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Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 07, 2010 @08:23PM from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Comment Re:TV? (Score 1) 448

by dougjm on Monday May 21, 2007 @10:23AM (#19208353) Attached to: Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4/
specifically :-

Though entirely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned: Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990 for this purpose and which came into operation in 1993, following the abolition of the IBA.

But I think - having not read the whole page cause I'm lazy - that they get a bunch of money from the tv license that pays for some of the programing like you mention but they also don't have to pay broadcast fees - or maybe they don't pay broadcast fees and thats their subsidy - its something along tose lines anyway - I just remeber this from a few months ago cause C4 wants more money to deal with the digital switchover.

Scientists Decry Political Interference 248

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 14, 2006 @06:25PM from the keep-your-hand-out-of-the-till dept.

RamblingMan writes "According to the BBC, the American Union of Concerned Scientists has put out a statement about the misrepresentation of date and a list of such interference by the U.S. government in scientific research. Besides the usual slew of Nobel Laureate signatories, they provide a number of examples besides the well-known example of the EPA's Global Warming Report." From the BBC article: "'It's very difficult to make good public policy without good science, and it's even harder to make good public policy with bad science,' said Dr Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security. 'In the last several years, we've seen an increase in both the misuse of science and I would say an increase of bad science in a number of very important issues; for example, in global climate change, international peace and security, and water resources.'"

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