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Comment Re:Sure, it's not personal at all (Score 1) 436

by Hokie06 (#28623711) Attached to: Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable"
That information by itself is not personally identifiably. It needs to be tied together with other information in order to identify an individual.

I can randomly write down license plates I see all day. If I don't have access DMV records than I have no idea who is driving that car.

I am not saying what MS did is right. But an IP address in of itself can't identify a person.

Comment Re:Some also want knives banned (Score 1) 615

by Hokie06 (#27155073) Attached to: UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime

Hand-picked top chefs who say that they don't need a large pointed knife clearly don't make sushi, cut up chickens, or dice their own garlic, let alone have the same economic concerns as the average "man in the street" - it's hard to see what it looks like in a normal kitchen from the top of an ivory tower.

But isn't that is what a sous chef is for?? It easy to forget what you need to do basic things like dicing garlic, when your paying someone else is doing it.

Comment Re:Oh how I love planes.. (Score 1) 366

by Hokie06 (#26803447) Attached to: The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old

If you buy tickets months ahead of time, you used to be able to get good deals. These days, by the time the return flight becomes available for sale, all the cheap seats on the flight over are sold out because everybody is buying so far ahead trying to keep from getting utterly screwed by the skyrocketing prices.

I fly almost every week for work and have noticed that the ticket prices are usually the best two to three weeks out, sometimes just one week. Less than a week usually means paying a premium

Of course, the holidays are usually the exception.

Comment Re:USB hubs (Score 1) 47

by Hokie06 (#26736979) Attached to: An Early Look at <em>Killzone 2's</em> Multiplayer
Its probably because most people don't want to haul their computer out into the living room to hook it up to the tv.

Or that typical interface for almost every PC game is keyboard and mouse. Yes you can use a controller, but most PC gamers don't. Not to mention a keyboard and mouse isn't the best interface while sitting on a couch.

Of course PC gaming has always been a one person to a box thing unlike consoles, with a few exceptions I can't think of.
The Almighty Buck

Oklahoma Senator Proposes Tax Incentive For Family-Friendly Games 53

Posted by Soulskill from the wii-devs-rejoice dept.
GamePolitics reports on legislation proposed by Senator Anthony Sykes (R-OK) which would make video games eligible for the same tax breaks that apply to TV and film. The catch is that games with a mature rating would not be eligible for those breaks. Quoting: "While games are restricted to projects appropriate for those under 17, the only eligibility requirement placed on film content is that it be neither child pornography nor obscene. By that standard, R-rated films and MA-17 television programs would easily qualify for the tax break. ... '[Sen. Sykes]... would rather not include the ratings restriction. Unfortunately, as he went around to his fellow senators asking for their support, the first question out of their mouths was whether there would be ratings restrictions.'"
Games

Feed Xbox 360 scratching discs? Maybe, says Microsoft (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Gaming, Storage

So far the Xbox 360 has had its fair share of hardware problems, both large and small, and while Microsoft has dealt with most of these challenges by extending warranties and offering up free fixes, it usually takes its own sweet time to come around, which seems to be the case here. After completely ignoring a minor public outcry over what appeared to be a problem with a decent number of the 360s produced in December 2006 -- where a missing part in the drive caused the Xbox to scratch the disc it was reading -- Microsoft is finally confessing that there might actually be a problem and promising to look into it. This statement comes after Dutch TV show "Kassa" gave the movement some PR and ran its own tests on the 360, proving it to be the scratching culprit. Microsoft's still pretty wishy-washy about the whole thing: "We are not able to respond in detail on the results. It is possible that scratches on discs originate from frequent use. However, we have no indication that the results of the tests from Kassa are a large scale problem." But at least now Microsoft is willing to hear out customer complaints on the matter, and recommends that affected users contact support to deal with the issue. We're not quite sure what kind of pyrotechnics it'll take for Microsoft to actually run its own tests on these things, but at least things are moving in the right direction.

[Via gadgetzone.nl]

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Oracle

Submission + - Oracle sues SAP for spidering their support site.

Submitted by TodoInSATX
TodoInSATX writes: Oracle filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California against SAP. Among the claims made against SAP are violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Unfair Competition, Intentional and Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Civil Conspiracy.

From the actual complaint: "SAP has stolen thousands of proprietary, copyrighted software products and other confidential materials that Oracle developed to service its own support customers. SAP gained repeated and unauthorized access, in many cases by use of pretextual customer log-in credentials, to Oracle's proprietary, password-protected customer support website."

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