Submission + - Steam's entire user database compromised (icrontic.com)
primesuspect writes: "The Steam user database has been compromised in an attack that started with the Steam forums."
Comment Re:I've been reading about solar breakthroughs (Score 2) 223
Might be for Dow, but looking for a couple of minutes on Google shows several companies that sell them.
i.e.: a blog from 2005/2006 and he had solar shingles back then.
Comment Re:No e-book? (Score 1) 111
It is available as an e-book here . US$30.59
Another e-book on the subject (I've started reading it and liked it, but didn't get around to finishing it yet) is Hello Android.
One thing I like about The Pragmatic Bookshelf is that they deliver directly to your Kindle. They are also DRM-free (Packt says they are too).
Comment Re:Who's the real winner? (Score 1) 674
I'd think it was a bit more of a marketing thing than a research thing...
Comment Re:Pathetic (Score 1) 302
The largest bank in Brazil has been doing this for years - with a small Java program that at least says it's checking your computer (and takes only a few seconds). I've never tried denying it, but I'm pretty sure you just can't access their online banking without allowing it to run.
I have never heard of anyone complaining about it.
Comment Re:Pricing tactics (Score 1) 294
Then you can't sign with them and Amazon at the same time.
I was once "invited" to sell my software on a site that had this rule in their contract. I simply declined to do business with them.
Jimmy Wales Declares App Store Models a Threat 334
An anonymous reader writes "Wikipedia's chief says models such as the App Store on the iPad are not only a dangerous chokepoint to internet freedom, but that this is a real and immediate problem that's of more concern than the overblown what if's of the net neutrality debate."
Dual-Core Chips Coming To All Smartphones In 2011 244
An anonymous reader writes "All top of the range smartphones will be sporting dual-core chips this year. So is it time to ditch your current pocket rocket? Not necessarily — dual-core will give a bit of a boost to multitasking and media streaming but probably won't persuade iPhone owners to switch to Android, says the writer."
20 Years of Commander Keen 152
angry tapir writes "This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Commander Keen game. For those too young to remember, Commander Keen was a series of shareware 2D platform games for the PC released by Apogee Software (aka 3D Realms) developed by no less than id Software — the developers of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake."
Porn Site Gave Federal Agents Free Rein 319
Frosty Piss writes "The operators of a notorious porn site Free6.com granted federal agents administrative access to the site, giving investigators the ability to monitor traffic and public and private chats in an effort to identify users trading 'a significant amount of child pornography.' Though some bloggers have speculated about whether law enforcement officials have secretly been given administrative access to sites where users have been known to post child pornography (like 4chan), the Free6.com arrangement is apparently the first such compact to be disclosed by investigators."
Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down 179
littlekorea writes "The central IT office of the Australian Government has advised its agencies to offer alternatives to Adobe's Portable Document Format to ensure folks with impaired vision are able to consume information on the Web. A Government-funded study found that PDFs can present themselves as image-only files to screen readers, rendering the information contained within them unreadable for the vision impaired."
Google Earth Adds 3-D Trees 95
terrancem writes "Google has populated several major cities with more than 80 million virtual trees based on an automated process that identifies trees in satellite images. The realistic 3D representations are based on actual tree species found in urban areas. But Google has also extended realistic tree coverage to rainforests in Africa, Mexico, and the Amazon."
Comment Re:Apple getting desperate? (Score 5, Insightful) 574
There is a big difference between accepting ads and accepting content about your competition.
I imagine that any Windows developer that hoped to use an iPad for e-books on Windows shouldn't be able to get them, either?
Do you also think that Amazon should refuse to sell any Kindle e-books about iPads next?
Comment Re:does not compute (Score 3, Insightful) 449
The truth about why that happened is even sillier. The head of the Office team didn't believe in tablets... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/04/microsoft-exec-tablet-killed-brass-office
Comment Re:virtual machines (Score 3, Insightful) 91
How does Google disallow Ad Blockers? I've been using AdBlock on Chrome for several months now... (before that I just used a filtering proxy)
I think it's been available since January.
