Comment Grrrrr.... (Score 0, Troll) 260
This is just more evidence (As if you needed any...) that Apple products are overhyped, underpowered, overpriced pieces of...
Wait....
Nevermind.
Comment Here's the real question. (Score 2, Funny) 148
Are they giving away Time Machines with Duke Nukem Forever?
Comment Well.... (Score 5, Funny) 65
I guess that's ONE way to disagree with people on Slashdot.
Submission + - 4chan leaks Adult video-sharing list from law firm (bbc.co.uk)
ACKyushu writes: Say what you like about 4chan; when they want something done, it gets done.
"The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to the internet, alongside a list of pornographic movies they are alleged to have shared online.
The list, seen by BBC News, details the full names and addresses of over 5,300 people thought by law firm ACS:Law to be illegally sharing adult films."
"The leak contains around 1,000 confidential e-mails, along with the list, which was an attachment on one of the messages.
The collection was then uploaded to file sharing website, The Pirate Baywhere it is being shared by hundreds of users.
"While some of the e-mails, detailing the internal workings of the company, may prove embarrassing, the leaking of an unencrypted document — that lists the personal details of more than 5,300 BSkyB Broadband subscribers alongside a list of adult videos they may have downloaded and shared online — could be a breach of the Data Protection Act."
"The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to the internet, alongside a list of pornographic movies they are alleged to have shared online.
The list, seen by BBC News, details the full names and addresses of over 5,300 people thought by law firm ACS:Law to be illegally sharing adult films."
"The leak contains around 1,000 confidential e-mails, along with the list, which was an attachment on one of the messages.
The collection was then uploaded to file sharing website, The Pirate Baywhere it is being shared by hundreds of users.
"While some of the e-mails, detailing the internal workings of the company, may prove embarrassing, the leaking of an unencrypted document — that lists the personal details of more than 5,300 BSkyB Broadband subscribers alongside a list of adult videos they may have downloaded and shared online — could be a breach of the Data Protection Act."
Submission + - Segway owner drives off a cliff to his death. (telegraph.co.uk)
ACKyushu writes: Title says it all really. Jimi Heselden, the owner of Segway dies driving a ruggedized version of the two wheel scooter off a cliff to his death.
Submission + - 4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website (torrentfreak.com) 1
ACKyushu writes: Say what you like about 4Chan, when they want something done, it gets done. Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently, is currently down having been DDoS’d. They are joined in the Internet wasteland by the MPAA’s website, also currently under huge and sustained attack.
Submission + - 4Chan Takes down MPAA in 8 minutes (pandasecurity.com)
ACKyushu writes: The users at 4chan, a popular image board responsible for many Internet memes such as the Rickroll, lolcats, and the “Anonymous” assault on the Church of Scientology, publicly announced a coordinated DDoS attack against the Motion Picture Association of America in retaliation for the hiring of an Indian based software firm, which carried out similar attacks on The Pirate Bay and other file sharing sites. The attack against MPAA.org started shortly after 9:00 PM EST and took only 8 minutes to bring the entire site to a screeching halt.
Comment Re:Speaking an Unspeakable Truth to Power (Score 1) 165
Well, just from my own humble perspective on your "Unspeakable Truth"... I used to Live in Brooklyn, now I live in Nagasaki. The last time I checked, there was still a hole where the World Trade Center used to be. Nagasaki, not so much. I am pretty sure having less nuclear weapons (smart!) is probably a good thing overall, considering the rate at which Americans rebuild things (...slow.) and the rate we go to war (dumb!) over things. I personally would rather see systematic dismantling of weapons such as these than say; "Well! ODDS ARE...Thing won't go foom unless turrist get one!" and hope for the best.
Comment YOU LIE!!!!! (Score 1) 849
I wonder if "Let's take our country back" South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson will be signing himself up? He not only fits the description, he is also taking money from people who do.
Submission + - Iran bans Gmail (wsj.com)
ACKyushu writes: Iranians have reported widespread service disruptions to Internet and text messaging services, though mobile phones appeared to be operating normally Wednesday.
Iran's telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google Inc.'s email services, saying instead that a national email service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out. It wasn't clear late Wednesday what effect the order had on Google's email services in Iran.
Iran's telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google Inc.'s email services, saying instead that a national email service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out. It wasn't clear late Wednesday what effect the order had on Google's email services in Iran.
Submission + - Apple pulls 1,000 apps in US Store ratings scam. (iphoneography.com)
ACKyushu writes: Apple has just pulled over 1,000 apps from the App Store in what appears to be a ratings scam by a single publisher.
Submission + - Single atom transistor discovered. (www.tkk.fi)
ACKyushu writes: Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The results have just been published in Nano Letters.
The working principles of the device are based on sequential tunneling of single electrons between the phosphorus atom and the source and drain leads of the transistor. The tunneling can be suppressed or allowed by controlling the voltage on a nearby metal electrode with a width of a few tens of nanometers.
The working principles of the device are based on sequential tunneling of single electrons between the phosphorus atom and the source and drain leads of the transistor. The tunneling can be suppressed or allowed by controlling the voltage on a nearby metal electrode with a width of a few tens of nanometers.
Submission + - Accidental discovery of near-perfect blue pigment. (labspaces.net)
ACKyushu writes: An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan cultures and more – the creation of a near-perfect blue pigment.
Comment I am surprised I have not heard this argument yet. (Score 0) 738
I have gone through three Xbox 360's. With all the uproar over people getting banned, how come no one here is talking about the failure rate of the console itself? It is criminal what MS has gotten away with this time around, and believe me cheating on Live has nothing to do with modded consoles. I play online on both services (Playstation Network and Xbox Live) and there is no requirement for your console to be modded for you to glitch in an online video game.
You can cheat just fine with a lag switch and no chip in your Xbox.
The first time my Xbox 360 failed, (RROD) I sent the box in with no argument. The second time I sent it, I got an Xbox belonging to someone else that RROD'd after TEN MINUTES of play. Ten minutes out of the box and it was useless. The third time it happened, I started to think how this console has over a fifty percent failure rate. Guess what? It is cheaper to have it repaired and modded at the same time. The last time I called Microsoft about the repair, I asked them to send me a new unit out of the box, or I was going to have it repaired by a competent technician and have the console modded. They sent me a cardboard box with an address label, I modded the console. Nothing has yet happened, I have a modded console and play online all the time.
Why are people here defending a company that put out something as badly designed as an Xbox 360? I have yet to hear this part of the argument and I am pretty damn sure most people who have one have either had this happen to them or know someone who does. To be completely honest, I pirate games all the time and could care less if I got banned or not. If I truly like a game, I buy it for Playstation. I simply will not support Microsoft after all the frustration and feel just fine about that decision. Has anyone here had to go through one RROD or more and had to deal with calling up the Microsoft Voicemail Helpline only to hear, "Well, to be honest, even though our failure rate was scraping 85 percent when we first shipped them, the numbers are significantly less now. If you want an extended warranty, that is $49.00".
"Well, If I got it modded...." Before anyone starts in on me. I have a lot of games I bought legitimately and play often, I never cheat and still use Xbox live primarily for private matches with just a close circle of friends and the Xbox for streaming media from my computer. When Microsoft starts using single use codes so legitimately block you from selling your disc back to a brick and mortar store a lot of people might see my side of the argument.
It's on it's way.
Submission + - Microsoft and T-Mobile lose all user data. (techcrunch.com)
ACKyushu writes: T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone... And guess what? They didn't have a backup. Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as “extremely low”.
