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Comment Re:Not really surprising. (Score 1) 473

This Ubisoft one violates the "don't do anything on the system not related to your product" clause.

I have to mention the NCsoft nProtect here, the reason I dropped out of Aion. They were detecting running processes to see if you were trying to "cheat" by using debugging tools. These included notepad++ and filezilla apparently along with a multitude of applications someone might have on his system for other reasons. Now for the kicker: When detected, instead of nProtect preventing the game from runnung it would KILL those applications. Seems many companies believe our computers are there just to run their game.

Comment Re:not just autorun! (Score 1) 639

The USB stick concept is wrong. Every other popular removable medium was just that, a medium. You could only mount files on a computer with floppies, cds, zips, and even sticking HDs and flash cards. USB sticks are evil because they can be anything. They load a driver that's kernel level and instruct it to do anything it can, as demonstrated by the USB stick keyboard. People need to get SD readers and use those.

Biotech

Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage 417

An anonymous reader writes "Hold on to your hamburgers — Japanese scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama has invented an artificial meat substitute made from human feces. The unseemly meal is made by extracting protein and lipids from 'sewage mud.' The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer and whipped into 'meat' in an exploder. Ikeda makes the 'meat' more palatable by adding things like soy protein."
The Internet

Submission + - Most IPv6-certified home network gear buggy (networkworld.com)

Julie188 writes: "The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab held an IPv6 consumer electronics Plugfest on Feb. 14 and CableLabs has scheduled two more for this year. UNH is tight-lipped about the results, but the sad fact is that most home routers and DSL/cable modems certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are so full of implementation bugs that they can't be used by ISPs for IPv6 field trials. And that's not helping the Internet have a smooth, fast transition to IPv6. Though OpenWRT and DD-WRT solve the problem, ISPs point out that requiring the average consumer to upgrade their own firmware, because the manufacturer can't do IPv6 right, isn't a practical solution."

Comment Re:Play more games (Score 3, Funny) 103

No, you're just that good, that was a disguise!! The game is messing with the sprites to make you loose!
A friend of mine was so good, the game started feigning door knocks and phone rings to distract him. When that didn't work, it threatened to delete his files if he didn't commit suicide ingame.
He, for one, welcomes his new Mario Overlord..

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