TiZon - Slashdot User

Example.com Has Changed 109

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:25PM from the foo-baz-is-now-frum-burz dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The familiar example.com domain, reserved for private testing, has been updated. Visiting the domain in a web browser no longer displays any content; instead, visitors are redirected to an explanatory page on IANA's website at iana.org/domains/example/. Other example domains such as example.net are also affected. Is this a bad change? Will the redirect cause problems for anybody?"

A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime 112

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 29, 2011 @06:24PM from the recreation-opportunities dept.

mikejuk writes with this snippet from I, Programmer: "True 3D realtime holography is not only possible — it makes use of a Kinect as its input device. A team at MIT has recreated the famous 3D Princess Leia scene from the original Star Wars — but as a live video feed! It's a great stunt but don't miss the importance — this is realtime 3D holography and that means you can view it without any glasses or other gadgets and you can move around and see behind objects in the scene. This is more than the flat 3D you get in movies."

Comment killer text message (Score 1) 573

by TiZon on Friday January 28, 2011 @11:59AM (#35033028) Attached to: Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber

Talk about a 'killer text message'...

Submission + - ISP making it impossible to change router settings (google.com)

Submitted by TiZon on Sunday January 23, 2011 @06:02PM

TiZon writes: Earlier this week, Telenet (a belgian ISP) started swapping modems to a new all-in-one type. The end-user is no longer able to change settings other then what the ISP allows them to. As of this moment it is no longer possible to disable NAT or DHCP. Rendering the connection useless to people who want to use VPN (via PPTP or IPsec) since the ISP disabled these functions. Is this a new step in the wole net neutrality-story?
More info here: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tik.be%2Fkritiek-na-fibernet-lanceringen (google translation)

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