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Comment Re:Front page news? (Score 2, Informative) 157

An inordinate amount of attention for simple game. In other headline news, Starcraft 2 can be played as anything, thanks to a gnarly editor.

One big reason for all the attention is that Valve has released the full source and SDK alongside it. Mods haven't started rolling in yet, but there are sure to be quite a few.

I'm sure SC2's editor is great, though.

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Linux 2.6.34 Released 268

diegocg writes "Linux 2.6.34 has been released. This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance, the VMware balloon driver, the 'kprobes jump' optimization for dynamic probes, new perf features (the 'perf lock' tool, cross-platform analysis support), several Btrfs improvements, RCU lockdep, Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (RFC 5082) and private VLAN proxy arp (RFC 3069) support, asynchronous suspend/resume, several new drivers and many other small improvements. See the full changelog here."

Comment Re:Also makes social engineering harder (Score 1) 446

I have a friends list called "Restricted" which is specifically blocked from seeing anything other than what they would already have seen on the search results. When I approve a friend request, I first add them to the Restricted list and check to make sure they are who they say they are. Then they get moved to the general friend population.

It does take a little time to set it up in the privacy controls (you have to go to each and every item, drop the list box, click "custom," and type "Restricted" under "hide this from"), but you may find it worthwhile.

Comment Re:Also makes social engineering harder (Score 1) 446

I believe I read somewhere that if someone pokes you, you’re given access to their limited profile for 30 days (or something like that). Can anyone verify?

Although I guess it would be a little odd to respond to a friend request with “poke me so I can see your profile, I’m not sure I know you”.

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