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The good: The Sony PSP is a slick portable
gaming system highlighted by an impressive wide-screen display and
PS2-like graphics. It also boasts built-in Wi-Fi, a Web browser,
and the ability to play music and videos, as well as to store
images.
The bad: . The load times on the games can
be excessive, but it has been partially solved with the new model
(SLIM) that comes with the double of the memory.
The bottom line: The Sony PSP elevates
portable gaming to the next level.
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After roughly a decade at the top of the home console industry,
Sony decided to tackle the portable system market--one heavily
fortified by Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and DS. Sony sought to
take down Nintendo by adopting the tactic that made the PlayStation
2 such a runaway success: by offering sophisticated, graphically
intensive games and a heavy dose of multimedia functionality. The
device is called the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and in addition to
playing games of PS2 graphical quality, it can play music and
movies (downloaded or via disc) and surf the Web. It may not be the
best handheld media product on the market, and the games lack the
innovation of ones on Nintendo's portables, but as an all-in-one
device, the Sony PSP is king of the hill.
From an aesthetic perspective, the Sony
PSP is a gorgeous device. It's one of those gadgets you
immediately want to get your hands on but vigilantly want to
protect once you set it down. Weighing essentially the same as the
Nintendo DS (6.2 ounces, including removable battery) and measuring
6.7 by 2.9 by 0.9 inches (WHD), the body feels well built and solid
in your hand. Although not a lightweight, it's by no means a
brick, nor, we suspect, would it be especially durable in a fall;
you'll want to treat the PSP just as gingerly as an iPod or a
Palm-style PDA.
The PSP's screen is roughly the same size
as the entire front face of the iPod.
The centerpiece of the handheld is its
especially impressive 4.3-inch wide-screen display (480x272 pixels,
16.77 million colors). The screen is flanked by controls that will
be immediately recognizable to fans of past PlayStations: the
directional keypad is to the left of the screen, and the familiar
square, triangle, circle, and X buttons are to the right. We dug
how Sony managed to include an analog "joystick" below the
directional keypad. The stick isn't raised like the analog
controls on a PS2 or an Xbox, but it conveys that multidirectional
element that gives it a joysticklike feel.
The analog controller (located just below
the four-way directional pad) is surprisingly responsive.
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German TORRENT site raided by police |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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German police raided the Düsseldorf apartment of the operator of a Tor exit node sometime after midnight on a Sunday morning in July, says Heise Online. Why all the attention? He’s said to have threatened to bomb the offices of the German Federal Employment Services Agency, “and/or kill an employee”. The operator’s equipment was seized, “on account of a posting he was alleged to have made to a private police forum by the name of CopZone,” says the story. But the server for the anonymizing The Onion Router network at a hosting provider’s premises wasn’t touched, says Heise, going on: In the incriminating posting to the forum, which can no longer be found on the Internet, the person whose flat was raided was alleged by the police to have threatened to plant a bomb in the offices and/or kill an employee of the German Federal Employment Services Agency. As the IP address relating to the forum posting had been anonymized with the help of the network and thus pointed to the Tor exit node, the investigators assumed that it was the server operator who had posted the entry. It took several hours for the police to realize their mistake. What remains unclear however is why the computers of the man from Düsseldorf were confiscated but the server itself was not (oratoria ). Heise says the tour operator posted “I’m at the end of my civil courage” in English in his blog entry, decided to shut down wormhole.ynfonatic.de. He added in Engliosh: Raiding the premises of the operator of a Tor exit node in an attempt to determine the author(s) of a specific forum posting is a fairly futile exercise. Investigating authorities should instead make use of fundamental weaknesses of anonymization networks. Thus according to a scientific study a party can by seeding the network with manipulated Tor servers monitor the anonymizing network to a certain degree. A short time ago the Swede Dan Egerstad was able with a manipulated Tor exit node to successfully phish hundreds of passwords belonging to authorities and embassies. |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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Demonoid down reported yesterday, going on: The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA clown (sorry, clone), is noted more for its failures, which are legion, than its successes, which are few. However, it may have scored against BitTorrent tracker Demonoid. We went on to quote Torrentfreak in The Netherlands as the source and today, when you go to http://demonoid.com/, you still get: “The connection has timed out”. So is this because the CRIA was able to intimidate Demonoid’s ISP? No, says Demonoid. It’s down, but not out. “May have” was the operative phrase and, “Ok folks, here it is,” says a chat log with Torrentfreak’s Ernesto, going on: Demonoid is down. It has been for around 2 day almost. The reason is down is unknown, and is still unknown. It HASNN’T beam RAIDed, shutdown, terminated, deleted, burned, mamed, all thrown under a bridge. There had been speculation as demonoid,com whereabouts, well, the rurmors are false. The chat goes on to seriously slag Torrentfreak for reporting the CRIA was behind Demonoid’s alleged demise and correctly concludes (oratoria ): Just for the record, the CRIA (despite the name) does NOT represent Canadian artists, and the Canadian music industry. It is an AMERICAN Association based in Canada to represent the RIAA here. Actually, guys, it isn’t even American. The CRIA, RIAA and all the other alphabet Big 4 organised music cartel organisations around the world are run by EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), with Warner Music bringing up the rear as the only US label. And even that’s run by a Canadian. Meanwhile, a lot of people will be relieved to know Demonoid isn’t dead and will be eagerly looking forward to its early return. So stay tuned. |
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