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Submission + - Ubisoft Blames Piracy for Non-Release of PC Game (torrentfreak.com) 2

Submitted by Azmodan
Azmodan writes: Ubisoft is known for laying the blame for many problems on the unauthorized downloading of its games. Stanislas Mettra, creative director of the upcoming game ‘I Am Alive,’ confirms this once again by saying that the decision not to release a PC version is a direct result of widespread game piracy. However, those who look beyond the propaganda will see that there appears to be more to the story than that.
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Submission + - KS Governor Sends Tweeting Teen to Principal's Off (kansas.com)

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kstatefan40
kstatefan40 writes: "According to the Wichita Eagle, A Kansas teenager is in trouble after mocking Gov. Sam Brownback during a mock legislative assembly for high school students. During the session, in which Brownback addressed the group, Sullivan posted on her personal Twitter page: “Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot” On Tuesday, Sullivan was called to her principal’s office and told that the tweet had been flagged by someone on Brownback’s staff and reported to organizers of the Youth in Government program. The principal “laid into me about how this was unacceptable and an embarrassment,” Sullivan said. “He said I had created this huge controversy and everyone was up in arms about it and now he had to do damage control.

This has a nice big brother feel to it."

Submission + - New Mac Malware Poses As PDF Doc (computerworld.com)

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JohnBert
JohnBert writes: "Security firms today warned Mac users of a new Trojan horse that masquerades as a PDF document. The malware, which was spotted by U.K.-based Sophos and Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure, uses a technique long practiced by Windows attackers.

"This malware may be attempting to copy the technique implemented by Windows malware, which opens a PDF file containing a '.pdf.exe' extension and an accompanying PDF icon," said F-Secure today. That practice relies on what is called the "double extension" trick: adding the characters ".pdf" to the filename to disguise an executable file.

The Mac malware uses a two-step process, composed of a Trojan "dropper" utility that downloads a second element, a Trojan "backdoor" that then connects to a remote server controlled by the attacker, using that communications channel to send information gleaned from the infected Mac and receiving additional instructions from the hacker."
Android

Submission + - Phone operator sues brothers for releasing app (gazette-ariegeoise.fr)

Submitted by KingofSpades
KingofSpades writes: French brothers Michael and Sébastien M., unable to watch television on their new cell phone — despite paying the corresponding "unlimited TV" phone plan — wrote an app to automate changes of user parameters, including user agent, in order of accessing the TV feed of their cell operator, SFR. They released a free app and a donate version (1.99 euros) of the app (likely named "G.Player TV"). They have been sued by operator SFR in the court of the sunny region of Ariège (France). Their lawyer stated that "that there is no evidence that non-subscribers have been able to use the app. Therefore there it did not provide a free access to a paying service".

Both have been convicted and must pay a 800 euros fine (suspended) and 192 euros to operator SFR.
Technology

Submission + - Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed (lbl.gov)

Submitted by RogerRoast
RogerRoast writes: The anode is a critical component for storing energy in lithium-ion batteries. The Berkeley Lab (D.O.E) has designed a new kind of anode that can absorb eight times the lithium of current designs, and has maintained its greatly increased energy capacity after over a year of testing and many hundreds of charge-discharge cycles. According to the research published in Advanced Materials they used a tailored polymer that conducts electricity and binds closely to lithium-storing silicon particles, even as they expand to more than three times their volume during charging and then shrink again during discharge.

Comment Re:Holding back? (Score 1) 460

by poltsy (#36784844) Attached to: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

While ALSA doesn't seem to currently allow defining defaults with the names it gives to each device (very disappointing I know) you can already force a driver to allocate a specific number for the device by giving index=whatever to the driver module. This way at least they don't jump around at every boot. Unless of course you have two devices using the same exact driver in which case it'll still be a mess.

Obviously this being linux there is no gui magic to do it for you.

Comment Re:Why does linux get this? (Score 2, Interesting) 240

by poltsy (#33598570) Attached to: Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux
Since PAE doesn't work too well in windows (releases meant for desktops at least) you'd expect more interest in switching to 64bit to get more than ~3.5GB usable memory. I guess people who install linux are more likely to experiment with new things to begin with so 64bit adoption is relatively high even if it doesn't really give so obvious benefits.

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