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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
PS4 online apps and chat: No PlayStation Plus subscription required?
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Sony will not require PlayStation 4 owners to have a premium "PlayStation Plus" subscription to use popular online features like chat or video streaming, the company explained in a video posted online Monday.
Sony revealed on Monday that it will not charge PlayStation 4 owners any additional fees to use online features like the console's chat features or popular third-party apps such as the video streaming services Hulu and Netflix.
Sony detailed the policy in a short online video, posted to field questions about the PlayStation 4. While the company said that playing online multiplayer will still require a yearly $50 PlayStation Plus subscription (a change in policy from the PlayStation 3, which offered multiplayer for free), the restriction would not apply to free-to-play games.
This PlayStation Network (PSN) news likely comes as a relief to PlayStation fans anxiously awaiting clarification. Gamers first got the news about multiplayer gameplay and premium PS Plus subscriptions via a short video meant to poke fun at Microsoft's controversial used games policy. The PlayStation 3's free online features have long been a selling point of the console, which offers basically all the same services as the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) without the annual $60 "Gold Membership" fee that Microsoft charged to access any of the console's online tools.
By keeping the majority of its online features free, Sony positions itself as the more cost-efficient console developer. Gamers weighing the pros and cons of one console over another have often seen the difference between the PS3 and Xbox 360's online offerings as a trade-off between convenience (or frugality) of PSN and the slightly sleeker "premium" features of Xbox Live Gold ? although having free access to online multiplayer and video streaming started to sound like much less of a bargain after the PlayStation Network suffered a massive security breach in 2011.
Security and privacy obviously remain open issues for both of the next-generation consoles, but Sony has now made the PlayStation 4 the cheaper alternative both in terms of the console's starting price ($399 versus the Xbox One's $499) and in terms of its online fees. In June, Microsoft said that it planned to keep Gold membership fees the same on the Xbox One as on the Xbox 360 ? though if the Internet's ongoing popularity contest between the two consoles has anything to say about it, the company might be in store for another 180 sometime soon.
Sony also confirmed in today's video that that it has increased the cap on PSN friends to 2,000?up from the current-generation limit of 100 and double the amount Microsoft has promised for the Xbox One.
Watch the full PS4 Q&A below.
Yannick LeJacq is a contributing writer for NBC News who has also covered technology and games for Kill Screen, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. You can follow him on Twitter at @YannickLeJacq and reach him by email at: Yannick.LeJacq@nbcuni.com.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
UCF coach George O'Leary: The Ralph Friedgen stories
It was Christmas break in 1987 and coaches had some rare time off, but O?Leary, a first-year defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech, wanted to take a trip to New Jersey to watch a potential recruit play basketball. He convinced a reluctant Ralph Friedgen, his good friend and Yellow Jackets? offensive coordinator, to come along on the trip.
As the flight to New Jersey neared its destination that winter day, however, the pilot emerged from the cockpit and lifted up some floor boards. The crew could not tell if the landing gear was deploying.
The plane circled for some time to burn off fuel, and it flew by a Westchester airport so the tower could see if the landing gear was down. The two coaches sat next to each other in first class as flight attendants readied the aircraft for an emergency landing.
In the aisle seat, O?Leary turned to Friedgen. ?Good luck,? he said, before tucking his head between his legs.
Friedgen cursed at O?Leary. ?I shouldn?t even be on this trip,? he shouted, peppering in four-letter words.
Friedgen laughed when he recalled the nearly-disastrous trip. O?Leary had become one of his closest friends on the staff at Georgia Tech, one that could pull him on a Christmas-time flight that might never land safely.
O?Leary functioned in a different way as a coach, sometimes. Friedgen remembered a time when O?Leary approached him before a spring scrimmage and requested that the offense run a long pass play on the third play. O?Leary, the defensive coordinator, was having a disagreement with the defensive backs coach about a certain coverage.
?I got to prove a point to this guy,? O?Leary said.
The defense ran that coverage on the third play, and the long pass play was converted for a touchdown. O?Leary stared down the defensive backs coach, Friedgen recalled with a chuckle.
