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Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day 678

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 04, 2010 @10:58PM from the next-time-gadget-next-time dept.

Colonel Korn writes "Ubisoft's recent announcement that upcoming games would require a constant internet connection in order to play has been discussed at length on Slashdot ('The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work'). Many were of the opinion that this new, more demanding DRM would have effectiveness to match its inconvenience, at least financially justifying its use. Others assumed that it would be immediately cracked, as is usually the case, leaving the inconvenience for paying customers and resulting in a superior product for pirates. As usual, the latter group was right. Though Ubisoft won't yet admit it, Skid-Row managed to crack the new DRM less than a day after it was first released."

Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet 229

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @05:09AM from the one-downmanship dept.

BuzzSkyline writes "Ukrainian researchers have managed to take pictures of atoms that reveal structure of the electron clouds surrounding carbon nuclei in unprecedented detail. Although the images offer no surprises (they look much like the sketches of electron orbitals included in high school science texts), this is the first time that anyone has directly imaged atoms at this level, rather than inferring the structure of the orbitals from indirect measurements such as electron or X-ray interferometry."

Maori Legend of Man-Eating Birds is True 338

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 14, 2009 @11:58PM from the beautiful-plumage dept.

jerryatrix writes "Legends of the New Zealand Maori tell of giant man-eating birds. New scientific evidence proves that these birds did exist and were around the same time as humans in New Zealand. From the article, 'Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago.'"

Comment Re:The glaciers are retreating! (Score 1) 791

by mantito on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @06:38AM (#28864041) Attached to: Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released

WTF, few copied biased statements of the conspiration theorists with no arguments, and, Insightful 5? Come on, slashdot., you can do better than that.

[..] If anyone, including noted scientists, say anything remotely the opposite of the climate change cabal, they are run out of town, belitted by their peers. They have their jobs & credentials taken away. That sounds more like the status quo is trying to hide something to me.

Bullshit. Show me any data showing systematic oppression of scientists with valid scientific results opposing climate change. (You probably forgot to copy the word "anthropogenic" somewhere in that sentence)

When I was growing up, I was always taught to question the mainstream. But if you do that when it comes to climate change, you are labeled a nut.

Well, you probably will be shocked, but the way you were taught is irrelevant to the way science works. Don't know about nuts, but anyone can question whatever scientific statements they want, just please use scientific method.

Comment Re:DRM bad, but "classist sensibilities"? (Score 1) 476

by mantito on Wednesday January 23, 2008 @01:59PM (#22155614) Attached to: Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port

Friend, a corporation is a miniature society. It's an organization of people that divides labor for the purpose of maximizing the welfare of all, subject to an agreed-upon heirarchical distribution scheme. (That is, the wealth it creates is not usually distributed equally.) Society is merely the largest possible corporation, in which we are all, whether we like it nor not, employed.

But there is one very important difference between corporations and societies (in most places). Societies are more or less democratic, while corporations are strictly hierarchical and authoritarian (fascist). That's why it is a good idea to society to force some restrictions on corporations - there is bigger chance that people will get their say too.

Agreed-upon distribution scheme? - come on, how many capitalists discuss distribution of profits with their workers? I think it is more like forced-by-economic/social-situation distribution scheme.

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