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Submission + - Hijacking the controls of a Japanese Toilet (blogspot.com)

Submitted by rtsandiego on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:00PM

rtsandiego writes: Mission accomplished. I've verified that the use of an "off the shelf" learning remote control is capable of learning the IR data command streams for the Toto Toilet! Have fun by starting and stopping the Bidet commands on your unsuspecting friends!

Submission + - Argentina Censors Millions Of Websites 3

Submitted by bs0d3 on Saturday August 20, 2011 @10:45AM

bs0d3 writes: A judge in Argentina ordered ISPs to block two websites--leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com . According to google many isps have simply blocked the ip 216.239.32.2 instead of a targeted dns filter. Several million blogspot blogs are hosted at this ip.

Freedom of speech advocate Jillian York writes:
IP blocking is a blunt method of filtering content that can erase from view large swaths of innocuous sites by virtue of the fact that they are hosted on the same IP address as the site that was intended to be censored. One such example of overblocking by IP address can be found in India, where the IP blocking of a Hindu Unity website (blocked by an order from Mumbai police) resulted in the blocking of several other, unrelated sites. As Andrade points out, "There are other less restrictive technical procedures than the one used, which allow ISPs to comply with court orders fully, while affecting only the sites involved."

Submission + - The gamification of life (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

nk497

on Saturday August 20, 2011 @08:41AM

nk497 writes: "Techniques developed in computer games are finding their way into shopping, education and the workplace. Gamification is one of the major tech buzz words lately, but systems like Foursquare show it's catching on. Are we moving to a world where we get points for brushing our teeth or cycling to work instead of driving, or are such motivational techniques actually counterproductive — and what happens when people work out how to cheat?"

Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 30, 2010 @07:06AM from the five-button-discount dept.

Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the dubious honor of being the most pirated game of 2010. The PC version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox 360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision, the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+ players have racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since the game's launch in early November.

Submission + - Adobe's ADEPT DRM broken (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08, 2009 @10:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: I love cabbages has reverse-engineered Adobe's ADEPT DRM (e-book protection). On February 18, I love cabbages released code that decrypts EPUB e-books protected with ADEPT and followed that up on February 25, with code that decrypts PDF e-books protected with ADEPT. On March 4, I love cabbages was given a DMCA take down notice. And there's plenty of evidence he got it right. DS:TNG (Dmitry Sklyarov: The Next Generation)?

TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors 194

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @11:14AM from the what-does-that-mean dept.

David Gerard noted an interesting story going down with a relatively minor project that has interesting implications for any Open Source project. He writes "Ten years ago, Peter Thoeny started the TWiki wiki engine. It attracted many contributors at twiki.org. About a year ago, Thoeny founded the startup twiki.net. On 27th October, twiki.net locked all the other contributors out of twiki.org in an event Thoeny called 'the twiki.org relaunch.' Here's the IRC meeting log. All the other core developers have now moved to a new project, NextWiki. Is it a sensible move for a venture capital firm that depends on a healthy Open Source community to lock it out?"

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