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One of the world's largest private BitTorrent trackers, Filelist, has [43]announced it will shut down soon. The site has been in operation for sixteen years and enjoys millions of monthly visits, mostly from Romania. Site admin EboLLa has [44]chosen to devote time to other parts of life and without a trusted successor, it's best to close the doors. TorrentFreak reports: Many private trackers have come and gone over the years. The Romanian-based tracker FileList.io is one of the bigger ones to survive, although it came close to shutting down a few years ago when Romanian authorities seized its domain name. The enforcement action was a wake-up call for both staff and users of the members-only tracker, but it didn't mark the end of the road. FileList simply switched from the seized .ro domain to an .io version and with the database unscathed, it kept on going. According to recent traffic stats from SimilarWeb, the tracker hasn't lost its appeal. With an estimated average of roughly six million monthly visits, the site continues to draw a massive audience. That, however, is about to change. A few hours ago, FileList sysop "EboLLa" informed the site's members that the doors will permanently close in a few weeks. This isn't the result of legal pressure; it's a conscious and well-evaluated life choice. "Unfortunately, I no longer have the time to run the site. A site like this requires quite a lot of commitment and my priorities in everyday life have changed in recent years. Time is the most precious resource for all of us and I have invested enough time here," the operator writes. The decision was a difficult one. FileList's operator long considered handing the reigns to a successor, but that is easier said than done, especially after the dream candidate was no longer an option. "I don't have anyone to leave it to. ToXiC, the one who was going to take my place is no longer with us," EboLLa writes. [...] "It is quite difficult to find a person who is integrated here and shares the same values and has the same dedication that you have enjoyed for the last 16 years. I decided that the best thing to do is to close the site rather than risk something like this." "During this time you can still enjoy the site, download what you need from here and post your goodbye message in the thread. After ~3 months, sometime around January 2024, the site will be closed permanently," EboLLa concludes. apply tags__________ 172037105 story [45]Space [46]Blue Origin's New Spacecraft Can Build Projects In Space [47](pcmag.com) [48]16 Posted by [49]BeauHD on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:00AM from the what-to-expect dept. Michael Kan reports via PCMag: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has announced a new spacecraft that [50]promises to help humanity build and maintain projects in outer space. The company today debuted Blue Ring, a so-called "space platform" that can orbit Earth, but also travel around the Moon, with the goal of providing delivery and logistics support to other space projects. To do so, Blue Ring functions as a maneuverable platform that can host, transport, and refuel other spacecraft. In addition, it can relay data while also offering an "in-space" cloud computing capability, according to [51]Blue Origin's announcement. Other rockets, particularly those from rival SpaceX, can already send satellites up into predictable orbits around Earth. In contrast, Blue Ring is designed to serve customers for more "dynamic" space projects at varying orbits, Blue Origin Lars Hoffman VP [52]tells Aviation Week. "It has a lot of capability and a lot of energy. It is a platform that has versatility across multiple missions and multiple customers on any given launch," Hoffman says. The company adds that Blue Ring can travel with payloads of over 6,600 pounds. According to Aviation Week, Blue Origin is eyeing 2025 as a realistic launch date for the spacecraft, which has already received some interest from customers. Hoffman also says Blue Ring will be "launch-vehicle agnostic," allowing it to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket or Blue Origin's own New Glenn, which is aiming to be used in its first mission next year. apply tags__________ 172037023 story [53]United States [54]American Work-From-Home Rates Drop To Lowest Since the Pandemic [55](bnnbloomberg.ca) [56]53 Posted by [57]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:30PM from the it-was-fun-while-it-lasted dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Fewer than 26% of US households still have someone working remotely at least one day a week, [58]a sharp decline from the early-2021 peak of 37%, according to the two latest Census Bureau Household Pulse Surveys. Only seven states plus Washington, DC, have a remote-work rate above 33%, the data shows, down from 31 states and DC mid-pandemic. [...] At the state level, the data shows all 50 have seen work-from-home rates drop from their pandemic highs. But the unevenness in their rates of decline suggests the trend