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The real reason PSN is down?-> 0

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gaanagaa

on Monday April 25 2011, @05:34PM

gaanagaa writes "A moderator over at PSX-Scene.com is speculating The real reason why PSN is down. He explains that there was this new CFW (custom firmware) released known as Rebug (http://rebug.me). This firmware turns a retail console into a limited dev console and access Sony's private developer PSN network which also led to piracy of PSN content."
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Comment: Has anyone in the US tried this? (Score 2, Interesting) 353

by Jck_Strw on Friday April 09 2010, @12:19PM (#31791622) Attached to: PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS"

With Amazon, Sony, Target, whomever.

A big find in the hunt for elusive dark matter

Submitted by William_K_F on Tuesday May 15 2007, @07:47PM

William_K_F writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports: Dr. Myungkook James Jee and his colleagues announced on May 15, 2007 the discovery of a wispy ring of dark matter 2.6 million light-years wide that envelopes CL0024+17, a huge cluster of galaxies about 5 billion light-years away. Their observation of the dark matter was by way of its gravitational lensing effect on light coming from behind the galaxy cluster as seen by the now broken Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Richard Massey, Cal Tech publisher of a dark matter map for a half million galaxies, notes that this announcement only comes from one instrument and that "the signal is very weak. Some people are not yet convinced it's more than an artifact." Confirming studies may need to way until the James Webb Space Telescope is launched in 2013 unless the Hubble's ACS is repaired by a shuttle mission."

Simple chemical trick to boost battery efficiency

Submitted by space_mongoose on Tuesday May 15 2007, @07:04PM

space_mongoose writes "Hitachi reckons that a simple chemical additive could significantly improve battery life. Alkaline batteries have a positive electrode of manganese oxide and a negative electrode of finely powdered zinc, but zinc oxide forms around these grains of zinc. Hitachi's solution is to replace the zinc with a fine powder of zinc-aluminium alloy, displaces the zinc within the zinc oxide layer making it a much better conductor."