Comment: Re:Why didn't he just use (Score 1) 240
RFC 1149 is vulnerable to man-with-gun-in-the-middle attacks of which there is plenty of in Pakistan.
Comment: Re:The only secure system... (Score 1) 239
Well the system has the unique trait of becoming safer with time has the probe travel farther away from Earth. The data safety is a race between the distance traveled by the probe and space travel improvements since the probe launch.
Comment: Re:The only secure system... (Score 1) 239
What about a computer on a space probe that doesn't have transmitting equipment? Getting it back or even sending something to catch it would be near impossible.
Comment: Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Score 1) 401
I am waiting for Versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Versus_XIII to come out before judging single player Final Fantasy done. It has several elements that should produce a quality game: a setting that can only be described as the spiritual successor of FFVII, the standard features of Final Fantasy that were lacking from XXIII(towns, exploration) should be back in, some of the most gorgeous graphics available on the market and the fact that Square knows that it can't botch this one and get away with it again. I don't expect a miracle but I would be suprised at nothing less than strong title to bring the series back in line.
Comment: Re:Browser Issue (Score 2, Informative) 179
10.0.0.0/8
172.16.0.0/12
192.168.0.0/16
0.0.0.0/8
127.0.0.0/8
You missed some privates and you had some legitimate publics listed has private.
Comment: Re:When I buy a game, I /buy the game/ (Score 1) 462
Arcades dying in North America is also caused by the convenience of gaming at home compared to going out to an arcade. Arcades are still popular in Japan and Korea has PC bangs, I would attribute some of that success on denser urban area making them more accessible.
League of Legends revenue is fully fueled by microtransactions and the game is blooming. Most mmos are now based on microtransactions and you don't see a lot of them going bankrupt. The microtransaction model can work.
Comment: Bloat (Score 0, Troll) 141
Just what I needed, more bloat on checkout pages.
Research Lets You Type Words By Thought Alone 114
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StoneLion
from the put-on-your-thinking-cap dept.
from the put-on-your-thinking-cap dept.
An anonymous reader writes "How about typing on a computer just by thinking about it? The downside is you have to wear a skull cap with electrodes that capture your brain waves like an EEG machine. According to this EE Times story, a team of researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands has presented Mind Speller, a thought-to-text device intended to help people with movement disabilities. The system does rely on a lot of processing on a remote computer, but it is a wireless system. And these thought-to-computer systems have wider applicability than medical support. One of the research groups involved in this development has already looked at wireless electroencephalography (EEG) to enable measures of emotion to be fed back into computer games."
Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan 238
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CmdrTaco
from the you-get-what-you-pay-for dept.
from the you-get-what-you-pay-for dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Recently, the Oracle/Sun conglomerate has denied public download access to all service packs for Solaris unless you have a support contract. Now, paying a premium for gold-class service is nothing new in the industry, but withholding critical security updates smacks of extortion. While this pay-for-play model may be de rigueur for enterprise database systems, it is certainly not the norm for OS manufactures. What may be more interesting is how Oracle/Sun is able to sidestep GNU licensing requirements since several of the Solaris cluster packs contain patches to GNU utilities and applications."
Comment: Re:This beta should be...fun? (Score 1) 182
Its not 3 60$ games, its one game and two expansions. Each SC2 storyline is focused on playing mostly a single race but will have more content than the original game did with all 3.