Er soll in kurzer Zeit fast jeden Punkt der Erde erreichen und dabei für Raketenabwehrsysteme unerreichbar sein: Das russische Militär hat einen Hyperschall-Gleiter in Betrieb genommen, der über 20-fache Schallgeschwindigkeit erreichen soll. (Luftfahrt…
Er soll in kurzer Zeit fast jeden Punkt der Erde erreichen und dabei für Raketenabwehrsysteme unerreichbar sein: Das russische Militär hat einen Hyperschall-Gleiter in Betrieb genommen, der über 20-fache Schallgeschwindigkeit erreichen soll. (Luftfahrt, Technologie)
Unabhängig vom US-Satellitennavigationssystem GPS zu werden, ist Chinas Ziel. Die Satelliten-Konstellation für das eigene System Beidou werde in wenigen Monaten vollständig sein, hat der Betreiber angekündigt. (Navigationssystem, GPS)
Unabhängig vom US-Satellitennavigationssystem GPS zu werden, ist Chinas Ziel. Die Satelliten-Konstellation für das eigene System Beidou werde in wenigen Monaten vollständig sein, hat der Betreiber angekündigt. (Navigationssystem, GPS)
The first installment of Red Dead Redemption was never officially launched on PC but a developer known as ‘DamnedDev’ hoped to change all that with his ‘Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement Project’. However, after reportedly ignoring Take Two’s warnings to cease-and-desist, he must now deal with a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Take Two Interactive’s Red Dead Redemption (RDR1) is considered one of the greatest video games of all time but the open world masterpiece had a considerable shortcoming.
Officially a console-only release, millions of PC gamers were denied access to one of the most expensive video games ever made, an itch that remains unscratched to this day.
With the 2018 release of Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2), developer Rockstar Studios finally bridged the gap but for many fans, not having the original title on PC was something that needed to be addressed. Back in August, this simmering demand looked like it was going to be met with an announcement revealing a new project titled ‘Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement Project’.
The plan was not only to modify the Xbox360 and PS3 versions of RDR1 and bring the game to the PC, but also to improve the title with better graphics and additional features.
In September, however, things started to go off the rails. Project lead ‘DemandDev’ took to GTAForums to reveal that development had been stopped. He didn’t directly state that Take-Two had put him under pressure but complained of being bullied by a corporation.
“They done shady stuff getting my private info and contacted my family,” he wrote. “I’ve been contacting people to spread word. I’m not letting them them bully me and keep my mouth shut. I complied and stopped progress but hopefully I can sort out this.”
Several months later, sorting it out will now have to be actioned through the courts. On December 26, Take-Two Interactive filed a lawsuit at a New York court against a Johnathan Wyckoff and John Does 1-10.
“Take-Two brings this action to maintain control over its world-famous video
games in the face of Wyckoff’s publicly stated intent to distribute unauthorized software files that would dramatically change the content of Take-Two’s video games,” the lawsuit reads.
“Those unauthorized changes include but are not limited to importing the entire game map of 2010’s Red Dead Redemption into the 2018 game Red Dead Redemption II, enhancing graphics and visuals in Take-Two’s Red Dead Redemption game, and allowing players to play an enhanced version of the game on personal computer (‘PCs’), a platform for which Take-Two itself has not yet released the Read Dead Redemption game.”
Claiming breaches of its intellectual property rights and user licensing agreements, Take-Two says that it “repeatedly” asked Wyckoff to cease and desist. When these contacts failed to stop the project, Take-Two said it was forced to take legal action.
Take-Two’s lawsuit details two matters. The first, the ‘RDRII Project’, aims to add the full RDR1 game map to RDR2. This, the company says, would not only “dramatically change the RDR2 experience but also reduce interest in purchasing a future release of RDR1 or a RDR1 add-on map for RDR2. The company doesn’t state it intends to release either, however.
