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Spaceempires.net News
- New SE5 Shipset Released: Interstellar Concordium - 16:28, 19 July 2008 (GMT)
npru009 has released a new shipset for SE5, the Interstellar Concordium . - New SE5 Shipset Released: Lyran Star Empire - 16:28, 19 July 2008 (GMT)
npru009 has released a new shipset for SE5, the Lyran Star Empire. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Separatists - 00:09, 10 July 2008 (GMT)
Shushoni has released a new shipset for SE5, the Separatists. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Koligahr Solidarity - 00:37, 08 July 2008 (GMT)
npru009 has released a new shipset for SE5, the Koligahr Solidarity. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Galactic Terran Alliance - 02:17, 01 July 2008 (GMT)
Ishii-kun has released a new shipset for SE5, the Galactic Terran Alliance. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Amarr Empire - 00:43, 30 June 2008 (GMT)
Nephtys has released a new shipset for SE5, the Amarr Empire. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Temporal Integrity Commission - 14:33, 25 June 2008 (GMT)
BlackSwan has released a new shipset for SE5, the Temporal Integrity Commission. - Carrier Battles v1.7 released - 22:53, 18 June 2008 (GMT)
Carrier Battles v1.7 has finally been released!Updates include:
an AI tweak to help in the late game improved happiness type settings; bloodthirsty no longer gets unmanageable riots from alien population that start out angry. carrier maintenance corrections; they now match warships. Also, dread maintenance is reduced by 1% Legacy Infrastructure upgrade path fix (you now get your science points instead of upgrading to the JYW version of the facility)
and...An upgraded troop scheme! - New SE5 Shipset Released: Minbari Federation - 16:21, 15 June 2008 (GMT)
BlackSwan has released a new shipset for SE5, the Minbari Federation. - SE5 Patch 1.74 Released - 13:36, 10 June 2008 (GMT)
Malfador Machinations has released a new patch for Space Empires V, bringing the game up to version 1.74 - New SE5 Shipset Released: Freedom Fighters - 21:37, 03 June 2008 (GMT)
Ishii-kun has released a new shipset for SE5, the Freedom Fighters. - Romulus's Government, Social, and Racial Doctrines Mod - 09:03, 08 May 2008 (GMT)
Announcing the release of Romulus's Government, Social, and Racial Doctrines Mod for Space Empires 5. - Invasion! Beta 0.60 Released - 02:37, 22 April 2008 (GMT)
You can download it hereBeta 0.6 marks a large step for the mod with the addition of complete working AI for normal and monster races. It also does a fair amount of monster balancing to address issues that had shown up in the now defunct pbw games I was running. Multiplex tracking has been changed a bit, all hulls have a base tracking amount this amount can only be increased by turning over control of the ship to a Master Computer. Also I have tried to push each hull size closer to having a more specific role.
As usual the mods needs Image Mod and Sound Mod to work properly - New SE4 Shipset Released: Romanian Revivalist Dominion - 13:56, 19 April 2008 (GMT)
GM Locutus has released a new shipset for SE4, the Romanian Revivalist Dominion. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Vorlon Empire [SE5] - 13:27, 16 April 2008 (GMT)
BlackSwan has released a new shipset for SE5, the Vorlon Empire [SE5]. Also note that the Insterstellar Alliance has been update to version 3, and the Shadows Collective has a new Small Troop unit. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Dark Terran Confederation - 14:06, 14 April 2008 (GMT)
Isopsyco has released a new shipset for SE5, the Dark Terran Confederation. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Kushan Exiles - 12:52, 01 April 2008 (GMT)
bighouse has released a new shipset for SE5, the Kushan Exiles. - New SE5 Shipset Released: Earth Alliance [SE5] - 01:10, 31 March 2008 (GMT)
BlackSwan has released a new shipset for SE5, the Earth Alliance [SE5]. - SE5 Patch 1.71 Released - 12:25, 26 March 2008 (GMT)
Malfador Machinations has released a new patch for Space Empires V, bringing it up to version 1.71. Note that 1.66 AI mods will not function correctly in 1.71, due to changes with the functions Sys_Change_Planet_Conditions and Sys_Change_Planet_Value. Hold off on patching until your favorite mod(s) are updated! - Narn SE5 Shipset Released - 14:05, 11 March 2008 (GMT)
Black Swan has released another Babylon 5 inspired shipset for SE5, the Narn Regime. - 4 New SE4 Shipsets by Kevin Arisa - 14:00, 11 March 2008 (GMT)
4 new shipsets for Space Empires IV, by Kevin Arisa (Joshua Pedrick), have been added to the Shipyards. - Dark Nova 5.04 Available! - 12:12, 11 March 2008 (GMT)
Dark Nova 5.04 has been released! This version builds on the diversity by introducing varied ground troops. Get it HERE! - FQM 5.00 Beta 14 Released - 17:47, 10 March 2008 (GMT)
The SE5 version of FQM has been updated. - Adamant Mod 0.16.09 Released - 18:10, 07 March 2008 (GMT)
A new version of Adamant Mod has been released. - Launching Upload Module - 12:47, 03 March 2008 (GMT)
We here at SEnet are proud to announce the unveiling of the brand new
Slashdot
- Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Tom Yager takes a closer look at Apple's iPhone SDK confidentiality agreement, which restricts developers from discussing the SDK or exchanging ideas with others, thereby leaving no room for forums, newsgroups, open source projects, tutorials, magazine articles, users' groups, or books. But because anyone is free to obtain the iPhone SDK by signing up for it, Apple is essentially branding publicly available information as confidential. This 'puzzling contradiction' is the 'antithesis of the developer-friendly Apple Developer Connection' on which the iPhone SDK program is based, Yager contends. 'You'll see arguments from armchair legal analysts that the iPhone developer Agreements won't stand up in court — but those analysts certainly won't stand up in court on your behalf.' Anyone planning to launch an iPhone forum or open source project should have 'a lawyer draft your request for exemption, and make sure that the Apple staffer granting it personally commits to status as authorized to approve exceptions to the iPhone Registered Developer and iPhone SDK Agreements,' Yager warns."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2222204&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/2222204"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2222204&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=PArcxy"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=PArcxy" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/344244267" height="1" width="1"/> - Researchers Create Highly Predictive Blacklists - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
