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Submission + - DOSBox available on the Apple App Store (toucharcade.com)

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hansamurai

on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:12PM

hansamurai writes: "iDOS, a DOS emulator based on the open source gem DOSBox, has been approved and released on the Apple App Store. Being a fully featured emulator, users have already successfully installed Windows 3.0 on it along with a slew of classic titles such as Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and most of the Ultima titles. There is speculation on whether or not Apple actually meant to approve the app as they have usually quickly dismissed any applications that emulated other software. So if you're looking for your portable DOS fix, get iDOS while it's hot for only 99 cents."

Submission + - Steve Jobs recommends Android for fans of porn (wired.com)

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on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @09:24AM

hansamurai writes: "After being asked about the App Store's recent ban on "sexy apps," Steve Jobs responded, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone. You know, there's a porn store for Android, you can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there." Apps such as Playboy's and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition are still available on the App Store, however, as they come from "more reputable companies.""

Submission + - Turing test built into a spy video game on its way (destructoid.com)

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on Friday March 19, 2010 @08:51PM

hansamurai writes: "An independent game developer is developing SpyParty, a two player spy simulation that is essentially a Turing test in the form of a video game. One player controls a guest at a dinner party and the other controls a sniper conveniently positioned outside the party's large window. The player at the party is among a group of A.I. controlled characters and must blend in with them and perform various tasks as inconspicuously has possible. The sniper is looking for the tell-tale sign that one of those characters is not like the other and has one shot to take them out. SpyParty was shown at the Game Developer's Conference, but is supposedly two years away according to developer Chris Hecker, a former Maxis developer who led the development of many procedural generated portions of Spore."

Submission + - Disgruntled ex-employee remotely disables 100 cars (wired.com) 2

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on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @05:08PM

hansamurai writes: "Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox were remotely disabled when a former employee of dealership Texas Auto Center got hold of his employer's database of users. Webtech Plus is repossession software that allows the dealership to disable a car's ignition or trigger the horn to honk when a payment is due. Owners had to remove the battery to stop the incessant honking. After the dealership began fielding an unusually high number of calls from upset car owners, they changed the passwords to the Webtech Plus software and then traced the IP address used to access the client to its former employee."

Submission + - Game of Thrones is a go on HBO (chicagotribune.com)

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on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:19PM

hansamurai writes: "George R. R. Martin's popular fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is seeing its television dreams come true with HBO green lighting the first season of A Game of Thrones. The pilot was shot in Northern Ireland last year and shooting will resume now that nine more episodes have been approved. While no firm date for the premier has been set, speculation puts it at least a year away. Fans can only hope this does not affect Martin's writing schedule of A Dance with Dragons too much."

Submission + - Speed reader hired to read 932 pg bill to Congress (washingtonpost.com)

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on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:03PM

hansamurai writes: "Henry Waxman (D-CA) hired a speed reader to read the 932 page Cap and Trade bill to the House Energy and Commerce Committee after Republicans demanded the bill be read aloud. While he only read for a few minutes, the committee had a good laugh at it, one even joked that the bill already created one job out of the speed reader. However, actually reading the bills Congressmen sign off on is a serious issue for some, including Downsize DC, a non-profit group attempting to get a bill passed that would require any Congressman who is approving a bill to actually have read it themselves."

Submission + - Left 4 Dead 2 Announced at E3 with Trailer (kotaku.com)

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on Monday June 01, 2009 @03:39PM

hansamurai writes: "Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at E3 by Microsoft and a trailer for the game has surfaced. The game will be released November 17, 2009, just a year after the first. Gameplay changes include a new focus on melee weapons, especially the iconic anti-zombie weapon, the chainsaw. The cast of characters is brand new but appears to take place during the same zombie outbreak."

Submission + - Wolverine film leaked a month before release (bbc.co.uk)

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on Thursday April 02, 2009 @09:13AM

hansamurai writes: "The FBI are investigating the leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine a month before the film's cinema release. The movie was reported to have been downloaded several 100,000 times and has since been "removed." Viewers have called the movie incomplete, missing some special effects and music. Fox and the MPAA are still upset though, but say the copy is forensically marked and can be traced to the leak. The film is due out May 1st in the United States, and the leaked copy is marked March 2nd."

Submission + - Game Over! The World's Most Inaccessible Game

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on Friday April 20, 2007 @11:13PM

hansamurai writes: "Kotaku uncovers a computer game that describes itself as the "world's first (and hopefully only) universally inaccessible game." Game Over! is a Space Invader derivative in which each level exhibits an absolutely horrible design decision to frustrate the player. The game is meant to serve as a teaching tool in how not to design games. There are 21 levels in all where the violated guidelines range from having to press three keys simultaneously just to move left, to audio and visual frustrations such as no subtitles for important spoken commands. Along with each level, Game Over! provides tips and quotes on how to avoid design pitfalls. The game is available for download on Windows, OSX, and Linux."

Submission + - PS3 Folding@Home Begins with Impressive Numbers

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on Friday March 23, 2007 @02:21PM

hansamurai writes: "The PS3 Folding@Home client has been released and some early results are in. The total number of teraflops generated by the PS3 has already exceeded all other OS contributions combined and the entire project is heading towards one petaflop of distributed computing power. Stanford notes that their teraflops calculation is conservatively calculated so the total power could be under-appreciated. With the PS3 European release complete and the Folding client already available to them, the number of users will continue to grow for the time being, let's hope that the project does not run out of work units to pass out. Kotaku has some numbers that are a few hours old since the Stanford server is getting hit pretty hard with the renewed interest in the project."

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