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Comment More than one way to Rome (Score 1) 149

Nice article, good points. Fiddling with the different option to obtain the right combination can be fun (monkey island)
But a major way of improving gameplay would be to have multiple ways of solving the puzzles. For example the closed door, you could:
-open it with a key
-use a crowbar
-ask a NPC to open it
-open it from the other side
etc.

It would make the decision tree more complex, but more fun. The game could adapt/react to your action, making it more replay-able. A simple example is Indiana Jones fate of atlantis.

Comment Re:Idle (Score 1) 137

or in other words:

HEY READER,
USE YOUR SECTIONAL DISPLAY SETTINGS. THEY WORK.

That would fix the idle part. We could have a debate about the value of the story and the section and the punching headline they use.
My opinion is that there is a lot of ranting about nothing and /. is doing just fine. I briefed book reviews and idle, for instance. Of course, I would like to see more science stuff or something, but I'm just one here.

Could Taco enlighten us about the current status of the editorial independence of /.? That would greatly influence the debate as to which people to rant to: editors or management.

Comment Re:Idle (Score 1) 137

First we remove the level 1 'opinion creating' words:

SourceForge also said it "intends to take steps" to accelerate the growth of its Internet properties: Slashdot, SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek.

"These sites represent a set of Internet assets and there is more we can be doing to make them better and more engaging for our users," said Neumeister. "We are focused on pursuing our plans for each of these sites and making investments that will enable us to reach our objectives ."

And now with with a small rewrite and further ommissions:

SourceForge also said it "intends to take steps" to grow Slashdot, SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek.

"There is more we can be doing to make them better and more engaging for our users," said Neumeister. "We persue our plans for each of these sites and make investments to reach our objectives."

And at last the essence of the quote:

We are going to make changes to our sites

Security

Submission + - Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop vulnerable to MiTM

holdenkarau writes: "After patching the its plaintext authentication gaffe, Yahoo! Zimbra desktop has hit another stumbling block in the security road. Yahoo! Zimbra now uses the standard authentication method used by the rest of the Yahoo! Mail family. However, unlike other implementations where invalid SSL certificates will throw up plenty of warnings for the user, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop is trivially vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, as it simply transmits the usernames & passwords regardless of who's picked up on the other side. With all of the news about DNS vulnerabilities, this seems like exceptionally poor timing for a MiTM. For the time being you may wish to switch to using the Yahoo! webmail interface, until this bug gets fixed."
AMD

Submission + - AMD Beefs Up Stream Processing Technology (hothardware.com) 1

MojoKid writes: "AMD is revealing a new technology brand today to highlight some recent advances made in the company's stream and GPU computing initiatives. The new brand is aptly named ATI Stream. ATI Stream is essentially a amalgamation of all of ATI's previous initiatives like Close To Metal (CTM), Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL), and Brook+ (AMD's modified Brook open source compiler), encompassed under a single brand. The goal, as NVIDIA has done to some degree with CUDA and PhysX, is to not only take ATI Stream mainstream, but to also better serve the enterprise and HPC spaces with easier access and standardized programming tools. The company is also launching a new Stream processor board soon as well."
Biotech

Submission + - Evolution without gene changes: Evo-devo

zoefff writes: NY times has a fascinating article about 'evo-devo': evolution not through the alteration of genes, but through the alteration of the processing of genes during growth. All with master genes commanding a hierarchy of other genes, revisiting Darwin's finches and providing an explanation for mimicry.
From the article: '
New forms can arise via new uses of existing genes, in particular the control genes or what are sometimes called toolkit genes that oversee development. It is a discovery that can explain much that has previously been mysterious, like the observation that without much obvious change to the genome over all, one can get fairly radical changes in form.'

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