http://www.thetechlounge.com Recent News: Internet en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:14:15 -0600 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:14:15 -0600 Internet news Copyright 2009, TheTechLounge, Inc. 60 http://www.thetechlounge.com/templates/thetechlounge/images/88x31_ttl.png http://www.thetechlounge.com 88 31 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13964/Climate-Change-Hacked-Restored/ "The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday. A university spokesman confirmed the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission. An investigation was underway and the police had been informed, he added. " But it gets funnier: "I’ve attached a cleaned-up and commented version of the matlab code that I w...]]> Recent News: Internet Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:38:45 -0600 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13964/Climate-Change-Hacked-Restored/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13957/More-On-Modern-Multiplayer/ "In fact, many of you have commented that you have cancelled your preorders in response to the design decisions made by Infinity Ward. But Activision, publisher of what will be one of the largest titles of the year, doesn't seem all that worried about the backlash from PC gamers. "We're, of course, watching this very carefully and paying attention to it," Activision president Mike Griffith said in response to a financial analyst, as noted by Kotaku. "But we're not overly concerned about it." "One of the problems with our PC SKUs in the past is that it has not been...]]> Recent News: Internet Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:45:21 -0600 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13957/More-On-Modern-Multiplayer/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13945/Complaining-About-Modern-Warfare-2-Complaining/ "I've read so many posts of such a batshit, bugfuck nature about this Modern Warfare Server Thing that it's hard to know where to begin. If you are angry at this break from tradition, and if you feel betrayed by these eleventh hour revelations, these are both situated well within the reasonable and comport (by and large) to the known. Do not buy it. Your platform of choice is the most open, universal digital venue on the planet. A suitor will be along presently. It's not cherry-picking to say that the notion of Microsoft somehow being involved runs deep. You cou...]]> Recent News: Internet Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:22:03 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13945/Complaining-About-Modern-Warfare-2-Complaining/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13944/iPhone-Developer-Smells-Like-Donkey-Talks-Piracy/ "So how easy is it to pirate? Assuming you have a Jailbroken iPhone and Cydia installed, you can simply add a new package source to download the pirating software from Hackulous. This pirating software is simply a kernel patch that bypasses Apple’s DRM system (or something like that). When you add the package source Cydia is nice enough to give you a message warning you that what you may be doing may be morally wrong (see below). Since I was only intending to pirate our apps, I added it anyway. A quick install of the software and a reboot is all that is needed to allow your phone t...]]> Recent News: Internet Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:05:18 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13944/iPhone-Developer-Smells-Like-Donkey-Talks-Piracy/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13935/DLC-Prevents-Piracy-All-of-the-Sudden/ "With Dragon Age: Origins' November 3 launch less than a month away, developer BioWare has unveiled its initial downloadable content plans for the game. Unlike with the role-playing game developer's previous project, the acclaimed sci-fi adventure Mass Effect, players won't have to wait long to expand the upcoming dark fantasy. They won't have to wait at all, in fact. BioWare today announced that Dragon Age: Origins will get its first downloadable expansion on day one. Called the Warden's Keep, the DLC will add a dungeon-based quest to the game along wit...]]> Recent News: Internet Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:48:37 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13935/DLC-Prevents-Piracy-All-of-the-Sudden/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13933/Steam-Exploits-the-Press/ "As mentioned in the Sunday Papers yesterday, there has been some controversy sparked after remarks made by Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford to Maximum PC regarding Steam, where he stated that the digital distribution service from Valve was “exploiting a lot of small guys.” This was later countered by an article on Gamasutra where Tripwire’s John Gibson retorted, “Ask the Tripwire Interactive employees if they feel exploited, as they move into their new offices paid for by the money the company has made on Steam.” Interested to see if there were other positions we spoke to 2D BOY and Zomb...]]> Recent News: Internet Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:29:15 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13933/Steam-Exploits-the-Press/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13931/Blackmails-Back/ "The presentation starts with some basic information on the various file-sharing networks, and details how the company’s software can detect illegal downloads and automatically send out requests for damages to alleged pirates. Their setup is similar to those at DigiProtect and Logistep who run comparable operations all over the world. After finding out the addresses of alleged file-sharers they send out requests for damages directly, usually in the range of a few hundred dollars (or in the UK, around £600) per infringement. Thus far, little has been known about the actual profits g...]]