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Cooperative Cars Battle It Out In Holland 139

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @04:23AM from the chill-guys-what's-with-the-aggression dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first cooperative platooning competition, where vehicles use radio communication in addition to sensors, was held in Helmond, Holland a week ago. By using wireless communication the awareness range of each vehicle is extended, enabling vehicles to travel closer together which increases road capacity while at the same time avoiding the shockwave effects responsible for traffic jams. The Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge distinguishes itself from earlier platooning demos (e.g. the PATH project) by having a completely heterogeneous mix of vehicles and systems built by multiple researcher and student teams. Using wireless communication to coordinate vehicles raises concerns about the safety of such systems, would you trust WiFi to drive your car?"

Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed 631

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 18, 2010 @03:26AM from the enjoy-getting-flamed-by-the-entire-internet dept.

A few weeks ago we discussed news of Ubisoft's DRM plans for future games, which reportedly went so far as to require a constant net connection, terminating your game if you get disconnected for any reason. Well, it's here; upon playing review copies of the PC version of Assassin's Creed 2 and Settlers VII, PCGamer found the DRM just as annoying as you might expect. Quoting: "If you get disconnected while playing, you're booted out of the game. All your progress since the last checkpoint or savegame is lost, and your only options are to quit to Windows or wait until you're reconnected. The game first starts the Ubisoft Game Launcher, which checks for updates. If you try to launch the game when you're not online, you hit an error message right away. So I tried a different test: start the game while online, play a little, then unplug my net cable. This is the same as what happens if your net connection drops momentarily, your router is rebooted, or the game loses its connection to Ubisoft's 'Master servers.' The game stopped, and I was dumped back to a menu screen — all my progress since it last autosaved was lost."

Comment Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux (Score 1) 310

by TheFranz on Friday January 22, 2010 @05:40AM (#30857616) Attached to: What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?

That's odd: because that is around the same time I gave it a shot too. I did not have trouble with any debugging or getting info from the code at runtime. I even found the watch expression to be working well!.

funny that we have the exact opposite experience with Eclipse CDT and VS2008. Btw: when you switched from 2005 to 2008 weren't you unpleasantly surprised with the compile time of the C++ Code? ours increased by a factor.
luckily the /MP switch can help as long as you don't use COM :-/

Comment Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux (Score 2, Informative) 310

by TheFranz on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @06:51PM (#30839224) Attached to: What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?

I'd like to claim the exact oposite of what you are claiming. The Intellisense (intellinonsense / intellisenseless) get worse for C++ with every release of Visual Studio. For 2005 it was workable but 2008 is completely backwards. I fear what they did with it in VS2010.
If I use boost for instance VS doesn't know how to begin with providing me the first bit of information in intellisense relating to boost. even worse: it stops "intellisensing" for other code i've written completely!

To make intellisense work for us with C++ we use the Visual Assistant plugin. And for C# we also use resharper: this adds all the eclipse niceness to Visual Studio except the "find types". That great feature is still missing, or I haven't located it yet. However this make Visual Studio need 2 plugins to work well.

Perhaps if you check out a recent version of CDT all the proplems you mentioned are gone: CDT seems to be a very active project. I had no problems with debugging in eclipse CDT with GDB (after spending countless hours getting it to work with KDevelop)

So for now I can only recommend Eclipse CDT as IDE for Linux C++ app development (having only checked out Kdevelop and Eclipse CDT)

UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs 595

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @09:13PM from the must-be-ok-if-the-good-guys-do-it dept.

toomanyairmiles writes "The Times of London reports that the United Kingdom's Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state that drives 'a coach and horses' through privacy laws."

Comment irrelevant? (Score 1) 359

by TheFranz on Thursday September 04, 2003 @09:57AM (#6868290) Attached to: Cracking GSM

Why should all of these law enforcement agencies go through all these troubles? Why not just go to the telco and ask them nicely, I know that some countries (The Netherlands for instance) only give out GSM licenses to telco's who are willing to record all of the conversations done on their network. Law enforcement agencies must have Access to this database. I'm sure The Netherlands isn't the only country with this kind of "license restriction". The stuff needed for this type of eavesdropping is expensive and I think in most countries irrelevant.

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