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Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission 340

Posted by timothy on Friday July 17, 2009 @05:00AM from the village-green-preservation-society dept.

bfire writes "Police officers in the Australian state of Queensland plan to conduct a 'wardriving' mission around select towns in an effort to educate citizens to secure their wireless networks. When unsecured networks are found, the Police will pay a friendly visit to the household or small business, informing them of the risks they are exposing themselves to. Officers also hope to return to surveyed areas within a month to see if users have fixed their security settings. The idea is modeled on another campaign where officers walk around railway stations checking cars have been locked, and leaving notes warning people of the dangers involved with leaving their vehicles unsecured."

Comment Re:As much as I hate to say it... (Score 1) 560

by Fuzzlekits on Sunday June 14, 2009 @10:34PM (#28331149) Attached to: Does Bing Have Google Running Scared?

I posit that through several iterations of the search on google, by the time you got to bing you probably had a much better base query. Just saying...

Comment having read the thing... (Score 2, Interesting) 55

by Fuzzlekits on Sunday June 14, 2009 @06:33AM (#28325623) Attached to: Interview With <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic</em> Devs

It certainly seems like Bioware might be *the* people to revolutionize the MMO. I mean, they've pretty much put out some of the best RPG's in the last five years, maybe arguably decade. Allowing them to take their storytelling onto the MMO stage, and given what's in this interview... I'm hopeful this will be something different.

Comment Re:Amtrak already services these areas (Score 1) 416

by Fuzzlekits on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @04:57PM (#27928085) Attached to: 220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona

There are amtrak subsidiaries servicing phoenix - But they all go NORTH out of town, according to the route atlas on the amtrak site. There is no such link between Tucson and Phoenix that I can find.

Comment Allright, Illuminati... (Score 5, Funny) 447

by Fuzzlekits on Monday April 20, 2009 @07:06PM (#27653937) Attached to: Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

So, how exactly are we planning to run them six million over budget, here?

Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy 167

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @02:26AM from the glimmer-of-fur dept.

A new study of 86 galaxy clusters in the early universe has provided independent confirmation of the existence of dark energy. In its absence, gravity's pull should have caused the number of clusters to increase by a factor of 50 over the last 5.5 billion years. What is observed is a factor of 10 increase. "Together with earlier observations... the new data strengthen the suspicion — but do not prove — that dark energy is a weird antigravity called the cosmological constant that was hypothesized and then abandoned by Albert Einstein as a 'blunder' almost a century ago. If that is true, the universe is fated to empty itself out eventually, and all but the Milky Way's closest neighbors will eventually be out of sight. ... Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins and the Space Telescope Science Institute, said: 'If this was a fox hunt and dark energy was the fox, I think they have closed off another escape route. But there is still a lot of terrain left for the fox, and we've seen little more than a glimmer of fur.'"

Fallout 3 Edited Version To Hit Australian Shelves 91

Posted by timothy on Monday August 11, 2008 @10:11AM from the full-up-on-mutant-insects-and-jellyfish dept.

UgLyPuNk contributes this excerpt from Internode Games Network, which might interest Australian readers in particular: "Just last week, we told you that Fallout 3 had been resubmitted to the Classifications Board, in the hope that it would be deemed suitable for Australian audiences. While the Classifications Board can take between a few days and a few weeks to hand down their decision — it seems that the edits made to the Bethesda Softworks title have been successful, with the second edition of the game granted a new MA15+ rating this afternoon. We don't yet have the details of the decision, but are currently finding out just what was changed in the game in order to secure the new rating — and release in this country."

Comment The 'incomplete code' thing (Score 1) 275

by Fuzzlekits on Sunday June 22, 2008 @03:54PM (#23896767) Attached to: Atari Tries To Supress Bad Reviews, Claims Piracy

I think that were this the case, Atari could have easily saved their own bacon by coming out and saying 'These reviews are probably based on incomplete code', etc. After all, there are plenty of other games where code was shown or released that wasn't 'up to snuff', and the producer / developer acknowledged that, and the game went on to be a lot better than that initial sneak peek.

Then again, since Atari isn't _Atari_ anymore, and just a boilerplate, I don't feel like I ought to be defending them so much.

House Republicans Renew Push for Telecom Immunity 123

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 24, 2008 @03:45AM from the wiretapping-a-dead-horse dept.

CNet is running an update to the controversy over giving telecommunications giants such as AT&T immunity from lawsuits involving the assistance they gave the NSA for illegal wiretaps. Republican leaders are circulating a petition which would force a vote on the bill passed by the Senate but not by the House. Democrats are holding out for a version of the FISA bill which opens the telecoms to prosecution. President Bush still intends to veto any such document. "At a wide-ranging House hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller again urged passage of a bill that includes immunity for phone companies, arguing that 'uncertainty' among the carriers 'affects our ability to get info as fast and as quickly as we would want.' He admitted, however, that he was not aware of any wiretap requests being denied because of Congress' inaction."

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