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Submission + - CPL Announces New Professional Videogame

Submitted by Anonymous
Anonymous writes: Last night The Cyberathlete Professional League® (CPL), one of the biggest professional videogame tournament organizers in the world, announced their plans to develop a new multiplayer FPS game, Severity, geared toward professional videogame tournaments. Tom Mustaine, former Vice-President and co-founder of Ritual Entertainment (he left them a couple of weeks ago), will be Director of Game Development at the new studio.

The announcement was also accompanied by a 2 minute video of John Romero, co-founder of id software and Chairman of the CPL (amongst other things), talking about the project. In it he mentions that the project will be using an engine from id software.
Businesses

Submission + - The job from heaven or hell in the Netherlands

Submitted by
FreshnFurter
FreshnFurter writes: "An original job opening in the Netherlands seems to be shoe in for some of the slashdot audience: http://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vac/1212231/?s key=mmwn

The company is rockingstone which apparantly makes Windows software too.

The opening is looking for a "Kettingrokende, atheistische, niet al te autistische Linux freak" (i.e. Chain smoking, atheist, not too autistic Linux freak). The pension plan is interesting too.: "No bullshit about pensionplans, you get that yourself. You get to choose what insurance company or bank gets to do you over."

More specifics on personality: 1) No guys with mustaches, 2) No idiots who implement major changes on a server on friday afternoon.

Slashdotters, what are you waiting for!"
Power

Submission + - Worlds biggest wind farm gets the go-ahead

Submitted by
cliffski
cliffski writes: "According to the BBC website The UK govt has just given the go ahead to two large offshore wind-farm projects. Between them the schemes would produce enough renewable electricity to power about one million households. The larger London Array project covers 144 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex and will be the world's biggest when it is completed. The £1.5bn scheme will have 341 turbines rising from the sea about 12 miles (20km) off the Kent and Essex coasts, as well as five offshore substations and four meteorological masts"
Robotics

Submission + - Your robotic future: Copyrighted by Microsoft

Submitted by
word munger
word munger writes: "The cover story in this month's Scientific American, written by Bill Gates, discusses one of the toughest problems in robotics: "how to simultaneously handle all the data coming in from multiple sensors and send the appropriate commands to the robot's motors, a challenge known as concurrency." Gates believes that robotics today is like the world of computers 30 years ago. Robots, like computers in the 1970s, have widespread applications in industry, but the models available for home users tend to be expensive and have appeal mainly for tinkerers and hobbyists. Microsoft's solution to the problem is to design a proprietary operating system for robots, built for everything from home surveillance to mars rovers. Could this be the world's next mega-monopoly? I discuss some of the implications at Cognitive Daily."
Windows

Journal Journal: The sudden appeal of XP 1

Journal by Snarfiorix
Having to work in a support enviroment, you often end up in talks about the latest thing that is going to hit you for support. Now, in my case, I socialise a lot with my co-workers and often we get together at parties and the subject of the latest thing to make our lives miserable comes up. Such is the case with Vista, but what is noticable is how we chat for about 20 minutes about features, hardware and software compatabillity untill someone mentions what he done to his XP partition to make (mo
Security

Submission + - UTD Network Intrusion Exposes Names, SSNs, etc.

Submitted by
Ein2015
Ein2015 writes: "At the University of Texas at Dallas on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 at 1:36 a.m., a network intrusion occured which might have exposed names, addresses, Social Security numbers, email addresses and telephone numbers.

"University staff discovered a potential system weakness which may have inadvertently resulted in exposure of some individuals' personal information. At this time it is known to potentially affect approximately 6,000 faculty, staff, students and others. The individuals whose information is known to be involved at this time include:
- In the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, students and faculty as well as applicants for admission dating back as far as 1993.
- All staff and faculty of the University who were employed from January 1999 through August 2005."

For more information go to http://www.utdallas.edu/datacompromise/."
Networking

Submission + - ORDB.org is shutting down

Submitted by
Allan Joergensen
Allan Joergensen writes: "ORDB.org has announced that they will shut down their services after fighting open relays and spam for more than five and a half years.

The RBL DNS service and mailing lists will be taken down today (December 18, 2006) and the website will vanish by December 31, 2006."
The Internet

Submission + - Skype thinks it always rains in London

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Skype version 2.5.0.151 slanders London as a place that is associated with permanent downpoor.
Users on this version that receive the phrase "(london") in a chat will be presented with the emoticon for "(rain)" instead."
Portables

Submission + - GPS PDA for diving and underwater exploration

Submitted by Alex Davis
Alex Davis writes: This company in the UK are reportedly working on a new version of their PDA device that will work underwater. It will use GPS to tour divers and scuba aficionados around the world's most famous dive sights. The report appeared in a local newspaper that referred to their technical researchers doing on-site demos at this dive site. Are there any divers out there who would go in for this sort of thing?
Announcements

Submission + - UMEET 2006: Richard Stallman Session

Submitted by
ismak
ismak writes: "Umeet 2006, this year's online conference on Free Software, will be holding a GPLv3 Questions & Answers session with Richard Stallman. The session is this Tuesday, December 19th, at 18:00 UTC on the #umeet channel on irc.uninet.edu.
If you plan on attending Tuesday's session, you will want to read the background information on the GPLv3 that Richard Stallman has made available."
Operating Systems

Submission + - MAC SOFTWARE/IPOD NANO CRISIS

Submitted by
karen joseph
karen joseph writes: "I bought an Ipod Nano for my son, only to find out that my 3 year old eMac doesn't have an updated operating system and that in order for him to download his music, I'd have to spend an additional sum (I think it's about $150) to upgrade my computer. Here's the irony. My husband owns an older PC that has Windows 2000 and is compatible with the Nano. So, my own 3 year old eMac is obsolete for the newer generation of Ipods. (And nothing on the product packaging mentions the required version 10.3 OS) How come they render their older operating systems useless for their new toys while allowing PCs to run their downloads on older programs? Seems kind of unfair to loyal customers and has not endeared me to them at all."
Security

Submission + - SysAdmin To Do Hard Time

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ex-UBS sysadmin Roger Duronio was sentenced Wednesday in a Newark, NJ court to 97 months in jail for his conviction on computer sabotage and securities fraud for writing, planting, and disseminating malicious code that took down up to 2,000 servers.

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