In 1989, after Georgia Tech opened the season 0-3, assistant coaches went out to recruit while Friedgen and O?Leary headed back to the office to figure out how to fix the situation. O?Leary broke down the offense for Friedgen.
?There are only two guys that can make a play,? O?Leary told Friedgen.
The next game, Friedgen looked specifically to get the ball to those two players. The Yellow Jackets beat Maryland that week, and would win seven of their final eight games and 18 of their next 20 en route to a national championship in 1990.
Those two players, Jerry Mays and Shawn Jones, would combine for 1,954 yards from scrimmage and 15 touchdowns in 1989, with Jones passing for another 12 scores.
?It was really a lot of fun,? Friedgen said. ?The most fun I?ve ever had in coaching was coaching at Georgia Tech in those years.?
Oh, and that player from the nearly-disastrous recruiting trip? He signed to play for Georgia Tech, Friedgen noted, and lettered for two years.
E-mail Paul Tenorio at ptenorio@orlandosentinel.com. Follow him on Twitter @OSKnights.
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Twitter under fire after bank note campaigner is target of rape threats
Caroline Criado-Perez (right) with, from left, Mary Macleod MP, Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney and Stella Creasy MP. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
Twitter is facing a barrage of criticism after a journalist and feminist blogger who campaigned for Jane Austen to become the new face of the ?10 note was subjected to a series of rape threats.
Caroline Criado-Perez, a freelance journalist who co-founded thewomensroom.org.uk and the Week Woman blog, and fellow campaigners were delighted last week when the Bank of England confirmed that the Pride and Prejudice author would replace Charles Darwin on the notes, probably in 2017.
But Criado-Perez quickly found herself subjected to a sustained campaign of abuse on Twitter, of the type that MPs say should become a criminal matter.
Writing in the Observer, Labour MP Stella Creasy condemned the threats and called for action from both Twitter and its users to push back against online aggression towards women.
"This is about more than making Twitter somewhere fun for everyone to enjoy," she said. "If we want a world where everyone can live hassle-free, then everyday expressions of inequalities need to be confronted ? not least as they help ease the big inequalities."
Fellow Labour MP Steve Rotheram tweeted that "hopefully those responsible will be receiving a knock on the door from their local constabulary".
By Saturday afternoon more than 9,000 people had signed an online petitioncalling on Twitter to add an abuse button for those threatened with sexual violence and to make the site responsible for any criminal threats posted on it.
The petition claims: "During a 12-hour period, Caroline Criado-Perez was targeted repeatedly with rape threats. Caroline attempted to stir a response from Twitter's Mark S Luckie. His response was to lock down his account."
Many who have signed the petition have questioned why the online community appears to be subject to different laws from the real one. "This is criminal behaviour in the real world; why should people get away with it on Twitter?" one supporter wrote.
Another added: "Rape threats are a criminal offence in real life. They should not be allowed in cyberspace."
A number of high-profile names have lent their support. The writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: "For those who say, 'why complain ? just block?' ? on a big troll day, it can be 50 violent/rape messages an hour. Exhausting and upsetting."
The comedian Dara ? Briain warned that Twitter faced an exodus of users if such messages continued to be disseminated. He tweeted: "If the ladies leave twitter because of all the dumb, rapey 14-year-old boys, then I'm outta here people. Like most grownup men too, I'd say."
Criado-Perez said she had been overwhelmed by support: "Lots of people are saying how inspired they feel by my stance on this."
She said it was important to confront those who used rape threats. "We need to get rid of the idea that you don't feed the trolls. Someone issuing rape threats wants women to shut up and get off Twitter ... We can't let them win."
Significantly, it appears that Criado-Perez was the victim of a sustained and co-ordinated attack. Initially, she was the subject of several offensive tweets, but these died away after about a day. She was then subjected to hundreds of tweets, which suggests that she was targeted by a group of Twitter users.
Criado-Perez believes the affair has highlighted Twitter's inability to respond to such attacks. "If you get an abusive message, you can fill in an online form and make a complaint," she said. "But if you're subject to hundreds of tweets it's not practical ? Twitter does not understand the nature of abuse online."
