Balandar Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 STARGATE ATLANTIS TONIGHT!!! Don't forget! Online Games a Massive Pain Electronic Arts' decision to shut down development of Ultima X: Odyssey -- the sequel to its long-running online game Ultima Online -- may force the game industry to re-examine what it takes to be a successful developer of massively multiplayer online games. http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,641...tw=wn_tophead_1 Features: I, Robot Hits the Theaters Posted by michael on Friday July 16, @12:52PM from the positronic-brain dept. tyleremerson writes "With today's film release of "I, Robot," the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence has launched a new website, 3 Laws Unsafe. 3 Laws Unsafe explores the non-fictional problems presented by Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. The Three Laws are widely known and are often taken seriously as reasonable solutions for guiding future AI. But are they truly reasonable? 3 Laws Unsafe tries to address this question." Reader Rob Carr has submitted a review of the movie, below, that he promises is spoiler-free. http://features.slashdot.org/features/04/0...&tid=214&tid=97 Google Acquires Picasa, Improves Blogging Tools Posted by michael on Friday July 16, @08:51AM from the google-does-something-news-at-ten dept. clandestine writes "It appears that our lovable search engine has again expanded its horizons - the internet wasn't enough; now you can search and organize your own pictures. I don't know about you, but I use Google for nearly everything; heck, I found links about their acquisition of Picasa through Google News! Any slashdotters going to benefit from this tech, or already do? And yes, the addition of Picasa to their arsenal is a couple of days old, but they just started linking them on the homepage today." http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/16/1212...&tid=217&tid=95 Oxford Students Hack University Network Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday July 16, @12:35AM from the unintentional-online-services dept. An anonymous reader writes "Both The Guardian and BBC News are carrying the story that two students at the University of Oxford, Patrick Foster and Roger Waite, were able to easily hack into the university's internal network in minutes using only easily-available software. Once inside, they could find out anyone's email password, observe instant messenger conversations and control parts of the university's CCTV system. The students were investigating the university's network security for the student newspaper, The Oxford Student, which published a front page article and editorial on the matter. In the article, a university spokesperson is quoted as saying 'In some cases the wish to provide the widest possible computer access as cheaply as possible may mean deciding to go for a cheaper set-up, with potentially lower security.' The students now face disciplinary precedings from the university and could receive rustication (suspension) and a 500 pound fine. The matter has also been passed onto the police." http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/16/0212...&tid=172&tid=99 Japanese FTC Warns Microsoft Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 15, @07:50PM from the firing-back-at-redmond dept. ChibiOne writes "The Japanese Fair Trade Commission has ordered Microsoft to cut a restrictive contract clause, designed to protect the software giant from patent-related lawsuits by PC manufacturers that sell products using Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Under such provision, Japanese makers would be unable to sue Microsoft even if the software giant's technologies are deemed to violate their patents. The Japan Times Online has the scoop." http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/1...&tid=187&tid=99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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