Comment Throw us a bone here (Score 1) 232
So, does that mean that the Linux community will be getting anything back or is it licenced in a way that we won't be seeing one line of code?
Comment Common objects (Score 1, Insightful) 69
Other "common" objects that would be just asking to be used in a game:
- Swords, knives
- Batons, staves, nunchucks
- Guns, rifles
- insert lethal weapon of your choice here)
I mean, you're playing an FPS or an RPG and you can use any item as a controller? Who can resist going overboard with realism!
Comment Re:I understand what you mean (Score 1) 338
To use the tab close button to clear the last tab open and not quit the whole browser, change this setting to false:
browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab
Submission + - Governments warned about Office 2007 ODF support (odfalliance.org)
omz writes: The ODF Alliance has prepared a Fact Sheet for governments and others interested in how Microsoft's SP2 for Office 2007 handles ODF. The report revealed "serious shortcomings that, left unaddressed, would break the open standards based interoperability that the marketplace, especially governments, is demanding".
Submission + - FAA's Air Traffic Control Apps Highly Vulnerable
nandemoari writes: "A government audit has found more than 3,800 vulnerabilities were reportedly found in the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) web-based air traffic control system applications. 763 of the vulnerabilities are high-risk and some could put air travelers at risk.
The FAA has been using commercial software and Internet Protocol-based technologies in order to modernize ATC systems, moving away from the proprietary software the systems were originally developed for.
The report (PDF) determined that the ATC's web-based applications aren't secured from attacks or unauthorized access and pose a higher risk to the FAA's ATC system."
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Comment Meaning of the Hacker's text (Score 2, Informative) 445
If you're interested to know, the text the hackers left is a childish rant against others that they claim pretend to be l33t but are not unlike them. Pretty stereotypical hacker/cracker message since the dawn of machines. Probably every hacking group in history has written such a message claiming superiority over lazy, unskilled pretenders.
It actually has nothing to do with the LHC.
The only reason they hacked this site was because as they state was going to be popular, thus a good place to advertise their rant and group.