Grablets writes "Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that rethinks the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting, exploits the relationships between networks that have been attacked by similar Internet sources as a means for predicting which attack sources are likely to attack which networks in the future. A free experimental version is currently available."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2214245&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/2214245"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2214245&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=vYMVzB"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=vYMVzB" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/344165514" height="1" width="1"/> - Next Generation CPU Refrigerators - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system, small enough to fit inside laptop computers. According to the researchers, the implementation of miniature refrigeration systems in computers can dramatically increase the amount of heat removed from the microchips, therefore boosting performance while simultaneously shrinking the size of computers."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2211233&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/2211233"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2211233&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=wbrX9Y"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=wbrX9Y" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/344080048" height="1" width="1"/> - Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
get_Rootin writes "That didn't take long. ZDNet is reporting that HD Moore has released exploit code for Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisioning vulnerability into the point-and-click Metasploit attack tool. From the article: 'This exploit caches a single malicious host entry into the target nameserver. By causing the target nameserver to query for random hostnames at the target domain, the attacker can spoof a response to the target server including an answer for the query, an authority server record, and an additional record for that server, causing target nameserver to insert the additional record into the cache.' Here's our previous Slashdot coverage."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/231254&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/231254"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/231254&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=QsRoxl"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=QsRoxl" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/344038429" height="1" width="1"/> - Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
Brian Jordan and other readers sent in word that Google has taken the wraps off Knol, its expert-written challenger to Wikipedia. (We discussed Knol when it was announced last year.) Wired has an in-depth look. Knol's distinctions from Wikipedia are that authors are identified by their real names (and verified), and that they can share in ad revenue if they choose to. The service initially features a lot of medical articles, which is interesting considering that Medipedia also launched today. This medical wiki is backed by Harvard's and Stanford's medical schools.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2126203&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/2126203"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/2126203&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=Tp9Ca7"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=Tp9Ca7" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343993863" height="1" width="1"/> - Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
ruphus13 writes "Ubuntu and Canonical have been very active at OSCON this year. They showcased a new distro, announced improvements to their code-hosting platform, and made Mark Shuttleworth available for a couple of talks and panel sessions. Quoting: 'Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a complete distribution designed to run on Atom-based Netbook PCs. The main difference that sets it apart from its big brother Hardy Heron is the Ubuntu Mobile Edition (UME) Launcher, a user interface created specifically for use on the teensy screens and keyboards of today's popular ultra-portable computers.' Canonical also announced Version 2.0 of Launchpad, their code-hosting platform. Enhancements include 'a planned API that'll allow third-party applications to authenticate, query and modify data in the massive Launchpad database, without a user needing to manually access the system via a browser.' Mark Shuttleworth went on to state that Linux's market share will grow when it has better eye-candy than Apple's."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/203233&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/203233"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/203233&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=PNrpq6"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=PNrpq6" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343961221" height="1" width="1"/> - Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
ydrol writes "After building my new Core 2 Quad Q6600 PC, I was ready to unleash video conversion activity the likes of which I had not seen before. However, I was disappointed to discover that a lot of the conversion tools either don't use SMP at all, or don't balance the workload evenly across processors, or require ugly hacks to use SMP (e.g. invoking distributed encoding options). I get the impression that open source projects are a bit slow on the uptake here? Which open source video conversion apps take full native advantage of SMP? (And before you ask, no, I don't want to pick up the code and add SMP support myself, thanks.)"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1938256&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1938256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1938256&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=4QIotq"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=4QIotq" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343921986" height="1" width="1"/> - EC2 Vs. App Engine Vs. GoGrid Vs. AppNexus - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner delves into the ill-defined realm of 'cloud computing,' providing a deeper look at four shared services: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, GoGrid, and AppNexus. Offering wildly divergent amounts of hand-holding at various layers in the stack, the services simplify your workload but force you into a set, 'ball-and-chain-computing' routine that you may not prefer. Sure, the services allow you to pull CPU cycles from thin air whenever you need to, but they can't solve the deepest problems that make it hard for applications to scale gracefully, Wayner writes. He describes these 'clouds' as an evolving experiment, rife with potential but 'far from clear winners over traditional shared Web hosting.' The sobering look at the trend includes a QuickTime tour of each service — EC2, App Engine, GoGrid, AppNexus (those links all .MOV)."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1853218&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1853218"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1853218&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=IJdLhx"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=IJdLhx" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343895677" height="1" width="1"/> - Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
