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[11/25/12] - HF News - Oak - Nov 26, 2012

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The edition you are currently reading is the 119th full edition. To read any older editions of HF News, please go here.

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Mobile App Update
A couple months ago, there was much talk and discussion on the possibility of the creation of a mobile application for the HackForums community. Following all the discussion, Omniscient ended up creating a thread on the matter, saying that he will be hiring Forum Runner to create an application for the community. The application is to be for both the App Store, and Google Play. Other than a thread created asking for graphics for the app, not much talk happened on the matter, until now. A thread was created on the subject to which Omniscient replied stating "I've already paid for it. It's in production." The reply can be found here.

Ub3r Emails Disabled
It appears that after a certain amount of abuse from forum members, the Ub3r email feature has been disable by Omniscient! This has come to a shock to many who surely use the email feature on a daily basis. The feature was an Ub3r member only feature and was a great one at that. A statement on the matter from Omniscient can be found here. Although Ub3r emails can no longer be created for new Ub3r members, those of us who already have an email will still be able to use the feature.

Microsoft Lifts Restrictions on HF
For those of you who were around at the time, you may remember that Google temporarily flagged HackForums as a possible malicious site or a site with malicious intent. This led to a warning message that popped up for most users as well as Microsoft blocking many aspects for HackForums users, one of which is email use on the site. Furthermore, Omniscient announced a couple days ago that Microsoft has lifted any restrictions on the site which is surely a good thing for those who use Microsoft emails!

Thread Subscriptions
For those of you that often use the Thread Subscription feature on HackForums, a bit of change has recently developed in it. The primary change to the feature is that the notifications for threads one is subscribed to will be sent via Private Message rather than E-mail as it was prior to the change. Alongside this change to the Thread Subscription feature, Omniscient ended up clearing all current subscriptions to threads as to start from a clean slate. He also stated that he will be implementing stricter guidelines on thread subscription. To read the official statements on the matter, check the official Twitter of HF @HackForumsNet.

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User News
Rhynorater. is now a moderator of the Python forum.

Repfucks
Bans
Awards
  • Tibit received the Gavel of Dredd award.
  • Sandshrew received the Master Donator and Businessman awards.
  • Christy received the Master Donator and Star awards.
  • SoulZeh received the Cat award!
  • Natha received the Brony award, revealing his true sexuality once and for all.

Group Leadership Changes
  • Who? is now a leader of Root.
  • Tɦɛ Gʀiɱ is now a leader of the Marketers.
  • Yellows is no longer a leader of The Empire.
  • SoulZeh is no longer a leader of The Empire.
  • Natha is now a leader of The Empire.
  • Hazy is now a leader of The Empire.

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Lemur - Official Rap Battle Challenge #2
Tyler‌ - Warning: Don't deal with the member Gant! (Legitti the scammer)
RubyStar™ - When did you get your l33t?
 

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Interview - Zanelot
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Interview - xadamxk
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* - Oak - Nov 26, 2012

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Xbox TV
Whats next for Microsoft? Xbox TV may be it. Microsoft are building a set-top Xbox according to sources in Redmond. It's a low cost next generation alternative that will compete with Apple TV. The box is said to always stay ON, allowing quick access to entertainment. Sources say it's lined up to be revealed in 2013 with a scheduled launch in the pre-holiday season. Microsoft loves to keep consumers guessing. "Xbox 360 has found new ways to extend the console lifecycle by introducing controller-free experiences with Kinect and re-inventing the console with a new dashboard and new entertainment content partnerships," Microsoft told The Verge in an official statement. "We are always thinking about what is next for our platform and how to continue to defy the lifecycle convention."

Black Ops II Patch
The hottest game to hit consoles this year received it's first patch. You can view the patch notes below - many glitches were fixed.