doesn't have one cohesive explanation, and is instead the result of a hodgepodge of migration, socio-economic, gender and race factors, and possibly even politics -- Democratic states tend to have higher remote-work rates than Republican ones. Illustrating the complexity: States whose remote-work rates have fallen by as much as half to around post-pandemic lows include Mississippi and Louisiana, which weren't able to widely embrace remote work due to a reliance on in-person industries like manufacturing and oil and gas, but also more white-collar states that did welcome it, like California and Connecticut. The latest Census data also underlines that employees' demand for remote jobs is outpacing the number of companies offering them. In 157 of the largest metro areas in the US, more than half of job applications were for fully remote or hybrid roles in August, according to LinkedIn data generated for Bloomberg, but postings for those jobs have been falling since early 2022, data from Indeed Inc. shows. In Colorado -- widely seen as a work-from-home haven and one of the few states that has maintained a rate above one third -- 76% of job applications in Colorado Springs were for fully remote or hybrid roles in August, the LinkedIn data showed. Some areas are capitalizing on that scarcity. Alabama, with a work-from-home rate of just 15% according to the Pulse data, offers $10,000 to remote workers who move to the state's northwest Shoals area. The program has attracted about the same number of applications so far this year as in all of 2021 and 2022 combined, about 3,400. All 50 states pale in comparison to their largest cities' metro areas. In Washington, DC, where government bureaucrats are loath to go back to their offices, the remote-work rate is above 50%, the data shows. Similarly, Seattle, Boston and San Francisco all had rates near or above 40%. Average office attendance across ten big US cities remains about 50% of pre-pandemic levels, according to security firm Kastle Systems International LLC, no higher than where it was early in 2023. apply tags__________ 172036991 story [59]Medicine [60]World Rugby To Introduce Smart Mouthguards To Detect Player Concussions [61]24 Posted by [62]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:02PM from the born-of-medical-ethical-and-legal-necessity dept. In an analysis piece for The Guardian, Sean Ingle discusses some of the smart technology and artificial intelligence [63]being used in sports to fight against brain injuries. From the report: There was a hidden spectator of the NFL match between the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans in London on Sunday: artificial intelligence. As crazy as it may sound, computers have now been taught to identify on-field head impacts in the NFL automatically, using multiple video angles and machine learning. So a process that would take 12 hours -- for each game -- is now done in minutes. The result? After every weekend, teams are sent a breakdown of which players got hit, and how often. This tech wizardry, naturally, has a deeper purpose. Over breakfast the NFL's chief medical officer, Allen Sills, explained how it was helping to reduce head impacts, and drive equipment innovation. Players who experience high numbers can, for instance, be taught better techniques. Meanwhile, nine NFL quarterbacks and 17 offensive linemen are wearing position-specific helmets, which have significantly more padding in the areas where they experience more impacts. What may be next? Getting accurate sensors in helmets, so the force of each tackle can also be estimated, is one area of interest. As is using biomarkers, such as saliva and blood, to better understand when to bring injured players back to action. If that's not impressive enough, this weekend rugby union became the first sport to adopt smart mouthguard technology, which flags big "hits" in real time. From January, whenever an elite player experiences an impact in a tackle or ruck that exceeds a certain threshold, they will automatically be taken off for a head injury assessment by a doctor. No wonder Dr Eanna Falvey, World Rugby's chief medical officer, calls it a "[64]gamechanger" in potentially identifying many of the 18% of concussions that now come to light only after a match. apply tags__________ 172037437 story [65]News [66]Joseon Becomes First-ever Globally Recognized Cyber Nation-state [67]74 Posted by [68]Slashdot Staff on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:55PM from the new-world dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from [69]U.Today: The country was reimagined by Joseon King Andrew Lee as a digital nation without territory or borders. In this status, it was recognized by Antigua and Barbuda: the two countries inked a treaty that supports education, economic investment and other developmental initiatives and provides the basis for long-standing friendly relations. Speaking to U.Today, representatives of the country stressed its unique legal design and state management model: "[70]Joseon is a crypto safe haven in this world where