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The Courts

Judge Berates Prosecutors In Xbox Modding Trial 285

Posted by Soulskill from the your-uppance-has-come dept.
mrbongo writes with this excerpt from Wired: "Opening statements in the first-of-its-kind Xbox 360 criminal hacking trial were delayed here Wednesday after a federal judge unleashed a 30-minute tirade at prosecutors in open court, saying he had 'serious concerns about the government's case.' ... Gutierrez slammed the prosecution over everything from alleged unlawful behavior by government witnesses, to proposed jury instructions harmful to the defense. When the verbal assault finally subsided, federal prosecutors asked for a recess to determine whether they would offer the defendant a deal, dismiss or move forward with the case that was slated to become the first jury trial of its type. A jury was seated Tuesday."
The Almighty Buck

When DLC Goes Wrong 261

Posted by Soulskill from the horse-armor dept.
kube00 writes "Poorly done downloadable content is one of a gamer's worst nightmares right now. Where a publisher stands to make some money, gamers get screwed. Whether it's the overpriced extra maps/costumes DLC, on-the-disc-at-launch DLC, or DLC that is nothing more than a remake of other content, no game is safe from bad DLC. That includes Modern Warfare 2, Bioshock 2, Uncharted 2 and a host of many other popular games. Is there a chance to fix this system?"
Businesses

VMware Releases Open Source Virtualization Client 218

Posted by kdawson from the not-before-time dept.
ruphus13 writes in with the news that VMware has finally decided to open-source its client for virtual desktops, releasing it under the LGPL. This was in response to intense pressure from the growing number of Linux distros that include virtualization by default. From the post: "The CEO replacement who entered VMware last year was Paul Maritz, a long-time Microsoft executive with intimate familiarity with how Windows swallowed up entire categories of utility software as it grew up by simply wrapping free utilities into the operating system. Paul knows about that, and he had to have seen last year the dual threats to VMware of open source virtualization offerings and virtualization on board in operating systems. The VMware View Open Client allows businesses to host virtualized desktops in the data center, and users can access their desktops from any device. Going with an open source solution like this was VMware's only choice, especially as Microsoft includes Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server. I'm sure Maritz was very focused on the Microsoft threat, because he used to be behind similar threats. VMware can grab market share with this move, stave off Microsoft's dominance, and offer support and services around its open source offering.'"

Comment Re:Older than that (Score 1) 269

by Toby O'Neil (#10985431) Attached to: Digital Clock Without Electricity or Moving Parts

It was in Ian Stewart's column "Mathematical Recreations" in Scientific American, pages 104-106, (1991). Stewart's article was based on a paper by the mathematician Kenneth Falconer. As far as I am aware the article by Ian Stewart is the first time a discussion about digital sundials appears in print.

The paper by Falconer is Sets with prescribed projections and Nikodym sets and was orginally published in the Proceeding of the London Mathematical Society 53 (1986), pages 48-64. The paper is concerned with a much more abstruse mathematical problem but, in everyday language, essentially describes a method to construct an object so that its shadows are any prescribed shape you wish at different times of the day. Of course, being a pure mathematics paper, the method given is completely impractical...

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