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Comment Re:Pretty sure... (Score 3, Informative) 394

As far as I know, "ax" is acceptable in American English, British English only permits "axe". I noticed TFA's inability to spell "hassled" in the headline far more. On an unrelated note, I wonder whether they would have pressed charges were the employee in question to have disclosed the vulnerabilities only to the TSA. It's been done in the context of comp security, so I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it happen to someone reporting on physical security.

Comment I imagine no one on /. hasn't heard of Zork (Score 1) 1

Zork's well-known enough not to require an introduction such as "an addictive role-playing text adventure called Zork", surely. I think that you may be a candidate for being eaten by a grue. On a more related and less hair-splitting note, MAME is infinitely better than any flash port when it comes to arcade classics, and just as legal. I can't see how an unofficial flash port is any more legal than an unofficial emulation.
Games

Submission + - How to play the classic games of Christmas past (pcpro.co.uk) 1

Barence writes: PC Pro has a rose-tinted guide to games emulators that allow you to play the classic titles of yesteryear. The selection of classic games on offer on PCs, the web and smartphones include Frogger, Mario Kart 64 and Chuckie Egg. There's also a Commodore 64 app that comes with its own BASIC interpreter, and an addictive role-playing text adventure called Zork.

Submission + - 'KinEmote' - Control Boxee & XBMC with Mi (google.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Thursday Dec 23rd 2010 — Maastricht, Netherlands and San Diego, CA

John Simons and Joel Griffin Dodd release 'KinEmote' remote control software for MicroSoft Windows and Kinect.

KinEmote is an easy-to-use application that allows Windows users to navigate the menus of Boxee and XBMC media portals using nothing but hand gestures that are captured by MicroSoft's Kinect camera.

"Many developers are doing wonderful things with the Kinect camera," says Griffin Dodd, "While many of these projects are extremely impressive, they haven't really provided the casual user with something they can enjoy on a daily basis. That's why we developed KinEmote, a practical application that anyone can just install and use. Of course we also wanted to give people something fun to play with for Christmas".

KinEmote is built around OpenNI and NITE Middleware provided by PrimeSense Inc. "I'm really impressed that PrimeSense stepped up and released open source software for anyone to develop around." says Simons, "They have inspired developers like myself to try something new in the hope of giving back to the community as a whole. Projects like XBMC are wonderful examples of the power of open source, I'm glad we can support Boxee & XBMC in a new way by providing practical tools to leverage the power of the awesome Kinect hardware."

KinEmote Public Beta is available for Windows 32 and 64 bit systems and can be downloaded for free at http://code.google.com/p/kinemote/

Video of KinEmote in action can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0JT0xR_a4

Software

Submission + - Progress in Algorithms Beats Moore's Law (wordpress.com) 1

Relic of the Future writes: "Seen on the blog "Algorithmic Game Theory", a report to congress and the president about past and future advances in information technology notes that, while improvements in hardware accounted for an approximate 1,000 fold increase in calculation speed over a 15 year time-span, improvements in algorithms accounted for an over 43,000 fold increase."

Submission + - Blizzard gets judgement overturned over WoW bots (mondaq.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Ninth Circuit reversed a $6.5 million judgment for Blizzard against MDY Industries saying that making bots is not copyright infringement. The bad news? They did violate the DMCA Section 1201(a)(2) which prohibits trafficking in products that circumvent technologies designed to control access to copyright protected works.

Submission + - Why businesses hate free markets (businessweek.com)

MickyTheIdiot writes: After this week of horrible disappointment with the FCC's limp-wristed handling of net neutrality, this Bloomburg Businessweek article sees through the smokescreen and calls out one of the biggest hypocrisies in the U.S. today: big businesses crying not wanting regulation in the name of the free market but making every effort to limit competition in any way possible (including capturing regulatory bodies so they can make up their own rules). With so many regulatory bodies captured by the industries they are supposed to regulate are we really still living in a free economy?

Comment "Sucks" and "blows" not the only pejoratives (Score 4, Interesting) 249

There's astounding variety in dyslogistics; humanity's capacity to insult extends far beyond the simple "x sucks", "y blows", and often enters far more explicit territory. What makes them think that "sucks" and "blows" are the preferred verbal weapon of the domain-registering masses? If anything, this will only cause a rise in popularity of other insulting verbs.
Google

Submission + - Android phone at the edge of space (suasnews.com)

garymortimer writes: It seems like the google crowd are really keen to replicate what many in the sUAS world have been playing with for the last couple of years. It really will be interesting to see the UAS apps that must be coming for the Nexus S. Certainly a market Apple are not keen in light of the 4.2 TOS update.
Science

Submission + - Scientifically, You Are Likely In The Slowest Line (hothardware.com) 1

MojoKid writes: "As you wait in the checkout line for the holidays, your observation is most likely correct. That other line IS moving faster than yours. That's what Bill Hammack (the Engineer Guy), from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois — Urbana proves in this video. Ironically, the most efficient set-up is to have one line feed into several cashiers. This is because if any one line slows because of an issue, the entry queue continues to have customers reach check-out optimally. However, this is also perceived by customers as the least efficient, psychologically."

Submission + - Do Supernova Explosions Impact Earth Every Few Hun (dailygalaxy.com)

Phoghat writes: "A University of Kansas research team is exploring the energy of cosmic rays and a possible link to massive prehistoric extinction events. Fossils and cosmic rays appear to have nothing in common. . But Adrian Melott, a professor at the University of Kansas, is doing work with high energy cosmic rays to investigate the possibility that one may be linked to the other."

Submission + - Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users (computerworld.com)

CWmike writes: Skype continues to slowly recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system. The latest estimates say that 10 million users are now online, according to a blog post. Skype's outage began on Wednesday. Skype continues to slowly recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system. The latest estimates say that 10 million users are now online, according to a blog post. Skype's outage began on Wednesday.

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