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Submission + - Can you recommend a team-oriented online game?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @01:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: My parents are moving out of town, and my sister and I are looking for an online game to play alongside our mom. (All three of us have played Puzzle Pirates, but my sister has become bored with the puzzles and won't touch it anymore.) Neither my mom nor I enjoy the standard MMORPG fare of kill-level-buy-gear-rinse-repeat. What we're looking for is some sort of cooperative online gaming experience which doesn't hinge on how fast you can click the mouse button or how many hours you've been killing things in dungeons. Does such a thing exist?

Submission + - Multidimensional parameter representation

Submitted by Jeff on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @01:18PM

Jeff writes: I'm a physicist working on several different projects at the moment. The basics are all the same, build a model, and history match a sparse poor quality multiparameter dataset to find a range of solutions. The idea is to map out all the solutions in parameter space that satisfy my requirements. Easy in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions, since the parameters are all orthogonal. But what about problems with 8, 10, 12 or more parameters. Is there any GPL software out there capable of representing something like this? If not, could anyone recommend a text, paper, or publication that deals with how best to represent results like this so that people not used to thinking in n-dimensional space can understand them? Cheers, Jeff.

Submission + - AACS Processing Key discovered, HD DRM is toast.

Submitted by

passthecrackpipe

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @10:54AM

passthecrackpipe writes: "The nice folks over at doom9 really don't like DRM. After the discovery of the individual title keys used for AACS "protection" a while back, and the subsequent release of a tool that makes it nice and simple for you to back up your (obviously legally purchased) HD-DVD or Blue-Ray discs, arnezami has found the processing keys — this key can be used to decrypt *all* titles as opposed to just a single title of which the key is known. His approach sounds actually pretty easy (but is probably a lot harder then it sounds):

what I wanted to do is "record" all changes in this part of memory during startup of the movie. Hopefully I would catch something insteresting. In the end I did something a little more effiecient: I used the hd dvd vuk extractor (thanks ape!) and adapted it to slow down the software player (while scanning its memory continously) and at the very moment the Media Key (which I now knew: my bottom-up approach really paid off here) was detected it halted the player. I then made a memdump with WinHex. I now had the feeling I had something. And I did. Not suprisingly the very first C-value was a hit. I then checked if everyting was correct, asked for confirmation and here we are. For me, the best part is imagining the insane amount of money the *IAA pumps into these braindead schemes to begin with.

Well done arnezami, beer's on me!"

Submission + - Security Researchers Targeted by DDoS Malware

Submitted by

httptech

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @10:46AM

httptech writes: "Recently I was targeted for a DDoS attack by a custom-compiled DDoS trojan. During the course of my investigation into the attack, I not only learned which malware author was behind the attack, but that similar attacks have been taking place targeting anti-rootkit developers and anti-spam researchers- particularly those involved in exposing pump-and-dump stock spam. Though similar in nature, the attack patterns are different, meaning there seems to be a growing trend among a few virus authors/stock spammers to try and silence those who stand in the way of their profits."

Submission + - HD-DVD Processing Key Found!

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @10:43AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The guys at Doom9 seem to have found a method to retrieve the HD-DVD processing key. All current HD-DVD (and possibly Blu-Ray) titles can now be decrypted using this key. If this key is revoked it is possible future processing keys can be found using this method."

Submission + - Novell announces drivers for Windows under Xen

Submitted by

amyandjake

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @10:42AM

amyandjake writes: "Novell and Intel put out a press release today announcing that they have developed drivers to allow Windows to run unchanged under Xen. They have a pilot program now to test it out and expect general availability before the end of the year."

Submission + - Wikipedia Founder Introduces Open Source Wiki Mags

Submitted by KingJawa on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @09:57AM

KingJawa writes: Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Brittanica, but can the model be used to upset the magazine industry? Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, thinks so. His company, Wikia, today announced three open-source magazine-style sites where users can write about news, opinion and gossip — one magazine wiki each for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Each open-source magazine hands total editorial control to the readers, allowing them to read, write, edit, and dictate the editorial feel for each topic.

Submission + - Google Loses Belgian Copyright Case

Submitted by

Christian Engstrom

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @09:44AM

Christian Engstrom writes: "A court on Tuesday ruled in favour of Belgian newspapers claiming that Google News infringes copyright laws. Google said it was disappointed with the ruling and will appeal. "We believe that Google News is entirely legal," the company said in a statement. "We only ever show the headlines and a few snippets of text and small thumbnail images. If people want to read the entire story they have to click through to the newspaper's website.""

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