- Made infrastructure and performance improvements to Live Streaming.
- Made streaming performance improvements to video playback in CODTV.
- Addressed an issue where flight range parameters for airborne vehicles could be deleted in the middle of a match due to a network interruption.
- Escort drone flying under the map
- Inability to call in the Dragonfire
- FHJ-18 weapon level is now increased by destroying Scorestreak vehicles and aircraft.
- Care Package/AGR canister exploit has been addressed.
- Patched a small map exploit in Aftermath.
- Addressed a rare situation that would cause the Emblem Editor menu to overlap other menus.
- Balance pass on spawn influencers to improve cases causing non-optimal spawning under certain conditions.
- Improved performance for emblem uploads to prevent an occasional hang. If there is an error connecting to servers during an upload, you will now be able to re-try your save.
- Emblems and Clan tags will now appear correctly on the Assault Shield when stowed on the back.
- Addressed all reported UI error code messages.
- Elite Clan Friends list no longer actively sorts players when their status is updated. The player list will refresh after closing and re-opening the tab.
- Improved a number of emblem icons in the Emblem Editor.
- Junkyard IV reward added to Calling Cards.

Video of the Week
So hows the Halo 4 connection for you? Great I hear? Well, I've never heard that here in Australia. This weeks video shows some classic lag us Aussie's are getting while playing Halo 4 multiplayer... the DMR only has 14 shots, but this player shoots 19 before getting killed. The enemy also doesn't take any damage from multiple hits. You can view this ridiculous video here.

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China's Fighter Jet Lands on Carrier
On Sunday, China announced it demonstrated landing a fighter jet on its new aircraft carrier. China seems to be planning to build up a strong navy and even military all around. It has had increasing tensions with Japan, and China has warned the US to stay out of Asia, in reference to Obama's latest trip to Burma. President Hu Jintao said, "We should make active planning for the use of military forces in peacetime, expand and intensify military preparedness, and enhance the capability to accomplish a wide range of military tasks, the most important of which is to win local war in an information age." China has also been increasing its military spending, and showing off other new hardware.  

Black Friday's Record Online Sales
This Black Friday has seen record sales online, which topped 1 billion dollars. It was stated that the sales jumped 26% from last year. Last year sales were at $816 million, while this year shows sales of $1.04 billion. Amazon came in first as the most visited retail sales, while Walmart, not being slowed down by the protests, came in second. E-commerce continues to grow relative to the physical retail stores in the United States. ComScore announced that they anticipate an increase by 17% in this year's holiday spending all around. 

Over 117 People Die in Burning Factory
Around the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, a fire in a clothing factory has said to have caused the death of roughly 117 people. Adding onto that, there was also said to be over 200 people injured. As firefighters battled to contain the raging fire, many people laid trapped in the burning building which comprised mostly of women. Many family members waited outside for their loved ones to come out alive. 

Israel Satellites Spot Weapons Headed for Gaza
Israel satellites have reported spotting an Iranian ship with weapons cargo headed for Gaza. According to Haaretz, the ship was said to have been sent off on the day the ceasefire agreement was reached between Hamas and Israel. The cargo was suspected to contain the same kind of rockets that Hamas fired at Israel (Fajr-5 rockets). It is uncertain if the weapons are truly headed for Gaza, but it is very likely. An Israeli source told the Sunday Times of London, "We believe that Iranian warships anchored in Eritrea will accompany the weapons ship as soon as it enters the Red Sea.”

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Samsung
In addition to various patent battles between Samsung and Apple, we now have a new patent case being filed by Samsung on Wednesday. Samsung filed the case claiming that Apple's fourth generation iPad & latest iPad infringe patents of its own devices. Samsung has officially claimed that, "All Apple products including a built-in speaker and an external audio output port infringe this particular patent." and hence the patent case has been filed against them. The court has ordered both the companies due on December 6.

Mozilla
Benjamin Smedberg, Mozilla Engineering Manager has asked his developers to stop working on building the 64-bit Mozilla Firefox for 64-bit version of Windows nightly. He created a thread named "Turning off win64 builds" under the developers board in which he stated that the 64 bit Mozilla was unstable, crashes frequently & overall inconvenient for use. He has also added the lack of plugins and lack of proper coding that leads to crashing of the plugins often. Finally, Benjamin posted, "Thank you to everyone who participated in this thread. Given the existing information, I have decided to proceed with disabling windows 64-bit nightly and hourly builds. Please let us consider this discussion closed unless there is critical new information which needs to be presented."

