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Comment Re:Here, I'll summarize. (Score 1) 834

Anyone who knows time travel knows they are just going to modify one timeline thread. They kill the boy, history forks, but back on the "original future", nothing has changed, because changes make time fork to a new timeline, it doesn't magically make things appear and disappear. It doesn't make people in pictures fade in or fade out.

You can go back in time as many times as you want, but you wont change your future, you can create a new future. But your old miserable you will remain miserable in his own timeline and will never notice any changes.

Anyway this is Sci-Fi so anything is possible. :)

Data Storage

Single Drive Wipe Protects Data 625

ALF-nl writes "A forensics expert claims that wiping your hard drives with just one pass already makes it next to impossible to recover the data with an electron microscope." But that's not accounting for the super secret machines that the government has, man.
Security

Submission + - Xbox 360 Hypervisor Privilege Escalation

An anonymous reader writes: We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access.
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Volunteers to build RPG.

MrShaggy writes: According to an article over on the bbc, Acclaim, is making an RPG. However this RPG is going t be written by volunteers. '"I want it to be a title they own and feel excited about," said Mr Perry, a 24-year veteran of the games industry.' They already have 20,000 people ready to go. This is the link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6422333 .stm
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Microsoft Cracks 6 Million Xbox Live Members

GameFreak writes: At E3 last year Microsoft made a goal of having six million Xbox Live members by June this year. As Planet Xbox 360 reports, they just announced that they have hit that number four months early. There is a whole bunch of other interesting facts and figures too, like gamers having spent 2.3 billion hours using the service since it began, and a surprising five billion Microsoft Points being activated on Live thus far.
Games

Serious, Indie, Mobile Games Highlight GDC Monday 10

The first day of GDC is generally devoted to games just a bit off the beaten path. In recent years, serious games have vied with titles from the mobile and indie markets on the first two days of the Game Developer's Conference. Probably the most interesting serious discussion from Monday was word from Square/Enix's new serious games arm. Sessions like innovations in Indie games and how to get your Indie game published rounded out the independent games discussions for the day. The pirates at Three Rings also put on a good show, talking about how to make an indie MMOG. Meanwhile, on the mobile front, EA veteran Trip Hawkins talked about innovations on the smallest screen, while Nokia rolled out some new details on their next generation of N-Gage .
Games

Do Reviews Still Serve a Purpose? 93

Via Voodoo Extreme, a post on the Sony-sponsored ThreeSpeech blog asking if game reviews are a thing of the past. Post author 'Azz Hassan' opines that the proliferation of blogs and easy access to game trailers has made the 'biased views' of reviewers a thing of the past. Responding via the Ars Technica Opposable Thumbs blog, Frank Caron offers a rebuttal to the piece. 'The argument presented in the article seems to come with the very slant that it so viciously protests: one of a negative view towards a medium that the writer feels is inadequate. Yes, there is a ton of available media on the net that can help you get a look at a game as it develops, but the problem with videos and pictures is that often the intangible elements are impossible to understand simply from seeing the game in motion--only the written or verbal communication of a person can adequately capture these details.'
Role Playing (Games)

Lego MMOG Announced 61

Gamespot is reporting that a Lego Massively Multiplayer Game aimed at kids is in the works. Developer NetDevil, makers of Auto Assault, will be working on the project. No firm details beyond the project's announcement at this point, but the site slates the game for a 2008 launch.
Real Time Strategy (Games)

Submission + - Web of Life - A innovative GPL strategy game.

An anonymous reader writes: Hi,
I've just seen this site, about a strategy game with some really interesting concepts. It's been developed by a guy in his first couple of years in college, in Brazil.
Here's a brief:

"An isometric game with C++ and SDL.
Your beings should survive fighting with other beings, reproducting to make a massive attack and eating.
But sometimes you will have to eat some of your own live beings so that others could stay alive, well it's life.
First game done with the Ecosystem Engine ALIVE. (For more info about this Engine see the projects page). In this game the player control some animals and plants, and he/she should make them survive competing with the computer.
"

Here's a link for the project's page on SourceForge. Help is needed for devoloping a muliplayer protocol, more chars and compiling it for other plataforms than Windows XP and Linux.

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