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Comment: Re:Smile! NO DUCK!!!!! (Score 1) 140

by n6mod on Friday October 14, @06:06PM (#37719778) Attached to: Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas

Yeah, I'd love to get my hands on a set of the source images, since the stitching quality in the samples they showed was *horrible* compared to what Hugin can do. They clearly aren't trying to do seam blending or photometric correction, and I think one of the images is just plain registered wrong.

NASA Parodies Reach New Level of Awkwardness 28

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday October 26 2010, @10:04AM
from the go-back-to-film-school dept.

MMBK writes "NASA TV recently produced six movie-trailer parodies about current projects for a 'themed exhibit at an international conference.' But for the most part, the attempt remains pretty corny, far, far away from the imaginative, inspiring work of space artists like Bruce McCall."

Comment: Re:Insulting? (Score 1) 73

by n6mod on Friday July 16 2010, @11:34AM (#32927654) Attached to: Mozilla Bumps Security Bug Bounty To $3,000

But to make tens of thousands on the black market, you really need a weaponized exploit. Mozilla will be quite happy with a detailed bug report.

Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos 198

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 21 2010, @01:44PM
from the so-that's-how-a-magnet-works dept.

Working on the assumption that the Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles was indeed a tribute to the wonder of nature and not the cleverest troll ever, some folks from the hackerspace Noisebridge decided to try and educate ICP fans. Surprisingly, most of the fans seemed to enjoy the science lesson, but representatives of the band didn't seem to think it was funny.

Tetris Clones Pulled From Android Market 396

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 28 2010, @05:48AM
from the bad-news-bears dept.

sbrubblesman writes "The Tetris Company, LLC has notified Google to remove all Tetris clones from Android Market. I am one of the developers of FallingBlocks, a game with the same gameplay concepts as Tetris. I have received an email warning that my game was suspended from Android Market due to a violation of the Developer Content Policy. When I received the email, I already imagined that it had something to do with it being a Tetris clone, but besides having the same gameplay as Tetris, which I believe cannot be copyrighted, the game uses its own name, graphics and sounds. There's no reference to 'Tetris' in our game. I have emailed Google asking what is the reason for the application removal. Google promptly answered that The Tetris Company, LLC notified them under the DMCA (PDF) to remove various Tetris clones from Android Market. My app was removed together with 35 other Tetris clones. I checked online at various sources, and all of them say that there's no copyright on gameplay. There could be some sort of patent. But even if they had one, it would last 20 years, so it would have been over in 2005. It's a shame that The Tetris Company, LLC uses its power to stop developers from creating good and free games for Android users. Without resources for a legal fight, our application and many others will cease to exist, even knowing that they are legit. Users will be forced to buy the paid, official version, which is worse than many of the ones available for free on the market. Users from other countries, such as Brazil in my case, won't even be able to play the official Tetris, since Google Checkout doesn't exist in Brazil; you can't buy paid applications from Android Market in these countries."

Comment: Re:To add some information to the void.. (Score 2, Insightful) 509

by n6mod on Tuesday March 23 2010, @02:05AM (#31580204) Attached to: Germany Warns Against Using Firefox

Seth, scroll up one post in the blog. 3.6.2 was released tonight.

Comment: A release that has just happened, in fact... (Score 2, Informative) 509

by n6mod on Tuesday March 23 2010, @01:56AM (#31580150) Attached to: Germany Warns Against Using Firefox

Firefox 3.6.2 was released earlier tonight: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.2/releasenotes/

Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste 344

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 22 2010, @05:14PM
from the but-where-will-we-get-our-superheroes dept.

separsons writes "A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes. They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste: Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor. The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent!"

Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release 140

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 20 2010, @11:05AM
from the sooner-than-later dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."

Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17 2010, @01:59PM
from the dog-ate-it dept.

markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"