Steel” 40GB PlayStation 3 console available as part of the Japanese MGS4 bundle

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John’s Blog » Apple Software Update and Safari

What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use their updater for iTunes to also install their Safari Web browser

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Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?

The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, setting themselves up for a tense battle with blade server manufacturers for control of the enterprise data center.

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Mozilla CEO says Apple’s Safari auto-update ‘wrong’

lot of people appear to be bent out of shape about Apple using its auto-update service to distribute the Safari Web browser on Windows. The CEO of Mozilla, which makes the rival Firefox browser, calls it bad business.

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Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - A new version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp’s dominant Internet Explorer. The program’s…

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Apple’s fixes show it is a good open-source citizen

Over half the software security fixes this month are actually in or part of open source software (OSS) packages… Whether or not it’s just a necessary thing to do in order to keep OS X secure, there are some significant benefits to Apple’s use of open source and Mac OS X being built on BSD.

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Sneak peek at OpenOffice.org 3.0

OpenOffice.org 2.4 may be just around the corner. But if you laugh at stable releases and always want to have your hands on the latest beta software, you can download an early beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 today. What does OpenOffice.org 3.0 have that version 2.3.1 is missing?

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed “Hardy Heron”, 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution…

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MPAA to Congress: filtering is in colleges’ best interests

In a letter to Congressional leaders, the MPAA continues to push for special copyright provisions in a new bill reauthorizing the federal student aid program for college students. Filtering, it seems, can save big money on bandwidth, but colleges remain unimpressed.

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Xbox Releases 500 Limited Edition GTA IV 360s [PICS]

Microsoft added to the buzz leading up to the anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto IV by dropping a limited run of 500 GTA-branded Xbox 360 Elite systems and a briefcase full of peripherals today.

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