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  CCP Upgrades Graphics, Downgrades QA 2007-12-06 05:26 Tiller

Submitted by Tiller on Thursday December 06 2007, @05:26AM
Tiller writes "CCP has released their biggest expansion to date for Eve Online, the space-based massively multiplayer online game. This new release, titled Trinity, overhauls every 3D model in the game, taking advantage of the latest features in today's graphics cards. The new content truly raises the visual bar for MMOGs and the Trinity trailer videos prove it. Interviews with the developers also reveal many of the new features, game-play changes and the estimated 50-man years that went into the effort. There is only one small problem — The upgrade you apply to enable the premium graphics also deletes your c:\boot.ini file. It is believed that the intention was to delete boot.ini in the root CCP install folder, not the root of the hard drive. Needless to say, CCP is now preventing users from downloading the upgrade and recommending users not reboot their systems until a fix is provided."
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  Latest EVE Online Patch Destroys Windows Systems 2007-12-06 04:06 Smoke2Joints

Submitted by Smoke2Joints on Thursday December 06 2007, @04:06AM
Smoke2Joints writes "The latest EVE patch is a big expansion of the game, introducing new environments, missions, ships, an overhauled graphics engine supporting DX10 effects, deleting your system boot.ini file, numerous bugfi- hold on, what? Apparently they have withdrawn graphics update patch because a vast crowd of people have been unable to boot up again after applying the patch. Vista is apparently unaffected, but XP users and below have had a nasty present left for them. Official statement here. Nice work guys."
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  Microsoft: 'XSS exploitable IE-bug is by design' 2007-05-22 06:50 Robbedoeske

Submitted by Robbedoeske on Tuesday May 22 2007, @06:50AM
Robbedoeske writes "Because of broken mimetype sniffing, a completely valid gif- or png-image can be used to run malicious scripts and xss exploits. Microsoft was informed on this matter, but it let us know that this behaviour is by design and won't be fixed untill Internet Explorer 8, somewhere in 2138."
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  Windows Animated Cursor Flaw 2007-03-30 05:02 blindd0t

Submitted by blindd0t on Friday March 30 2007, @05:02AM
blindd0t writes "Security Focus has an article summarizing a flaw with how Windows deals with animated cursors, which allows for an attack through a maliciously crafted web page or email. Admittedly, this is not supposed to affect users running Vista with IE7 in protected mode; however, this does affect those running IE6 or IE7 with Windows XP Service Pack 2, which is presently the vast majority of users. Microsoft has a security advisory as well."
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Submitted by cj on Tuesday February 06 2007, @05:21AM
cj writes "Whitedust has an interesting article where it appears that Michal Zalewski has unearthed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in the stock behaviour of Firefox's popup blocking element — when used in conjunction with another 'little trick' the vulnerability can apparently allow a malicious user to read files from an effected system and potentially gain access to sensitive information there on."
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  9 Most annoying Vista "Features" 2007-02-06 00:24 firenurse

Submitted by firenurse on Tuesday February 06 2007, @12:24AM
firenurse writes "Fox news has an interesting story titled "Microsoft Windows Vista's Nine Most Annoying Features". According to the article, "Windows Vista tries hard to protect us from ourselves. One unintended consequence is that it will sometimes block actions that we purposefully generated — and not even recognize that we selected the option." The link is here. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250344,00.html "
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Submitted by on Friday February 02 2007, @05:59AM
An anonymous reader writes "Sony blames its profit slide on the Playstation 3 according to this report. At the same time Sony's US PR hack calls the Wii an "impulse buy". Go figure."
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  Linux user with no advantages? 2007-02-02 05:28 Epeeist

Submitted by Epeeist on Friday February 02 2007, @05:28AM
Epeeist writes "Are you a Linux user feeling left out by the Windows Genuine Advantage programme? If so then this is for you! Install the software on your Linux machine and can experience a feature that until now remained the exclusive domain of proprietary software.

