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Submission + - CCP Upgrades Graphics, Downgrades QA

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Tiller

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @05:26AM

Tiller writes: "CCP has released their biggest expansion to date for Eve Online, the space-based massively multiplayer online game. This new release, titled Trinity, overhauls every 3D model in the game, taking advantage of the latest features in today's graphics cards. The new content truly raises the visual bar for MMOGs and the Trinity trailer videos prove it. Interviews with the developers also reveal many of the new features, game-play changes and the estimated 50-man years that went into the effort. There is only one small problem — The upgrade you apply to enable the premium graphics also deletes your c:\boot.ini file. It is believed that the intention was to delete boot.ini in the root CCP install folder, not the root of the hard drive. Needless to say, CCP is now preventing users from downloading the upgrade and recommending users not reboot their systems until a fix is provided."

Submission + - Crowd-motion software may prevent Mecca stampede

Submitted by

wattsup

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @11:39PM

wattsup writes: "You may recall the stampede that killed hundreds during a mass pilgrimage to Mecca in 2006. Catastrophic stampedes have periodically afflicted the event. The most recent one killed 345 people and injured 289.

Physicists at Dresden University of Technology in Germany studied video recordings of the 2006 stampede, and wrote visual-recognition software to track and measure the motion of individuals in the crowd. Borrowing from the physics of fluids, the scientists have now analyzed the stampede and have recommendations that could make this year's pilgrimage go smoothly."

Submission + - How To Go To MIT For Free

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theodp

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @01:15AM

theodp writes: "Can't scrape up the bucks for junior college tuition? Don't worry, there's always MIT. By the end of 2007, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at MIT will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world thanks to OpenCourseWare (OCW). Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? It's all free of charge."

Journal Journal: No good deed goes unpunished...

Journal by Shadowruni on Friday January 05, 2007 @09:06PM

A few nights ago I was reading my email when I got some phish; an email broken English stating that I MUST use their software. (Not included in the email but linked to instead) to access my Monster.com account. Notwithstanding Monster's WAY too lazy security policy on email addresses (I get a few "shipping coordinator" offers a week); something about this piqued my curiosity.

Submission + - Presents left behind by previous tenants

Submitted by

Joebert

on Thursday January 04, 2007 @05:58AM

Joebert writes: "Thoose of you renting/leasing/ect out dedicated servers, what do you do inbetween tenants ?
Or, how do you go about screening tenants before letting them on your servers ?

How can people be sure that the online store they want to setup on your dedicated server doesn't have a "rootkit" left behind by a previous tenant that scrapes credit card numbers & email addresses from the transactions of any new tenants ?

With this "virtualization" stuff all over the place, wouldn't it be fairly easy for somthing like a "rootkit" to slip through the cracks ?"

Submission + - Microsoft argues software not patentable

Submitted by

MCRocker

on Thursday January 04, 2007 @01:16AM

MCRocker writes: "Linux-Watch reports that in a Supreme Court appeal, 'Microsoft vs. AT&T', Microsoft and a surprise supporter, the Software Freedom Law Center, are effectively arguing against software patents.
SFLC is asking the Supreme Court to decide against U.S. patents applying to software that is copied and distributed overseas.

For nitty-gritty details, check out The Groklaw story."

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