Comment Insulting the monarchy (Score 1) 4
In Thailand it's illegal to insult the king, so if I call him a raging faggot with a micropenis, does that mean I get disconnected now? :(
Submission + - Comcast makes you subject to Non-US laws (comcast.net) 4
boyfoot_bear writes: I just received an email from Comcast that tells me "we're introducing an updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, effective October 6, 2009." Included in the terms of service (which can be found here
http://www.comcast.net/terms/web/2009-10/) is the following:
You specifically agree not to:
* use the Comcast Web Services to undertake or accomplish any unlawful purpose, including but not limited to, posting, storing, transmitting or disseminating information, data or material which is libelous, obscene, unlawful, threatening or defamatory, or which infringes the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or which in any way constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal, or non-U.S. law, order, or regulation;
It sounds to me like Comcast is making me subject to the laws of, say, China. I don't know about you but I sure don't know all of the non-US laws, orders or regulations that even this post runs afoul of but I am sure that Comcast is overstepping its authority.
You specifically agree not to:
* use the Comcast Web Services to undertake or accomplish any unlawful purpose, including but not limited to, posting, storing, transmitting or disseminating information, data or material which is libelous, obscene, unlawful, threatening or defamatory, or which infringes the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or which in any way constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal, or non-U.S. law, order, or regulation;
It sounds to me like Comcast is making me subject to the laws of, say, China. I don't know about you but I sure don't know all of the non-US laws, orders or regulations that even this post runs afoul of but I am sure that Comcast is overstepping its authority.
Submission + - Solar Roadways geta DOT funding. (autoblog.com) 1
mikee805 writes: Solar roadways a project to replace the over 25,000 square miles of road in the US with drivable solar panels just received $100K in funding from DOT for the 1st 12ft by 12ft prototype panel. Each panel consists of three layers: a base layer with data and power cabled running through it, an electronics layer with an array of LEDs, solar collectors, and capacitors and finally the glass road surface. With data and power cables the solar roadway was the potential to replace a lot of our aging infrastructure. With just a 15% efficiency this would project 3 time what US uses annually in energy! Also to head off a few problems the building costs are estimated to be competitive with traditional roads and the roads would heat themselves in the winter to keep snow from accumulating. Interview video here.
Submission + - Atari is stealing music
An anonymous reader writes: A few month after the fight when Atari was claimed to left out graphic artist Dan Schoening
in the final credits of the game Ghostbusters: The Video Game, even though Sony / Sierra had given them his word he would be in the final credits.... Atari does it again.
Swedish musician Jonne Dahlberg, also known as "svenzzon" , famous for his underground
demoscene music found in many scene related productions, can now find his music in the videogame. No credits, no compensation.
The music is played during a visit in the Arcade hall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJVFntSiuWA
and reflects the old commodore days. The music is actually a remix
of Chris Huelsbecks old intro music to Turrican 2. Huelsbeck is also
the legal owner to the Turrican music and he also confirms that
no credits has been given to him, or Jonne Dahlberg.
Its funny, these big publishers like Sony that stands for
strict copyrights when asked about sites like The Pirate Bay,
but when it comes to their own products, stealing is not an issue.
Submission + - Twitter XSS Exploit Allows Account Stealing (davidnaylor.co.uk)
semaj writes: "Looks like there's another big cross-site scripting problem with Twitter — allowing all sorts of nasty things to happen if you even view an exploited tweet! Apparently Twitter tried to fix the problem yesterday and have failed pretty badly. Might be an idea to stay of Twitter for a little while?"
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 297
And, I'm sorry... but D3 and SC2? Same game as the ones I already own from the series, it looks to me.
Not sure about SC2, but if you think D3 is the "same game" as D2, you're bloody nuts. I'm assuming you're simply ignorant of the details, rather than actually as stupid as that comment sounds. Of course, why you'd say "same game" without knowing any of the details of the game you'd need to know to make that judgment doesn't speak well for your cognitive abilities...
Submission + - The 4th Diablo 3 Class is now Revealed (blizzi.com)
MJepsen writes: "The 4th Diablo 3 Class is now Revealed..
A bug on blizzard.com/diablo3 shows that the 4th Diablo 3 class is a Monk."
Submission + - top 40 Obsolete technology's
Hellswaters writes: MSNBC released a list of 40 technology's which are no longer used. This list included things such as calculator watch's, running out of hard drive space, and dot matrix printers.
