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Submission + - EVE Online - mass player unsubbing due to store (eveonline.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Basically most of the vets who play EVE Online are quitting en-mass. CCP, the publishers of EVE Online are pushing ahead with a micro transaction store ($70 for a monocle on your avatar) which will include in-game benefits. Massive nerd-rage. CCP is in damage control but leaks from within in the company indicate that they will move ahead with their plans.

Submission + - Hackers leak Tony Blair's address book (scmagazine.com.au)

Submitted by mask.of.sanity
mask.of.sanity writes: An underground hacking group has leaked what appears to be an address book of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The address book contains about 60 entries including names and addresses allegedly "friends, and family" of the former PM along with contacts allegedly of members of parliament.

It also allegedly included Blair's National Insurance Number.

Address book on pastebin.

Comment Re:Starsiege: Tribes and Possibly Achron (Score 1) 325

by TribesPlaying-iuSioN (#31595600) Attached to: The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History
I played that game to death and even though competition seems to be as good as dead, some people still play even today, almost 12 years later. For an idea of how the gameplay evolved over time check out this video, split into three parts, which sparked the Tribes revival a few years back: It's called Legends and it still gives someone who played it for so long goosebumps :) Especially considering the steep learning curve of the game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV07MgjpoLE&annotation_id=annotation_233962&feature=iv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6vZuCNX0Y&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ExmlQ1graw&feature=related
Government

Leak Shows US Lead Opponent of ACTA Transparency 164

Posted by timothy from the putting-on-an-acta dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Throughout the debate over ACTA transparency, the secret copyright treaty, many countries have taken public positions that they support release of the actual text, but that other countries do not. Since full transparency requires consensus of all the ACTA partners, the text simply can't be released until everyone is in agreement. A new leak from the Netherlands fingers who the chief opponents of transparency are: the United States, South Korea, Singapore, and Denmark lead the way, with Belgium, Germany, and Portugal not far behind as problem countries."
Cellphones

Submission + - Samsung Enters Smartphone Wars With bada OS (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Samsung is betting there's room for more in the smartphone market and has unveiled its new bada OS. The name "bada," means "ocean" in Korean and was chosen to convey the "limitless variety of potential applications which can be created using the new platform." Samsung claims the OS is extremely simple for developers. bada was built to be extremely interactive with its users — including flash control, motion sensing, fine-tuned vibration control and face detection. Samsung is hoping developers will take this user interface and create a variety of applications focused around it — and thus different types of apps than the iPhone and Android OS have. The bada OS has a variety of sensors, including accelerometers, tilt, weather, proximity and activity. Samsung will be hosting a series of Developer Days in Seoul, London and San Francisco, among other cities, throughout 2010."
Hardware

Submission + - IBM's newest mainframe is all Linux (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: IBM has released a new mainframe server that doesn't include its z/OS operating system. This Enterprise Linux Server line supports supports Red Hat or Suse. The system is packaged with mainframe management and virtualization tools. Its minimum processor configuration are two specialty mainframe processors designed for Linux. IBM wants to go after large multicore x86 Linux servers and believes the $212,000 entry price can do it.

Submission + - 120 Watt laser at room temperature (upi.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: EVANSTON, Ill., Dec. 2 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.

The Northwestern University researchers, led by Professor Manijeh Razeghi, said their accomplishment is particularly attractive for infrared countermeasures — a way of misguiding incoming missiles to protect commercial and military aircraft.

Submission + - Stem Cells Can Be Engineered to Kill HIV

Submitted by QPhaze
QPhaze writes: "Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells — a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases." [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132732.htm]asdf

Submission + - Slashdot Poll

Submitted by martyros
martyros writes: How old is your main personal computer?
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Google

Submission + - Google confirms, downplays Gmail phishing attack (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Google confirmed today that passwords for its free Gmail online e-mail service had been harvested by hackers, but downplayed the phishing attack as involving just a "small number" of accounts. Earlier Tuesday, the BBC reported that both Gmail and Yahoo Mail had been targeted by a large-scale identity theft scam, perhaps the same one that collected between 10,000 and 20,000 passwords from those services as well as from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, Comcast, Earthlink and others. "We recently became aware of a phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for Web-based mail accounts including a small number of Gmail accounts," a Google spokesman confirmed today in a reply to questions from Computerworld. "As soon as we learned of the attack, we forced password resets on the affected accounts. We will continue to force password resets on additional accounts if we become aware of them." Like Microsoft on Monday, Google today denied that Gmail had been hacked, and Gmail usernames and passwords stolen because of a lapse on its end. "This was not a Gmail security issue, but rather a phishing scheme," said the Google spokesman.
Apple

Submission + - AT&T and Apple to allow VoIP on iPhone (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by MoxFulder
MoxFulder writes: Blogger Cecilia Kang at the Washington Post reports that AT&T plans to allow Apple to enable VoIP applications on the iPhone. Presumably this will include Google Voice? Apparently, they are trying to stay ahead of government regulation, now that it looks like the FCC is ready to enact rules enforcing network neutrality.
Technology

Submission + - SPAM: Huge magnet 100,000X stronger than Earth's pull 3

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: So you want to build a magnet 100,000-times stronger than the pull of the Earth's magnetic field, what do you need? Well, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory this week spent $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand (or about 7 miles total) to help build such a magnet.

The materials, being supplied by Luvata Waterbury and Oxford Superconducting Technology are being used to build what's known as the Toroidal Field Magnets for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in at Cadarache, France. Each Toroidal Field coil will weigh 360 tons.

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