Comment Re:Coming to Cydia (Score 1) 541
... and perhaps FM radio. 3.5" audio jack is nice to have, too.
I'll bite in the whole "Slashdot is US centric, get over it!" thing, but it's 3.5 mm not inches. Buddy.
Comment Re:Crazy people (Score 1) 515
I saw a piece on TV about this very same phenomenon, with people making the same kind of absurd claims. What really seemed off to me was the fact that even though they claimed to be extremely sensible to the presence of electronic devices, they didn't seem to be bothered by the camera crew, illumination, sound and the reporter doing the interview, taking into consideration not only their technical equipment but also their cellphones etc. As soon as I saw this I called (psychosomatic) BULLSHIT!
Free Realms Approaches the Five-Million-Player Mark 77
A few days ago at Comic-Con, Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley spoke about the success of Free Realms, their free-to-play MMORPG that relies on microtransactions for a business model. The game was released at the end of April, and by mid-June there were upwards of three million registered users. Now that total is approaching five million, with no sign of slowing down. Min Kim, another panelist at the discussion, said, "When people started talking about it back in 2003 or 2004, people said Western games would never want to do this, to play a game for free and then buy items. And now everybody is saying, 'We're going to have microtransactions as part of our business model.'"
Comment Re:Why didn't this happen sooner? (Score 1) 408
The actual question is: if he gets money for his wrong imprisonment, will they make him split it with his ex-wife (ala "Life")?
Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy
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An anonymous reader writes "Another European country clamps down on free speech. From the article: 'It does seem bizarre that, in 2009, a modern European nation would seek to shield religious belief from criticism — yet that is what is happening in Ireland right now. In repealing the 1961 Defamation Act, the Irish government sought to expunge the worst excesses of Ireland's draconian laws restricting free speech, but in the process it has ended up making offending religious belief a criminal offence. Aside from a 25,000 fine (reduced from the 100,000 originally sought by the government), the new Defamation Act gives the authorities the power to stage raids on publishers: the courts may now issue a warrant authorising the police to enter, using "reasonable force," premises where they have grounds for believing there are copies of "blasphemous statements."'"
Comment Re:Real world identities (Score 1) 40
Bravo! I must say i'm pretty flattered by your search. Only a couple of errors (the mininova thing and my current residence) but still pretty good. That's why i started using a different nick for my dirty deeds (and Tor). For example, you don't want to use the same nick for slashdot and for that BSDM site you like so much (rhetorical you).
And by the way, your nick only yields slashdot posts, so kudos on that (or get out more), whatever answer is better. Cheers!
Comment Real world identities (Score 1, Interesting) 40
And today, we spend a lot of our time putting our real world identities out there and sharing them
I must say that even though i (lightly) use social sites i take great care in maintaining my real identity as obscure as possible, so only people who know me can recognize me. I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??
Disclaimer: I'm from Spain, and here we have two last names, making collisions harder (e.g. John Smith)
Comment Re:Practice! (Score 1) 323
Actually, the equivalent of the RIAA here in Spain is called SGAE, which roughly translates as "General Society of Authors and Editors". As a Spaniard and a rabid bittorrent user, I officially welcome this sudden outbreak of common sense. But let's see first how long this lasts and how far it goes (as Mr Wolf would say: let's not start sucking our cocks just yet!)
Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 3, Insightful) 229
What i think this guy should do is to publish the name of the problematic bank and/or ATM vendor, and give their users a month to withdraw all of their assets from that bank (since they clearly don't care about their customers' finances) and move to another one (of their own choosing). I'm sure as hell they would fix the problem ipso facto. My 2 cents.
Moblin Will Run X Server As Logged-In User, Not Root 205
nerdyH writes "An architect of the Moblin Project has announced that Moblin 2.0 for netbooks and nettops is the first Linux distribution to run the X server as the logged-in user, rather than SUID'd to root. The fix to this decades-old security liability comes thanks to 'NRX' (No-root X) technology reportedly developed by Intel, Red Hat, and others in the X community, and the Moblin-sponsored 'Secure X' project. Besides making Linux netbooks a lot more snoop-proof, it seems like this could lead to an X-hosting renaissance of sorts, since you wouldn't be risking the whole system just to open up a specific user's account to remote X servers."
Comment Re:Social corruption, or small-player boon? (Score 1) 270
I have also come to think, does this only apply to the US? I would think so, so there's nothing to worry about for the rest of the world. (Sometimes somebody needs to remark the US-centric news that are not tagged so)
Comment Re:Being an asshole makes people angry, film at 11 (Score 0, Flamebait) 895
So, a researcher enters a foreign land.
Wrong. Learn to differentiate reality from fantasy.
He obeys the strict letter of the law, but ignores the customs and rules of polite behavior.
Polite behavior?? I haven't played this game, nor will i ever, but it seems like an appropriate guess to think that the goal of this game is to kill your enemy (or nemesis or whatever).
For further insight please read my previous post (but you probably won't, because you already know your are right). It's just a game, for f**k's sake. GET A LIFE!!
Comment Re:If it's within the rules, it's within the rules (Score 2, Insightful) 895
... in virtual worlds the rules can be set by the players themselves. The developers in this context are enablers, rather than Gods passing down "rules".
If those user-driven rules are so important for the gameplay, they should just pass them along to the developers so they can add them to the actual rules. That's what we in the real world call "Laws". If they don't like the way things are they should go play somewhere else. Stupid whining babies...
Comment Re:Surely not? (Score 2, Insightful) 324
and once somebody exploits it, they will lose money really quickly.
Not necessarily. IANAE but they probably make money off the transactions, whoever makes them, and whoever profits from them. I think it would be analogous to obtaining the source code for the DowJones stock scoring system. DJ wouldn't be the first/most affected by it. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
Comment Bash?? (Score 1) 324
Bash?? Really?? Then i guess we don't have to ask the age old question... What OS do their systems run??