Once you have paid the licence fee your computer (which worked fine before) will continue working normally. Sign up now and the producers of the program promise not to launch unfounded lawsuits against you, slander you or require you to pay for software you won't use on every new computer you buy!"
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  Global warming: its (almost) definitely our fault 2007-02-02 05:25 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2007, @05:25AM
An anonymous reader writes "The most authoritative report on the science of climate change says there is a 90% chance that burning fossil fuels has caused the warming seen since 1950, and it could rise by another 6 degrees centigrade by 2100. That would be the average across the globe — it would be much worse at the poles. So if the argument over the science is over, what do we do next?"
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Submitted by Marcika on Friday February 02 2007, @05:24AM
Marcika writes "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the authoritative scientist group on global warming, published a new report on Friday (Financial Times article). Conclusions: The likely rise in sea levels can be quantified more accurately between about 28cm and 43cm (2001 predictions gave a range from 9cm to 88cm). The arctic ice cap is likely to melt, but the Antarctic ice shield is safe due to increased precipitation. The panel thinks that it is 90% certain that human action is shaping the climate, up from 50% 6 years ago. Even before publication, scientists warn that the report is too optimistic (NY Times article)."
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Submitted by K. Friedl on Friday February 02 2007, @04:06AM
K. Friedl writes "As Vista's deployment ramps up, news has begun to circulate that its highly regarded Protected Media Path (DRM) has been defeated. The individual that has been labeled responsible for this feat is Alex Ionescu whose primary work concentrates on the community-based ReactOS project, an open source operating system based on the Windows NT series architecture.
Alex talks in this interesting interview about that his latest work is not a crack, hack, or a patch that defeats Vista's DRM, but instead it's simply a proof of concept idea that demonstrates that indeed the potential to defeat Vista's DRM exists."
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  Linux Genuine Advantage 2007-02-02 02:46 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2007, @02:46AM
An anonymous reader writes "Finally, the worst feature of Windows Vista comes to Linux!

Linux Genuine Advantage is an exciting and mandatory new way for you to place your computer under the remote control of an untrusted third party!

From the site: "According to an independent study conducted by some scientists, many users of Linux are running non-Genuine versions of their operating system. This puts them at the disadvantage of having their computers work normally, without periodically phoning home unannounced to see if it's OK for their computer to continue functioning. These users are also missing out on the Advantage of paying ongoing licensing fees to ensure their computer keeps operating properly."

Comes with complete working GPL licensed source code that will lock you out of your Linux machine if you don't pay licensing fees."
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Submitted by on Friday February 02 2007, @12:06AM
An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article on a new source code search engine, All The Code which has just launched a public alpha. According to the article, unlike previous generations of source code search engines (such as koders and google codesearch) this new engine "looks at how code is used" to help determine the relevance. The idea being that if a library is used more frequently in a certain context, it is probably more relevant than a less popular library. Unfortunately only supports Java for the time being, but the faq indicates they will be adding more languages once the alpha is completed. I wonder if the other players will adopt this method?"
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  Vista harms rights, environments, competition 2007-01-30 09:28 amigoro

Submitted by amigoro on Tuesday January 30 2007, @09:28AM
amigoro writes "Row starts now for Vista in Europe as a group in the European parliament alleges that Microsoft's brand spanking new operating system, will violate your rights, destroy the environment and create a monopoly, according to a group in the European parliament.

They have three arguments. The first is DRM, which they say will lock you out of your own computer. The second is that people who buy Vista will have to throw away their old PCs and get newer and more power hungry ones. Third is XAML.

This raises the question: Why aren't US politicians concerned about these issues?""
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Submitted by thesp on Tuesday January 30 2007, @09:17AM
thesp writes "Silicon.com reports that Microsoft is about to employ legal threats to encourage business customers into Windows Genuine Advantage or other similar license audit schemes. From the article

"Those which refuse an audit risk having their details being handed to the British Software Alliance (BSA) who will execute follow-up interviews that could result in fines and other penalties."

They have launched a new term for this approach — SAAM (Software Audit and Asset Managment) — and hope to use this process to "get a view" of its customers. Microsoft UK's licensing programme manager is reported to have said, that "users who choose to ignore Microsoft's questionnaires face a three-stage process leading up to possible prosecution by the BSA"."
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