The second targets the ‘Red Dead Redemption: Damned Enhancement Project’ which Take-Two says would utilize game files from Grand Theft Auto V and RDR1 “to vastly improve the graphics and performance of the game” and enable players to play RDR1 on PC, where it isn’t officially available, “thereby destroying the market for an official, updated version from Take-Two, and creating competition for Take-Two’s PC-version of RDR2.”
Take-Two also takes issue with Wyckoff’s claimed hobbyist status by implying donations received are effectively payments and that the projects serve to drive traffic to his social media and streaming accounts. The company adds that efforts to resolve the dispute peacefully failed, claiming that Wyckoff suggested that if he didn’t release the project, it might somehow get “leaked” online.
Ultimately, Wyckoff was given until November 18 to comply with Take-Two’s demands but the company says the deadline came and went.
As a result, it was left with no choice but to file a lawsuit seeking “injunctive relief and damages that it will suffer as a result of Wyckoff’s direct and contributory copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976”, breaches of Take-Two’s user agreement, and his “interference with Take-Two’s contracts with other Take-Two game players using his modifications.”
What happens next in the lawsuit remains to be seen but a post apparently made by Wyckoff a few hours ago suggests that his project is now “canceled”.
Take-Two’s complaint, obtained by TorrentFreak, can be found here (pdf)
This would beat 6-month limit of current forecasts.
Enlarge/ A strong El Niño developed in 2015, visible here from temperature departures from average. (credit: NASA EO)
We generally think of weather as something that changes by the day, or the week at the most. But there are also slower patterns that exist in the background, nudging your daily weather in one direction or another. One of the most consequential is the El Niño Southern Oscillation—a pattern of sea surface temperatures along the equatorial Pacific that affects temperature and precipitation averages in many places around the world.
In the El Niño phase of this oscillation, warm water from the western side of the Pacific leaks eastward toward South America, creating a broad belt of warm water at the surface. The opposite phase, known as La Niña, sees strong trade winds blow that warm water back to the west, pulling up cold water from the deeps along South America. The Pacific randomly wobbles between these phases from one year to the next, peaking late in the calendar.
Since this oscillation has such a meaningful impact on weather patterns—from heavy precipitation in California to drought in Australia—forecasting the wobble can provide useful seasonal outlooks. And because it changes fairly slowly, current forecasts are actually quite good out to about six months. It would be nice to extend that out further, but scientists have repeatedly run into what they've termed a “spring predictability barrier.” Until they see how the spring season plays out, the models have a hard time forecasting the rest of the year.
Eine SIM-Karte meldet unser Smartphone im Mobilfunknetz an – doch der kleine Computer im Chipkartenformat kann deutlich mehr, zum Beispiel TLS oder Java-Applikationen updaten. Von Moritz Tremmel (Harald Welte, Virtualisierung)
Eine SIM-Karte meldet unser Smartphone im Mobilfunknetz an - doch der kleine Computer im Chipkartenformat kann deutlich mehr, zum Beispiel TLS oder Java-Applikationen updaten. Von Moritz Tremmel (Harald Welte, Virtualisierung)
Unter dem Namen Comet Lake S arbeitet Intel an schnelleren Prozessoren für den Frühling 2020. Die Modellpalette für den Sockel LGA 1200 umfasst über zwei Dutzend neuer 14-nm-Chips von zwei bis zehn Kernen. (Intel Comet Lake, Prozessor)
Unter dem Namen Comet Lake S arbeitet Intel an schnelleren Prozessoren für den Frühling 2020. Die Modellpalette für den Sockel LGA 1200 umfasst über zwei Dutzend neuer 14-nm-Chips von zwei bis zehn Kernen. (Intel Comet Lake, Prozessor)
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending December 14, 2019, are in. The second installment in this remade horror series is the week’s top seller, along with two other recent cinematic hits. Find out what …
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending December 14, 2019, are in. The second installment in this remade horror series is the week's top seller, along with two other recent cinematic hits. Find out what movies they were in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.
