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Comment Re:when I work the polls I like to try and guess (Score 1) 262

by jocabergs (#30920636) Attached to: Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance
I was going to say something about stereotypes and how wrong you are, but then I looked out the window correlated cars in driveways along my street with political ideology and found you were right. Except for one glaring mistake, it doesn't matter what political ideology a college chick with big breasts has, I'll agree with what ever she says.
Games

New Assassin's Creed Next Year, Will Have Multiplayer 56

Posted by Soulskill from the two-assassins-one-creed dept.
Ubisoft has announced that the next stand-alone Assassin's Creed title will come out next year, and it will be the first in the series to come with an online multiplayer mode. The company also said it will be "shoring up its focus on competitive AAA core titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3" in the coming year, making mention of upcoming releases for the Tom Clancy game series and a new Prince of Persia title.
Games

Game Endings Going Out of Style? 190

Posted by Soulskill from the to-be-continued dept.
An article in the Guardian asks whether the focus of modern games has shifted away from having a clear-cut ending and toward indefinite entertainment instead. With the rise of achievements, frequent content updates and open-ended worlds, it seems like publishers and developers are doing everything they can to help this trend. Quoting: "Particularly before the advent of 'saving,' the completion of even a simple game could take huge amounts of patience, effort and time. The ending, like those last pages of a book, was a key reason why we started playing in the first place. Sure, multiplayer and arcade style games still had their place, but fond 8, 16 and 32-bit memories consist more of completion and satisfaction than particular levels or tricky moments. Over the past few years, however, the idea of a game as simply something to 'finish' has shifted somewhat. For starters, the availability of downloadable content means no story need ever end, as long as the makers think there's a paying audience. Also, the ubiquity of broadband means multiplayer gaming is now the standard, not the exception it once was. There is no real 'finish' to most MMORPGs."
Google

Submission + - Google Applies to become Energy Marketer

Submitted by necro81
necro81 writes: Google consumes massive amounts of electrical energy to power its data centers across the country and world. Now it has created a subsidiary, Google Energy LLC, and applied (pdf) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to become a utility-scale energy trader. Google's stated aim is to be able to purchase renewable energy directly from producers at bulk rates, pursuing its goal of becoming carbon neutral. It is likely that Google Energy would also permit Google's own renewable energy projects to sell their energy at more favorable rates. Google reportedly does not have plans to actively become an energy broker, a la Enron.
Classic Games (Games)

M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

Posted by Soulskill from the not-for-the-red-wings dept.
jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."
Microsoft

Submission + - 2010 Will Be the Year of Sandboxing Apps (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: In a guest editorial on Threatpost, Mac hacker and security researcher Dino Dai Zovi writes that 2010 will be the year that software vendors get religion about sandboxing untrusted data in desktop apps. "Instead of the usual top ten lists that are all-too-common with predictions for the new year, I have just one: 2010 will be the year of desktop applications handling untrusted data in sandboxed processes, and it will be about time. The largest Internet security threats now arrive through malicious web pages or e-mail attachments. This is because attackers are opportunistic and these are the weakest links especially because they easily pass through every firewall. Security is not and never was about SYN packets, it is about data: the software attack surface that attacker-controlled data interacts with and what sensitive data the attacker can get a hold of if they can exploit vulnerabilities in that software. So in 2010, Windows 7 will pick up the slack from the slow adoption of Windows Vista and more former XP users will gain the benefit of the security improvements in Vista and 7 including Protected Mode IE. Et tu, Adobe?"

Comment Re:Over documentation is good (Score 2, Insightful) 580

by jocabergs (#30617004) Attached to: Myths About Code Comments
I think over documentation isn't on the whole a bad thing, but there have been a few times where I've been more confused by the comments than the code. I don't care if people get clever with code and have clear comments, but I hate when people try to have clever comments, comments are not supposed to be hard to understand.

Comment Re:Once again... (Score 1) 203

by jocabergs (#30579336) Attached to: The Need For Search Neutrality
Except the FCC would have jurisdiction because Google is an American company which operates primarily on American soil ("Communications Act of 1934", which explicitly and implicitly details FCC powers over all forms of telecommunication). Not that I agree with the article in the least, but this arrogant American just wanted to prove the Anonymous Coward wrong.

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