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Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta 353

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @11:02PM from the start-playing dept.

New submitter jotaass writes "In news that is guaranteed to make the Linux gaming community (in particular, but not exclusively) excited, Valve has just announced that the Steam for Linux client Beta is now open to the public. A .deb package is available here. Interesting as well, they are using an empty GitHub repository solely as an issue tracker, open for anyone to submit, edit and track bugs, with no actual code in the repo."

US Police Increasingly Peeping At Email, IMs 113

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @08:14AM from the y'know-just-a-little-peek dept.

angry tapir writes "US law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Police and other agencies have 'enthusiastically embraced' asking for e-mail, instant messages and mobile-phone location data, but there's no US federal law that requires the reporting of requests for stored communications data, according to Christopher Soghoian, a doctoral candidate at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University."

Comment Re:Can't switch 'til delicious add-on works (Score 1) 554

by Avuserow on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @03:41PM (#35577942) Attached to: Firefox 4 Released!

I use youtube-dl and ffmpeg. (Sadly, youtube-dl is shared by many projects. I found this one in the Fedora repos and it works well for my use.)

Comment Re:Good for games (Score 2, Informative) 548

by Avuserow on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @03:16PM (#33207658) Attached to: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

You want Smolt. It's opt-in, and the collected data ends up at smolts.org.

Comment Re:Just what I need (Score 1) 115

by Avuserow on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @08:52PM (#33145848) Attached to: Vonage Makes Free Facebook Phone Call App

In my Droid (the keyboarded variety), the microSD card is not removable without removing the battery. If I'm sharing data via microSD, it'd require my phone to be powered off. At that point, I don't care about my apps being unavailable.

Comment Re:Now I like a good apple bash (Score 1) 171

by Avuserow on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @08:25PM (#33145644) Attached to: Two Unpatched Flaws Show Up In Apple iOS

I imagine that if we find patched flaws, the headline should go something like "iPhone OS 4.0.1 update patches two flaws".

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