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Submission + - IP address doomsday: 2011? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

carusoj

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @01:38PM

carusoj writes: "The head of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), John Curran, this week said we would run out of IP address space under IPv4 in 2011. According to a Network World article, he said that 68% of all available IPv4 addresses are gone and only 19% are available. The remaining 13% fall into a strange category of being unavailable, which means blocks of addresses that belong to a large company, a university or an ISP and are not used."

Submission + - PC World 10 worst PC's of all time. (pcworld.ca)

Submitted by

OmniBeing

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @01:32PM

OmniBeing writes: "PC worlds run down of the top 10 worst machines of all time. The only thing that surprised me about this list is Compaq didn't make it at all. Although I would have to agree with their #1 slot, Packard Bell, no specific model, the entire product line. Thinking back to when I had to service those things, it's small wonder they fled the country. I'm sure Radio Shack employees everywhere couldn't have been happier."

Submission + - Cyberbullying gains momentum (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

interglossa

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @01:19PM

interglossa writes: "A report by the Pew Internet Project reported on the BBC news web site indicates a rising incidence of cyberbullying among online teenagers, with slightly higher incidence among those visiting social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Tactics cited include being "the victim of an aggressive email, IM or text message" and "having a rumor spread about them online"."

Submission + - Weapon Wielding Robots

Submitted by dawnzer on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:56PM

dawnzer writes: No, it isn't the next sci-fi feature coming to the big screen. TASER International, Inc. has teamed up with iRobot Corp., maker of the Roomba electronic vacuum and robots for the military that disarm bombs. They plan to collaboratively develop Taser-equipped robots for law enforcement, federal and military users.

It appears that there is a working model of the "PackBot Explorer" robot with Taser technology to be shown in a conference in Chicago.

Submission + - Wii lightsaber game in the works (gamasutra.com)

Submitted by moderatorrater on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:32PM

moderatorrater writes: Gamasutra's reporting on a Lucasarts employee answer to a question about a Wii lightsaber game. From the article:

We're all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It's a lot of fun, and we'll get there.
Hopefully it's more like Jedi Academy than Jedi Power Battles.

Submission + - Trust us, it only works in Vista. No, really.

Submitted by

palewook

on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @08:05AM

palewook writes: "Halo 2 and Shadowrun are being sold as Vista only programs. Recently, Razor 1911 released a patched Vista only program, that now works on Windows XP. Halo 2 and Shadowrun appear not to need the special function libraries of DirectX 10. Microsoft has claimed these programs could not be released for Windows XP because of the DirectX 10 function calls."

Submission + - Intel's anti-cheat technology for online games

Submitted by Manny on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @07:17PM

Manny writes: Intel researchers are working on a technology to prevent online gamers from cheating. According thte blogpost, the technology is HW and SW that will detect cheating behavior. Blogpost from Intel scientist explaining the project is here: http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/06/fair_onlin e_gaming_aka_antiche.html

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