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Submission + - Hopes For Non-AT&T iPhone Get Disconnected (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by GeekZilla
GeekZilla writes: In court documents filed in a California court reveal that AT&T has iPhone exclusivity until 2012.

"It was speculative before given the lack of independent confirmation, but now apparently Apple has gone on record to confirm that the original deal signed with AT&T for iPhone exclusivity back in 2007 was a five-year deal."

Endgadget also has the story.
OS X

Submission + - Steam and Portal avail on Mac on May the 12th (steampowered.com)

Submitted by sebvajda
sebvajda writes: The official press release is out, starting tomorrow May the 12th, 2010, the Steam platform will be available for download on Mac OS/X.
The fist game that will have native port will be Valve's Portal and Runic Games' Torchlight.
In addition, the native OS/X port of the Source engine is made available to licensees as well as the Steamworks development and publishing tools.

Submission + - Hidden Digital Recorder Reveals NYPD Manipulating

Submitted by mliu
mliu writes: The New York Police Dept has long denied the existence of quotas in arrests. However, as making a recording in NY only requires a single party's consent, a Brooklyn cop carried a digital voice recorder with him and surreptitiously recorded his superior and fellow cops as he went about his job. The recordings reveal that in addition to quotas backed by threat of discipline, the cops also were pressured to suppress attempts to report crimes in order to make crime statistics appear more favorable for the department and the mayor. As the article describes, this perfectly dovetails a survey released earlier this year wherein retired NYPD supervisors described "intense pressure" to show declines in crime by manipulating statistics. After his whistle blowing, his commander had him forcibly committed to a mental ward.
Games

Submission + - Infinity Ward Working on Call of Duty-related Game (g4tv.com)

Submitted by Scoop Snookems
Scoop Snookems writes: Activision confirmed that Infinity Ward will be working on another Call of Duty title due in the future. Whether or not that is Modern Warfare 3 is unknown. The information came to light during a conference call where Activision CEO Bobby Kotick shared plans on their upcoming games for 2010/2011 as well as reading a statement about the situation at Infinity Ward.

Comment Re:New internet (Score 1, Interesting) 332

by syousef (#30163320) Attached to: Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General"

Your ignorance of UK politics is amazing..

If he's not from the UK it's really not so amazing. Why should he care? (Except in so far as it sets a precedent for other countries to follow when the UK passes a draconian law)

Me? I'm not from the UK and I think the way you've been going you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by siimply surrendering to Hitler during WWII. Did I just Godwin myself? Oh well Godwin's asinine "law" is another thing I don't give a monkey's testicle about.

Comment Re:Going back to sleep now... (Score 4, Insightful) 664

by Bacon Bits (#30163086) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

Yes, but your users probably hate them if they have to do any kind of real work on them. That is, anything that can't be done in a web browser at least.

Go out and take a walk and ask people if they miss having a real PC. I bet they do. If they don't now, they will when the capacity for your servers approaches 80%, and then management will be unwilling to invest in more infrastructure. Then it will all fall apart when you exceed capacity and the number of complaints by users forces management to reinvest... in new desktop PCs.
The Matrix

Submission + - SPAM: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: Professor Athena Andreadis answers the question, "Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix," contrasting "mind uploading" predictions with "the major stumbling block to personal immortality" — namely, that our biological software is inseparable from our hardware. There's practical problems. ("After electrochemical activity ceases in the brain, neuronal integrity deteriorates in a matter of seconds.") But she also argues that what we call "the mind" is also an artifact of a specific brain, and copying it "is an excellent way to leave a detailed memorial or a clone-like descendant, but not to become immortal."
Link to Original Source
The Internet

Submission + - U.S. Internet traffic peaks at 11 p.m. every day (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by carusoj
carusoj writes: Arbor Networks recently studied Internet traffic patterns and found that U.S. Internet traffic usually reaches its highest point of the day at about 11 p.m. Eastern time and stays pretty high until about 3 a.m. Driving the bulk of the traffic is online gaming and streaming video, which both hit their highest levels around that time.
Security

Submission + - COFEE anyone? (securityfocus.com)

Submitted by babboo65
babboo65 writes: Microsoft has announced it will give the COFEE tool free to law enforcement.

Great — now someone is going to have to release DONUT
Microsoft

Submission + - Being attacked by Microsoft!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: My name is Charles Winthrop, and I am the technical manager for a small net radio station called KJSR.net Last night, at approximately 6pm, our broadcast server started getting flooded by connections from several IP address which all resolve to Microsoft's hotmail servers. It has been confirmed by an MSN technical support agent that the attacking IP addresses are theirs, but they have no idea why it is happening, or any ideas on stopping it. After contacting our ISP, they reported that they had tried blocking the offending IP address to no avail. Soon as one was blocked, another would start making connections. So, today, I have spent the last 5 hours on the phone with various Microsoft departments, who for some strange reason keep transferring me to their sales departments. I spoke with a tech at MSN who tried to help, but after speaking with his supervisor, came back to say "I've been told to tell you that there's nothing we can do. Bye." Partial log of the attacks: [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Added to Ban List [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting

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