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Comment FUD, the described scenario is impossible (Score 0) 190

by DigitalPioneer on Thursday June 03, 2010 @11:17PM (#32454170) Attached to: Android Rootkit Is Just a Phone Call Away

I'd bet money that Apple had a hand in this article, it's complete and total FUD. If you install a malicious _kernel module_ on the phone (note that it is completely and entirely impossible to distribute this over the Market), and load it (note that this requires root, and stock android phones will not allow this; rooted phones require direct user intervention to allow root access), then all manner of evils may occur. That's like saying if you look up a robber, give him your keys, tell him you're going to be out of town for the next couple of weeks, and that you're not enabling the security system; you might get robbed.

Comment Re:Heh (Score 0, Flamebait) 125

by DigitalPioneer on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:54PM (#31005392) Attached to: New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic

Apple claims Mac is more secure, but that's an outright lie. Even Windows is more secure than Mac, it's just that no-one actually targets Macs because half their userbase is morons who don't have any money anyways. They spent it all on their Mac.

Unusual Physics Engine Game Ported To Linux 117

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 17, 2009 @07:09AM from the three-cheers dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "Halloween has come early for Linux-loving gamers in the form of the scary Penumbra game trilogy, which has just recently been ported natively to GNU-Linux by the manufacturer, Frictional Games. The Penumbra games, named Overture, Black Plague and Requiem, are first-person survival horror and physics puzzle games which challenge the player to survive in a mine in Greenland which has been taken over by a monstrous infection/demon/cthulhu-esque thing. The graphics, sounds, and plot are all admirable in a scary sort of way. The protagonist is an ordinary human with no particular powers at all, who fumbles around in the dark mine fighting zombified dogs or fleeing from infected humans. But the game is remarkable for its physics engine — rather than just bump and acquire, the player must use the mouse to physically turn knobs and open doors; and the player can grab and throw pretty much anything in the environment. The physics engine drives objects to fly and fall exactly as one would expect. The porting of a game with such a deft physics engine natively to Linux might be one of the most noteworthy events for GNU-Linux gamers since the World of Goo Linux port."

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