You ignored the second part of the requirement: The malware requires a jailbroken phone AND THEN it requires you to _install the malware_.

In other news, if you disable your computer's anti-virus software and install a virus you will...have a virus. Shocking, I know.

solve problems best of all.

Just a note that if you are a PC gamer, the game may not even release on that platform. It will initially release on PS4.

I'm bummed. For the longest time I thought this was a PC game.

You would expect that a link named "an interactive google doodle" would link to, you know, that and not an engadget article which has a decidedly non-interactive screenshot of said doodle . But hey, this is slashdot. Go here instead: http://www.google.com/doodles/

We already have a good idea of what happens when ISPs are treated like common carriers -- more competition; better and faster internet access. The UK is a perfect example.

This planet money podcast is great overview on how both the US and the UK arrived at their respective situations. It's a fascinating listen:

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510289/299232999/npr_299232999.mp3?_kip_ipx=1217487091-1400085519/

Display resolution is not the hard-to-solve problem. This quote from John Carmack sums it up best:

The latency between the physical movement of a users head and updated photons from a head mounted display reaching their eyes is one of the most critical factors in providing a high quality experience. Human sensory systems can detect very small relative delays in parts of the visual or, especially, audio fields, but when absolute delays are below approximately 20 milliseconds they are generally imperceptible.

According to the article

[...]the latest GameFace SDK significantly reduces latency to a point that it is easily comparable to the DK1. The company plans to benchmnark their latency soon to get a quantitative latency figure.

Notice that is DK1 latency, not DK2. DK1's latency was notoriously bad and made many people nauseous. So, while I'm happy to see competition in this space, as far as GameFace is concerned, there is not a lot to see here yet.

The Oculus is 640x400 per eye for a total of 1280x800. Not 1280x800 per eye. I've no idea why the total resolution is always mentioned since it's a completely useless metric. I think they've solved a lot of hard problems with this device -- in particular head tracking lag -- but it still has some baking to do before it's ready for your average gamer to use as a monitor replacement. In particular the resolution needs to approach or surpass 720p. Can someone more familiar with HDMI comment on the viability of pushing 2 720p signals @ 60Hz over HDMI? I know it's an issue for 1080p, not sure about 720p.

The slashdot I knew is gone. After years of reading and moderating, this will be my last visit to the site.

For me, the quality of slashdot has been declining, for years really. It still presents a lot of great stuff, but more and more I find myself annoyed by

• non-tech articles
• articles that no one here cares about but that get posted over and over anyway because someone at slashdot has a vested interest (bitcoin)
• politics being inserted into articles
• poorly reviewed articles that either purposefully sensationalize the headline or get the summary completely wrong
• and now infomercials

I really enjoy slashdot because there are a lot of intelligent, well-spoken people here, but I'm so close to being done with it. Makes me a little sad.

Just to be clear, the original plant that started the cloning process was not 200,000 years old. According to TFA it was between 12,000 and 200,000.

Honestly /., if you are going to use questionable scientific articles from the Telegraph, can you at least not make it more sensationalist by purposefully misquoting the age of the plant?

I developed Audiotorium Notes a couple of years ago for my niece who was just starting college. Since then it has been featured by Apple a number of times in their back-to-school apps lineup. Note taking + audio recording + dropbox syncing goodness. http://itunes.com/apps/audiotorium