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by SailorNash (#47777449) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection?

NES: Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man 2 & 3, Blaster Master, North and South, River City Ransom, Double Dragon, Bionic Commando, Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros. 3, Castlevania 2 & 3, Bayou Billy, Batman, Guerilla War, Shadowgate, TMNT: The Arcade Game, Terminator 2, Rampage

Game Boy: Gargoyle's Quest, Metroid II, Tetris, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Dr. Mario, Duck Tales

SNES: Super Metroid, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV and VI, Breath of Fire, Super Mario World, Starfox, Secret of Mana, Street Fighter II Turbo, Contra III, Earthworm Jim, Mario Kart, Killer Instinct, Final Fight, Demon's Crest, Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge, NBA Jam, Super Ghosts & Ghouls, Magic Sword

N64: Goldeneye 007, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Smash Bros., WCW/nWo Revenge, WWF Wrestlemania 2000, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

PSone: Final Fantasy VII, Tekken 3, Wipeout 3: Special Edition, Star Ocean 2, Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, Driver, Tenchu 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

PS2: Dynasty Warriors 4, Samurai Warriors 2, Guitar Hero series, God of War series, Okami, Soul Calibur 2, Katamari Damacy, Primal, Psychonauts, Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick, Spawn, the Punisher

PS3: Skyrim, Dynasty Warriors 7, Arcana Heart 3, BlazBlue series, Tekken 6, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F, Flower, Braid, The Walking Dead: Seasons One and Two, Portal, NCAA Football series, Dragon's Crown, Marvel Ultimate Alliance series, Borderlands series, Mirror's Edge, Fat Princess, Castle Crashers, Hard Corps, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Rocksmith, Brutal Legend, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

PC: King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Uplink, Star Wars/TIE Fighter, Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Diablo, Shogun: Total War, Battle Chess, Zork, Neverwinter Nights

Board: Settlers of Catan, Arkham Horror, Kill Doctor Lucky, Fireball Island, Cosmic Encounters, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Pandemic, Risk: Legacy

Card: Munchkin, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Ninja Burger, Before I Kill You Mr. Bond, Chrononauts, Cards Against Humanity, Magic the Gathering

Submission + - NSA collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs.

Submission + - How to Hijack Any Drone for $400 In Less Than an Hour

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: The skies may soon be full of drones–some run by law enforcement agencies, others run by intelligence agencies and still others delivering novels and cases of diapers from Amazon. But a new project by a well-known hacker Samy Kamkar may give control of those drones to anyone with $400 and an hour of free time.

Small drones, like the ones that Amazon is planning to use to deliver small packages in short timeframes in a few years, are quite inexpensive and easy to use. They can be controlled from an iPhone, tablet or Android device and can be modified fairly easily, as well. Kamkar, a veteran security researcher and hacker, has taken advantage of these properties and put together his own drone platform, called Skyjack. The drone has the ability to forcibly disconnect another drone from its controller and then force the target to accept commands from the Skyjack drone. All of this is done wirelessly and doesn’t require the use of any exploit or security vulnerability.

Submission + - Google Launches Voice Search Hotword Extension For Chrome

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched the Google Voice Search Hotword extension for Chrome, bring its "OK Google" feature to the desktop. You can download the new tool, currently in beta, now directly from the Chrome Web Store. Android users with version 4.4 KitKat will recognize the feature: it lets you talk to Google without first clicking or typing. It’s completely hands-free, provided you’re already on Google.com: just say “OK Google” and then ask your question.

Submission + - A Real-Time Map of Travelers Getting Screwed By the Thanksgiving Storm (vice.com)

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: Travel officials expect about 3 million people to venture by plane to their turkey dinner, and already hundreds of flights have been canceled and thousands delayed—including more than a third of routes at the major airport hub in Dallas, which will have a ripple effect down through the airline system as thwarted passengers try to hop on other flights.

The annual clusterfuck apparently inspired flight-tracking site FlightAware to develop an interactive "Misery Map" visualizing flight statuses in real-time and the megastorm traversing the country simultaneously. Because who doesn't love a little data viz schadenfreude?

