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Comment Double standard? (Score 1) 1

by Kurusuki (#33535582) Attached to: Holy Softbook Destruction, Batman!
Lets have a bible burning, then we'll take the torah as some real fuel and throw on the US constitution and the declaration of independence. While we're at it, lets toss a heap of American flags into the inferno. Surely this wouldn't phase anyone in those communities, I mean, the stuff is just garbage anyway right?

Comment Eh? (Score 1) 2

by Kurusuki (#33053290) Attached to: Blizzard's DRM FUBARs Starcraft II
Connect to battle.net and play a game with human players where one of the players is cracked and the other isn't. Let me know how that goes. In other news, my game loaded up perfectly.

Submission + - Court rules bypassing dongles not a DMCA violation (courthousenews.com) 2

Submitted by tcrown007
tcrown007 writes: MGE UPS makes UPS systems and software that are protected by hardware dongles. After the dongles expired, GE bypassed the dongles and continued to use the software. MGE sued, won, and now lost on GE's appeal. Directly from the court's ruling, "Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision...The owner’s technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing." Say what? I think I just saw a flying pig go by.
Youtube

Submission + - 4chan trollers make 11 year old girl cry

Submitted by Dexter Herbivore
Dexter Herbivore writes: FROM a child's foulmouthed rant to police protection and death threats — one US family is learning the hard way about the dangers of giving their 11-year-old daughter a computer. Kerligirl13 aka Jessi Slaughter posted a youtube video that attracted the ire of 4chan trollers and "Anonymous". The follow up video from her father stated that "he's informed the cyber cops" and "I've backtraced it" and also "consequences will never be the same". She's now under police protection according to Gawker.
Graphics

Submission + - 3D engine company, Unlimited Detail, not dead? (gameobserver.com)

Submitted by PsxMeUP
PsxMeUP writes: A few months ago Unlimited Detail shocked the 3D graphics industry by revealing a graphics engine that could render unlimited amounts of polygons and point cloud data in real time. The concept was very promising, but not long after Chief Executive officer at Unlimited Detail, Bruce Dell, showed off the demos, the company went silent and we haven't heard from them since. GameObserver.com managed to get in touch with Bruce Dell, who was kind enough to admit some errors in their previous strategy.

It appears they didn't have a working product yet, and a few companies were already interested in using the engine. As a result, Unlimited Detail went under the radar, but they have since been "working hard to produce a commercial SDK" and ways to "import objects made for movies and use them without any downscaling." So it appears the company is still intent on releasing the Unlimited Detail engine in the future.

If you don’t know what Unlimited Detail is working on, check out this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4
Power

Submission + - Terawatt Research defies free energy stereotype (examiner.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This overunity magnet motor company, Terawatt Research, LLC of Irvine, California, is opposite the typical "free energy" image. They are low on fluff, have never been in the mainstream press; and they are and high on evidence, including test results from TÜV and UL. Both data plots clearly show performance frequency ranges in which much more energy is produced from the system than what is required to drive the system – at least three-fold. They say they are "harnessing the energy of intermolecular fluctuations." Back in September of 2006 the inventor said in essence that "The basic premise of the technology is that nature seeks symmetry and balance. The symmetry has inner stability. A temporary imbalance imposed wants to return to balance. This force can be harnessed for output energy." On their home page they say: "We developed a technology that allows this oscillation to be permanently harnessed." As another contradiction to typical free energy companies, one of their strategic advisors — not suppressors — served as former director of the CIA and of the FBI. Another contrast is their plush digs in Irvine, Calafornia; compared to a garage, which is the typical free energy inventor's laboratory.
Businesses

Submission + - Intel Co-Founder Calls for Tax on Offshored Labor

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Intel co-founder and ex-CEO Andy Grove calls BS on the truism that moving production offshore to locations with much lower wages is a sound idea. 'Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs,' says Grove, 'we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution. As happened with batteries, abandoning today's 'commodity' manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry.' To rebuild its industrial commons, Grove says the U.S. should develop a system of financial incentives, including an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. 'If the result is a trade war,' Grove advises, 'treat it like other wars — fight to win.'

Comment Umm, what? (Score 1) 1

by Kurusuki (#32676430) Attached to: McDonalds Facing Lawsuit for Happy Meal Toys
Let's go through this.

Parent decides to buy child McDonalds over cooking or any other fast food chain.
Parent decides to purchase a happy meal.
Parent decides to leave the toy in the food container before giving it to child.

It's McDonalds' fault children associate the food to happy emotions as a result of the toy. Clearly.

Submission + - Hoax or Meditation? (breitbart.com)

Submitted by Dthief
Dthief writes: An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period.
Movies

Submission + - Top 10 things Hollywood thinks computers can do (expertreviews.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From blowing up your keyboards to developing a malignant sentience, Expert Reveiws rounds up the things that movie makers believe computers can do, even though they use the same technology every day to write scripts.
Censorship

Submission + - Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: After a networking error first reported on Wednesday last week caused computers in Chile and the U.S. to come under the control of a system that censors the Internet in China, the 'root DNS server associated with the networking problems has been disconnected from the Internet,' writes Robert McMillan. The server's operator, Netnod, has 'withdrawn route announcements' made by the server, according to company CEO Kurt Lindqvist.
Programming

Submission + - Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Ted Dziuba can't wait for NoSQL to die. Developing your app for Google-sized scale, says Dziuba, is a waste of your time. Not to mention there is no way you will get it right. The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. If real businesses like Walmart can track all of their data in SQL databases that scale just fine, Dziuba argues, surely your company can, too.

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