Submission + - Gamescom: 4 New Diablo 3 Gameplay Videos (blizzi.com)
MJepsen writes: "4 new Diablo 3 gameplay videos has been released, featuring male & female barbarian and male & female wizard."
Submission + - Open Source Users Love Google, Hate Microsoft (chitika.com)
Daniel Ruby writes: "Open Source Users Love Google, Hate Microsoft
Following up on our recent study comparing Bing and Google ad clickthrough rates, we at Chitika started wondering what the breakdown of search engine to operating system looked like. So, we ran the numbers, and 163 million searches later, it's official: Linux users overwhelmingly use Google and won't touch Bing with a ten foot pole. Compare the numbers: while Windows users use Google 78% of the time and Bing 8% of the time, the numbers for Linux users are 95% and 0.77% respectively. No love for Microsoft in the open source community, it seems, even with something as innocuous as a search engine."
Following up on our recent study comparing Bing and Google ad clickthrough rates, we at Chitika started wondering what the breakdown of search engine to operating system looked like. So, we ran the numbers, and 163 million searches later, it's official: Linux users overwhelmingly use Google and won't touch Bing with a ten foot pole. Compare the numbers: while Windows users use Google 78% of the time and Bing 8% of the time, the numbers for Linux users are 95% and 0.77% respectively. No love for Microsoft in the open source community, it seems, even with something as innocuous as a search engine."
Submission + - Pirate Bay Pirated (torrentfreak.com)
Mehall writes: "Torrentfreak reports that after a Pirate Bay user created a 21GB torrent of the entire site, there is now a working backup of the site, using the OpenTorrentTracker, and soon to have search working also.
In related news, The Pirate Bay seems to be offline. Might this be the GGF updating the servers for their new implementation? Further, once TPB is back, you can now torrent the archive of user comments from TPB."
Submission + - Sears.com Squelches Web Programming Blunder (foxnews.com)
blitzkrieg3 writes: Earlier today someone made public a trivial exploit on the Sears.com website. Sears was storing page paramaters from the client editable url into the catagory of the page, leading to some pretty funny results. Once the catagories were loaded into the cache, every subsequent hit would pull up the same user submitted catagories, even without any page paramaters. TMZ and Fox News have their own reports. Reddit has since been forced to take the post off of their front page by their parent Conde Nast, but the page can still be accessed via permalink.
Submission + - Thinktank Aims to Crowdsource Gov Earmark Analysis (technologyreview.com)
Al writes: "The Sunlight Foundation, based in Washington, DC, hopes to raise an army of web volunteers to analyze all the earmarks in government bills. The groups new Sunlight Labs transparency corps invites users join an effort to analyze the information collaboratively. Users are presented with PDFs released by hundreds of different offices and asked to enter the pertinent information--the date and dollar amount of a request, name of the requester, description of the project, and so on. These then become part of a searchable database. The project's launch roughly coincided with the launch earlier this month of the government's new IT Dashboard. But this tool is somewhat limited--users can find the primary recipients of IT project funding, but not subcontractors; it's not easy to discern the origins of contracts or their geographic distribution, and it's almost impossible to see how they are connected to elected officials."
Submission + - Fermi Paradox = Fewer than 10 ET Civilizations? (technologyreview.com) 5
Al writes: "The Fermi Paradox focuses on the existence of advanced civilisations elsewhere in the galaxy. If these civilisations are out there--and many analyses suggest the galaxy should be teaming with life--why haven't we seen them? Carlos Cotta and Álvaro Morales from the University of Malaga in Spain add an another angle to the discussion about the speed at which a sufficiently advanced civilisation could colonise the galaxy. Various analyses suggest that using spacecraft that travel at a tenth of the speed of light, the colonization wavefront could take some 50 million years to sweep the galaxy. Others have calculated that it may be closer to 13 billion years, which may explain ET's absence. Cotta and Morales study how automated probes sent ahead of the colonisation could explore the galaxy. If these probes left evidence of a visit that lasts for 100 million years, then there can be no more than about 10 civilisations out there."
Submission + - RIAA: Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever (arstechnica.com)
Oracle Goddess writes: "Buying DRMed content, then having that content stop working later is fair writes Steven Metalitz, the lawyer who represents the MPAA, RIAA in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office. "We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works." In other words, if it stops working, too bad. Not surprisingly, Metalitz also strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers."
