The third edition in our chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout ‘FAKE!’ the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were
Despite all the fanfare about the new, upgraded unibody MacBooks, the old (polybody?) MacBooks are still on sale for 9. Thankfully, Apple has updated the base specs on our sad, white friend.
Apple has dropped serial number verification in the new retail box version of iWork 09, making the revised office suite simply “just work” for new users who have purchased it. Previously, all versions of Apple’s iWork productivity suite have always required obtaining a serial number to work past the free thirty day trial. This included the version
So much for his potential lucrative pay-day. He rejected arbitration, sought a big, multi-year contract & now may have to grovel to the Red Sox to get any contract at all.
davidwr writes “A state appeals court in Kentucky ruled that the state courts cannot seize domain names as ‘gambling devices.’ The court ruled that ‘it’s up to the General Assembly — not the courts nor the state Justice Cabinet — to bring domain names into the definition of illegal gambling devices.'”
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snydeq writes “InfoWorld offers the inside story of how FBI Supervisory Special Agent J. Keith Mularski, aka Master Splynter, penetrated and took over DarkMarket.ws, the infamous underground carding board hacked by Max Butler and later transformed by Mularski into an FBI sting operation. The three-year tour sent Mularski deeper into the world of online computer fraud than any FBI agent before, resulting in 59 arrests and preventing an estimated million in bank fraud before the FBI pulled the plug on the operation in October.”
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mknewman writes with disappointing news for anyone with the money that it would have cost to fly as a space tourist, excerpting a story that says “Russia’s space chief says there won’t be any more tourists headed to the international space station after this year. Anatoly Perminov told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta that there will be no room for paying tourists because the space station’s crew is expanding from three members to six.”
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TarrVetus writes “The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court in Philadelphia has ruled that the Child Online Protection Act will not be revived, upholding a 2007 decision that the unimplemented 1998 law is unconstitutional. The law, which made it a crime for websites to allow children access to ‘harmful’ material, was declared a violation of the First Amendment because of existing elective filtering technologies and parental controls that are less restrictive to free speech than the ‘ineffective’ and ‘overly broad’ ban.”
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nandemoari writes “Everybody was talking about Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday morning, and it showed. According to reports, a number of mobile phone networks faced overload circumstances that day until late afternoon, when the chat sessions finally began to dissipate. Having the most trouble that morning appears to have been T-Mobile, and AT&T also had some difficulty that morning.”
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