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Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down

07 Mar

You can view the Ubisoft forum rage here.

I’m sure we all saw this coming. It seems as if Unisoft’s DRM authentication servers have gone down. What’s this mean? For the past 16 hours, users who legitimately purchased Assassins Creed 2 are unable to play the game, at all. Needless to say this has angered many Assassins Creed 2 owners. When Ubisoft’s new DRM system was announced, this was one of the top concerns with it.  Assassins Creed 2 has been out for no longer than a week and is already having severe issues. With an 86% uptime, Ubisoft’s DRM servers have the lowest uptime percentage of any server I’ve ever seen. Ubisoft is learning first hand why people pirate their games, especially games with excessive methods of copy protection. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Apple Sues HTC Over iPhone Patents

02 Mar

Apple just never knows when to stop. Recently, Apple has filed a lawsuit at HTC over iPhone patents used by HTC. But wait, it gets better. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, was quoted as saying

We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.


I actually find this to be quite ironic. Lets take a moment to go back in time and look at Apple’s OS9 Read the rest of this entry »

 
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US DoD Isn’t Shy When It Comes To IPv4 Exhaustion.

01 Mar

We’re getting closer and closer to IPv4 exhaustion. Soon, we will be completely out of IPv4 addresses. Now, this isn’t new. It’s been known for quite some time that this would happen. As a result, IPv6 was created. However, making the switch isn’t something that’s going to happen overnight. While some sites have already started to make their transition over to IPv6 like Google, there’s still millions of sites to go. At the time of this post, there are only 22 /8’s left. A /8 is A.X.X.X. There’s a total of 256 /8’s, some of which are unusable such as loopback (127.0.0.1). Standford Univeristy, along with a few other organizations, have returned their /8 allocation in order to help slow down IPv4 exhaustion. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Steam Gets A New Look

25 Feb

A new opt-in beta from Steam allows users to get a completely new UI. The UI was long overdue for an update. I must say, the new UI is looking very nice. Here’s a few images of the new and improved user interface. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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BlackBerry Stops A Bullet

13 Feb


Reason #1465 For Owning A BlackBerry

A woman in Ohio was sitting with her gun-handling boyfriend at a restuarant when the gun went off and hit her leg. Lucky for the both of them, the BlackBerry in her pocket intercepted the bullet — rather sufficiently, though to the considerable demise of the handset.

 
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Google To Offer 1Gbps Fiber Optic Internet To Homes

10 Feb

Yep, you heard it right, 1 Gigabit per second. You con read the official details from Google here. Google is beginning to roll out fiber optic lines right to peoples homes in hopes to make the internet better and faster for everyone. Be sure to nominate your area by filling out the form here! Most of us have a cable internet connection of some sort. Furthermore, most of us have an slow, overpriced internet connection. To the left is a speed test of my residential internet connection. 25Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up. Sure, that might seem reasonable (at least the download speed, maybe not the awful upload speed), but Google plans to give customers’ speeds up to 40 times faster than that! Read the rest of this entry »

 
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