Comment 'IT' is coming... (Score 2, Insightful) 853

by xxEtineSxx on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @11:24AM (#31910778) Attached to: Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser

Has anyone considered that this is a flat out publicity stunt to get mouths watering in light of the release of the HTC Droid Incredible. Quite frankly, this stinks like a PR department.

Comment Re:Wait... what? (Score 1) 287

by xxEtineSxx on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:10PM (#29571329) Attached to: First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case

The case looks like a prop from 2001, rendered in black steel instead of white plastic. It's absolutely unlike anything I've ever seen before(IRL)

Thar -- fixd.

Submission + - Hacked business owner stuck with $52k phone bill (winnipegfreepress.com)

Submitted by ubercam on Friday December 19, 2008 @11:27AM

ubercam writes: A Canadian business man is on the hook for a $52,000 phone bill after someone hacked into his voice mail system and found a way to dial out. The hacker racked up the charges with calls to Bulgaria. The business owner noticed an odd message coming up on his call display (Feature 36), and alerted his provider, Manitoba Telecom Services. They referred him to their fraud department, who discovered the breach. MTS said that they would reverse the charges if the hacked equipment was theirs, but in this case it was customer owned. The ironic part is that the victim's company, HUB Computer Solutions is in the business of computer and network security. They even offer to sell, configure and secure Cisco VoIP systems. Looks as though they even couldn't manage to secure their own system, which doesn't bode well for their customers.

More coverage of this story can be found here, here, here and here.

RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers 619

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 19, 2008 @09:16AM from the declare-victory-and-withdraw dept.

debatem1 writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the RIAA has decided to abandon its current tactic of suing individuals for sharing copyrighted music. Ongoing lawsuits will be pursued to completion, but no new ones will be filed. The RIAA is going to try working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users. This very surprising development apparently comes as a result of public distaste for the campaign." An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."

Submission + - Corrupt DVD Lands Rapist in Prison for 24 Years (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Friday December 12, 2008 @04:35PM

Lucas123 writes: "The Santa Cruz, Calif. DA's office had been counting on a DVD with the recorded testimony of a victim in case against a serial rapist, but when they popped the video into the player, nothing came up — the disc was blank. To make matters worse, the cop who performed the original interview with the victim told the DA she never said she was "forced", so the judge wasn't going to allow the witness to testify in a case where her original statement to police was in conflict with her current testimony. After two local data recovery firms said there was no way to restore the data, a third was able to recover the police interview from two years earlier, which lead the defendant to plead guilty earlier this month. Close call."

EMA Suggests Point-Of-Sale Game Activation To Fight Piracy 244

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @12:49AM from the new-ways-to-break-things dept.

Gamasutra reports on a set of standards (PDF) published by the Entertainment Merchants Association to promote the use of technology that would "disable" games and DVDs until they are activated when purchased. "The effort is codenamed 'Project Lazarus,' and the EMA says it's assembled a consortium of retailers, home video companies and video game publishers to see how easily such 'benefit denial technology' could be implemented, and to evaluate possible cost-benefit analyses. The initiative is similar to security tags used in clothing retail that spill ink on garments if they're forcibly removed, thereby destroying the item. In such a situation, shoplifting is discouraged by implementing a solution that only the retailer can remove at the point of sale."

Comment Re:Prior Art (Score 1) 346

by xxEtineSxx on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @03:45PM (#25890159) Attached to: McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich

/facepalm -- i swore i read this before -- StumbleUpon had this author beat out by over a year for me. *hack*

The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org 285

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 03, 2007 @12:58AM from the but-for-how-long dept.

kungfujesus writes "The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: "The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks", today it became clear that he was referring to the resurrection of Suprnova."

First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq 661

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 02, 2007 @08:18PM from the number-johnny-five dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any war zone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready for a while, but safety concerns kept them off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already."