> Recent News: Internet Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:47:52 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13931/Blackmails-Back/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13896/Linden-Labs-You-Cant-Copyright-Doing-It/ "Having virtual sex in Second Life isn’t what it used to be. The 6-year-old virtual world, run by Linden Lab of San Francisco, is apparently so littered with bootlegged sex toys that it’s hard to know whether you’re getting the right bang for your buck. Raising the stakes on a two-year-old intellectual property controversy in Second Life, a popular seller of online adult novelties filed a federal copyright- and trademark-infringement lawsuit against Linden Lab this week. The suit claims that Linden looks the other way, while virtual residents rip off the SexGen product line, whi...]]> Recent News: Internet Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:55:45 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13896/Linden-Labs-You-Cant-Copyright-Doing-It/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13888/Sinking-the-Pirate-Bay/ "In just a few weeks time The Pirate Bay as we know it will be no more. There is no doubt that its demise will signal the end of an era, however, it will also mark the start of a new one. Or to use the words of Pirate Bay insider Rasmus Fleischer, “It’s time to sink the ship and move on!” pirate bayWhether or not The Pirate Bay will end up being sold, the ship has served its purpose and is destined for Davy Jones’s Locker. Luckily for most BitTorrent fans there are plenty of alternatives. However, in the current climate where media moguls send their lawyers after everything that...]]> Recent News: Internet Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:44:40 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13888/Sinking-the-Pirate-Bay/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13879/Whos-Finger-is-on-the-Button-of-the-Webtarnet/ "Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency. The new ver...]]> Recent News: Internet Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:55:12 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13879/Whos-Finger-is-on-the-Button-of-the-Webtarnet/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13868/The-top-100-dirtiest-sites-enlisted/ "Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with malware. Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner's consent. Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the named websites could expose a computer to infection and put the personal information into the hands of unwanted people. "What people don't realise is when you type in a website, you're bringing down information on a page and with it could ...]]> Recent News: Internet Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:34:58 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13868/The-top-100-dirtiest-sites-enlisted/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13840/Gizs-7-Gold-Review/ "Windows 7 is not quite a "Vista service pack." It does share a lot of the core tech, and was clearly designed to fix nearly every bad thing anyone said about Vista. Which ironically puts the demon that it was trying to exorcise at its heart. What that means is that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been in the public eye—a solid OS with plenty of mo...]]> Recent News: Internet Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:41:09 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13840/Gizs-7-Gold-Review/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13837/US-Tech-Czar-Quits/ "For starters, we’ve had reasonable facsimiles of cyber czars before — to little effect. The studies have been done, the list of tasks complete, yet we continue to fail year after year. Second, the cyber czar, like most actual royalty in the world these days, is destined to be more figurehead than Sun King. He (or she) would have no power of service providers or industries that are both the underpinnings of cyber space and the victims of online assaults. Despite grandiose claims to the contrary, the government has very little direct impact on how safe national resources are online....]]> Recent News: Internet Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:57:27 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13837/US-Tech-Czar-Quits/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13832/ATT-Blames-4chan-for-DoS-4chan-Responds-with-DoS/ "This weekend did not go well for AT&T. The broadband provider began blocking access to parts of 4chan on Sunday (img.4chan.org, which of course includes /b/) thanks to what AT&T says was a denial of service attack coming from that domain. AT&T was uncommunicative with customers at the onset of the 4chan blockage, leaving many users questioning whether the telecom was trying to censor 4chan. AT&T's official silence on the matter also led some 4chan denizens to launch attacks against the company. The block began in the early evening Sunday and went on through the nig...]]> Recent News: Internet Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:05:06 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13832/ATT-Blames-4chan-for-DoS-4chan-Responds-with-DoS/ http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13820/ATT-Yanks-4Chan/ "Today, another unfortunate sighting took place on the open subject of Net Neutrality. A now rather infamous telecommunications provider in the United States has taken its first slash in a battle that will wage on for months against consumer democracy and against and the digital natives of Generation Y until the FCC can intercede. Grab your coats Americans, and get ready for war. Today is the day that AT&T officially began censoring the internet. In a rather vicarious attempt to fire a first shot in the Net Neutrality war, the Telco provider blocked rights to view certain sections ...]]> Recent News: Internet Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:59:13 -0500 http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13820/ATT-Yanks-4Chan/