Comment Someone call Robert Hayes (Score 1) 554
It's time for another AIRPLANE movie!
Comment I love American Politics. (Score 1) 750
I just don't understand them.
I speak with Americans every day. They all seam like rational, clear thinking. But you look at the TV ad's and look at the hysterics that they put on TV and I wonder who those people are?
The whole process is based on fear. If they could put an AD out saying "If you vote for my opponent you are going to DIE!" They would.
I find the whole process fascinating.
Now can someone explain what is the difference between delegates and super delegates?
Comment All MMO's come out unfinished. (Score 1) 235
I have played Dark Age of camelot for 5 years, World of warcraft for 5 years, EvE Online on and of for a while, Acheron's call, City of Heros City of Villans and other to a lesser extent.
None of these MMO's came out done. NONE. It is the nature of MMO's to be works in progress. Sure they have to have some sort of playability and having played my Zealot to 31 in Warhammer at release it was a good game. The public quests worked the battleground worked, the quests worked.
they added some classses later, but so did Wow they added BRD and other dungons after relese date. Darkness falls in DAOC. I did not play EvE from the begining but I am sure the same thing happened as changes are made after every patch.
I also understand that publishers want a product to release or else you could be faced with George Broussard's 10 year excursion of development.
Comment That site!! (Score 1) 332
Is it trying to push a browser vulnerability!!!
Comment Re:if you read the actual report pdf (Score 2, Interesting) 86
Yes actually I do this quaterly.
We divide the vulnerabilities in 3 category.
OS patching.
OS Hardening.
Application Patching.
By doing this you can focus to the root cause of the issues. System owners, Application owners. It's a nice 2 page report with colours. they love it.
Administrators who care and are not tied up in red tape tend to really shine in these reports.
Another thing to realise is that in a corporate production environment, nothing will ever be 100% secure 100% of the time.
Comment FUD (Score 1) 86
The lack of details in the paper makes it so that it is impossible to know exactly what they found. Scanners such as Nessus, Foundstone, Languard are really noisy and can report normal system operation as a high vulnerability irregardless of system configuration.
Something like telnet will be a high, but put the proper mitigation such as access list, 2 factor authentication and you can show it as a medium or low.
It's all subjective.
KDE 4.5 Released 302
An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."
Comment Re:Learn my language! (Score 1) 674
But you have to take into consideration gender for everything. This something they do not have in English.
A table is a table while in French une table is feminin.
This is also true for Spanish and Russian. Something that I always found interesting, All nouns are the same gender. Who decided this?
Why is table not masculin in Russian?
Weird
Comment FUD (Score 1) 502
You can think of Top Secret as a governmental NDA. Breaking this one will land you in jail instead of a fine or other penalties. Worst case senario is that you will be charged with treason and all that could possibly imply.
Not all people who have Top secret work for projects related to terrorism.
Mostly it's a requirement to interact with that particular agency.
it's regular FUD journalisim.
APB To Use In-Game Audio Advertisements 97
Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports that upcoming action MMOG APB: All Points Bulletin will use in-game audio advertisements as part of its business model. The number of ads you hear will be limited: "you'll only hear an ad when you go into a new zone, and that's only once every three hours." Nevertheless, some gamers are upset that these ads will be included on top of APB's already unusual payment plans. The game is set for release next Tuesday. Producer Jesse Knapp says of Realtime Worlds' goals for APB, "We looked at other online action games, and we saw things we felt could be better. Only 12 to 32 players in a match, bad connection due to peer-to-peer, dead cities, way too much time in lobbies, things like that. So what we set out to do was to make a game that has that online player vs. player action game experience in a large city with other players around, no lobbies, dynamic matchmaking, dedicated servers, great experience, and that's been one of the driving factors of APB from the very beginning." CVG recently previewed the game.
Comment Rockband 3 Fender Squire (Score 1) 271
Can't wait for Rockband 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5De9eCH1EU
Comment Re:This is advertisement, not a story (Score 1) 244
Most good developers, but if like me you belong in a very large company and developpers are hired by contract the end result can always be suprising. Because most don't care. They are given a timeline and no matter what the sales dept. will have their way.
oh yes we do vulnerability assessments and code review, but if someone invents the magic wand to make all the bad go away we would surly invest in it.
Oh look it's summer, here comes the students to work on all those special projects.
Study Claims $41.5 Billion In Portable Game Piracy Losses Over Five Years 316
Gamasutra reports that Japan's Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association conducted a study to estimate the total amount of money lost to piracy on portable game consoles. The figure they arrived at? $41.5 billion from 2004 to 2009. Quoting:
"CESA checked the download counts for the top 20 Japanese games at what it considers the top 114 piracy sites, recording those figures from 2004 to 2009. After calculating the total for handheld piracy in Japan with that method, the groups multiplied that number by four to reach the worldwide amount, presuming that Japan makes up 25 percent of the world's software market. CESA and Baba Lab did not take into account other popular distribution methods for pirated games like peer-to-peer sharing, so the groups admit that the actual figures for DS and PSP software piracy could be much higher than the ¥3.816 trillion amount the study found."
Blizzard vs. Glider Battle Resumes Next Week 384
trawg writes "You paid for it, you have the DVD in your drive and the box on the floor next to your desk, but do you own the game? That's the question the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on next week in the case between Blizzard, publisher of World of Warcraft, and MDY, publisher of the Glider bot. The Glider bot plays World of Warcraft for you, but Blizzard frowns on this, saying it voids the license agreement — you don't own the game, you only have a license to use it, and bots like Glider invalidate the license. The EFF has a good summary of the case as well. The case is due to be resumed on Monday."
How PC Game Modders Are Evolving 98
Lanxon writes "Wired has a lengthy investigation into the state of PC game mods, and the amateurs keeping the scene exciting in the wake of draconian DRM placed on many PC titles by major studios. It highlights a number of creative modders, such as Scott Reismanis, founder and editor of Mod DB, and his community-driven alternative to Valve's Steam — Desura — which is 'a distribution system, and, like Steam, will sell games and champion indie titles. But the way it handles mods makes it even more exciting.'"
