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Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games 437

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:54PM from the shoot-em-up dept.

PetManimal writes "Computerworld is reporting that gamers who have installed Vista are reporting problems with first person-shooter titles such as CounterStrike, Half-Life 2, Doom 3. and F.E.A.R. (Users have compiled lists of games with Vista issues.) The complaints, which have turned up on gamers' forums, cite crashes and low frame rates. Not surprisingly, the problems relate to graphics hardware and software: 'Experts blame still-flaky software drivers, Vista's complexity, and a dearth of new video cards optimized for Vista's new rendering technology, DirectX 10. That's despite promises from Microsoft that Vista is backwards-compatible with XP's graphic engine, DirectX 9, and that it will support existing games. Meanwhile, games written to take advantage of DirectX 10 have been slow to emerge. And one Nvidia executive predicts that gamers may not routinely see games optimized for DirectX 10 until mid-2008.'"

Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends 100

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:14PM from the flexible-communications dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to CNET, who are out at 3GSM in Barcelona, Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable. The Motorola Z8, as the bendy phone is called, runs on a Symbian based platform and also displays video at up to 30 frames per second."

Submission + - Congress Wants ISPs to Log Your Online Life

Submitted by

walmartshopper67

on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:50PM

walmartshopper67 writes: "Crooks and Liars is reporting that Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) has introduced a bill that would require ISPs to "record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely". The bill would impose heavy fines and jail time on ISPs that do not save the required information. Not that this will pass, but come on, how can anyone think this is a good idea?"

Submission + - FBI loosing classified data?

Submitted by zentechno on Monday February 12, 2007 @04:33PM

zentechno writes: An audit conducted by the Inspector General, and reported at least on CNN has revealed the FBI has lost 10 (more) laptops, which doesn't bother me, but they contained classified information, which I find outrageous. This brings the total of lost FBI laptops to 160 in the 44 months ending in December 2005. Moreover, an audit says 300 laptops were stolen in the previous 28 months (along with an equal number of weapons, but I dare say the information on these laptops has far greater potential to be more dangerious than any weapon I'd atleast care to imagine our government would loose)! First of all, don't these guys take greater precautions to not "loose" *anything*, and if so don't they take greater precautions to not loose data, and by loose I of course mean expose? I wonder how much time and money goes into reacting to the threat incurred by lost information — counter-counter intelligence, so to speak? As a long-time network-and-data security guy, it really bothers me how long it's taking to get anything approaching reasonable protection of DATA, ESPECIALLY from our government. As a follow-on question, how much of our perception of security and privacy is effected by the "almost good enough" data protection of the public sector? When will people demand better for/from their government if not for themselves?

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