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Submission + - Kasparov arrested by Russian police (en.rian.ru)

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perdelucena
perdelucena writes: "The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested outside a Moscow court, where the verdict in the trial of the Pussy Riot group members was being announced on Friday, Russian police said."
AMD

Submission + - AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Although much of the buzz lately has revolved around AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer-based APUs, AMD isn't done pushing the envelope with their existing processor designs. Over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies on their current bread-and-butter Phenom II processor line-up to the point where they're now flirting with the 4GHz mark. The Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition marks the release of AMD's highest clocked processor yet. The new quad-core Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition's default clock on all four of its cores is 3.7GHz. Like previous Deneb-based Phenom II processors, the X4 980 BE sports a total of 512K of L1 cache with 2MB of L2 cache, and 6MB of shared L3 cache. Performance-wise, for under $200, the processor holds up pretty well versus others in its class and it's an easy upgrade for AM2+ and AM3 socket systems."
Piracy

Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.
ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Comment Re:Ob. Matrix quote (Score 0, Redundant) 478

by perdelucena (#30685590) Attached to: 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus

Credits to Agent Smith
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus.

Comment Couple observations... (Score 1) 539

by wneto (#30559808) Attached to: Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server?
First of all, IANASA but i play one on tv (not really).
It seems to me both sides are doing it wrong. I understand you can only put so much information on Ask Slashdot before getting ignored by the tl;dr crowd so I might be wrong as well. Anyways, here it goes:

1) You said "I have a heavily-hit public server (web, mail, cvs/svn/git, dns, etc.) that runs a few dozen OSS project websites...".
Too many eggs in one basket in my opinion. No wonder you are pissed about outages. It sounds like you have one beefy server capable of running multiple virtualized OS instances (encrypted nonetheless). So why not just cancel your dedicated service and get VPS from multiple providers? That way you would have enough redundancy (e-mail, dns, rsync, HA/Varnish, whatever), none of the headaches of hardware/virtualization and save money while at it. Managing wouldn't be harder considering your proposition of vmware/uml. Also easier to move from your server bit by bit. Start with DNS, then e-mail, then web, then... You can take your time as it won't cost you much upfront (zero?) or monthly (sub $50) and gives you the ability to scale up or down the resources to acomodate the workload and cost.

2) You said "When I file 'WTF?'-style support tickets to the provider through their web-based ticketing system"
Do you have the option to call the provider? If not, you are doing it wrong. From my experience, over 80% of all ticket answers are canned responses. If possible, try calling (if you didn't yet) and get someone that has the power to fix the issue to talk to you. When you reach a dead end, ask to be transfered to the legal dept to discuss your contract/sla/whatever. If they don't have one, ask where you should send the legal papers. If everything fails, try the BBB.

Just my humble opinion. Excuse my poor english as it's not my first language.
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft To Charge Europeans 2X For Windows 7 (computerworld.com) 2

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe. Some of the money Microsoft stands to make on the European editions of Windows 7 comes from the weak dollar. Last week, for instance, the dollar fell against the euro the most in a month, hitting $1.41 per euro. For example, Windows 7 Professional, the key retail edition for businesses, will sport a price tag of 285, or $400.60, and £189.99, or $313.84, at Saturday's exchange rate. In other words, EU customers will pay twice the $199.99 U.S. price; U.K. buyers will pay 57% more. And depending on your view on bundling IE, Europe's customers will be paying more for less, with Microsoft's decision to yank IE8 from Windows 7 in an effort to head off EU antitrust regulators, who may still force the company to take more drastic measures."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - America's Army 3 developer team canned

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incognito84
incognito84 writes: "The development team responsible for the developing of the freeware game, "America's Army 3" has been canned, days after the launch of the highly flawed game which was distributed mostly via Steam.

The anonymous America's Army 3 developers in touch with Kotaku unsurprisingly didn't sound too pleased with the current situation, venting that "a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours on this game that was butchered by outside sources."

The game's launch was plagued by massive server authentication issues which are inhibiting most players from playing it two days after the game's official launch."
Internet Explorer

Submission + - Microsoft Launches new 'Get the facts' campaign (microsoft.com) 5

Submitted by ko9
ko9 writes: Microsoft has launched their "Get the facts" campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like 'privacy', 'security', 'reliability'. It even claims to have Firefox beat in 'customizability'. Almost all of these are at the very least stretching the truth, and more likely blatant lies. To people like me, this page would destroy a lot of the credibility MS might have had with me. I'm wondering if the average joe will question these facts though, or will he just blindly accept them as facts, because a big company like Microsoft would not lie this openly?
The Internet

Using the Internet To Subvert Democracy 202

Posted by kdawson from the you-thought-diebold-was-bad dept.
david_adams writes "All the recent talk about various polls and elections being pranked or hijacked, serious and silly alike, prompted me to write an article about the technical realities behind online polling, and the political fallout of ever becoming subject to online voting for serious elections. Even if we were to be able to limit voting to legitimate, legal voters, the realities of social networking and the rise of Internet-based movements would dramatically alter the political landscape if online voting were to become commonplace."
Internet Explorer

IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP 409

Posted by kdawson from the standards-are-critical-you-betcha dept.
Binestar was one of several readers writing in to note that Microsoft is listing IE8 as a critical update to Windows XP. CNet reported a couple of weeks back that Microsoft would be rolling our IE8 to users in a gradual fashion, and requiring an opt-in before installing it. Opinion has been split as to whether IE8 is worth installing or not. Binestar notes delicately, "For those not interested in upgrading to IE8 at this time, the MSDN released information back in January on how to keep IE8 off your machine."
Image

Nmap Network Scanning 125

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
brothke writes "The 1962 song Wipe Out, with its energetic drum solo started, was the impetus for many people to take up playing the drums. Similarly, Nmap, the legendary network scanner, likely interested many in the art of hacking, and for some, started a career for security professionals and hackers. Nmap and its creator Fyodor need no introduction to anyone on Slashdot. With that, Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning, is a most useful guide to anyone interested in fully utilizing Nmap." Read on for the rest of Ben's review.

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