DeepCerulean - Slashdot User

Comment: sigh (Score 1) 377

by DeepCerulean on Tuesday July 28 2009, @11:17AM (#28852965) Attached to: Ubisoft Working On a New Anti-Piracy Tool

The two Ubisoft games I've played recently (Assassins Creed and Prince of Persia) were both beautiful to look at but incredibly repetitive and not all that fun to play after an hour or so. Since then, on more than one occasion I've seen an awesome trailer that made me think "damn I need to go get that game"...until the Ubisoft logo comes up and I think "nevermind...there are better things to spend my $60 on"...I imagine that has more to do with their sales lag than piracy does...it's not like piracy rates have suddenly shot through the roof.

Comment: sigh what a waste (Score 1) 303

by DeepCerulean on Friday September 12 2008, @06:31PM (#24984847) Attached to: HP May Be Developing Its Own Version of Linux

It would be nice if more companies would spend their resources improving linux projects as a whole rather than trying to roll their own distributions. I see HP spending a lot of time reinventing several wheels here when their developers' time could be put to much better use in the community.

Manitoba Car Thieves to Wear GPS Tracker

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GrapeSteinbeck

on Thursday April 19 2007, @03:04AM

GrapeSteinbeck writes "Car thieves may have to wear GPS tracking devices in Manitoba. As part of a new pilot punishment system, highest ranked perpetrators would have to wear these monitoring devices."

Yahoo Sued For Human Rights Violations->

From feed by techdirtfeed on Thursday April 19 2007, @02:52AM

Last month, we noted that the wife of a jailed Chinese dissident had come to the US to sue Yahoo for handing over info that allowed her husband to be arrested. At the time, we were confused over what law she could sue under. Yahoo had performed the actions in China (where it was obviously legal) rather than the US. However, now the lawsuit has been filed, with the support of various human rights groups. They're claiming that Yahoo has violated international law concerning torture -- but, again, that seems like a stretch. Even the groups filing the lawsuit admit that they're fishing a bit, hoping to use the lawsuits to find out how involved Yahoo really was in having various dissidents arrested. While it's unclear if this lawsuit will get very far on a legal basis, it could be much more effective just in shaming Yahoo into adjusting its practices in giving up the private info of Chinese users.
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STEAM Hacked, Credit Cards stolen

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3Y3

on Thursday April 19 2007, @02:25AM

3Y3 writes "DailyTech is reporting that VALVe's STEAM system has been hacked into by a hacker known only as "MaddoxX", who has wasted no time gloating and publicly releasing internal information, such as credit card numbers, on the anti-Steam website No-Steam."