Apple
We know Samsung has filed a patent complaint over Apple this Wednesday that includes Apple's fourth generation iPad, iPod & iPhone 5. In response to that, Apple has filed another patent case against Samsung claiming them to infringe their patents that includes Samsung's Galaxy Note 2, S3 with Android 4.1 & S3 mini. Earlier in August, Apple won a case over Samsung that dealt with exterior design issues and the court finalized the case by ordering Samsung to pay one billion to Apple. But, unlikely, this case deals only with interior issues such as patent software, their way of working and such. This case is being overtaken by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in a federal court in San Jose, California.

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Beck Working On New LP
In an interview with Triple J Radio, Beck has revealed that he is currently working on a new album. The album has yet to be named and does not have a release date, but the musician has been working on the record for nearly half a decade, since 2008. Beck has an excuse however, as he has also been working on a sheet music album, Beck Hansen's Song Reader. The LP will be released via Consequence of Sound.  

Fiona Apple Cancels Tour For Dying Dog
Indie legend Fiona Apple has announced the cancellation of the last leg of her tour, according to her website. Unlike most tour cancellations in the music industry, the cause was not drugs and alcohol, nor STDs; it was a dying dog. The musician divulged into her personal life in a hand written note. The note narrated the story of how she adopted the dog as a puppy, up to the diagnosis of tumours, amongst other health problems for the 14 year old dog. The tour's affected gigs are mostly in South America.

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This is basically my own little corner to type up my thoughts and some standpoints on different topics.
I don't get to say this enough, but I want to thank the HF News team for all of their work in this endeavor. All of them, past and present, have spent a lot of time and effort on creating what you see today.
With that said, I'd like to thank Retribute to the team. While it may only be temporary, he is playing an important role in the creation of this project.
Thank you.

** - Oak - Nov 26, 2012

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"What are you looking forward to in the 'future'?"

"By now, I thought the future would've had hi-tech machinery
like floating cars and holograms from calls. At the moment, I expect
to see holograms when we call, sort of like Facetime but the caller
is actually there. Another thing I hope, but not expect to see are
lasers strong enough to rip through or cut through like lightsabers. xD"
-Pink Leaf Skyline

"Time is on the wall, and we must be specific about what we want."
-Hexicidal

The topic for next week is "What is your favorite movie? What do you like about it?"

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HF News Team

* - Tetrahedra - Nov 26, 2012

New edition is out. Bumping it up for the community to see.

* - Eclipse - Nov 26, 2012

A great 119th edition, always a good read.

xHysteria.

* - Mr Kewl - Nov 26, 2012

I think this is the first on time edition after a long time. 😝

* - Analog- - Nov 26, 2012

(Nov 26, 2012 01:15 AM)Mr Kewl Wrote:  I think this is the first on time edition after a long time. 😝

You mean 1 edition?
Last weekend was late due to a misunderstanding.

As for the every other edition I've been involved in, on time.

* - kray - Nov 26, 2012

(Nov 26, 2012 01:15 AM)Mr Kewl Wrote:  I think this is the first on time edition after a long time. 😝

I feel like I saw Sir posts "News is now released on Mondays" somewhere.

* - Daisy ♡ - Nov 26, 2012

As always, well done News team.

Thank you for another great edition.

* - Aeon ‹3 - Nov 26, 2012

(Nov 26, 2012 01:19 AM)Kray Wrote:  I feel like I saw Sir posts "News is now released on Mondays" somewhere.

This was suppose to be a joke though.
Anyway, you guys missed half the reports 🤫

* - Aeon ‹3 - Nov 26, 2012

(Nov 26, 2012 01:26 AM)Natha Wrote:  Natha received the Brony award, revealing his true sexuality once and for all.

I officially lold.

You have to come out of the closet some day.

* - Premortal - Nov 26, 2012

Thanks to the news team for making another wonderful edition!

* - Nadleeh - Nov 26, 2012

thanks for the another edition.
going to enjoy reading this.

* - Jаck - Nov 26, 2012

(Nov 26, 2012 01:31 AM)Natha Wrote:  I'm not gay you little nub Dan, I'll come to your house.

The brony award isn't the best. Just saying.

Grammar Rays got banned again, damn what did he do this time?

* - Mr Kewl - Nov 26, 2012

(Nov 26, 2012 01:31 AM)Natha Wrote:  I'm not gay you little nub Dan, I'll come to your house.

The brony award speaks for itself Natha. 😝