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GEEKS - NOVEMBER 2004

Kill JFK! Down, and to the Right...Down, and to the Right. "A controversial new British-made computer "docu-game" recreating the assassination of John F Kennedy has been described as "despicable" by aides to the late president's brother. Glasgow-based firm Traffic, which launched JFK: Reloaded 41 years after the president's death in Dallas, Texas, on November 22 1963, is offering up to Ł53,800 to the first person to most accurately recreate the three shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald." Full Story

Steal More Movies!! Fuckers keep tacking more ads on ever DVD they sell. They even strip out the option to bypass these ads. If I PAID for it, Keep your FUCKING ADS OFF IT!: "The Motion Picture Association of America filed an undisclosed number of lawsuits Tuesday throughout the country against individuals it believes illegally downloaded films online from filesharing programs such as Kazaa and BitTorrent." Full Story

Wireless Wallets! "Nokia's new Near Field Communication product will turn mobile phones into wireless wallets, the company says. It is conducting trials of the new technology in Germany, involving wireless ticketing with a transportation authority." Full Story

Yahoo On the Desktop: "Portal player Yahoo! will compete with Google and MSN in the desktop search arena...Google recently introduced a desktop search product and has made acquisitions of mapping and photo management software in recent months. Microsoft's MSN is also working on a desktop search solution, as well as a search engine. Smaller players like blinkx and Copernic also hope to make waves in the area." Full Story

Mine Requires A Dom's Touch To Work: "A video game fan upset over a failed disk drive in his Xbox video game console has sued Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on behalf of all Xbox owners across the United States. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, seeks to represent anyone who bought an Xbox in the United State since the console's November 2001 launch." Full Story

China Finds Another Way to Stop Porn: "A furious China has shut down over 1,600 Internet cafes and arrested people in a bid to curb the menace of content which is harmful to public morality. The Chinese government cracked down on cybercafes that allowed its users to surf violent and pornographic content and fined the operators close to $12 million." Full Story

Hackers Busted: Two Oxford students have been suspended after admitting to gaining unauthorized access to the university's IT network. Patrick Foster, 20, and Roger Waite, 21, claimed they had carried out the hack to expose security flaws. But on Friday a disciplinary hearing ruled that both should be "rusticated," or suspended--Foster until May 2005 and Waite until January 2005. Full Story

Or...Harvest The Organs of Children! "Nanotechnology's bag of tricks for inventing new molecules and manipulating those available naturally could be dazzling in its potential to improve health care. Evidence is accumulating that nanotechnology may enable better early warning systems for cancer and heart disease, cures for progressive diseases like cystic fibrosis, techniques for making implants like artificial hips more successful, and even artificial kidneys." Full Story