you can legally engage in crypto without any risk of any kind because sovereignty is the absolute authority in this world and another sovereignty doesn't have authority over another sovereignty" Per their official statement, cryptocurrencies represent legal tender in Joseon and can be used for investments, daily payments and cross-border transactions. Another report from Bitcoinist details several [71]companies launching in Joseon, including [72]First Day Out Collective which represents a song from Rundown Spaz and Kanye West: Let's talk about the banger that's making this all come alive: "First Day Out,: a fire track by Rundown Spaz featuring none other than Kanye West, now owned by a DAO and legally recognized corporation in the progressive cybernation of Joseon, which itself is a [73]legally recognized nation-state. apply tags__________ 172036767 story [74]Transportation [75]GM Delays EV Truck Production At Michigan Plant By Another Year [76](reuters.com) [77]69 Posted by [78]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:25PM from the supply-and-demand dept. General Motors said it will [79]delay production of electric pickups trucks at its plant in Michigan by another year as the No. 1 U.S. automaker grapples with flattening demand for electric vehicles. Reuters reports: The move is the latest sign that electric vehicle production and demand may not be as strong as forecast. GM had been set to begin production of the electric Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra in late 2024 at the suburban Detroit plant. The company said the plan now is to start it in late 2025. GM said the change was being made "to better manage capital investment while aligning with evolving EV demand" but said the move does not impact its battery plant plans. GM said in July battery production at the Ultium joint venture plant Ohio has been hampered because "our automation equipment supplier is struggling with delivery issues." The automaker in July reiterated a previous target of building 400,000 EVs from 2022 through the first half of 2024, and projected EV revenue of $50 billion in 2025. GM has said it is targeting production of roughly 100,000 EVs in the second half of 2023. Reuters [80]reported in July that the U.S. electric vehicle market is growing, but not quickly enough to prevent unsold EVs from stacking up at some automakers' dealerships. apply tags__________ 172036753 story [81]Movies [82]'Netflix Effect' Returns As Studios License Old Shows To Their Streaming Rival [83](ft.com) [84]12 Posted by [85]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:45PM from the back-to-the-good-ol'-days dept. Christopher Grimes reports via the Financial Times: Some of Netflix's competitors are [86]reversing a streaming war tactic by licensing their old TV shows and movies to the streamer -- boosting its programming offerings but also potentially squeezing its profit margins, analysts say. Netflix relied heavily on programming that it licensed from other companies when it launched its streaming service in 2007. But after Walt Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and the then Time Warner launched their own streaming services, they pulled many of their shows from Netflix to avoid feeding a company that had grown into an arch-competitor. With legacy media groups under pressure to produce streaming profits, however, licensing revenue is looking attractive again -- even if it comes from Netflix. This summer, Warner Bros Discovery's HBO network began licensing a handful of older shows to Netflix, including Insecure, Six Feet Under, Ballers and Band of Brothers. Analysts at Morgan Stanley said the return of licensing deals was a "long-term positive" for Netflix and would "pad" its lead over competitors in streaming. But the bank added that the cost of licensing -- along with the Netflix's investments in gaming and other sectors -- could add pressure to its profit margins in 2024. The analysts raised their outlook for Netflix's overall cash spending next year by $500mn to $17.7bn. Netflix will report results on Wednesday, with investors expected to focus on whether it plans to increase subscription prices and signs of progress on its new advertising tier. The latest data on its password sharing crackdown will also be watched. [T]he studios' experiments with licensing deals appear to have given some old shows new life. After NBCUniversal licensed its show Suits -- which aired from 2011-19 and starred Meghan Markle -- to Netflix in June, the show experienced a revival. The legal drama was in the top spot on the Nielsen Streaming top 10 for three months, an example of the "Netflix effect" on older shows. Bloys said licensing shows to Netflix had also boosted traffic for the programs on Warner Discovery's Max streaming platform, home to HBO programming including Ballers, a sports drama that ran from 2015-19. Ballers entered the Nielsen top 10 after it went to Netflix, and Insecure, a comedy starring Issa Rae that ran from 2016-21, had a similar boost. apply tags__________ 172036667 story [87]Government [88]IRS Will