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Comment Re:Worthy successor? (Score 1) 246

by mossy the mole (#39369733) Attached to: <em>Diablo 3</em> To Be Released On May 15th

On the one hand you say bots ruin the game, and on the other you complain about Blizzard shutting down WoW Glider. Well, which is it? Should they support botting or not?

IMO My problem with the WOW Glider was blizzard interfering with another company's program simply because it interfaced with WOW sets a bad precedent and (to me) is an intrusion on the freedom of the user. Not that I like bots but they should catch then by there in game actions.

Comment Controls (Score 1) 309

by mossy the mole (#39357727) Attached to: The Consoles Are Dying, Says Developer
With all this talk about graphics performance, I'd say the best weapon consoles have at the moment is physical gaming controls Touch Screens are wonderful for many things but unless the ipad 3 generation are a massive improvement, then any game that plays best with d-pad and buttons will still lack something on tablet/phone.

Comment Re:3D movies (Score 1) 404

by mossy the mole (#39002437) Attached to: When it comes to 3D TV:

I don't second that. My 3D tv is recent and does make the screen darker. I guess it depends upon the hardware/software, and they can probably display the movie in 3D brighter, so that it appears ok through the glasses.

Pretty sure the OP was talking about the cinema not the home. And I have to agree with him 3D movies are less bright (probably the glasses really) Hopefully (well, if 3D movies last) they'll upgrade to brighter projection equipment.

Comment Re:Sponsorships? Really? (Score 1) 332

by mossy the mole (#38303718) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud?

Note to slashdot: It'll be hard to maintain whatever shred of journalistic veneer and integrity you have left if you start posting advertisements for sister websites as 'sponsorships' of semi-legitimate discussions or stories. The fact that everyone else does it is still no excuse.

While the whole sponsored ask slashdot does seem a bit off, at least the posts from the sponsors are clearly marked. As long as that continues maybe it wont be too bad. (On the assumption that they dont allow sponsorship from any really evil companies)
Oracle

Submission + - Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Oracle is publicly demonstrating its new T4 processor today and is shipping beta test systems to selected partners. The new
T4 chip is a major departure from previous designs. The T4 offers a maximum of eight cores per physical chip and keeps the T3's eight-threads-per-core limitation. The T4 compensates for its lower maximum theoretical throughput in several ways. First, the T4 is an out-of-order processor with an enhanced branch predictor. Its maximum speed is said to be at least 3GHz, nearly double that of the 1.67GHz T3. Oracle claims the chip's single-threaded performance has been significantly boosted, and expects T4 to deliver a 2x-7x speed increase in single-threaded workloads compared to T3."
United States

Submission + - Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch (macrumors.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: In a decision handed down by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has been denied an application for a trademark on Multi-Touch. Apple originally applied for the trademark on January 9, 2007, the day the iPhone was introduced.

A lawyer for the USPTO denied Apple's initial trademark application and the company appealed to the Appeal Board. The board upheld the initial refusal to grant the trademark.

For trademarks, "the greater the degree of descriptiveness the term has, the heavier the burden to prove it has attained secondary meaning." The trademark attorney pointed out that the term "multitouch" has taken on generic meaning, being used by a wide variety of publications to describe the touchscreen technology on Android phones, tablets, and notebooks.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/26/apple-denied-trademark-for-multi-touch/
Oracle

Submission + - Oracle may "fork itself" with MySQL moves (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by packetrat
packetrat writes: Ars Technica analyzes the recent commercial additions by Oracle to MySQL Enterprise and the additional unrest it's added to the community. Oracle may be throwing itself out of the community as it pushes more customers to look at fully open-source alternatives.
AI

Submission + - MAVIS brings search to audio (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: The Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System (MAVIS) has been running on a trial basis for a while and it extends search to audio material. It uses speech recognition to transcribe audio sources and then indexes them for use by standard search engine.
Not only does this let you search audio recordings but video sound tracks as well. There is also an API that means it can be built into other applications.
Of course being able to index audio files is just one step away from being able to index phone calls in the same way....
Crime

Submission + - RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: RSA has finally admitted publicly that the March breach into its systems has resulted in the compromise of their SecurID two-factor authentication tokens. The admission comes in the wake of cyber intrusions into the networks of three US military contractors: Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications and Northrop Grumman — one of them confirmed by the company, others hinted at by internal warnings and unusual domain name and password reset process.
Censorship

Submission + - Alarm over EU 'Great Firewall' proposal (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Broadband providers have voiced alarm over an EU proposal to create a “Great Firewall of Europe” by blocking “illicit” web material at the borders of the bloc, while anti-censorship campaigners compared the plan to China’s notorious system for controlling citizens’ access to blogs, news websites and social networking services.
Security

Submission + - Siemens SCADA Flaws To Be Disclosed at Black Hat (itworld.com)

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "In May, NSS Labs Researcher Dillon Beresford pulled out of a Dallas hacking conference at the last minute when Siemens was unable to fix problems he'd found in the firmware of its S7 programmable logic controller. Now NSS Labs CEO Rick Moy says Beresford is rescheduled to deliver his talk at Black Hat, which runs Aug. 2-3. Beresford has discovered six vulnerabilities in the S7 that 'allow an attacker to have complete control of the device,' Moy said. Devices like the S7 do things such as control how fast a turbine spins or open gates on dams."
Microsoft

Submission + - Malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected (winbeta.org) 1

Submitted by
BogenDorpher
BogenDorpher writes: "According to statistics generated by Microsoft's new free malware scanning and scrubbing tool, Safety Scanner, one in every twenty Windows PCs were infected with malware.

Microsoft's Safety Scanner was downloaded 420,000 times in just one week of availability and it cleaned up malware or signs of exploitation from more than 20,000 Windows PCs, according to statistics generated by Microsoft's Malware Protection Center. This resulted in an infection rate of nearly 5%."

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