Comment Re:Sad ... (Score 1) 214
I am waiting for the first law that has the tag "copyright Sony 2011 all rights reserved" it is probably not far off.
How Death Rally Got Ported 89
An anonymous reader writes "Last year, I got the opportunity to port Remedy Entertainment's Death Rally to modern platforms off its original MS-DOS sources. I wrote an article about the porting process for Game Developer magazine, and now I've posted the text of the article for general consumption. 'The source software platform was DOS, Watcom C, and some Dos4GW-style DOS extender. The extender basically meant you could use more than 640k of memory, and would not need any weird code for data larger than 64k. The game displayed in VESA 640x480 and MCGA 320x200 graphics modes, all with 8-bit palettes; there was no true color anywhere. There were also some per-frame palette change tricks that emulators have trouble with. The source code was mostly pure C with a couple dozen inline assembly functions. There were a few missing subsystems, specifically audio and networking, which would have to be replaced completely anyway, as well as one file for which the source code was lost and only a compiled object was available.'"
Submission + - Court rules bypassing dongles not a DMCA violation (courthousenews.com) 2
tcrown007 writes: MGE UPS makes UPS systems and software that are protected by hardware dongles. After the dongles expired, GE bypassed the dongles and continued to use the software. MGE sued, won, and now lost on GE's appeal. Directly from the court's ruling, "Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision...The owner’s technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing." Say what? I think I just saw a flying pig go by.
Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232
PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."
Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google 121
Anonymous Meoward writes "In what may be the weirdest perk proposed by a municipal authority to entice business, city councilman Bonner Gaylord has offered to name his unborn children Sergey and Larry, after the founders of Google. All he wants in return is the search giant to build its proposed high-speed fiber-optic network in Raleigh."
Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea 460
RawJoe writes "India and Bangladesh have argued for almost 30 years over control of a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have ended the argument for them: the island's gone. From the article: 'New Moore Island, in the Sunderbans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," said Hazra.'"
Comment Sun Night BoGo (Score 1) 182
Not one mention of the BoGo lights? Sun Night Solar has been doing this for a long time.
This plan even lets you get one for your self. I have not ordered yet but I still may.
James
Comment Porn Aggregators (Score 1) 767
It seems that porn aggregators (pornotube, thehun, etc...) would keep you somewhat safe from just happening across a link like this. For one, they probably would not link to a blank site. And two, if they check links (which I do not know whether or not they do) they too would be raided (if they are in the US). Granted this would take some time (by which it may be too late for you) but they are not going to want to take this chance any more than you do.
I would not bet my life on this safety since I have seen (and quickly closed) some pages even off of these sites where I was not 100% sure the girls were of age. But still...it has to be better than just random surfing.
I would not bet my life on this safety since I have seen (and quickly closed) some pages even off of these sites where I was not 100% sure the girls were of age. But still...it has to be better than just random surfing.
Hans Reiser Interview from Prison 611
JLester writes "Wired Magazine has an interview this month with Hans Reiser (of the ReiserFS journaling file system for Linux) from prison. It contains more details about the murder case against him. Some of the questions still go unanswered though."