Pilot Free, Direct Tax Filing In 2024 [89](techcrunch.com) [90]46 Posted by [91]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:02PM from the it's-about-time dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The IRS will [92]test a free tax filing service in 2024 for a subset of lucky taxpayers in as many as 13 states, the agency announced today. Direct File, as the service is called, is a shot across the bows of Turbotax, H&R Block, and other paid tax prep services, whose owners have resisted free and simple tax filing for decades. "This is a critical step forward for this innovative effort that will test the feasibility of providing taxpayers a new option to file their returns for free directly with the IRS," said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel in a [93]press release announcing the news. Over the last year and a half, the IRS has been [94]building out the pilot program, which it characterizes as being "one more potential option" on the continuum from self-managed Free File, to commercial products like Turbotax, to a tax prep professional. The IRS describes Direct File as "a mobile-friendly, interview-based service" available in English and Spanish, intended for people with simpler tax situations like W-2s and common income credits and deductions. Whether the interviews are with actual people or some kind of automated or semi-automated process is unclear. But this, like many of its specifics, will likely change as the agency receives feedback from this limited scale pilot. Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and New York are the four states that are integrating with Direct File for 2024 (i.e. the 2023 tax year); Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming "may also be eligible," due to not having state income tax, but it is not final. Every state was given the opportunity to participate in the Direct File program, but not all were "in a position to join." Among the residents of these states, a limited number of individuals with "relatively simple returns" will have the opportunity to try Direct File. This will in turn "allow the IRS to evaluate the costs, benefits and operational challenges associated with providing a voluntary Direct File option to taxpayers." In software terms, we'd probably call this an alpha. apply tags__________ 172036511 story [95]Security [96]Why Switzerland's E-Voting System Is a Bad Idea [97](schneier.com) [98]36 Posted by [99]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:20PM from the solution-is-paper dept. Last year, Andrew Appel, professor of computer science at Princeton University, wrote [100]a 5-part series about Switzerland's e-voting system, highlighting the inherent security vulnerabilities it faces and the safeguards the country has in place. Now, he's [101]writing about an interesting new vulnerability in the system that [102]can be exploited to manipulate votes without anyone knowing. The vulnerability was discovered by Swiss computer scientist Andreas Kuster. From a blog post written by security technologist Bruce Schneier: "The Swiss Post e-voting system aims to protect your vote against vote manipulation and interference. The goal is to achieve this even if your own computer is infected by undetected malware that manipulates a user vote. This protection is implemented by special return codes (Prufcode), printed on the sheet of paper you receive by physical mail. Your computer doesn't know these codes, so even if it's infected by malware, it can't successfully cheat you as long as, you follow the protocol. Unfortunately, the protocol isn't explained to you on the piece of paper you get by mail. It's only explained to you online, when you visit the e-voting website. And of course, that's part of the problem! If your computer is infected by malware, then it can already present to you a bogus website that instructs you to follow a different protocol, one that is cheatable. To demonstrate this, I built a [103]proof-of-concept demonstration." Appel [104]again: "Kuster's fake protocol is not exactly what I imagined; it's better. He explains it all in his blog post. Basically, in his malware-manipulated website, instead of displaying the verification codes for the voter to compare with what's on the paper, the website asks the voter to enter the verification codes into a web form. Since the website doesn't know what's on the paper, that web-form entry is just for show. Of course, Kuster did not employ a botnet virus to distribute his malware to real voters! He keeps it contained on his own system and demonstrates it in a video." apply tags__________ 172036415 story [105]Software [106]Mazda's DMCA Takedown Kills a Hobbyist's Smart Car API Tool [107](arstechnica.com) [108]18 Posted by [109]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:40PM from the what-gives dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [110]couchslug shares a report from Ars Technica, writing: "A new attack on the right to do with one's property as the owner sees fit. First step, threaten without providing evidence." From the report: