http://www.furious-angels.com/ Furious Angels multigaming community play many different games ranging from FPS to MMO and everything in between. Join us or stop by to discuss games and gaming in general en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:45:15 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.furious-angels.com/images/portokalli/misc/rss.jpg http://www.furious-angels.com/ http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100079&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:01:10 GMT YokimaSun writes "Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port of the exploit has been released by Waninkoko of Wii custom firmware fame for the Dingoo Handheld, which is a homebrew console that is very popular amongst emulation fans. It makes you smile that you can use one homebrew console to hack another to get homebrew on that console. Awesome." pudge notes that you can apparently do the same with a TI-84 Plus graphing calculator (YouTube video).

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Slash Comments: 2 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100079 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100078&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:01:10 GMT ChipMonk writes "Over at hobbyist site OS News, editor-in-chief Thom Holwerda published a highly skeptical opinion of the announcement of Commodore USA's own Amiga line. Within hours, Commodore USA sent a takedown notice to OS News, demanding a retraction of the piece and accusing the site of libel and defamation. What's funny is that the takedown notice was mostly copied, with minor edits, from Chilling Effects, a site dedicated to publicizing attempts at squelching free speech. The formatting, line breaks, obtuse references to 'OCGA,' and even the highlighted search terms were left largely intact."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100078 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100077&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:33 GMT An anonymous reader writes "The Royal Mail on Friday issued what it called the world's first 'intelligent stamps,' designed to interact with smartphones using image-recognition technology. The Royal Mail's latest special-issue stamps, devoted to historic British railways, are designed to launch specially developed online content when a user snaps them using an image-recognition application available on iPhone or Android handsets. 'This is the first time a national postal service has used this kind of technology on their stamps and we're very excited to be bringing intelligent stamps to the nation's post,' a Royal Mail spokesman said in a statement. 'Intelligent stamps mark the next step in the evolution of our stamps, bringing them firmly into the 21st century.'"

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Slash Comments: 2 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100077 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100076&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:59:05 GMT Stoobalou writes "A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100076 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100075&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:59:26 GMT theodp writes "Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Here's some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?"

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100075 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100074&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:10:48 GMT postbigbang writes "Ryanair's miser-in-chief Michael O'Leary now suggests eliminating co-pilots as a way to save money. Will airliners be powered by drones, or is it actually viable to have just a single pilot on passenger planes?"

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Slash Comments: 13 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100074 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100073&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:11:11 GMT An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals — such as amino acids and nucleotides — have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents."

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Slash Comments: 121 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100073 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100072&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:11:11 GMT bossanovalithium writes that an umbrella group including Japanese heavyweights like Panasonic and Toyota is working on bringing the price of self powered parts down to levels where they can be mass produced: "The idea is that the parts will make external power sources redundant — because they can convert energy from body heat, light and vibrations straight into electricity. Self powered electronics have already sporadically been used in technology like wall-mount remote control units for air conditioners, says Nikkei, but existing parts are bulky and cost a couple thousand yen a piece. 3,000 yen is about $35 — which means they're not the best bet, financially, yet."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100072 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100071&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:20:16 GMT MojoKid writes "Remote-controlled helicopters are not new, but Parrot's AR.Drone Quadricopter is set to make a splash when it goes on sale on Sept. 9th. It will use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a controller, and give a live video feed from two different cameras to the pilot. Each model comes with two hulls, one of them for indoor use, with protective loops around the rotors. The device creates its own wi-fi network which the iOS device connects to in order to control the Quadricopter."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100071 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100070&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:20:16 GMT An anonymous reader writes "I have kept every every email I have ever sent or received since 1990 with the exception of junk mail (though I kept a lot of that as well). I have migrated my emails faithfully from Unix mail, to Eudora, to Outlook, to Thunderbird and Entourage, though I have left much of the older stuff in Outlook PST files. To make my life easier I would now like to merge all the emails back into a single searchable archive — just because I can. But there are a few problems: a) Moving them between email systems is SLOW, while the data is only a few GB it is hundred of thousands of emails and all of the email systems I have tried take forever to process the data. b) Some email systems (i.e. outlook) become very sluggish when their database goes over a certain size c) I don't want to leave them in a proprietary database as within a few years the format becomes unsupported by the current generation of the software d) I would like to be able to search the full text, keep the attachments, view HTML emails correctly and follow email chains e) Because I use multiple OS's I would prefer platform independence f) Since I hope to maintain and add emails for the foreseeable future I would like to use some form of open standard So what would you recommend?"

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Slash Comments: 5 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100070 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100069&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:38:26 GMT Medal of Honor publisher Electronic Arts has confirmed its commitment to this year's Eurogamer Expo, taking place October 1-3, at Earls Court in London.

FIFA 11, Crysis 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Dead Space 2 and the latest Medal of Honor will all be hands-on for consumers at the show.

Tickets for Saturday October 2 have now sold out, but tickets for Friday and Sunday are still available at the official website.

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Read More... ]]> Game Industry Press releases FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100069 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100068&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:38:26 GMT Barence writes "This week's IFA show has seen a flurry of Android-based alternatives to the iPad emerge from leading manufacturers. The Samsung Galaxy Tab made a strong first impression on PC Pro's reviewer. The 7-inch tablet's TFT screen 'beams forth with rich, saturated colours and wide, wide viewing angles,' the device is capable of Full HD playback and the TouchWiz UI is 'clearly intended to draw customers away from the iFamily.' Elsewhere, ViewSonic has launched a pair of 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, the larger of which dual boots into either Android or Windows 7. 'Our first moments with Windows 7 were surprisingly painless, too: we expected the Atom processor and 1GB of memory to be horrendously sluggish, but it wasn't the case,' PC Pro reports. Finally, Toshiba's 10.1in Folio 100 marries Android 2.2 with Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform to deliver 'mighty graphics crunching power.' The build quality left a little to desire, though. 'The 14mm thick chassis feels lightweight, and even relatively gentle twisting motions left the Folio's plastic body creaking under the stress.'"

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100068 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100067&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:38:26 GMT An anonymous reader writes "Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement (PDF) was leaked last night on KEI's website. The new version — which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington — shows a draft agreement that is much closer to becoming reality. Perhaps the most important story of the latest draft is how the countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement chapter. In the face of opposition, the US has dropped its demands on secondary liability for ISPs but is still holding out hope of establishing a super-DMCA with digital lock rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by US courts."

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Slash Comments: 1 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100067 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100066&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:10:41 GMT angry tapir writes "A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages last week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue. Most of the messages promised 'Free iPhones,' a common spam message on Facebook these days. Facebook says that the spammer hit thousands of profiles before the company removed the spammy photos and notified affected users. No accounts were compromised as a result of the bug."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100066 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100065&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:10:41 GMT pickens writes "The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web. In a recent interview he called Web communication 'the most powerful weapon that has existed' and extolled its power to break a stranglehold on the media by 'the empire' and 'ambitious private groups that have abused it' adding that the Internet 'has put an end to secrets.... We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, as the New York Times calls it, that is within reach of the whole world.' Well, not the whole world. Cuba has the lowest level of Internet penetration in the Western Hemisphere (lower than Haiti), plus severe government restrictions and censorship affecting those who do have access. In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security."

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