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Submission + - WikiLeaks: Saudi oil reserves overstated (upi.com)

Submitted by Mr.Intel on Thursday February 10, 2011 @03:16PM

Mr.Intel writes: Estimates of oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are overstated, meaning crude output could peak within the next decade, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables reveal.

Washington fears Saudi Arabia overestimated its oil reserves by as much as 40 percent and the kingdom can't keep enough oil flowing to control prices, U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and published by The Guardian newspaper in London reveal.

Comment Re:The Game Censor Board should ban it immediately (Score 1) 421

by TechieAlizay on Thursday February 10, 2011 @07:18AM (#35160444) Attached to: Fox News Brings Video Game Violence Debate To a New Low

I mean, the game would affect the minds*

Comment The Game Censor Board should ban it immediately. (Score 0) 421

by TechieAlizay on Thursday February 10, 2011 @07:17AM (#35160430) Attached to: Fox News Brings Video Game Violence Debate To a New Low

The minors would affects the minds of minors if these kinds of games will be produced. It should be stopped immediately by the concerned authorities.

Submission + - Verizon iPhone is now jailbreakable (geekword.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @01:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: It’s raining Greenpois0n updates folks. That’s the best way to describe the recent roll out of Greenpois0n RC5 updates for the Windows and Mac version. The Chronic Dev Team have rolled out Greenpoison RC5_4 aka Greenpois0n RC5 b4 for both the Mac and Windows platform, which brings untethered jailbreak for the Verizon iPhone, as speculated previously.

With this release, Greenpois0n gets the ability to bring untethered jailbreak for not one but two firmwares – iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 4.2.6. The last few days have been an adventurous and activity filled for the Chronic Dev Team. The jailbreak gang started making their presence felt on Friday when they released Greenpois0n RC5 for Mac. The team kept the momentum going as they released Greenpois0n RC5 for Windows in late part of Saturday.

If you happen to own a Verizon iPhone and are willing to give it the jailbreak treatment using Greenpois0n RC5_4, we wish you best of luck for that and hope you could share your end result with us. Thanks in advance.

Comment Wrong Original Link (Score 1) 1

by TechieAlizay on Monday February 07, 2011 @05:54AM (#35124412) Attached to: Greenpois0n RC5 can jailbreak Verizon’s iPho

The link was mistakenly provided wrong: Original Source: http://www.geekword.net/greenpois0n-verizon-iphone-jailbreak/

Submission + - Kinect hacked to play Max Payne (geekword.net)

Submitted by TechieAlizay on Sunday January 16, 2011 @07:35PM

TechieAlizay writes: The Kinect hack which we are going to share with you folks today has me excited for two reasons. First, it involves one of my all time favorite PC games and secondly it is related to Kinect which is sure to keep many involved and interested. demize2010, a Youtube user who previously played Call of Duty using Kinect has managed to hack into the motion controller and has used it to play Max Payne. Video demo follows after the jump.

This hack was possible due to FAAST ( a toolkit for Kinect), OpenNi/Nite and GlovePIE. Here’s how the hacker describes the different control gestures:

As you can see, the leaning left and right stuff is all there – and moving your body forward and backs moves you back and forwards. The reload and interact gestures are becoming pretty standard for me now, and pain killers are popped with an upward motion of the left hand. What makes this special though is the leg movements that activate bullet time. The result is bullet time diving for real! When this game hit just after the Matrix film came out it caused a big stir – with kinect augmentation it gets even better.

The only thing that needs some fine tuning is the weapon selection action:

The one thing that needs fixing is weapon select, this will be handled by the +/- buttons on the mote in future I think. You’ll notice that jumping is done using the A button on the mote as well, it was only really in the COD script to show it could be done ;)

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