Before last week, owners of certain Mazda vehicles who also had a Home Assistant setup could create some handy connections for their car. One [111]CX60 driver had a charger that would only power on when it confirmed his car was plugged in and would alert him if he left the trunk open. Another used Home Assistant to control their charger based on the dynamic prices of an [112]Agile Octopus energy plan. [113]Yet another had really thought it through, using Home Assistant to check the gas before their morning commute, alert them if their windows were down before rain was forecast, and remotely unlock and start the car in cold conditions. The [114]possibilities were vast, and purportedly beyond what Mazda's official app offered. Mazda, however, [115]had issues with the project, which was largely the free-time work of one software developer, [116]Brandon Rothweiler. In a [117]Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice sent to GitHub, Mazda (or an authorized agent) alleges that Rothweiler's integration: contains code that "is violating [Mazda's] copyright ownership"; used "certain Mazda information, including proprietary API information," to "create code and information"; and contained code that "provides functionality same as what is currently" in Mazda's apps posted to the [118]Apple App Store and [119]Google Play Store for Android. One day later, Rothweiler [120]made a pull request to the Home Assistant core project: "I'm removing the Mazda integration due to a legal notice sent to me by Mazda." The Home Assistant project pushed an update to remove the integration, [121]posted about the removal, and noted that they were "disappointed that Mazda has decided to take this position" and that "Mazda's first recourse was not to reach out to us and the maintainer but to send a cease and desist letter instead." One of the many commenters confused by Mazda's code claims [122]said they couldn't find any of the copyrighted code the company referenced. Additionally, Ars Technica suggests the project "could be considered a fair use exception to the DMCA, as [123]explained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation." "When Mazda contacted me, my options were to either comply or open myself up to potential legal risk," said Rothweiler. "Even if I believe that what I'm doing is morally correct and legally protected, legal processes still have a financial cost. I can't afford to take on that financial risk for something that I do in my spare time to help others." apply tags__________ 172036373 story [124]China [125]20,000 Britons Approached By Chinese Agents On LinkedIn, Says MI5 Head [126](theguardian.com) [127]18 Posted by [128]BeauHD on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:00PM from the industrial-espionage dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: An estimated 20,000 Britons have been [129]approached by Chinese state actors on LinkedIn in the hope of stealing industrial or technological secrets, the head of MI5 has said. Ken McCallum said industrial espionage was happening at "real scale," and he estimated that 10,000 UK businesses were at risk, particularly in artificial intelligence, quantum computing or synthetic biology where China was trying to gain a march. "Week by week, our teams detect massive amounts of covert activity by the likes of China in particular, but also Russia and Iran," the MI5 director general said ahead of a summit of domestic spy chiefs from the Five Eyes agencies hosted by the FBI in California. "Activity not aimed just at government or military secrets. Not even just aimed at our critical infrastructure but increasingly [at] promising startups -- innovative companies spun out of our universities, academic research itself, and people that understandably may not think national security is about them." A key attack vector, McCallum said, was to try and steal information by Chinese actors posing as recruitment consultants on LinkedIn. "We think we're above 20,000 cases where that initial approach has been made online through sites of that sort," he said, compared to 10,000 two and a half years ago. [...] On Tuesday, the agency said it was aware of 20 instances of Chinese companies considering or pursuing use of "obfuscated investment, imaginative company structures" to circumvent regulations in order to gain access to technology developed by British companies and in universities. Details were scant but MI5 indicated it was aware of at least two Chinese companies trying to identify legal loopholes to access the sensitive technology of UK firms undetected, and another Chinese company acquiring research data stolen from a top UK university. apply tags__________ 172035741 story [130]Android [131]Qualcomm Announces First-ever Mass-market RISC-V Android SoC [132](arstechnica.com) [133]13 Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:20PM from the open-source-movement dept. The Android ecosystem is hurtling toward a RISC-V future. From a report: The puzzle pieces for the up-and-coming CPU architecture started falling into place this past year when