myster0n - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Honeymoon (Score 1) 326

by myster0n on Friday January 07 2011, @09:11AM (#34790332) Attached to: Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes

... on a par with "The N word" ...

NetBSD?

Comment: Re:Star Wars Galaxies anyone? (Score 1) 328

by myster0n on Wednesday January 05 2011, @08:22AM (#34764102) Attached to: Why BioWare's Star Wars MMO May Already Be Too Late

Well, that's Sony for you : "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

Comment: Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score 1) 314

by myster0n on Thursday December 30 2010, @03:07AM (#34708130) Attached to: Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit

So that's why he didn't croak !

Comment: Re:Great work! (Score 1) 107

by myster0n on Tuesday April 06 2010, @04:00AM (#31745732) Attached to: OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released

So closed source is so much better? Go back to playing Duke Nukem Forever then.

Microsoft Looks to refuel talks with Yahoo

Submitted by

froggero1

on Friday May 04 2007, @06:16AM

froggero1 writes "Software-but-not-so-much-search giant Microsoft wants to rekindle the takeover talks with Yahoo. According to the New York Post article, Yahoo! has repeatability turned away their offers, but Microsoft hopes that a lucrative 50 billion dollar offer will bring them back to the table. This move would increase Microsoft's web search market share to roughly 38%. But will one company being in control of the second and third ranked search engines have any impact on Google?"

AACS Body Responds to Key Postings

Submitted by massivefoot on Friday May 04 2007, @05:47AM

massivefoot writes "Bloggers "crossed the line" when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said. An AACS executive said it was looking at "legal and technical tools" to confront those who published the key."

I, Columbine Killer->

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday January 15 2007, @06:12AM

The infamous Super Columbine Massacre role-playing game is in the news again after being slammed from Slamdance. But is the game sick or is it a serious examination of the massacre? Unlike most knee-jerk critics, Clive Thompson actually plays the game to find out.

Link to Original Source

First Internet-Enabled Game for the Commodore 64

Submitted by

Leif_Bloomquist

on Friday January 12 2007, @11:32AM

Leif_Bloomquist writes "At the World of Commodore 2006, we previewed our rewrite of the Commodore 64 classic 'Artillery Duel' that can be played over an Ethernet LAN or the Internet. A playable beta has now been released. We hope it will be the first of many new games written to take advantage of Ethernet cards now available for the C64!"

Cisco on the brink of losing iPhone trademark

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2007, @05:49AM

An anonymous reader writes "Just when everyone thought that Apple had made a big mistake by announcing the iPhone when Cisco held the rights, it seems Cisco could lose the rights in iPhone in Europe through non-use, according to Out-law.com. There's a trade mark attorney talking about it in their podcast (mp3). So what happens if Cisco has the rights in USA and Apple has the rights in Europe?"

Crazy Microsoft telnet bug deletes your data!

Submitted by

havardi

on Tuesday January 09 2007, @11:22AM

havardi writes "Don't ask me why you'd enable telnet on your Windows XP machine, but if you do be prepared to lose some data. When you logout of your telnet session, virtually everything and anything in Documents & Settings\Username\Local Settings\ is deleted!! Go ahead, give it a ride!"