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Comment: Brick Nintendo? (Score 4, Interesting) 159

by jdb2 (#36344624) Attached to: Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe
I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign. Perhaps the hacker in question was trying to further the FSF's efforts with regard to bringing attention to the super-draconian TOS of the 3DS, but in the wrong way of course. Since this is not "Anonymous" it makes me think that the answer to the former hypothesis is "no" and this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.

Oh, BTW, have you bought and sent your bricks yet?

jdb2

Comment: Duke demo under Wine (Score 1) 188

by jdb2 (#36340862) Attached to: <em>Duke Nukem Forever</em> Demo Released
I've tried to run the game under wine 1.3.21. It installs perfectly ( as does Steam ) but crashes when you click "PLAY".

This might not be entirely Wine related though as a lot of other people ( see the Gearbox forums ) have been getting crashes upon start-up that look almost exactly like the one I'm getting under wine and furthermore the demo is *extremely* buggy.

See the wine AppDB page for it :

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=23644

jdb2
Space

Mission to Uranus Shortlisted By ESA-> 1

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astroengine writes "We've sent missions to Jupiter and Saturn, but what of the outermost "ice giants" Uranus and Neptune? The only time these two mysterious planets have been visited was a brief Voyager 2 flyby over two decades ago. Now, an international team of 168 scientists are hoping to revisit the bizarre Uranus with an orbiter called "Uranus Pathfinder". Such a mission wouldn't only unravel the mysteries behind the odd Uranian tilt and out-of-kilter magnetic field, it may also shed light on how our solar system evolved and how planetary bodies form around other stars. "Uranus sits in quite a different position in the solar system, it's far from the sun, it doesn't appear to give off much heat, it orbits the sun on its side, it appears to have a very different magnetic field, and its ring system is unique," Chris Arridge, postdoctoral research fellow of University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) and project lead, told Discovery News. "Uranus is a gold mine to help us understand the planets.""
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Space

Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered in Milky Way->

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astroengine
astroengine writes "Between six to nine billion years ago, the Milky Way collided with another galaxy. As you'd expect, this caused quite a mess; stars dust and gas being ripped from the intergalactic interloper. In fact, to this day, the dust hasn't quite settled and astronomers have spotted an odd-looking exoplanet orbiting a metal poor star 2,000 light-years from Earth. Through a careful process of elimination, the extrasolar planet (known as HIP 13044b) actually works out to be an extragalactic planet, a surviving relic of the massive collision eons ago."
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Comment: Re:Math is the foundaton for physics yet to be (Score 2, Informative) 1153

by jdb2 (#34083510) Attached to: How Much Math Do We Really Need?
Look up GPS on Wikipedia ( specifically this ) before spouting ignorant bullshit. Besides positioning, GR also has applications in celestial and orbital mechanics and hence spacecraft maneuvering. In fact, just look up GR, the subject of your diatribe, on Wikipedia, before making a fool of yourself.

jdb2
Linux

Koobface Can Infect Linux Systems Too!->

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes "Koobface is a trojan that has been going around in social networking sites like – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. It originally started as a Windows only trojan. But a few days ago, a new variant emerged which can infect both Mac OS X and Linux.

Infecting a Mac or a Linux system with Koobface is quite tedious. Unlike in Windows, users need to manually download a java applet and give it the permission to run – that should stop the trojan right there for most users. In Linux, it gets even better – even if the applet has been allowed to run and the system has been infected, all that is needed to stop it is a simple reboot."

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