Comment Re:That's very nice, but (Score 1) 216
If you do buy it direct from 2D Boy you can register your copy within Steam with the CD-Key and then get all the benefits of having the Steam version.
Rob
Comment Re:Teenagers? (Score 1) 380
I guess The Little Shop Of Horrors is out for you too.
Comment Play IF games in your browser with Parchment (Score 5, Interesting) 130
I'd urge everyone to give Parchment a try
Parchment is a project dedicated to running IF games in your browser, and it does so wonderfully. You can even SAVE your progress, and it gives you a bookmarkable URL you can use to resume your game at a later date. That page tells you how to get any Zcode game playable on Parchment, and the page below has links to loads of IF games that have already been made available.
I'd recommend giving Curses a go, although maybe not if you are completely new to IF.
Comment Re:Oh please. (Score 1) 287
Couple it with something like Allwaysync Portable to synchronise the USB stick when it is plugged in and it should work fine.
Comment Re:A Few Helpful Lists (Score 1) 287
If our backup provider is subpoenaed they can give all my data to whoever they want, it's just a meaningless binary blob.
Not if they give it to Morris O'Brian! He knows the secret back door codes into Blowfish and can decrypt in in a minute!
Comment Re:Are we still talking about Braid? (Score 1) 44
That might just be the demo. There isn't any exit sequence in the full game, or at least there isn't for me on the Steam version.
Greg Bear To Write Halo Trilogy 73
SailorSpork writes "Many gaming websites are reporting that Hugo and Nebula award winning sci-fi author Greg Bear will be writing a 100,000-year prequel trilogy to the Halo series, focusing on the Forerunners and presumably the construction of the Larry Niven knock-offs. Will he be able to balance the needs of his hard sci-fi fanbase with the Halo fans' need for a soft introduction to 'chapter books?' Despite my sarcasm, as someone who considers both of them guilty pleasures, I am actually really looking forward to seeing how he handles this."
Comment Re:ATM (Score 3, Funny) 508
It does, it just debits them from your account like normal.
Comment Re:annoyed (Score 1) 294
I is.
Hacking Ring Nabbed By US Authorities 146
Slatterz writes "The members of a hacking ring responsible for stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from retail organizations in the US have been caught and charged. The case before the US Department of Justice is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted. The criminals allegedly obtained bank details by hacking into the retailers' computer networks and then installing 'sniffer' programs to capture card numbers and password details as the customers moved through the retailers' credit and debit processing networks."
Submission + - iPod add-on 'fails' privacy test
chalkyj writes: "The BBC is reporting that new Nike iPod Sport kit can be used to track people's movements.
From the article:
"the team created their own receiver from cheap and easily obtainable parts that logged when a target sensor was nearby. This used wi-fi to pass on the information to a central database that plotted the location on Google Maps.""
