Leaked Xbox One FAQ: Real Answers or Fake Questions?; Your Silence May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Leaked Xbox One FAQ: Real Answers or Fake Questions? Your Silence May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law Find a 400-Year-Old Skeleton, Get Charged $5K Microsoft Takes Anti-Indie Dev Stance with Xbox One How to Start Reading Others' Code? Hot Comment: "...Just copy (the NSA) on every email you send. It's just courtesy, not..." From the Vault: Emigrating to a Freer Country? Watch It: Unanticipated Effects of Autonomous Cars Poll Booth: My view of touchscreen laptops Leaked Xbox One FAQ: Real Answers or Fake Questions? In the wake of a disastrous E3 product reveal, Microsoft has purportedly distributed a confidential internal 100-point "FAQ" for the Xbox One that reads like it's from the Ministry of Truth. It was, of course, immediately leaked on pastebin. Sound Off>> Your Silence May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the State of Texas in a murder trial where the defendant, prior to be taken into custody, had been questioned by the police and chose to remain silent on key questions. This fact was bought up at trial and used to convict him. Sound Off>> Find a 400-Year-Old Skeleton, Get Charged $5K During a recent fence installation, Ontario couple Ken Campbell and Nicole Sauve discovered the bones of an aboriginal woman who died between the late 1500s to the early 1600s. Under Ontario law, Campbell and Sauve were required to hire an archeologist to assess their property at their own expense. Sound Off>> Microsoft Takes Anti-Indie Dev Stance with Xbox One The new Oddworld game New 'n' Tasty is coming to every platform in the current generation and even the next generation, but not the Xbox One. Microsoft has decided all developers must have a publisher to grace its console. Sound Off>> How to Start Reading Others' Code? BorgeStrand is reviving an open source project and need to read up on a lot of existing code written by others and asks Slashdotters, "What are your tricks for quickly getting to grips with code written by others?" Sound Off>> Re: Game the system ... "Close. Just copy (the NSA) on every email you send. It's just courtesy, not a DDoS, and not our fault if their servers can't handle it." --by mapsjanhere Read More>>   Emigrating to a Freer Country? Four years ago, puroresu lamented the erosion of privacy, free expression and civil liberties in the UK and asked Slashdotters, "Which countries would you recommend in terms of freedom and privacy?" As usual, you had plenty to say on the topic. Read More>> Unanticipated Effects of Autonomous Cars SlashTV: While driverless cars could solve a host of issues, they could also bring a whole new set of problems, questions, and -- no doubt -- legislation. Author Peter Wayner talks to Timothy Lord about the possible effects of autonomous cars on our lives and the economy. Watch the Video>> My view of touchscreen laptops: Tool of the devil: stupid and awful I'm against them (annoying, smudgy) Neutralish, but leaning slightly against Neutralish, but warming to the concept I like them, but not a fanatic They're awesome; I'm hooked There are touch-screen laptops? Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.