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Comment Wait, what? (Score 1) 388

by macsuibhne (#38275834) Attached to: IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info

I was with you on most of those right up until the last one. Admittedly they could all fall under the rubric of "right wing litmus tests", but really? I can understand committed vegetarians who object to animal butchery for human consumption, or for any other reason (though I find that hard to reconcile with the fact that our own immune systems slaughter millions of bacteria, not to mention our own cells, every day). But I really cannot think of a sane rationale proscribing ritually prepared food, other than xenophobia, in a country where eating meat is legal.

Comment Re:It's called Kalocin. (Score 1) 414

by macsuibhne (#37064024) Attached to: New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection

No, I expect the state to pay for them out of general taxation. Modern strains of TB, common in South Africa and the New York prison system require a multiple month course of very nasty, old fashioned drugs. They make you feel sick as all hell, and you can't afford them anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensively_drug-resistant_tuberculosis
Security

Submission + - Sony "rebuilding" PlayStation Network after attack (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is "rebuilding" its system to better guard against attacks. Sony said on Saturday that the outage was caused by an "external intrusion" into the network, but has yet to detail the problem. The PlayStation Network is used for PlayStation 3 online gaming and sales of software to consoles and the PlayStation Portable. The Qriocity service runs on the same network infrastructure and provides audio and video to Sony consumer electronics products.

Comment Re:The ultimate evil (Score 1) 945

by macsuibhne (#34692862) Attached to: The Right's War On Net Neutrality

Your 'bot has malfunctioned: there is an unbalanced parenthesis in the fourth paragraph; I'm guessing trying to squeeze Al Gore into the frankly nonsensical diatribe/parody threw off the parser. There will be another Turing test next week. In the meantime, you fail.

Tony.
Patents

RuneScape Developer Victorious Over Patent Troll 89

Posted by Soulskill from the vanquishing-trolls dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Gamasutra reports that a US District Court judge has dismissed the patent infringement lawsuit brought against RuneScape developer Jagex discussed previously on Slashdot. Judge David Folsom last week dismissed online chat company Paltalk's claims that Jagex infringed on Paltalk patents relating to online network communications. The judge's ruling only resolved Jagex's case. Microsoft settled with Paltalk for an undisclosed sum in 2009 after the online communication technology company sued over the patents in a $90 million claim. That settlement opened the door to Paltalk's claims against other game companies, including Blizzard, Turbine, SOE and NCSoft. Paltalk alleged in the Jagex-related suit that it had suffered 'tens of millions of dollars' in damages. Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard said in a statement, 'It is exceedingly unfortunate that the US legal system can force a company with a sole presence in Cambridge, UK to incur a seven-digit expense and waste over a year of management time on a case with absolutely no merit,' and that Jagex 'will not hesitate to vigorously defend our position against any patent trolls who bring lawsuits against us in the future.'"

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