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Submission + - Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: A classic game console freezing problem seems to affect the newest generation too. It has been found out that a bunch of Sony PlayStation 4s suffer of a problem which has been christened 'Blue Light of Death'. When a PS4 is turned on with a press of the power button, the light that runs along the side of the console should first pulse blue and then switch to white. At this point the console turns on the picture signal to the display device. Those who have a unit with the glitch are instead finding that their PS4 pulses blue, never goes to white and never outputs an image. We do not have accurate statistics of how widespread the issue is, but reports are popping up in Amazon reviews, Twitter, YouTube and other websites. PlayStation support is still in midst of investigating the issue, but has already posted a bunch of magic tricks you can try to get the console past the initial startup stage.

Submission + - PlayStation 4 sells 1mil+ consoles in 24hrs (playerattack.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk
UgLyPuNk writes: Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios at Sony, broke the news via Twitter:
PS4 has sold through over 1 million units within 24 hours of the launch in North America!!! :D
This officially makes the PS4 the fastest-selling PlayStation in history, narrowly beating the PlayStation 2, which shifted 980,000 units on its first day of release in Japan.

Submission + - Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment for Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures

Submitted by George Maschke
George Maschke writes: In May of this year, I was the target of an attempted entrapment, evidently in connection with material support for terrorism. Marisa Taylor of McClatchy reported briefly on this in August. I've now published a full public accounting, including the raw source of the e-mails received and the IP addresses involved. Comments from Slashdot readers more technically savvy than I are welcome.

Submission + - Half-Life 3 trademark filing may be a hoax (escapistmagazine.com)

Submitted by wbr1
wbr1 writes: The Escapist has an article detailing the fact the the recent trademark filing for Half-Life 3 has disappeared from the (legit) site it was on. It also states that it would not be hard to hoax a filing for a company that already has filings, but it does cost about $1200 to file, so not a cheap hoax. In adition, it appears a filing for Portal 3 has now appeared.

Personally I think Valve is a master of this type of social manipulation to keep interest alive.

Submission + - GTA Online Runs into an 'Online' Roadblock

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: CNET reports that Grand Theft Auto Online, the biggest entertainment release of the year with more than $1 billion in annual sales, is having some trouble getting the gamers online. The title, which launched on game consoles Tuesday morning, is experiencing server issues that have locked out some gamers and made it difficult for those who have gotten in to play the game. Fifteen million people purchased the game when it was released last week — and any number of them could play online when that "perk" becomes available on October 1. "At a conservative estimate I would expect about two million players to log on to GTA Online within the first 24 hours," says Keza MacDonald, UK games editor for IGN.com, the video game and entertainment site. "Rockstar has never done an online game of this scale before, so they are totally unproven in terms of their network infrastructure." Rockstar, the game's creator, said that it was doing all it could to buy and access servers to accommodate what was expected to be massive demand for its online title. Meanwhile Twitter is abuzz with complaints from gamers who say they can't get into the service.

Submission + - 'Black Holes' In Ocean Exist Scientists Say (huffingtonpost.ca)

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: Nothing escapes the yawning chasm of a black hole. Not matter, sound nor even light. Normally confined to the reaches of space, black holes and their seemingly insatiable appetites for everything, have fascinated — and enlightened — scientists for years. Now, they may not have to look so far to study them. Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich and the University of Miami say black holes are among us — at least, massive eddies in the southern Atlantic Ocean bear their telltale signatures. What a black hole is to light, an ocean eddy, scientists suggest, is to water. Dubbed maelstroms, they're bigger than cities, winding up billions of tonnes of ocean water so tightly, nothing escapes them. And scientists are discovering more every day. In a paper published earlier this month in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, George Haller, a professor at ETH Zurich and Francisco Beron-Vera of the University of Miami claim they can track and define these engorged eddies — a feat that has, until now, proven elusive. The ocean's natural turbulence has thwarted previous attempts to demarcate these islands of intensity. But, by studying satellite imagery, Haller and Baron-Vera were able to identify seven black-hole types in a group of eddies, called Agulhas Rings, that regularly appear off the tip of Africa.

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