Digital Autumn - Slashdot User

Comment Re:In Russia, commie govt gives health care to YOU (Score 2, Informative) 801

by Digital Autumn on Monday November 23, 2009 @06:38PM (#30207306) Attached to: Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort

You sure about your numbers there? I for one have been one of the uninsured, both ineligible for government programs, and not an "illegal intruder." I know lots of people in the same boat, certainly enough to doubt that we round to zero.

Comment Re:Hmmm.. (Score 1) 600

by Digital Autumn on Saturday June 20, 2009 @10:09PM (#28406789) Attached to: Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet

Which would be the same if you looked at what most people read. Most people aren't reading anything more enlightening in print than they are online.

Submission + - Best Handset of Freedom?

Submitted by

Father Thomas Dowd

on Saturday June 20, 2009 @02:47PM

Father Thomas Dowd writes: "The images we are seeing of Iran are being captured on cell phones, the text is being twittered over SMS. Still, the government has some control the networks, and we are all familiar with fears of wiretap etc. technologies to spy on users. If cell phone is the new tool of freedom, what would the best "freedom handset" contain? I'm thinking a device with an open OS, where each phone could be itself a router for encrypted messages passed through Bluetooth/WiFi/whatever, thereby totally bypassing physical infrastructures when necessary. Of course, some sort of plausible deniability encryption a la Truecrypt would also be good, in case the secret police catch you with your phone. What else might we need?"

Comment Re:Japanese impression of the Spanish? (Score 1) 121

by Digital Autumn on Saturday June 20, 2009 @02:47PM (#28403451) Attached to: The Origins of Video Game Names

Those bastards. When will they stop painting their cartoonish stereotypical video game characters with such a prejudiced brush? I'm beginning to wonder if New Yorkers are really as plucky as Little Mac led me to think.

Comment Re:Russia-Japan issue (Score 1) 121

by Digital Autumn on Saturday June 20, 2009 @02:42PM (#28403419) Attached to: The Origins of Video Game Names

I think you have still failed to show how prevalent this is in their culture. I could find two disturbing pictures from every country in the world, what does that prove?

Submission + - Open sourced FPS game, Alien Arena 2009 released. (on.net)

Submitted by Alienkillerrace on Saturday June 20, 2009 @11:01AM

Alienkillerrace writes: The open sourced freeware FPS game, Alien Arena 2009, has been released(Windows and Linux). The improvements to the game engine are very signifigant, and have surely raised the bar for free games of this genre. All surfaces in the game now are rendered using GLSL, not only improving the visual quality, but the performance has been sped up as well. Interesting new effects like post process distortions using GLSL have been implemented, as well as light volumes, better per-pixel lighting reminiscent of UT3, and shaded water. Just as notable, is that the sound system has been completely rewritten using OpenAL, allowing for effects such as Doppler, and Ogg-Vorbis support. The game is free to play, has a stats system, as well as a built in IRC client in it's front-end game browser.

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