Twitter UK general manager Tony Wang said the company takes online abuse seriously. He tweeted: "We encourage users to report an account for violation of the Twitter rules by using one of our report form. Also, we're testing ways to simplify reporting, eg within a tweet by using the "Report Tweet" button in our iPhone app and on mobile web. We will suspend accounts that, once reported to us, are found to be in breach of our rules."
Attention all bitter, inadequate, jealous men: mess with my sister @CCriadoPerez and you mess with me and all the other #twittersisters.
@CCriadoPerez No one deserves rape threats. Full stop. There is no but.
Lots of women uniting to fight the misogyny & threats aimed at @CCriadoPerez How can anyone have a problem with that? Petty & disappointing
@CCriadoPerez Remaining silent about abuse never changed anything. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for #shoutingback
You pieces of dirt threatening @CCriadoPerez & any woman who dares think or challenge your dominance. Do you realise how tiny&weak you seem?
Over 1,000 supporting calls for twitter abuse button after @CCriadoPerez 12 hour grief-athon yesterday. That's v quick, petition fans.
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Men of Twitter: if any of you wanted to have a #notinmyname moment over misogynistic Twitter abuse, look at @CCriadoPerez mentions & report.
Source: http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/uk/rss/~3/J-o64HTszMU/story01.htm
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
FULL COMMITTEE HEARING: Clean Energy Financing
SD-366 Senate Dirksen Building 09:30 AM
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the current state of clean energy finance in the United States and opportunities to facilitate greater investment in domestic clean energy technology development and deployment.??
The hearing will be webcast live on the committee's website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the hearing is complete. Witness testimony will be available on the website at the start of the hearing.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Republicans Defend Texas Abortion Bill
AUSTIN, Texas -- With the Texas Senate poised to pass sweeping abortion restrictions, a protest briefly halted debate Friday night before the chamber's leader ordered officers to remove those disrupting the proceedings.
Four women tried to chain themselves to a railing in the gallery as senators were about to start closing statements on an abortion bill that has drawn thousands of protesters to the Capitol for weeks. One of the women succeeded in chaining herself to the railing at the front of the overhead gallery, prompting a 10-minute recess. Officers arrested all four women.
When debate resumed, protesters began loudly singing, "Give choice a chance. All we are saying is give choice a chance." Dewhurst asked officers to remove the group.
Republicans are expected to pass the sweeping bill, with Democrats left to do little more than enter into the legislative record material that could help defeat it in federal court. Democrats have called the sweeping GOP proposal unnecessary and unconstitutional.
The Senate's debate took place between a packed gallery of demonstrators, with anti-abortion activists wearing blue and abortion-rights supporters wearing orange. Security was tight, and state troopers reported confiscating bottles of urine and feces as they worked to prevent another attempt to stop the Republican majority from passing a proposal that has put Texas at the center of the nation's abortion debate.
Outside the chamber, the crowd grew so loud that troopers were being issued orange earplugs. Protesters were shouting, "Shame! Shame! Shame!" as senators gave their closing statements in the debate.
The Senate's approval would send the bill to Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who has said he will sign it.
The circus-like atmosphere in the Texas Capitol marked the culmination of weeks of protests, the most dramatic of which came June 25 in the final minutes of the last special legislative session, when a Democratic filibuster and subsequent protest prevented the bill from becoming law.
House Bill 2 would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, allow abortions only in surgical centers, limit where and when women may take abortion-inducing pills and ban abortions after 20 weeks. Only five out of 42 existing abortion clinics meet the requirements to be a surgical center, and clinic owners say they can't afford to upgrade or relocate.
Sen. Glen Hegar of Katy, the bill's Republican author, argued that all abortions, including those induced with medications, should take place in an ambulatory surgical center in case of complications.
Democrats pointed out that childbirth is more dangerous than an abortion and there have been no serious problems with women taking abortion drugs at home. They introduced amendments to add exceptions for cases of rape and incest and to remove some of the more restrictive clauses.
Sen. Carlos Uresti, a San Antonio Democrat, proposed an exception to the 20-week ban for child victims of rape or incest.
"I don't think it's unreasonable to give these victims an additional month to make up their minds," Uresti said.
But Hegar responded that if an abortion were necessary to protect a child from imminent harm or death, an abortion after 20 weeks would be allowed.