Google announced official RISC-V support in Android and plans to make it a "tier 1 platform" on equal footing with Arm. With the OS support underway, what we need now is hardware, and Qualcomm is stepping up to announce [134]the first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC. It doesn't have a name yet, but Qualcomm says it's developing a "RISC-V Snapdragon Wear" chip in collaboration with Google. The company says it plans to "commercialize the RISC-V based wearables solution globally including the US." For Google and Qualcomm, this chip represents everyone's first swing at a commercial RISC-V Android project, and as far as we can tell, it's the first announced mass-market RISC-V Android chip ever. Qualcomm says the groundwork it and Google lay out "will help pave the way for more products within the Android ecosystem to take advantage of custom CPUs that are low power and high performance." RISC-V represents a big threat to the Arm CPU architecture that currently dominates all mobile devices. RISC-V architecture is open source, which can make it cheaper and more flexible than Arm. If companies want to design their own chips, they can do that without paying a licensing fee to Arm. Since the architecture is open source, it's possible to create a fully open source chip. If you're a chip-design firm, you can make your own proprietary chip designs and license them, making you a competitor to Arm's chip-design business. RISC-V is also a way to sidestep all of the various problems with Arm. apply tags__________ 172035683 story [135]The Internet [136]Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web [137](theverge.com) [138]9 Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:40PM from the moving-forward dept. Meta will now let you block Instagram [139]from collecting your data across the apps and websites you visit. From a report: The company says that it's expanding the ability to disable this kind of tracking to Instagram, allowing you to review which businesses are sharing information with Meta, disconnect specific activity, or clear the collected information. You can now find this feature, called Activity Off-Meta Technologies, within the platform's Accounts Center. It was previously only available for Facebook. Meta receives information from third-party websites that use its business tools, such as the Meta Pixel, which tracks users on the web and allows Meta to serve personalized ads on its platforms. apply tags__________ 172035651 story [140]Crime [141]Tech CEO Sentenced To 5 Years in IP Address Scheme [142](krebsonsecurity.com) [143]39 Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:01PM from the time-to-face-music dept. Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo, has been [144]sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. From a report: Golestan's sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to [145]secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean. In 2018, ARIN sued Golestan and Micfo, alleging they had obtained hundreds of thousands of IP addresses under false pretenses. ARIN and Micfo settled that dispute in arbitration, with Micfo returning most of the addresses that it hadn't already sold. ARIN's civil case caught the attention of federal prosecutors in South Carolina, who in May 2019 filed criminal wire fraud charges against Golestan, alleging he'd orchestrated a network of shell companies and fake identities to prevent ARIN from knowing the addresses were all going to the same buyer. apply tags__________ 172035607 story [146]AI [147]PwC Offers Advice From Bots in Deal With ChatGPT Firm OpenAI [148](bloomberg.com) [149]16 Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:20PM from the how-about-that dept. PricewaterhouseCoopers has teamed up with ChatGPT owner OpenAI to [150]offer clients advice generated by AI as the Big Four audit firms look to cut costs and boost productivity. From a report: The accounting firm will use AI to consult on complex matters in tax, legal and human resources, such as carrying out due diligence on companies, identifying compliance issues and even recommending whether to authorize business deals. The tie-up makes PwC the first of the Big Four to partner with OpenAI, which is regarded as one of the companies at the forefront of generative AI technology with its ChatGPT chatbot. The major audit firms have been cutting costs to cope with a slowdown in professional services. PwC is freezing pay increases and bonuses for some of its 25,000 UK staff, Deloitte LLP is set to cut more than 800 jobs in the UK, Ernst & Young LLP is to cull about 5% of staff from its UK financial services consulting division, while KPMG LLP is planning to cut 125 consulting jobs. The OpenAI partnership, which is not based on ChatGPT, won't result in jobs cuts in the near-term, PwC said. apply tags__________ [151]« Newer [152]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [153]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll What's your favorite machine to play games on? 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