Comment Meh (Score 1) 47
This functionality is available to several other gaming networks, and it would be more newsworthy if they didn't bring one for playstation.
Submission + - Duke Nukem 3D on Unreal Engine
Julefrokost writes: "While we're waiting patiently on "Forever", there are some real news in the Duke Nukem realm. Ars Technica has a story about a fan made Duke 3D in Unreal Engine. There's an awesome demo video up on Youtube. Created by hard core fan Frederick "fresch" Schreiber, we can hopefully expect to see an upgraded Duke 3D in the near future."
Submission + - Court rules bypassing dongles not a DMCA violation (courthousenews.com) 2
tcrown007 writes: MGE UPS makes UPS systems and software that are protected by hardware dongles. After the dongles expired, GE bypassed the dongles and continued to use the software. MGE sued, won, and now lost on GE's appeal. Directly from the court's ruling, "Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision...The owner’s technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing." Say what? I think I just saw a flying pig go by.
Submission + - Invisibility cloak revisited
Underholdning writes: A recurring theme here on Slashdot is invisibility cloaks, so here's the next chapter. According to Physorg, Elena Semouchkina, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Tech has found a way to use Magnetic Resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects, rendering those objects invisible to the human eye. Her invisibility cloak uses metamaterials, which are artificial materials having properties that do not exist in nature, made of tiny glass resonators arranged in a concentric pattern in the shape of a cylinder. The “spokes” of the concentric configuration produce the magnetic resonance required to bend light waves around an object, making it invisible
Submission + - Scientists Create Equation for a Perfect Handshake
Hugh Pickens writes: "Discover Magazine reports that despite the average person shaking hands nearly 15,000 times in a lifetime, one in five (19 per cent) admit they hate the act of the handshake and are unsure how to do it properly, regularly making a handshake faux pas such as having sweaty palms, squeezing too hard or holding on too long while over half the population (56 per cent) say they have been on the receiving end of an unpleasant handshake experience in the past month alone. But help is at hand as scientists have developed a mathematical equation for the perfect handshake taking into account the twelve primary measures needed to convey respect and trust to the recipient. “The human handshake is one of the most crucial elements of impression formation and is used as a source of information for making a judgement about another person," says Professor Geoffrey Beattie, Head of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester, who devised the formula. "A handshake reveals aspects of the personality of the person giving it – for example, a soft handshake can indicate insecurity, whilst a quick-to-let-go handshake can suggest arrogance – so it is surprising that up until now there has not been a guide showing people how they should shake hands." The research was performed at the behest of Chevrolet as part of a handshake training guide for its staff and is meant to offer peace of mind and reassurance to its customers. A full guide to the perfect handshake is available on Flickr."
Submission + - Water found on the moon
firmafest writes: "According to CNN, significant water has been found on the moon. NASA claims that "The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon". Of course, they are talking about a permanent Moon Base which just took a large step closer. New York times also has an article on the findings including a quote from a professor saying "we got more than just a whiff — we practically tasted it""
Submission + - Oracle to sell Sun's hardware biz to HP? 2
Underholdning writes: "With the DOJ approving Oracle's SUN buyour the question arises what Oracle want to do with SUN's hardware business. It's no secret that what Oracle wanted was the software part. Now The Inquired is running a story claiming that Oracle will sell the hardware business of SUN to HP. This will give Oracle a juicy check while HP can increase it's services. However, Larry Ellison denies that it will take place. A source CNN claims otherwise."
Comment Apples servers (Score 1) 278
I'm impressed that Apple's server isn't even sweating while serving hordes of slashdotters eager to take a first look. My initial thoughts after watching the trailer: Wow - very nice visual appearance.
Submission + - New Chrome beta
Underholdning writes: "There's a new beta version of Google Chrome. From the announcement: "Beyond the improvements in JavaScript execution in this latest beta, there are a host of other improvements that should help Google Chrome make the most of your network connection. For example, when you open a new Web page while other Web pages are still loading, Google Chrome is now smarter about prioritizing the requests for the new page--for instance, fetching text, images, and video for your new page--ahead of the requests from the older pages. Loading pages on this beta release should also be faster than ever with DNS caching, more efficient DOM bindings, and using V8 for proxy auto-config. ". Cnet has an overview as well as PC world.. No mention of adblock though."
Submission + - Social Desktop with KDE 4.3
firmafest writes: "The new KDE 4.3 nicknamed Caizen furthers the social networking by bringing it closer to the desktop. Facebook and Twitter are here to stay (and let's be honest — we have an account even if we're die hard geeks). The KDE initiatives goes beyond that though and aims to facilitate community-building by providing a vehicle for connecting open source software enthusiasts to each other. Ars Technica has a well written article on the KDE social desktop and description of the API. How would a social networking site of open source enthusiasts look like? Something like: L33tg33k took the "What language are you" quiz with the result "Assembler". Take your own quiz."
Submission + - Cloud based OS launched
Underholdning writes: "Is the browser a good fundament for an OS? Chrome OS thinks so, and so does a few of the new "cloud based" OS'es. One of the new web based operationg systems is g.ho.st. With 15 Gb of storage, integration with zoho and google docs as well as mobile access, it looks quite interesting. Built partially in Israel and partially in Palestine, G.ho.st is all about collaboration. From their website: Collaboration is at the heart of what G.ho.st does. The G.ho.st team is itself a rare Palestinian-Israeli collaboration. Ghosts go through walls and the very first wall that G.ho.st goes through is the 425 mile wall and fence that Israel is building in the West Bank between itself and the Palestinians and which physically divides the G.ho.st team into two. However the Internet and positive collaboration between human beings transcends all physical boundaries."
Submission + - SpringSource acquires Hyperic
Firmafest writes: "Ars Technica is reporting that SpringSource is acquiring Hyperic.. Hyperic makes infrastructure management tools while SpringSource sells enterprise implementations of Apache Spring . Moving on, Hyperic will be included and the solution now includes development tools, the Spring framework, an application server, and management utilities. SpringSource's CEO says that "The acquisition of Hyperic enables SpringSource to provide a complete, proven suite of lean application infrastructure software products that enable enterprises to accelerate the build, run and manage application lifecycle within the data center, virtual, or cloud computing environments.""
Submission + - Network traffic down 30% after anti-piracy law
Underholdning writes: "CNET is reporting a decrease of net traffic on the first day of Swedish anti piracy law. The law basically requires ISP's to provide the real name and address of an owner of an IP, if the copyright holder can prove illegal activity from said IP. Given that Sweden is the home of The Pirate bay this could be interesting. The rest of EU is also voting — read more about the law at IPRED's homepage. Several publishers took immediate advantage of the legislation, bringing their grievances to court the same day."
Submission + - The death of consoles?
Underholdning writes: "PC World is running an article on OnLive which delivers high quality games running on "the cloud" and simply delivering the output to your device, which does not need to be high end hardware. Over at Engadget they have video demonstration. Approximately 16 minutes into the video they will play the demanding Crysis game. Behind OnLive is an ex Eidos boss and Steve Perlman — inventor of Quicktime. Will this be the end of consoles?"
Submission + - MS Yahoo revisited
Underholdning writes: "According to Business Week, Steve Balmer still wants Yahoo.. They are not after the technology, but the volume. As in the good old dotcom days, it's all about the users. On the same topic, Adweek quotes Balmer:" Microsoft needs a set change for search". It's all about ad money. The more searches you deliver, the more ads you can serve. And currently, MS simply doesn't have the volume. This is where Yahoo comes in. This all makes sense, but is Live Search good enough not to disappoint the new users?"