Submission + - Psychologists strike a blow for reproducibility (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes: Science has a much publicized reproducibility problem. Many experiments seem to be failing a key test of science — that they can be independently verified by another lab. But now 36 research groups have struck a blow for reproducibility, by successfully reproducing the results of 10 out of 13 past experiments in psychology. Even so, the Many Labs Replication Project found that the outcome of one experiment was only weakly supported and they could not replicate two of the experiments at all.

Submission + - Surveillance Infrastructure Showing Signs of Decay 1

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Buried underneath the ever-growing pile of information about the mass surveillance methods of the NSA is a small but significant undercurrent of change that’s being driven by the anger and resentment of the large tech companies that the agency has used as tools in its collection programs.

The changes have been happening since almost the minute the first documents began leaking out of Fort Meade in June. When the NSA’s PRISM program was revealed this summer, it implicated some of the larger companies in the industry as apparently willing partners in a system that gave the agency “direct access” to their servers. Officials at Google, Yahoo and others quickly denied that this was the case, saying they knew of no such program and didn’t provide access to their servers to anyone and only complied with court orders. More recent revelations have shown that the NSA has been tapping the links between the data centers run by Google and Yahoo, links that were unencrypted.

That revelation led a pair of Google security engineers to post some rather emphatic thoughts on the NSA’s infiltration of their networks. It also spurred Google to accelerate projects to encrypt the data flowing between its data centers. These are some of the clearer signs yet that these companies have reached a point where they’re no longer willing to be participants, witting or otherwise, in the NSA’s surveillance programs.

Submission + - Woman facing $3500 fine for posting online review

Submitted by sabri
sabri writes: Jen Palmer tried to order something from kleargear.com, some sort of cheap Thinkgeek clone. The merchandise never arrived and she wrote a review on ripoffreport.com. Now, kleargear.com is reporting her to credit agencies and sending collectors to collect $3500 as part of a clause which did not exist at the alleged time of purchase.

Now I'm wondering whether or not the terms and conditions even apply, since the sales transaction was never completed.

Submission + - Prison is not for hackers, it's for dangerous men (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: Former LulzSec and Anonymous member Jake Davis, writing for the International Business Times UK, argues that US lawmakers need to take a leaf out of the UK's legal system and not put Jeremy Hammond behind bars for his part in the hack of Stratfor. "Jeremy Hammond has a lot to give society too. Prisons are for dangerous people that need to be segmented from the general population.

"Hackers are not dangerous, they are misunderstood, and while disciplinary action is of course necessary, there is nothing disciplined about locking the door on a young man's life for 10 years."

Submission + - Teachers know if you've been e-reading (nytimes.com)

Submitted by RougeFemme
RougeFemme writes: Teachers at 9 colleges are testing technology from a Silicon Valley start-up that lets them know if you're skipping pages, highlighting text, taking notes — or, of course, not opening the book at all. "“It’s Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent,” said Tracy Hurley, the dean of the school of business" at Texas A&M."

"Major publishers in higher education have already been collecting data from millions of students who use their digital materials. But CourseSmart goes further by individually packaging for each professor information on all the students in a class — a bold effort that is already beginning to affect how teachers present material and how students respond to it, even as critics question how well it measures learning."
Games

Submission + - Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Discourage Son's Gaming Habit (huffingtonpost.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A irritated father of a 23-year old gamer hired "In game assassins" to attempt to make his son quit playing video games and have him get a job. While he recently had a job at a software development company he quit because he decided he didn't like the work
Moon

Submission + - NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: To paraphrase an old saying, if the astronaut can’t go to the asteroid, then the asteroid must come to the astronaut. In a study released by the Keck Institute for Space Studies, researchers outlined a mission to tow an asteroid into lunar orbit by 2025 using ion propulsion and a really big bag. The idea is to bring an asteroid close to Earth for easy study and visits by astronauts without the hazards and expense of a deep space mission.

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