As MMOs increase in popularity, an alarming number of people are having their accounts hacked on a daily basis. The problem has become so epidemic that its overall weight is dragging down respective customer support centers as they attempt to placate irate and confused customers. In some cases, it can take weeks to retrieve your character and if you’re lucky, you may get your items back.
Now, the vast majority of these problems could be avoided if gamers used their heads, but with the increased casual appeal of your typical MMO, we’re finding more players who simply don’t know better until it’s too late. It’s a hell of a way to learn. How are hackers getting account information? A variety of ways:
Duncan Jones came out swinging as the rookie director of Moon, easily the best science-fiction movie released in a number of years. Fortunately, he’s remaining in the science-fiction genre with his next film, simply called Mute. Judging from the concept art of Mute, it appears to be a relatively recent future, much like the classic Blade Runner, which just happens to be Duncan Jones’ favorite sci-fi movie.
Not much is known about the plot except the lead character is a bartender searching for his girlfriend when he gets abducted by a couple of comedians.
A rumor has begun circulating around the Internet that Sony’s European PSP Go website was hacked by a band of unscrupulous DSi lovers. If you go to the URL http://www.pspgo.co.uk/ you will be met with a rather professional-looking website modeled exactly after Nintendo’s official DSi page. But the allegedly official PSP Go website isn’t owned by Sony – it was apparently registered to a Chinese owner in April of this year. read more…
When the Pirate Bay was purchased last month by Global Gaming Factory, most people scratched their heads and wondered why. Now comes official word that yes, Pirate Bay will charge users a monthly subscription fee. This fee will be lower than normal if you share a lot of files. Supposedly, all of the money collected by the new Pirate Bay will go to pay off copyright holders.
In addition, GGF hopes to cut deals with ISPs. “We hope to introduce a new BitTorrent technology that will optimize ISP traffic,” Rosso said. “We can save ISPs up to 80 percent of their resources. Half of the Internet traffic is file sharing and half of that traffic is Pirate Bay.”
Rosso conveniently fails to mention that a Pirate Bay where users have to pay for access will not be generating much traffic at all, so this part of GGF’s business model has to be rethought. BitTorrent does not depend on The Pirate Bay, and new trackers have already lined up to take over its job.
The wizards at MIT have developed a flexible lensless camera from a web of light-detecting fibers, which is a nerdy way of saying “clothes that can see”.
Imagine a soldier’s uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera. Fabric composed of these fibers could be joined to a computer that could provide information on a small display screen attached to a visor, providing the soldier greater awareness of his surroundings.
The researchers, led by Associate Professor Yoel Fink of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), emphasize that while such an application and others like it are still only dreams, work is rapidly progressing on developing fabrics capable of capturing images. In a recent issue of the journal Nanoletters, the team reported what it called a “significant” advance: using such a fiber web to take a rudimentary picture of a smiley face.
Sick of not having any options when it comes to selecting a mobile carrier? While the FCC is busy launching an investigation into exclusivity deals between mobile phone makers and carriers, you can now stick it too the man by unlocking your iPhone 3.0. The recently released Ultrasn0w will free your 3.0 iPhone from AT&T’s universe, assuming the phone is already jailbroken with the Pwnage tool. Problem is, you currently need a Mac OS X system for running Ultrsn0w, but a PC version should be released very soon.
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