Submission + - Sony Updates ToS for PS3 (psx-scene.com) 4

Submitted by OopsIDied on Friday February 18, 2011 @09:21PM

OopsIDied writes: Sony has updated their ToS/Service Agreement to include permission to "monitor and record your activities and communications." Accepting these new terms is required in order to use the Playstation Network which is necessary for a wide variety of PS3 activities.

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Submission + - President Decrees Formation of IP Cops (whitehouse.gov) 1

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 18, 2011 @08:55PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "On February 8, President Obama issued a decree that clamping down on IP and increasing spending on copyright cops would somehow stimulate the economy's creativity, so he created "Intellectual Property Enforcement Advisory Committees" of all the heads of our departments to do what they must to please the RIAA and MPAA. As usual, Biden was leading the charge.

From the article:
"To ensure that the Administration does its best to protect these innovations and creative products, today the President issued this Executive Order, which establishes a Cabinet level Senior Intellectual Property Enforcement Advisory Committee comprised of the heads of the Departments responsible for intellectual property enforcement, including the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Commerce, Health and Human Services, State, Treasury, Agriculture and USTR. The Executive Order also establishes the Intellectual Property Enforcement Advisory Committee comprised of representatives from the agencies responsible for designing and carrying out the Administration’s strategy for stopping intellectual property theft."

Gotta love that doublespeak."

19296840 submission

Submission + - Hotz to Turn Over Computers to Neutral Third Party (groklaw.net)

Submitted by intellitech on Friday February 18, 2011 @08:54PM

intellitech writes: This will make a lot of you feel better. Groklaw is reporting that both parties have come up with a stipulation in Sony Computer Entertainment American v. Hotz regarding what Hotz must do about handing over his computers. The new Preliminary Injunction (PDF) now says that he is to turn his materials over to a "neutral" third party, not to SCEA's lawyers, and after the neutral party combs through them, it all is returned to Hotz. All but whatever they "segregate" out of them. He won't get that back until the end of the litigation, should he prevail, which this court at least currently thinks is less likely than that Sony will. There will be a hearing on Hotz's motion to dismiss on April 8, 2011.

19295580 submission

Submission + - Story Time : Student asks for input 3

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 18, 2011 @06:58PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "My college is currently adopting the policy of NAT'ing our entire networking infrastructure through a single IPv4 address and filtering it through a single sonicwall rackmount firewall hosted at gate.moval.edu.(outside it's redundant morenet t1)
Watching any kind of video is impossible, PnP networking for services such as xbox live and skype
is hit and miss, and we are certainly dropping 30% or more packets resulting in downloads and updates that will surge-download at ~100+kbs and then drop to about 3kbs for 20 minutes.Torrenting is absolutely prohibited and even a page with .torrent files attached to it will be blocked. What safe comments can I make to get these abdominable practices to stop? We only have 4 people running our entire IT department and I certainly don't want to make their lives any harder."

19294680 submission

Submission + - Human Tetris Kinect Game (kinect-hacks.com)

Submitted by

baxpace

on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:46PM

baxpace writes: "A game that assigns points based on how closely you can fit into a cut out background that incrementally approaches you.

The fail/pass is determined by the percentage of pixels the silhouette that fit within the cut out."

19293288 submission

Submission + - Singing a song = 20 years in jail 2

Submitted by

Ihmhi

on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:22PM

Ihmhi writes: "Evan Emory got permission to play an innocent song in front of a classroom full of children. He then recorded a much different song with sexually explicit material in the empty classroom, and edited a video together to make it appear that he's singing quite the perverted song to a bunch of kids. Putting it on YouTube may have been poor taste, but does he deserve 20 years in jail?"

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Comment Re:Naturally. (Score 1) 302

by wrathpwn on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @09:30PM (#35216950) Attached to: Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe

If I buy a refrigerator at the same big box retailer, I can expect it to work pretty well the same from the day I buy it until the day I stop using it. However Windows is in no way the same. You pay for Windows and you have to continually update it to keep it working the same as the day you bought it, otherwise you quickly end up with a compromised system that does not work as well as the day you bought it. And being as the consumer had no choice in the OS on their PC, they should not be exclusively responsible for the problems in that PC.

The difference between a computer and a refrigerator is that a refrigerator doesn't get to talk to its buddies on the phone. Windows needs no security patches if you don't use networking and are careful with any files you bring onto the system from outside sources.

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Comment Re:Pathetic (Score 1) 302

by wrathpwn on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @09:22PM (#35216888) Attached to: Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe

I think the difference here is that we can trust Warden and VAC because they have a legitimate reason to scan things (to prevent cheating). If companies are so concerned about security, why don't they just place protection on their end? A home user isn't going to have any more advanced methods of virus-scanning than they will.

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