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Submission + - RetroN 5 copyright violations on OSS and non-commercial software (libretro.com)

Submitted by martiniturbide
martiniturbide writes: I noticed on the emulation scene that are some complains about the legally of the source code used by the RetroN 5 console (NES, SNES, Super Famicom, Genesis, Mega Drive, Famicom, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and GBA console in one). The open source project called "RetroArch" is complaining that "SNES9x" core and "Genesis Plus GX" core source code are available under a non commercial use license. There are also claims of "TIVO-ization" of the open source code included on RetroN 5. Some discussion and demands to RetroN 5 are registered on the AssemblerGame forum . The blog post show evidence of the binary comparison done with Google's BinDiff tool.

Comment copyright&co will make this 'fun' (Score 2) 75

by Selur (#47948985) Attached to: Intel Putting 3D Scanners In Consumer Tablets Next Year, Phones To Follow

This is a nice thing in the long run (once 3D printers are more widely spread, better and cheaper), but in the short run this will probably cause more trouble than it is worth.
Thinking about a younger person, like my son, who might scan some of his toys,gimmicks,... and post those scans somewhere and about some lawyer suing because he violated some laws he wasn't really aware of.
-> once 3D printers are more wide-spread the fun really starts :)

Comment Must be too old,.. (Score 1) 359

by Selur (#47824577) Attached to: How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms

I conquered school (and university) without having a graphical calculator. And yes, I'm one of those who still knows how to calculate stuff in their head and work with fractions, integrals,.. on a normal piece of paper.

+ I too agree 150 $ for a school calculator is way too high, but I don't really see the point why a graphic calculator is really needed to begin with.

Submission + - NEWS: iPhone 5 catches fire (bestpcinfos.com)

Submitted by ESHWAR VIJAY T V
ESHWAR VIJAY T V writes: In an aircraft headed for Prague from Israel, the iphone 5 of traveler Yardin Levi burst into flames, because of which the whole airplane must be deboarded. Said iphone 5 was in flares, and the vapor spread through the lodge, driving the group to clear all travelers.

The motivation behind why the iphone burst into flames is still obscure. Doubtlessly, Levi needed to desert his iphone at the Tel-Aviv airplane terminal in Israel. In the end, everybody was asked to board the aircraft and ordinary operations continued.

Submission + - Western U.S. states using up ground water at an alarming rate (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: A new study shows that ground water in the Colorado basin is being depleted six times faster than surface water. The groundwater losses, which take thousands of years to be recharged naturally, point to the unsustainability of exploding population centers and water-intensive agriculture in the basin, which includes most of Arizona and parts of Colorado, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Because ground water feeds many of the streams and rivers in the area, more of them will run dry.

Submission + - Black Hat presentation on TOR suddenly cancelled

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: A presentation on a low-budget method to unmask users of a popular online privacy tool, TOR, will no longer go ahead at the Black Hat security conference early next month. The talk was nixed by the legal counsel with Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute after a finding that materials from researcher Alexander Volynkin were not approved for public release, according to a notice on the conference’s website. https://www.blackhat.com/lates... Volynkin, a research scientist with the university’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) was due to give a talk entitled “You Don’t Have to be the NSA to Break Tor: Deanonymizing Users on a Budget” at the conference, which take places Aug. 6-7 in Last Vegas.

Submission + - Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin (dell.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Mainstream retail companies have been slow to adopt Bitcoin, perhaps skeptical of its long-term value or unwilling to expend the effort required to put a payment system into place. Today, Bitcoin adoption got a momentum boost with Dell's announcement that it will accept Bitcoin as a payment method. Dell is by far the biggest company to start accepting Bitcoin. It's interesting to note that Dell, like many of the larger companies interacting with Bitcoin right now, is doing so through a third-party payment processor. On one hand, it's good — we don't necessarily want each company building their own implementation and possibly screwing it up. On the other hand, it scales back slightly the decentralized and feeless nature of Bitcoin, which are important features to many of its supporters.

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