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Games

Submission + - Leisure Suit Larry remake will be "be dirtier than anything on the Internet" (gameshampoo.com)

Submitted by chronodev
chronodev writes: Replay Games Inc's Kickstarter Campaign, Make Leisure Suit Larry come again!, has raised over $350,000 out of the $500,000 goal, with 16 days to go as of the time of writing this article.

In a Reddit IAmA, addressing a concern that "adult jokes and saucy environment in a computer game" are no longer a novelty today because of the web, creator Al Lowe promised that the remake will be "dirtier than anything on the internet."
Crime

Submission + - NYTimes says Cybercrime Risk Vastly Overstated (nytimes.com)

Submitted by retroworks
retroworks writes: Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley write that cybercrime, like unrestricted fishing, depleted gullible and unprotected users, producing diminishing returns (over-phishing?). They argue that the statistics on the extent of losses from cybercrime are flawed because there is never an under-estimation (or gain) reported. Do they underestimate the number of suckers gaining internet access born every minute? Or has cybercrime become the "shark attack" that gets reported more often than it occurs?
Censorship

Submission + - Egypt Banned Porn, But How Much of the Internet Is That? (vice.com)

Submitted by
pigrabbitbear
pigrabbitbear writes: "The recent web pornography ban in Egypt has raised questions about the evils of censorship (and porn) and the changing tide of popular attitude of Egyptians. It perhaps reflects the emerging influence of more conservative Muslim elements in government, a shift . Apparently the same ban was passed 3 years ago but was not enforced because their filtering system was not effective.

But porn bans are nothing new. Other countries with strict censorship laws like China and Saudi Arabia have successfully implemented bans that restrict pornography along with anything else they deem inappropriate for public viewing. In 2010 the UK discussed a ban that would require users to specifically request access to pornographic material from their internet service providers. And porn-banning rhetoric has even stomped through the US news media over the last few months, thanks to GOP also-ran Rick Santorum claiming President Obama is failing to enforce pornography laws. (There have also been some awesomely ridiculous pornography PSAs.)"
Security

Submission + - BYOD And The Hidden Risk Of IT Security (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "When employees use personal devices for business purposes, too much security can create more risk than it prevents, writes Advice Line's Bob Lewis. 'Risk comes in two forms. Some risks are possibilities of increased costs; the remainder are risks of decreased revenue. The former gets the most attention because those are the ones that happen in big bites — and are the most visible,' Lewis writes. 'But risks that lead to less revenue are arguably more important. They come in such forms as customer dissatisfaction, reduced innovation, poor collaboration among employees and with business partners and customers, and employee apathy. Information security has, for the most part, focused its attention on the pitfalls of increased cost, which has led to its being one of the biggest sources of revenue risk. It doesn't have to be that way, but it will be unless and until business leaders insist on alternatives to the traditional lock-'em-down-and tie-'em-up so-called best practices'"
Games

Submission + - Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c (0x10c.com)

Submitted by silentbrad
silentbrad writes: As announced last month, Notch — creator of Minecraft — is working on a sandbox space game (no, not the Mars Effect April Fools joke, though it's similar). "The game [0x10c] is still extremely early in development, but like we did with Minecraft, we expect to release it early and let the players help me shape the game as it grows. The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in. Single player won't have any recurring fees. ... The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start."

Submission + - How to Cheat eBay Sellers and Scam PayPal (benchmarkreviews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Most people are familiar with eBay, the website with an endless catalog ready for purchase. Like many, I've needed to purchase an out of production item and found it available from International sellers. I will also occasionally use eBay to sell random unwanted items to help fund the upgrade or repair. Overall my experience has remained positive, but very recently my opinion of eBay and its banking service PayPal have significantly changed. I have discovered that eBay and PayPal have policies in place that blindly protects buyers, even when they're clearly out to scam and abuse honest sellers.
Science

Submission + - Sexually Rejected Flies Turn to Booze (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Offer a male fruit fly a choice between food soaked in alcohol and its nonalcoholic equivalent, and his decision will depend on whether he's mated recently or been rejected by a female. Flies that have been given the cold shoulder are more likely to go for the booze, researchers have found. It's the first discovery, in fruit flies, of a social interaction that influences future behavior.
Linux

Submission + - Where Hype Ends and the Truth Begins (linux.com)

Submitted by
jencloer
jencloer writes: "From Linux.com, Jim Zemlin explains why Linux is growing in server revenues while Windows dropped 1.5% in Q4. This is where the hype ends and truth begins on the power of big data and cloud computing, which are fueling this growth for Linux."
Operating Systems

Submission + - People Are Downloading "Anonymous" OS (!) (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by scottbomb
scottbomb writes: The mere fact that 26,000 people are stupid enough to actually download and install this is frightening. According to the BBC, "More than 26,000 people have downloaded an operating system which members of the Anonymous hacker group claim to have created."
Microsoft

Submission + - Steve Jobs vs. Microsoft's Sinofsky: Vision vs. Hindsight (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "There's a fundamental difference between the way the iPad was created and how Windows 8 is unfolding: Steve Jobs and Steve Sinofsky's differing approaches to design, writes InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard. 'The Jobs approach relies on vision and guts. The Sinofsky approach relies on massive user input, insight, and analytical abilities,' Leonhard writes. 'Sinofsky and his team are masters at analyzing how people use Windows. They can test out new ideas, focus on current sticking points, and get valid observations from thousands of people, initially — up to millions now with the Windows 8 Customer Preview,' which, if early looks at Windows 8 Consumer Preview are any guide, could be considerable."
Hardware

Submission + - NVIDIA is joining the Linux Foundation (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Norsefire
Norsefire writes: NVIDIA is getting in bed with the Linux Foundation, along with three other to-be-announced companies, as the latest effort to expand this Linux organization. However, it's looking to be more of a mobile play for the company rather than to get in on the open-source GPU driver space by either supporting the open-source Nouveau driver project, to put out other code and documentation, or some other organized effort.
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Submission + - Daylight saving time awakens cyberslacking zombies (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Can the upcoming time change turn productive, only-on-the-web-for-work employees into zombie cyberslackers bent on destroying efficiency? Researchers in a report garnered from pouring over Google searches from the last six years say data show the shift to daylight saving time and its accompanying loss of sleep cause employees to spend more time than normal surfing the Web for content unrelated to their work, resulting in potentially massive productivity losses on the day after the event."
Politics

Submission + - Documentary: Edward Teller: From the Hydrogen Bomb to Thorium Energy (vice.com)

Submitted by
pigrabbitbear
pigrabbitbear writes: "Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would be more villified than any other American scientist in the 20th century, he always dismissed his critics as lacking in common sense or patriotism. Amid Cold War paranoia and fears of the Soviet nuclear program, the stakes were simply too high: for the free world, building the most powerful weapon in history was a matter of life and horrible death."

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