DarkMorph - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Boycott (Score 1) 180

by DarkMorph on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:58AM (#46174355) Attached to: How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors

Logging in for the first time in at least 3 years for the sole purpose of contributing to the "fuck beta" momentum building up here.

I've seen one particulary inspiring comment (can't remember whose quote it is off-hand, sorry) - as a last resort, if the beta movement isn't rescinded then let's do what we always do when an OSS project goes to hell.

Fork it.

Get the fuck away from DICE and get our own /. going. If they're so determined to drive the majority of us away from this site, may as well have a new place to call home.

Microchips With Multiple "Selves" 143

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 13, 2008 @04:39PM from the sounds-like-a-support-nightmare dept.

Stony Stevenson brings news from Rice University about designing integrated circuits with multiple distinct identities, which could be used in new types of hardware-based DRM, among other things. From the news release: "'With "n-variant" integrated circuits, it is possible to design portable media players that are inherently unique,' said Farinaz Koushanfar, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice and principal investigator on the project. 'New methods of digital rights management can be built upon such devices. For example, media files can be made such that they only run on a certain variant and cannot be played by another.' Koushanfar said content providers could also use n-variant chips to sell metered access to software, music or movies because the chips can be programmed to switch from one variant to another at a particular time or after a file has been accessed a certain number of times."

Comment Re:MPlayer.com! (Score 1) 192

by DarkMorph on Thursday June 05, 2008 @01:40PM (#23670889) Attached to: The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters

It took me a moment to remember this, but now I remember it much more clearly. MPlayer offered listings of online matches to join with lobbies (chat rooms) that had voice (microphone) support, and they supported many games. I used to play Red Alert frequently via MPlayer since Westwood Online was so lousy and WO didn't have such a concept as a lobby where you can find players who are looking for games. The old MPlayer reminds me of what Xbox Live allows me to do today in some ways. After Gamespot bought out MPlayer it was pretty much all over. I haven't had a decent 3v3 match on the hjk6 map in so many years, now I miss it. Of all the C&C games I've seen, Red Alert was the best and MPlayer really made the multiplayer shine.

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