Barence writes "Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the Web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos. The company claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments. 'Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware,' according to Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley. 'It's head and shoulders above the rest [of the blogging services].'" Sophos believes that Blogger is favored because, being part of Google, it gets spidered early and often.<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1821228&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1821228"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1821228&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=l19xgG"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=l19xgG" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343850058" height="1" width="1"/> - Practical Django Projects - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me, they're dense pages. Filled with pragmatic examples which directly address the kinds of development issues you will encounter when first starting out with Django, this book makes an important addition to the aspiring Django developer's reference shelf. In particular, the book's emphasis on demonstrating best practices while building complete projects does an excellent job of accelerating an understanding of Django's most powerful features — in a realistic, pragmatic setting — and which a developer will be able to leverage in very short order." Read below for the rest of Greg's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1339226&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1339226"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1339226&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=oK1ND5"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=oK1ND5" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343807089" height="1" width="1"/> - NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
KentuckyFC writes "Earlier this year, Paris-based Aldebaran-Robotics picked up $8 million in venture capital funding to help commercialize its NAO humanoid robot. The target market for this device is research labs working on the next generation of robotic hardware and software. Today, the company has posted a detailed spec of NAO on the arXiv saying that it expects the robot to cost about $15,000 each. That's cheap compared to other humanoids. Fuitsu's HOAP humanoids cost $50,000 each and various estimates price Honda's Asimo at $1 million per bot, although they are not for sale. Aldebaran-Robotics says that NAO's cost should come down to about $6,000 as production ramps up."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1729244&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1729244"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1729244&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=6HSPlQ"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=6HSPlQ" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343776697" height="1" width="1"/> - Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
bigsmoke writes "So, all your servers run on RAID. You back up religiously. You're even sure that your backups are recoverable. But do you also need a UPS? According to Halfgaar (on Slashdot before to promote better Linux backup practices), yes, usually you do. He argues that despite technological advancements such as file system journaling, power failures can still cause data loss in most setups."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1629254&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1629254"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1629254&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=OET3Ph"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=OET3Ph" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343739453" height="1" width="1"/> - Video Game Labeling Law Passed In New York - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
chareverie writes "A law just passed in New York now requires labels for violent content in video games that are already rated, as well as having parent-controlled lockout features installed in consoles by 2010. The law has caused an uproar with civil rights groups who claim that such a law is unconstitutional. A legal challenge is already in the works by the New York Civil Liberties Union who cite that similar laws that have been brought to courts in California, Illinois, Minessota, and Washington state have been deemed as unconstitutional. NYCLU legislative director Robert Perry also says that the 'new law is a "back door" way of regulating video game content.'"<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1548228&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1548228"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1548228&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=H90QlN"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=H90QlN" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343699849" height="1" width="1"/> - SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his administrative passwords over to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was 'the only person he felt he could trust.' Childs is still being held on $5 million bail for his lockout of the city's FiberWAN, a case that has been called into question since an insider came forward with details about both the network and Childs himself. The case hinges on No Service Password Recovery commands Childs allegedly configured onto several Cisco devices, as well as dial-up and DSL modems the SFPD has discovered that would allow unauthorized connections to the FiberWAN. Childs intends to 'expose the utter mismanagement, negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left unchecked, will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger,' according to his motion. The Department of Telecom and IS has cut 200 of its 350 IT positions since 2000 — pressure that may have contributed to Childs' actions, according to interviews with current and former DTIS staffers. Newsom secured the passwords without first telling the DTIS that he was meeting with Childs."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1515203&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1515203"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1515203&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=EYK5bH"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=EYK5bH" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343660250" height="1" width="1"/> - MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition - 19:00, 31 December 1969 (GMT)
the4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a coalition of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't familiar with the OpenID coalition, they are a group that seeks to allow users to create a single account/password set to be used on a number of services. Such services already signed up include: Google's Blogger, Wordpress, AOL, Yahoo, Vox, LiveJournal, and others." Reader gbjbaanb adds a link to the BBC's coverage and points out that MySpace's 100 million users would mean nearly a doubling of the approximately 120 million OpenID accounts now in use, writing: "Initially support is to use MySpace OpenIDs as providers only — i.e. you cannot logon to MySpace with an OpenID created elsewhere, but that policy will change in the future. This should help to make OpenID the de-facto login mechanism for the Internet, now if only Microsoft would support it, there are plenty OSS OpenID libraries available."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1259229&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/23/1259229"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1259229&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=sRGUPU"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=sRGUPU" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/343613779" height="1" width="1"/>
