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Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197

Posted by samzenpus from the how-was-your-service-today? dept.
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
Operating Systems

Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds 396

Posted by Soulskill from the you-paid-for-what-we-say-you-paid-for dept.
Stoobalou writes "Sony says that it has no intention of reimbursing retailers if they offer users partial refunds for fat PS3s. Last week, the first PS3 user successfully secured a partial refund from Amazon UK as compensation for the removal of the ability to run Linux on the console. The user quoted European law in order to persuade the online retailer that the goods he had bought in good faith were no longer fit for his purposes because of the enforcement of firmware update 3.21, which meant that users who chose to keep the Other OS functionality would lose the ability to play the latest games or connect to the PlayStation Network."
The Almighty Buck

EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221

Posted by Soulskill from the put-your-money-where-your-gun-is dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Kuchera from Ars Technica is reporting that EA/DICE has substantially changed the game model of Battlefield: Heroes, increasing the cost of weapons in Valor Points (the in-game currency that you earn by playing) to levels that even hardcore players cannot afford, and making them available in BattleFunds (the in-game currency that you buy with real money). Other consumables in the game, such as bandages to heal the players, suffered the same fate, turning the game into a subscription or pay-to-play model if players want to remain competitive. This goes against the creators' earlier stated objectives of not providing combat advantage to paying customers. Ben Cousins, from EA/DICE, argued, 'We also frankly wanted to make buying Battlefunds more appealing. We have wages to pay here in the Heroes team and in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy. Battlefield Heroes is a business at the end of the day and for a company like EA who recently laid off 16% of their workforce, we need to keep an eye on the accounts and make sure we are doing our bit for the company.' The official forums discussion thread is full of angry responses from upset users, who feel this change is a betrayal of the original stated objectives of the game."

Comment Re:Even Stranger...... (Score 1) 964

by BAlGaInTl (#29204721) Attached to: Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One
I've seen this comment posted on other sites too... Why is it funny? That is a Microsoft "business" solutions page. Last I checked, Microsoft provided business and productivity software for Apple products as well. After all, one of the biggest announcements of the OSX 10.6 is that it has native MS Exchange support. Perhaps instead, Microsoft intends to show that not only do the support the Apple products, but also interoperability with existing Windows PC platforms. Of course that is assuming that the generic (Dell) monitor is supposed to be plugged in to a Windows PC computer. It could just as easily also be connected to an Apple PC. Of course... what really happened is that the company was too cheap to buy a splitter or two sets of cables for the projector that is on the table. So, they had to disconnect the power and VGA cable from the monitor in order to display the output for the entire room. That is why she is straining so hard to see the screen at the front of the room.

Comment But what to do if... (Score 1) 859

by BAlGaInTl (#28025463) Attached to: Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices
... there is a bomb wired to the underside of the bus and you have to maintain at least 55 mph regardless of the posted speed limit to prevent it from going off? You could put countless civilian lives at risk! Hopefully authorities would take such a possibility in to account and give drivers a way to disable the device.

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