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Comment Re:NICE! (Score 1, Insightful) 541

by lazorz (#31406026) Attached to: Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games

Compared to ten years ago MS lost the top end to Apple, the bottom end to netbooks and most of the middle's running intel integrated crap.

Cite your sources for those numbers. I can honestly say none of my dozens of hardcore gamer friends and acquaintances use a Mac. Not sure where this statistic of yours is coming from.

Second, piracy is a real problem on the PC. Ubisoft did experiment with no DRM at all; that they came up with the total fubar they use now, should tell you how that experiment went. Apple users otoh are more likely to have more money than time.

Piracy exists on Mac OS, but there a far fewer games for it than PC, so once more games are released to Mac you'll see a steady rise of piracy as well.

Submission + - Wikipedia ordered to reveal identity of 'editor' (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by BoxRec
BoxRec writes: A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry.

In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users.

Read more: Daily Mail
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Submission + - Russian Judges Resign After Condemning the Kremlin (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by reporter
reporter writes: According to a report just published by the "Wall Street Journal" (WSJ), two senior judges on the Constitutional Court of Russia have harshly condemned the Kremlin for its "undermining the democratic institutions and judicial independence".

"The tensions appear to have started with an interview published in August in Spain's El País newspaper with Vladimir Yaroslavtsev, a 15-year veteran of the court appointed by then-President Boris Yeltsin. In it, Mr. Yaroslavtsev is quoted as saying 'the strengthening of authoritarianism is leading to greater judicial dependence,' referring to the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and his handpicked successor, Mr. Medvedev.

'The security services can do what they want and all judges can do is ratify their decisions,' he was quoted as saying.

In late October, Anatoly Kononov, who has been a justice since the court was formed in 1991 and was also appointed by Mr. Yeltsin, said in an interview with a Russian weekly Sobesednik that he supported 'the greater part' of what Mr. Yaroslavtsev had said to El País."

Under pressure from the Kremlin, "Mr. Kononov, 62 years old, had resigned from his seat on the court effective Jan. 1 'for health reasons.' Mr. Yaroslavtsev, 57, gave up his post as the court's representative at Russia's Council of Judges, an organization with wide powers in judiciary appointments, but will remain a justice ..."
First Person Shooters (Games)

Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Posted by Soulskill from the be-careful-they-cheat dept.
Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.
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Submission + - Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close (net-security.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cenzic released its report revealing the most prominent types of Web application vulnerabilities for the first half of 2009. The report identified over 3,100 total vulnerabilities, which is a 10 percent increase in Web application vulnerabilities compared to the second half of 2008. Among Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox had the largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities, followed by Apple Safari, whose browser showed a vast increase in exploits, due to vulnerabilities reported in the Safari iPhone browser.

Submission + - Senators against Net Neutrality (rawstory.com) 3

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opencity writes: "Led by Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison a group of Senators have introduced a bill to prevent the FCC from getting funding for any initiative to uphold Net neutrality. This is after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski stated the Obama administrations plan to enforce Net neutrality."

Comment Re:because OSX is good, Apple hardware not so much (Score 1) 366

by lazorz (#28101323) Attached to: Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy
I don't see what you're implying here - that Macs have more drives? My machine has 6 SATA ports with eSATA support and 1x SAS port. It also has support for up to 24GB DDR3-1300 RAM. If I wanted to, for $2500 I could have 6x 1TB drives as well as 12 or 24GB DDR3 RAM. Point out if I misunderstood your post.

Comment Re:because OSX is good, Apple hardware not so much (Score 2, Insightful) 366

by lazorz (#28100861) Attached to: Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy
Acomj pretty much nailed it. Looking at the hardware line-up, the machine I built when i7 came out was ~$1400 without a video card on the first day of release (overpriced). I leave out the video card since the rest of the components are either the same or equivalent with the exception of my video card. An equivalent Mac Pro is ~$2400 now (4 months after i7 release, i.e. cheaper) assuming $2500 less the price of the video card.

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