Comment Re:Alternative link? (Score 2) 18
Repressive to whom? Individuals or privacy invading advertisers?
Submission + - Here's How to Disable Google Chrome's Confusing New URL Hiding Scheme (vortex.com)
Lauren Weinstein writes: I don’t normally recommend altering Chrome’s inner sanctum of “experimental” settings unless you’re a hardcore techie who fully understands the implications. But today I’m making an exception and will explain how you can disable these new URL handling behaviors and return Chrome to its previous (safer and logical) URL display methodology — at least until such a time as Google decides to force this issue and removes this option.
Comment Re:For fuck's sake (Score 1) 153
Ha! 'Tis only a flesh wound
Linux 2.6.37 Released 135
diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."
8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision 265
An anonymous reader writes "Activision, after acquiring Vivendi, became the new copyright holder of the classic King's Quest series of adventure game. They have now issued a cease and desist order to a team which has worked for eight years on a fan-made project initially dubbed a sequel to the last official installment, King's Quest 8. This stands against the fact that Vivendi granted a non-commercial license to the team, subject to Vivendi's approval of the game after submission. After the acquisition, key team members had indicated on the game's forums (now stripped of their original content by order of Activision) that Activision had given the indication that it intended to keep its current fan-game licenses, but was not interested in issuing new ones."
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Comment It's simply an excuse for more bank charges (Score 1) 1
My merchant bank (one of those that were rescued in the UK by all us taxpayers) have just started to harass us into full compliance. They have mandated an annual charge (90UKP iirc) to pay for their staff to audit my company, and I've had the pleasure of fighting a horribly complex website to prove my compliance. If I don't succeed, they bill me 50UKP per MONTH and if I can't unravel their website I have to phone a premium rate phone line in order to talk to a human.
The bad news is their website is broken so I can't complete the process! So I phoned and told them I couldn't complete it - "Oh it's OK, everything is fine. You're compliant"
Except I then get an email from their computer saying I'm about to get a bill for 50 quid! So, I either spend even more time on the phone, or get billed automatically.
You want to know the real rub? We don't even have a credit card terminal! We use Sagepay (what was Protex) and use a web based virtual terminal for at most 5 transactions a month! Sagepay ARE already compliant so all I have to do is make sure no-one writes down customer's credit card details, or shred them straight away if they do.
I like to think I'm technically competent (I mean, I even have
Comment Re:99% of non-techie readers would say "open what? (Score 1) 252
Anyone with Sun's Java on their system gets an advert for Open Office every time it's updated - Every few months I get several people ask me what it is, and I tell them it's (usually) good enough for their purposes, and morally superior to that knocked off copy of MS Office they "borrowed" from work. Some have converted, but the rest have simply just carried on with "what everybody else uses" - but without paying for it.
Comment Re:Probably true, even. (Score 3, Funny) 342
It really doesn't matter what browser they use, they will still copy unencrypted data onto CDs and then put them in the post, send unencrypted emails to each other, leave laptops and memory sticks on the train or if that fails, stand in front of photographers with confidential information showing.
The 'Chinese' (or whoever) really don't need to bother with browser attacks.
Comment Re:It's CUE (Score 2, Interesting) 198
Forgive me, but I'm a native Englishman and I'm patient enough to pass on a little education.
Think of a performance; E.g. Cue the music, maestro. Cue the record, DJ.
Yes it's similar to "a queue", but the implication of the word "cue" is to set things up ready to release the pause button on the tape deck ... yes, yes I am that old! In my day we used a chinagraph pencil to make a mark on the tape which we aligned to the tape head - a cue mark.
{ While I'm in teacher mode, please do NOT use the non-word Walla! It's really a French word: Voila! }
Thanks for listening!
Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies 397
An anonymous reader writes "Develop has an excellent piece up profiling a bunch of average to awful titles that flopped so hard they harmed or sunk their studio or publisher. The list includes Haze, Enter The Matrix, Hellgate: London, Daikatana, Tabula Rasa, and — of course — Duke Nukem Forever. 'Daikatana was finally released in June 2000, over two and a half years late. Gamers weren't convinced the wait was worth it. A buggy game with sidekicks (touted as an innovation) who more often caused you hindrance than helped ... achieved an average rating of 53. By this time, Eidos is believed to have invested over $25 million in the studio. And they called it a day. Eidos closed the Dallas Ion Storm office in 2001.'"
Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon 325
As high-definition graphics become more and more entrenched in this generation of game consoles, Nintendo has had to deal with constant speculation about a new version of the Wii that would increase its capabilities. Today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime bluntly denied that a hardware revision was imminent, saying, "We are confident the Wii home entertainment console has a very long life in front of it." He added, "In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
IBM Seeks Patent On Digital Witch Hunts 136
theodp writes "Should Mark Zuckerberg want to identify a snitching Facebook employee, Elon Musk wish to set a trap for loose-lipped Tesla employees, or Steve Jobs want to 'play Asteroid,' they'll be happy to know that a new IBM 'invention' makes it easier than ever to be paranoid. In a newly-disclosed patent application for Embedding a Unique Serial Number into the Content of an Email for Tracking Information Dispersion (phew!), Big Blue describes how it's automated the creation of Canary Traps with patent-pending software that makes ever-so-slight changes to e-mail wording to allow you to spy on the unsuspecting recipients of your e-mail."
Firefox To Get Multi-Process Browsing 383
An anonymous reader writes with news that multi-process browsing will be coming to Firefox. The project is called Electrolysis, and the developers "have already assembled a prototype that renders a page in a separate process from the interface shell in which it is displayed." Mozilla's Benjamin Smedberg says they're currently "[sprinting] as fast as possible to get basic code working, running simple testcase plugins and content tabs in a separate process," after which they'll fix everything that breaks in the process. Further details of their plan are available on the Mozilla wiki, and a summary is up at TechFragments.
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