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Comment: Re:so where should one go? (Score 5, Informative) 100

by xavdeman (#38697200) Attached to: How SOPA & PIPA Could Hurt Scientific Debate

I'd like to know where that mythical country is that respects your Internet privacy and doesn't subject you to damage from arbitrary and invalid copyright claims. I haven't found it (...).

Sweden. You should try PRQ.se, they host TPB. But they also offer Dedicated servers and Tunnels and anonymizers.

Comment: Bad summary! (Score 5, Informative) 307

by xavdeman (#38416128) Attached to: Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines
From the article: "Oracle, in retiring the ‘Operating System Distributor License for Java’, means Canonical no longer have permission to distribute the package." So it's not that Oracle has lost their right to distribute Java (JDK) or something, but they are retiring the license Canonical is using that granted them the right to distribute it with Ubuntu. The summary also states (correctly) that Ubuntu will remove the sun-java package from the repository and user's machines, but does not state why: “Due to the severity of the security risk, Canonical is immediately releasing a security update for the Sun JDK browser plugin which will disable the plugin on all machines.” Ubuntu’s Marc Deslauriers wrote in a mail to the Ubuntu Security Mailing list. “This will mitigate users’ risk from malicious websites exploiting the vulnerable version of the Sun JDK.” Summarizing: there are two things going on here, one is that Oracle has revoked the license Canonical is using to distribute Java (JDK) freely so it will not come with Ubuntu anymore. Java must now be downloaded from Oracle's site. Second: The java jdk package will be removed from user's computers because of severe security holes. Java must now be downloaded from Oracle's site. So, two things, one article and one terrible summary.

Comment: Re:Carmack's Reverse (Score 5, Interesting) 187

by xavdeman (#38143086) Attached to: <em>Doom 3</em> Source Released
It took Carmack a considerably shorter time to come up with that engine than it took for id's art department to make a game out of it. And that game isn't even good. Seriously id Software needs to refocus on one thing, making great engines with tech-demo games (Doom 3) or great games with outdated engines because all they are doing now is tech-demo games with outdated engines (Rage). The id Tech 5 engine was first shown at the WWDC 2007, RAGE was released just a month ago. So there's a four year disparity. Also, the engine (or at least, RAGE) lacks features like HDR, which are present even in the (old, but updated) Source engine.

Comment: Re:Has anyone actually made any worthwhile with th (Score 5, Informative) 187

by xavdeman (#38142956) Attached to: <em>Doom 3</em> Source Released
It's funny you mention Modern Warfare 3 since that game's engine is based on id Tech 3, an engine id Software open sourced before, just like they are doing now with Tech 4. "The engine was first used for Call of Duty 2 in 2005 under a proprietary license of id Tech 3 created by id Software in 1999, as at this time, the engine was a heavily modified version of the Quake III engine. The engine did not have an official name until IGN was told at the E3 2009 by the studio that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would run on the "IW 4.0 engine". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IW_engine)

Comment: Re:Microsoft? (Score 1) 545

by xavdeman (#36433516) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul?

I know im kind of a black sheep around here, but Expression Web & Visual Studio Web combined make a pretty solid base...

Yeah, Expression Web is pretty useful, it's like having a CSS2,3 and HTML handbook at the ready all the time. The WYSIWYG stuff is just an added bonus, the real value (for me) is how you can quickly edit properties.

Comment: Mac users, start crying from nostalgia (Score 0, Flamebait) 427

by xavdeman (#36312426) Attached to: New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update
Mac OS Update Detects, Kills MacDefender Scareware New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update ATTN. Mac fanbois, security through the obscurity of your OS, IS OVER. You're going to be facing the same, if not worse problems than Windows users have been battling for years. Worse, because your userbase expects things to "Just Work(tm)". And Apple has been marketing the impenetrability of their OS through the roof. Virus makers have finally risen to the challenge, and Mac users should cower in fear, for their lazy days are over*. *at least concerning OS security. Of course they will still be lazy college drop-outs and pretentious "hipsters".

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