Hegar also rejected an amendment to expand that exception to make it for the mother's health and not limit it to imminent harm.
Earlier, Sen. Royce West, a Dallas Democrat, asked why Hegar was pushing restrictions that federal courts in other states had suspended as possibly unconstitutional.
"There will be a lawsuit. I promise you," West said, raising his right hand as if taking an oath.
The bill under consideration mirrors restrictions passed in Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona. In North Carolina, lawmakers are considering a measure that would allow state health officials to apply standards for ambulatory surgical centers to abortion clinics.
Passing the law in Texas would be a major victory for anti-abortion activists in the nation's second most-populous state. Hegar acknowledged working with anti-abortion groups to draft the legislation. A lawsuit originating in Texas would also likely win a sympathetic hearing at the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat, said it was clear the bill was part of national conservative agenda attempting to ban abortion and infringe on women's rights one state at a time. He pressed Hegar on why the Texas Medical Association, Texas Hospital Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology opposed the bill.
He asked Hegar how he could ignore these experts.
"There are differences in the medical profession," Hegar insisted, rejecting the criticism. "I don't believe this legislation will majorly impede the doctor-patient relationship."
Sen. Bob Deuell, a Greenville Republican and a doctor, defended the bill, saying abortion clinics "had not maintained the proper standard of care."
The Senate's leader, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, was determined to keep the vote on track. The Texas Constitution gives him the authority to jail anyone who breaks the chamber's rules of decorum, which stipulate that there can be no demonstrations or attempts to disrupt the Senate's work.
In addition to the jars of suspected urine and feces, officers took paint, glitter, confetti and feminine hygiene products from people seeking to ender the gallery, according to the Department of Public Safety.
The issue has been simmering for months in Texas.
Democrats successfully blocked the bill in the regular legislative session. Then, during the first special session, the Senate didn't take up the bill until the final day. That allowed Fort Worth Sen. Wendy Davis to use a filibuster to delay a vote. When Republicans rushed to try to pass the bill in the session's final 15 minutes, angry protesters began shouting and screaming from the gallery. Dewhurst could only watch with frustration as a half-dozen state troopers tried to remove more than 450 people.
Democrats see in the protests an opportunity that could help them break a 20-year statewide losing streak. They believe Republicans have overreached in trying to appease their base and alienated suburban women, a constituency that helped President Barack Obama win re-election.
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Associated Press writers Will Weissert and Jim Vertuno contributed to this report. Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cltomlinson
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
IRL: Chromebook Pixel and AlienBees' ABR800 Ringflash
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.
Sure, the Chromebook Pixel is expertly constructed, but you won't find more than a sentence about that here. Nope, we'd rather talk about its blazing fast LTE speeds. As for our copy editor Philip, he doesn't write for Engadget often, but when he does, it's about camera gear.
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Instagram gets hit by spam, and it's fruity, too
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If you noticed photos of fruit showing up in your Instagram feed Saturday, you might think it was to help you feel cooler, especially if you're in one of the Western states suffering from the heat wave. But it's not. In fact, it may be one of the first major spam attacks to hit the popular photo-sharing service.
Facebook, which owns Instagram, told NBC News that "earlier today, a small portion of our users experienced a spam incident where unwanted photos were posted from their accounts."
The fruit spam is a ploy to get you to click on the photo, and then a link for some kind of "miracle" fruit diet. The concern is how the spammers got into Instagram user accounts to do so.
Om Malik, of GigaOm, wrote that "Spammers are posting the photos to a user?s profile, as well as changing the URL in that person?s bio."
Facebook said that its security and spam team "quickly took actions to secure the accounts involved and the posted photos are being deleted."
Those users whose accounts were spammed have had their passwords re-set by Facebook, which is notifying them about the re-set. Users should take precautions, though, and check their Instagram profiles and security settings.
"General best practices are to use unique password for all of your online accounts, and if you've used the same password in the past, to go ahead and proactively change it to something unique," a Facebook spokeswoman said.
Since Instagram launched in 2010, approximately 16 billion photos have been shared on it. Facebook, which bought Instagram last year, recently added the capability to add video to Instagram.
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