Comment Re:Software has no business (Score 3, Insightful) 345
If you believe that then man, I hope you never find out how an Airplane works!
Comment Re:Hmmm, well let me see how I feel about this (Score 1) 631
This is likely to be the first game I will "obtain for free" for several years. Like you I liked AC1 and like you I was going to buy AC2 but fuck that noise, my net connection regularly goes down and I am NOT going to be denied an offline gaming experience because of it.
Get a grip Ubisoft.
Get a grip Ubisoft.
Comment Oh come on (Score 5, Funny) 613
First we had submitters who didn't read the stories they were posting.
Then we had editors who didn't read the stories they were approving.
Now we have companies who don't read the articles they put out.
Seriously, it's called a file cache. That's how it's supposed to work. Nice job, idiots.
Comment It's not news, its Far... er, I mean, slashdot. (Score 1) 126
I mean really? A bug in beta software? This is outrageous, haul Microsoft up before congress immediately.
Submission + - EC mulling legal action over Phorm in the UK (bbc.co.uk)
megla writes: Regular readers may remember the attempts to introduce Phorm in the UK by various ISPs. Phorm provides targeted adverts by trawling a user's browsing history using equipment installed at the ISP level and has been tested out by several of them, including one trial by BT which did not notify users that their browsing was effectively being intercepted.
Now, despite the British government's protestations that this was all above board, the EC is looking into taking legal action against the UK for the way it handled the trial. It seems that not everyone was convinced by the government's attempts to legitimise such an abuse of privacy.
Now, despite the British government's protestations that this was all above board, the EC is looking into taking legal action against the UK for the way it handled the trial. It seems that not everyone was convinced by the government's attempts to legitimise such an abuse of privacy.
Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 245
Of course, it would have helped if I hadn't run on autopilot and put a needless order by clause on the end, but you get the idea.
Submission + - Yahoo bringing adverts to PDF files
megla writes: The BBC reports that Adobe and Yahoo have reached a deal to place dynamic adverts in PDFs. From the article:
Perhaps now is the time to block PDF reader in your firewall...
The service will allow publishers to make money by including adverts linked to the content of a PDF document in a panel at the side of the page.
As if the standard PDF reader wasn't bloated enough already, now it's going to be reading your documents, sending information about them to Yahoo, and displaying adverts.Perhaps now is the time to block PDF reader in your firewall...
Submission + - last.fm bought by CBS for $280m
megla writes: The BBC is reporting that last.fm has been purchased by CBS for the princely sum of $280m — not quite up to Gootube levels, but fairly significant.
While the article quotes founding member Martin Stiksel as saying it's "an exciting opportunity", I can't help but feel that not all the 15 million users will agree with the effects of commercialization.
As yet their seems to be no announcement on the last.fm website.
While the article quotes founding member Martin Stiksel as saying it's "an exciting opportunity", I can't help but feel that not all the 15 million users will agree with the effects of commercialization.
As yet their seems to be no announcement on the last.fm website.
