Comment OwnCloud (Score 1) 2
I look forward to the online interface. I would set it up in conjunction with owncloud. No relying on another cloud for me!
Submission + - Xbox Live users suffering hacked accounts, FIFA 11 (arstechnica.com)
tomstockmail writes: Ars Technica has received a number of reports from Xbox Live customers complaining about hacked accounts, unauthorized purchases, and a slow response from Microsoft itself. The pattern is weirdly specific: gamers notice that unauthorized purchases have been made using their credit card information or existing points, and FIFA Soccer 11 or 12 has been played on their account.
Update: Microsoft has sent us the following statement:
“We do not have any evidence the Xbox LIVE service has been compromised. We take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats. However, a limited number of members have contacted us regarding unauthorized access to their accounts by outside individuals. We are working with our impacted members directly to resolve any unauthorized changes to their accounts. As always, we highly recommend our members follow the Xbox LIVE Account Security guidance provided at www.xbox.com/security to protect your account."
A thread on Reddit has a few unreliable confirmations:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/lc1jf/xbox_live_users_suffering_hacked_accounts_fifa_11/
Update: Microsoft has sent us the following statement:
“We do not have any evidence the Xbox LIVE service has been compromised. We take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats. However, a limited number of members have contacted us regarding unauthorized access to their accounts by outside individuals. We are working with our impacted members directly to resolve any unauthorized changes to their accounts. As always, we highly recommend our members follow the Xbox LIVE Account Security guidance provided at www.xbox.com/security to protect your account."
A thread on Reddit has a few unreliable confirmations:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/lc1jf/xbox_live_users_suffering_hacked_accounts_fifa_11/
Submission + - Problems plague iCloud (reuters.com)
tripleevenfall writes: Apple Inc rolled out its new iCloud service and latest mobile software to a chorus of user complaints this week, after glitches led to email access problems and long delays in installation.
Some users reported losing their email access as Apple formally launched iCloud, an online communications, media storage and backup service, on Wednesday.
"It failed in a very nasty way in that mail sometimes vanished, sometimes appeared then vanished, and often there was a user and/or password-incorrect message plus some rather obscure additional error messages," said David Farber, a professor of engineering and public policy with Carnegie Mellon University.
Some users reported losing their email access as Apple formally launched iCloud, an online communications, media storage and backup service, on Wednesday.
"It failed in a very nasty way in that mail sometimes vanished, sometimes appeared then vanished, and often there was a user and/or password-incorrect message plus some rather obscure additional error messages," said David Farber, a professor of engineering and public policy with Carnegie Mellon University.
Submission + - Unity must go (wordpress.com)
00_NOP writes: "Like many Ubuntu users I hate the "Unity" desktop. Actually, "hate" is not strong enough. It is utterly loathsome, like something produced by a child in kindergarten. It pops up when you don't need it and when you do need something it's difficult to find. So I posted a short blog on how to get rid of it and the traffic keeps on rising as more and more upgraders to Ubuntu 11.10, where Unity is imposed (in 11.04 it was the default choice but a "classic" option was also available), look to get rid of it. So how can we force Mark Shuttleworth and the rest to take notice?"
Submission + - Throwable 36-camera ball takes perfect panoramas (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "Jonas Pfeil, a student from the Technical University of Berlin has created a rugged, grapefruit-sized ball that has 36 fixed-focus, 2-megapixel digital camera sensors built in. The user simply throws the ball into the air and photos are simultaneously taken with all 36 cameras to create a full, spherical (360-degree?) panorama of the surrounding scene. The ball itself is made with a 3D printer, and the innards (which includes 36 STM VS6724 CMOS camera sensors, an accelerometer, and two microcontrollers to control the cameras) are adequately padded, so presumably it doesn’t matter if you suck at throwing and catching. You can see from the video below that the ball is too big (but not too heavy) for single-handed use — but considering this is the work of a master’s degree student, it’s safe to assume that the same hardware could be miniaturized into something like a tennis ball — at which point, this ball would probably revolutionize holiday snapshots, wedding photos, and more."
Submission + - Look Ma, I'm Getting Arrested! (cnet.com)
robotissues writes: "Cnet reviews "I'm Getting Arrested", an Android app that alerts your lawyer, loved ones, etc if you have been arrested peacefully demonstrating. Makes it easy to broadcast a message via SMS in the event all hell breaks loose."
Comment Re:Go away customers! (Score 1) 271
Eye for an Eye!
Comment Re:Pay what you want - to open source programmers. (Score 1) 271
Those games aren't open source. I have no idea where you got that from.
Comment Re:Go away customers! (Score 1) 271
Sony doesn't make money from second hand game sales. This is very bad for GameStop. Why doesn't slashdot make up their mind who they hate more?
Comment Re:Carefuly Planned and Profesional? (Score 1) 575
Except for that file that said:
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/04/sonys-response-to-the-u-s-house-of-representatives/
Comment Thanks /. (Score 0) 68
I don't know what I would have done today if I didn't read a news article on an astronaut going to space.
Comment APNG/MNG (Score 3, Interesting) 129
We need to start utilizing APNG or MNG. Firefox does support APNG, most Webkit browsers do not sadly.
APNG has the advantage of displaying the first frame in any PNG capable program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNG
Comment Re:Scapegoat (Score 1, Insightful) 321
When said corporation is said to be the target for a few weeks prior, I think it's more than scapegoating. It's a confirmation.
Comment Re:Glad it wasn't Sony being petty (Score 0) 321
Take a look at the comments, no one else on /. is concerned about you're credit card. Instead they would rather say someone that isn't a part of Anonymous didn't do it and that Sony deserved it.
Comment Re:Personal Data? (Score 1) 321
but not so much "is my credit card that the PSN stores secure?"
Which is precisely what Sony is investigating. First
