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Comment: Re:Paperwork (Score 3, Insightful) 74

by Flibberdy (#35584366) Attached to: Original <em>GTA</em> Design Docs, Dated March 22nd 1995

Why would this be a "surprise"? It's in the game. Anyone who's played the original GTA doubtless has fond memories of GOURANGA!, which is to say, running over an entire line of schoolchildren out on a field trip. You get a hefty point bonus for it.

I think you'll find that the Gouranga bonus was for driving over a line of Hare Krishnas.. hence the word "Gouranga", which is a popular Hare Krishna chant

Comment: Re:Shouldn't? (Score 1) 176

by Flibberdy (#32675862) Attached to: New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise

"The new console also takes measures to protect itself from overheating, so RRoDs shouldn't be a problem with this revision." Except it still has the same faulty X-clamps. Has even worse overheating issues than the original. And has already had green dots of death. (they removed the RRoD in favor of a green dot.)

Got any links to back that up?

The Internet

Banlgladesh blocks Facebook->

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes "Bangladesh has now joined Pakistan in blocking Facebook because of the conroversial page urging people to draw images of the Prophet Muhammad. The government said Sunday that Facebook has been "temporarily" blocked...but that access would be restored if the offending material is removed."
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Security

Major Facebook Security Hole Discovered 2

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes "A major security hole in Facebook has been discovered. Ironically, the source of this vulnerability is Facebook's own much-vaunted security "improvements." A video shows how you can view pending friend requests and chat history for any of your friends. Facebook Chat is down at the moment (coincidence? probably not). Unfortunately this isn't the only security hole in Facebook, another one was recently discovered which lets you retrieve the full name and Facebook URL for any account holder, given nothing but the Facebook ID number."
Businesses

SPAM: Take the Judgement Day Poll

Submitted by SchoolforStartups
SchoolforStartups writes "Let the UK's small business' and entrepreneurs voice be heard! Take the Judgement Day Poll

Ahead of the general election take this quick survey to express your opinion on important topics which will determine the future of UK enterprise.

Tell your friends, Tell your colleagues, tell your competitors . For once let's create a collective voice expressing the topics that matter to small business' in the UK"
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Sony

Sony Refuses to Sanction PS3 Other OS Refunds->

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes "Sony says that it has no intention of reimbursing retailers if they offer fat PS3 users partial refunds.

Last week, the first PS3 user successfully secured a partial refund from Amazon UK as compensation for the removal of the ability to run Linux on the console.

The punter quoted European law in order to persuade the online retailer that the goods he had bought in good faith were no longer fit for purpose because of the enforcement of firmware update 3.21, which meant that users who chose to keep the Other OS functionality would lose the ability to play the latest games or connect to the PlayStation Network."
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Privacy

Google backs Yahoo in privacy fight with DOJ->

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes "Google and an alliance of privacy groups have come to Yahoo's aid by helping the Web portal fend off a broad request from the U.S. Department of Justice for e-mail messages, CNET has learned.

In a brief filed Tuesday afternoon, the coalition says a search warrant signed by a judge is necessary before the FBI or other police agencies can read the contents of Yahoo Mail messages--a position that puts those companies directly at odds with the Obama administration.

Yahoo has been quietly fighting prosecutors' requests in front of a federal judge in Colorado, with many documents filed under seal. Tuesday's brief from Google and the other groups aims to buttress Yahoo's position by saying users who store their e-mail in the cloud enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

"Society expects and relies on the privacy of e-mail messages just as it relies on the privacy of the telephone system," the friend-of-the-court brief says. "Indeed, the largest e-mail services are popular precisely because they offer users huge amounts of computer disk space in the Internet 'cloud' within which users can warehouse their e-mails for perpetual storage."

CNET news : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html"
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