Von 2021 an soll jeder Kassenpatient auf Wunsch eine elektronische Patientenakte erhalten. Doch die Zugangssysteme sind nach Ansicht des CCC nicht so gut geschützt, wie Politik und Anbieter es versprechen. (36C3, Identitätsmanagement)
Von 2021 an soll jeder Kassenpatient auf Wunsch eine elektronische Patientenakte erhalten. Doch die Zugangssysteme sind nach Ansicht des CCC nicht so gut geschützt, wie Politik und Anbieter es versprechen. (36C3, Identitätsmanagement)
German automaker to hit BEV production milestones a couple of years early.
Enlarge/ We got some time behind the wheel of an ID Buggy prototype earlier this year. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)
If there has been anything good that came out of Dieselgate, it’s Volkswagen’s commitment to battery electric vehicles. In addition to launching Electrify America, a network of EV charging stations, VW has developed an all-new modular electric architecture. The ID.3 will be the first BEV built on VW's MEB architecture, and we’ve seen the ID Buzz microbus and ID Buggy concepts from the company as well.
VW’s newfound commitment to electrons is apparently paying off, judging by a pair of press releases from the company. Not only has it delivered 250,000 EVs since introducing the E-Up in 2013, the German carmaker says it will produce its millionth BEV by the end of 2023. That number will rise to 1.5 million before the end of 2025.
This is noteworthy stuff, as VW originally figured it wouldn’t hit the million-BEV milestone until the end of 2025.
Enlarge/ Terrifying in the wrong context. (credit: iRobot )
Earlier this week, alarmed in the middle of the night by a noise downstairs, a North Carolina man named Thomas sent his wife to "a safe place" and then grabbed his phone to flip on some smart lights in the kitchen. He picked up his gun and joined his wife, who called the police. As they were waiting, the couple listened to the intruder below.
"We heard more noises downstairs and were increasingly alarmed," wrote Thomas on social media the next day. "All my military training came back to me, I started analyzing the path the intruder would take, their line of fire if they entered the room in certain ways, and where we should be to decrease our risk of getting hurt. All I kept thinking about and listening for was my little 2 year old next door to us, alone, and sound asleep. I was ready to do whatever I needed to do if I heard her door open."
The cops arrived and entered the lower level of the house. Thomas had his gun pointed at the bedroom door as he listened to the cries of "Sheriff's office!" below. The 911 dispatcher, who was still on the phone, soon told Thomas to put down his weapon and go talk to the police. Thomas left the bedroom.
Er soll in kurzer Zeit fast jeden Punkt der Erde erreichen und dabei für Raketenabwehrsysteme unerreichbar sein: Das russische Militär hat einen Hyperschall-Gleiter in Betrieb genommen, der über 20-fache Schallgeschwindigkeit erreichen soll. (Luftfahrt, Technologie) 
Unabhängig vom US-Satellitennavigationssystem GPS zu werden, ist Chinas Ziel. Die Satelliten-Konstellation für das eigene System Beidou werde in wenigen Monaten vollständig sein, hat der Betreiber angekündigt. (
Eine SIM-Karte meldet unser Smartphone im Mobilfunknetz an - doch der kleine Computer im Chipkartenformat kann deutlich mehr, zum Beispiel TLS oder Java-Applikationen updaten. Von Moritz Tremmel (
Unter dem Namen Comet Lake S arbeitet Intel an schnelleren Prozessoren für den Frühling 2020. Die Modellpalette für den Sockel LGA 1200 umfasst über zwei Dutzend neuer 14-nm-Chips von zwei bis zehn Kernen. (
Von 2021 an soll jeder Kassenpatient auf Wunsch eine elektronische Patientenakte erhalten. Doch die Zugangssysteme sind nach Ansicht des CCC nicht so gut geschützt, wie Politik und Anbieter es versprechen. (
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