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Submission + - ICE Returns hackers domain To Owners (activepolitic.com)

bs0d3 writes: Many of the critics of operation in our sites, claim that it's impossible for a domain owner to get his domain back. Today it has happened; after a seizure not too long ago, ICE has returned a domain called virtualhackers.net to its original owners. The seizure occurred after one of the users of the site had posted people's credit card numbers and social security numbers. The domain owners contacted ICE and relinquished the account information of the person who did post that information. As the database was seized, ICE no doubt retains the private information of site users who had nothing to do with this incident.
Censorship

Submission + - Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases for Texting

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "In a move reminiscent of George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has handed down a ban on about 1,600 terms and phrases it has deemed obscene and told carriers they have seven days to block the words on their networks, or face legal action. "The filtering is not good for the system and may degrade the quality of network services — plus it would be a great inconvenience to our subscribers if their SMS was not delivered due to the wrong choice of words," says an official at a one of the telecoms. The list includes such words and phrases as "idiot," "monkey crotch," "athlete's foot," "damn," "deeper," "four twenty," "fornicate," "looser," and "go to hell," among others. There are also various double entendres included in the ban such as "beat your meat" or "flogging the dolphin." Mohammad Younis, a spokesman for the PTA, says the ban is "the result of numerous meetings and consultations with stakeholders" after consumers complained of receiving offensive text messages. "Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl.""
Iphone

Submission + - Forbes about the first Tor-Enabled Browser for the (forbes.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Andy Greenberg wrote: 'Apps that enable Tor have been available at times to users of jailbroken iPhones. But Covert Browser is the first to be officially sanctioned by Apple, albeit at a price of $2.99'. I find it quite interesting that the Tor Project does not care about someone using its code and going commercial with it. Do you think another license would have been better, or do you think that without BSD things like MacOSX would not have been possible ?

Comment No shit (Score 4, Insightful) 362

Why should they release the source for an OS that isn't even out in the wild yet? They've already said that the source will be released once the Galaxy Nexus is in stores (probably so that the Nexus is actually the first phone running 4.0. I'm there will be plenty of custom ROMs for other phones/tablets within days of the ICS source being released)

Unix

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language (google.com)

WankerWeasel writes: The sad news of the dead of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS' have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too as many of the applications you're using were written in C.

Comment Re:Won't be playing (Score 3, Insightful) 102

Check out the skill calculator in the summary. There's a lot of different possibilities (Unless I screwed my math up, something like 170,000,000 combinations of skills/runes JUST for the barbarian class. The other classes look about the same give or take a few million combos). Obviously some combinations will be better than others, and even the "best" build will be pretty situational for a given class depending on what you're doing and your playstyle. Personally, I like how they're allowing some more flexibility with abilities by getting rid of skill trees and allowing you to change what skills you have relatively painlessly. When I played Diablo II, I spent a bunch of time leveling a druid, only to realize after I'd played for dozens of hours that my I had allocated my skill points stupidly, and there wasn't anything I could do about it other than make a new character or deal with it.

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