kkaltuu - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Android security needs to be tweaked. (Score 1) 279

by kkaltuu on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @11:00AM (#35347266) Attached to: Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills

This. Because of the article, I just searched for a really simple app, stumbled across a free game which is not much more than "falling down" on any console (or TI calculator). It demands full internet access. No! bad app! You don't NEED that to work. Now go sit in the corner!

Comment Re:Brilliant! (Score 1) 147

by kkaltuu on Monday July 06, 2009 @06:10PM (#28600487) Attached to: LucasArts To Re-Release Old Games Through Steam

I agree, it seems like a wise choice from LucasArts. But I hope they let you register with your old cd-keys, if you've already bought games like Star Wars Battlefront II or LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure, there is no sense in paying for something you already own. I remember that the multiplayer support for games like Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds I & II was terrible, same goes for Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. If LucasArts really wants to re-release more games, a working, easy to setup multiplayer will be a huge plus for sales.

Comment Re:It's a dup (Score 1) 307

by kkaltuu on Thursday January 29, 2009 @09:31AM (#26652231) Attached to: 45% of Dutch Media-Buying Population Are "Pirates"

The article that you're referring only mentions TNO, a government subsidized company (The reason why TNO was founded was that the Dutch government felt that there had to be a independent research facility that could give unbiased reports). This IS the same study, lead by a consortium of SEO IViR and TNO. But, there are different conclusions to this, and the first article only mentions that piracy doesn't effect the economy. This article is about another conclusion.

Comment Re:Another way around high licensing fees... (Score 1) 270

by kkaltuu on Friday January 09, 2009 @09:32AM (#26385229) Attached to: Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards

You'll always have the option to use mountpoints.

6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive 504

Posted by timothy on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:24AM from the buck-beats-scapegoat dept.

nandemoari writes "A six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game has been criticized by parent groups and crusaders (or in the eyes of gamers, nincompoops) like former lawyer Jack Thompson for years (Thompson once tried to link the Virginia Tech slayings to late-night Counterstrike sessions. He's since been disbarred). However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft."

40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb 470

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @09:07AM from the chrome-dome-down dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "A BBC investigation has found that in 1968 the US abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland after a nuclear-armed B52 crashed on the ice a few miles from Thule Air Base. The Stratofortress disintegrated on impact with the sea ice and parts of it began to melt through to the fjord below. The high explosives surrounding the four nuclear weapons on board detonated without setting off the nuclear devices, which had not been armed by the crew. The Pentagon maintained that all four weapons had been 'destroyed' and while technically true, investigators piecing together fragments from the crash could only account for three of the weapons. Investigators found that 'something melted through ice such as burning primary or secondary.' A subsequent search by a US submarine was beset by technical problems and, as winter encroached and the ice began to freeze over, the search was abandoned. 'There was disappointment in what you might call a failure to return all of the components,' said a former nuclear weapons designer at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory. 'It would be very difficult for anyone else to recover classified pieces if we couldn't find them.'"

Where Have All the Pagers Gone? 584

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @03:40AM from the long-time-paging dept.

oddRaisin writes "After recently sleeping through a page for work, I decided to change my paging device from my BlackBerry (which is quiet and has a pathetic vibrate mode) to an actual pager. After looking at the websites of Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, I'm left scratching my head and wondering where all the pagers went. I can't find them or any mention of them. Pagers of yore offered some great features that reflected the serious nature of being paged. They were loud. They had good vibrate modes. They continued to alert after a page until you acknowledged them. I didn't have to differentiate between a text from a friend and a page from work. Now that pagers seem to have become passé, what are other people doing to fill this niche? Are some phones better pagers than others? Are there still paging service providers out there?"

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