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Valve Announces Dota 2 128

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday October 14 2010, @06:50AM
from the new-and-improved-ways-for-people-to-call-you-terrible dept.

RulerOf writes "Just over a year after hiring IceFrog, the lead developer of the wildly popular DotA Allstars mod for Warcraft III, and the speculation surrounding Valve's recent trademark filing for the 'DotA' name, Valve has officially announced Dota 2. Gameplay of Dota 2 is being ported 'exactly' from the current DotA Allstars and includes every hero, but vast improvements are being made to the game including VoIP, a coaching system, in-game rewards, and AI that takes over for disconnected players. Lastly, it all runs on top of the Source engine. (GameInformer's website appears to be struggling right now though, as they had an exclusive on this story.)"

Comment: Re:several interesting issues (Score 1) 647

by Ann1ka on Monday August 24 2009, @04:50PM (#29177831) Attached to: Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28

What a load of bull.

1) What's your source for this information? It's not because Apple decided to charge just $29 for SL, that it's different from other point releases. Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard were all upgrades in license, but installed just fine on a clean system.

2) Support for non-intel is dropped, but most of the hardware from the previous age of Mac is already 4+ years old. Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with running Leopard on this hardware for another year, before finally considering a hardware update.

3) Of course they will stop selling 10.5. But that's really not a problem for intel-machines (starting beginning 2006). Merely PPC users who haven't upgraded to 10.5 yet, might want to do that now.

Comment: Re:CPU Usage... (Score 2, Interesting) 251

by Ann1ka on Friday June 05 2009, @09:52AM (#28221691) Attached to: Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds

If you like the OSX experience enough to stick with it. Why not give Safari 4 beta a try? It comes with better integration into OSX and has most of Chrome's features, with biggest miss being the sandboxing. It also uses the Webkit engine for rendering webpages, which is somewhat faster than Firefox's Gecko.

Researchers develop a practical attack on KeeLoq-> 0

Submitted by

StevenOdb

on Wednesday August 22 2007, @06:01AM

StevenOdb writes "Cryptography researchers from Belgium and Israel have developed a practical attack on KeeLoq, a cipher used in several car anti-theft mechanisms distributed by Microchip Technology Inc. The cipher is included in the remote control device that opens and locks your car and that activates the anti-theft mechanisms. Each device has a unique key that takes 18 billion billion values. With 100 computers, it would take several decades to find such a key. Therefore KeeLoq was widely believed to be secure. Now, a method has been found to identify the key in less than a day. The attack requires access to the remote control for about 1 hour (for example, stored in the victim's pocket while he's enjoying a meal). With this key the alarm can be easily deactivated. The results were presented at the CRYPTO 2007 conference."
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