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Denver Bomb Squad Takes Out Toy Robot 225

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 02, 2010 @03:47PM from the I-feel-safer-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A robot met its end near Coors Field tonight when the Denver Police Department Bomb Squad detonated the 'suspicious object,' bringing to an end the hours-long standoff between police and the approximately eight-inch tall toy. From the article: "'Are you serious?' asked Denver resident Justin Kent, 26, when police stopped him from proceeding down 20th Street. Kent said that he lived just past the closed area, but was told he would have to go around via Park Avenue.'"

How Death Rally Got Ported 89

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:30PM from the not-the-opposite-of-starboarded dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year, I got the opportunity to port Remedy Entertainment's Death Rally to modern platforms off its original MS-DOS sources. I wrote an article about the porting process for Game Developer magazine, and now I've posted the text of the article for general consumption. 'The source software platform was DOS, Watcom C, and some Dos4GW-style DOS extender. The extender basically meant you could use more than 640k of memory, and would not need any weird code for data larger than 64k. The game displayed in VESA 640x480 and MCGA 320x200 graphics modes, all with 8-bit palettes; there was no true color anywhere. There were also some per-frame palette change tricks that emulators have trouble with. The source code was mostly pure C with a couple dozen inline assembly functions. There were a few missing subsystems, specifically audio and networking, which would have to be replaced completely anyway, as well as one file for which the source code was lost and only a compiled object was available.'"

FBI Vaguely Warns of Asterisk Vishing Vulnerability 57

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 06, 2008 @04:32PM from the do-not-call-back dept.

coondoggie writes in to let us know about a fraud alert issued by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, warning that an unspecified bug in unspecified versions of Asterisk IP PBX software could allow criminals to generate "thousands of vishing telephone calls to consumers within one hour." PC World checked with Digium, developer of Asterisk, and found some puzzlement as to what bug the FBI had in mind. "In March, researchers at Mu Security reported a bug that could allow an attacker to take control of an Asterisk system. Digium wasn't certain what vulnerability the FBI was referencing in its advisory. However John Todd, the company's Asterisk open-source community director, believes that it was probably this March bug. That vulnerability 'basically allowed you to take over the account of one individual,' he said. ... However, the attack described by the FBI would be extremely hard to pull off, Todd said." Update: 12/09 02:54 GMT by KD : Digium has put out a statement on the IC3 warning (further details), confirming that what the FBI had in mind was an old bug and difficult in the extreme to exploit.

Comment Re:Catching up. (Score 1) 107

by Meower on Wednesday October 13, 1999 @01:41PM (#1618270) Attached to: Nortel gets 6.4 Terabits on a Single Fibre

And just on the side. Nortel's track record of just keeping 1X ( Their name for an STM1 box) running is really not so good. How are they going to support 6 Tera if they *really* can't get the basics right ??

Nortel's low-speed stuff wasn't so good before, because back 10 years ago when the SONET boxes race was on, Nortel decided to concentrate on high-speed first (OC48), and develop downwards. Everyone else was developing low-speed first (OC3), then upwards.

Thus, 5 years ago for Nortel, in terms of quality, OC48 was the best, followed by OC12, then by OC3.

I've heard that with the newer OC3 express, things are much better. Not to mention Nortel's OC192 box being the current market leader.

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