Comment Re:LAN play (Score 1) 453
Darwinia and Multiwinia (and 'that hacking game' Uplink) were done by Introversion Software, not Ambrosia; Ambrosia just does Introversion's Mac ports.
EV:Nova was all Ambrosia though.
Comment Re:Imagine. (Score 1) 232
Leopard added a lot more over Tiger than SP2 did over XP.
Comment Re:Imagine. (Score 1) 232
That happens on Windows, too. Why can't Firefox keep Windows 98 support? Why can't Halo 2 support XP?
Comment Re:Imagine. (Score 5, Insightful) 232
So you're contrasting OS upgrade fees for OS X... versus not upgrading Windows.
Guess what? There are upgrade fees to go from XP to Vista to 7, too.
Comment Re:Skyhook's implementation really is inventive (Score 5, Interesting) 78
Skyhook's reliance on wireless APs doesn't work so well when the APs move. I took my APs with me when I moved to a new place, but my iPhone (which uses Skyhook's assisted-GPS) thought I was always at my old place for months until I realized what was going on and that I should submit my AP MAC addresses to correct their location.
It's possible that it sees an AP near you that's recently been moved.
Comment Re:Doing it the old school way (Score 1) 1055
Yep. joe + GNU make is the way I do it too.
Though using joe is kind of unpleasant on Windows (I have a hunch I am one of a small handful of people who actually do use it on Windows via cygwin). Using Console helps to make it bearable (at least then you can resize it to larger than 80chars).
Comment Re:How about.... (Score 5, Insightful) 361
How about making it so all telemarketers have to register a certain caller ID that say would be (C)*insert name of company here*, then it would be trivial to block all corporate calls. Thus making it easy to have a caller ID filter to purchase to block all telemarketer calls. This would be a lot easier than the do not call list, more effective and wouldn't censor anyone.
These people are already blatantly ignoring the Do Not Call list. Why would they bother to give a legitimate caller ID string?
Comment KillerNIC? (Score 4, Informative) 246
Isn't this somewhat akin to what the much-hyped KillerNIC was all about-- a separate device to offload network activity (for example, BitTorrent downloads)?
Submission + - College Police: Using Linux is suspicious behavior (eff.org)
FutureDomain writes: The Boston College Campus Police have seized the electronics of a computer science student for allegedly sending an email outing another student. The probable cause? The search warrant application states that he is "a computer science major" and he uses "two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on." The EFF is currently representing him.
Comment the oh-so-special adaptor is more than just USB... (Score 2, Informative) 363
To be fair, the iPod dock connector carries more than just USB. And the USB dock cables work on pretty much any model iPod.
Comment Re:Joe, anyone? (Score 1) 1131
Nope. I use joe too. Though I'm probably the only one where I work. Especially since I run it under cygwin on the Windows machines here (Console makes using it much better than trying to do so with cmd.exe.).
Submission + - UCLA Probe Finds Taser Incident Out Of Policy (ucla.edu)
Bandor Mia writes: Last November, it was reported that UCLA cops Tasered a student, who forgot to bring his ID, at the UCLA library. While an internal probe by UCLAPD cleared the officers of any wrongdoing, an outside probe by Police Assessment Resource Center has found that the police actions on Mostafa Tabatabainejad were indeed out of UCLA policy. The probe was conducted at the behest of acting UCLA Chancellor Norman Abrams.
From the report:
"In light of UCLAPD's general use of force policy and its specific policies on pain compliance techniques, Officer 2's three applications of the Taser, taken together, were out of policy. Officer 2 did not take advantage of other options and opportunities reasonably available to de-escalate the situation without the use of the Taser. Reasonable campus police officers, upon assessing the circumstances, likely would have embraced different choices and options that appear likely to have been more consistent both with UCLAPD policy and general best law enforcement practices."
From the report:
"In light of UCLAPD's general use of force policy and its specific policies on pain compliance techniques, Officer 2's three applications of the Taser, taken together, were out of policy. Officer 2 did not take advantage of other options and opportunities reasonably available to de-escalate the situation without the use of the Taser. Reasonable campus police officers, upon assessing the circumstances, likely would have embraced different choices and options that appear likely to have been more consistent both with UCLAPD policy and general best law enforcement practices."
