Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates 340

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 13, 2010 @01:00PM from the its-getting-steamy-in-here dept.

Jamie noticed a fairly amazing little story about Rockstar shipping a version of Max Payne 2 via Steam that was actually cracked by pirates to remove the DRM. The going theory was that it was easier for them to simply use the pirate group's crack than to actually remove their DRM themselves.

Scientists Discover Exoplanet Less Than Twice the Mass of Earth 201

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @12:13PM from the it's-so-small dept.

Snowblindeye writes with this excerpt from the European Southern Observatory: "Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, 'e,' in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist. Planet Gliese 581 e orbits its host star — located only 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra ('the Scales') — in just 3.15 days. 'With only 1.9 Earth-masses, it is the least massive exoplanet ever detected and is, very likely, a rocky planet,' says co-author Xavier Bonfils from Grenoble Observatory. Being so close to its host star, the planet is not in the habitable zone. But another planet in this system appears to be. ... The planet furthest out, Gliese 581 d, orbits its host star in 66.8 days. 'Gliese 581 d is probably too massive to be made only of rocky material, but we can speculate that it is an icy planet that has migrated closer to the star,' says team member Stephane Udry. The new observations have revealed that this planet is in the habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. '"d" could even be covered by a large and deep ocean — it is the first serious "water world" candidate,' continued Udry."

Comment Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article (Score 1) 747

by deathsaurus on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @09:46AM (#27310959) Attached to: Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps

FTFA:

It all started, like most good protests, with a trip to Kinko's printing to make a sign.

Here's a good question... does Kinko'sFedEx Office use Free Software? What about their computers? Do they run GNU/Linux, OS X, or Windows? Do their PCs use ATI or "NVidious" (FTFA) based video cards? If so, why can't Stallman find a similar shop that does and use them?

Comment Re:So,no more DRM (Score 3, Interesting) 1079

by deathsaurus on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:08PM (#26347729) Attached to: Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes

Pretty much the same way they got the "2 million DRM-free songs" benchmark before today: the "karaoke version" of every song.

Stallman Convinces Cuba to Switch to Open Source 582

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 17, 2007 @10:45AM from the digital-emissaries dept.

prostoalex writes "It's a big victory for Richard Stallman in North America, as Cuba decided to adopt open source software on the national level. Both Cuba and Venezuela are currently working on switching the entire government infrastructure to GNU/Linux operating system and applications, the Associated Press reports from Havana: 'Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code.' The AP article doesn't mention the distro used for government workers, but says that the students are working on a Gentoo-based distro."

Journal Journal: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, passed away

Journal by mennucc1 on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:41AM

CNN reports that Robert Adler, who co-invented the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday at 93. Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime. Few people today would imagine that that remote was ultrasound

Journal SPAM: 'NYT' Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran 3

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday February 11, 2007 @03:24AM

Saturday's New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the "deadliest weapon aimed at American troops" in Iraq. The author notes, "Any assertion of an Iranian contribution to attacks on Americans in Iraq is both politically and diplomatically volatile."

What is the source of this volatile information? Nothing less than "civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies."