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Comment PBKAC error (Score 1) 45

I'm sorry but.... there is nothing special about this attack. They named their service google docs in Oauth and that's about the extent of things. I apologize that despite 20 years of warnings about phishing and reading shit users are still dumb as hell and click anything on their screen. At some point we need to admit to ourselves that no amount of security is going to stop a stupid user
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Inside the Playstation Studio SDK (gamefromscratch.com)

Serapth writes: Sony recently released the PlayStation Studio SDK to open beta. Using PSS people are able to write games for various PlayStation certified devices in a C#/Mono based environment. This post takes a look at what's included in the SDK, which is surprisingly quite a bit.

Comment What an arrogant douchebag (Score 3, Interesting) 160

I mean...

Since NDS fired him he's been consulting for two semiconductor companies and a manufacturer of dongle tokens, but he misses his life in electronic warfare. If NDS doesn't want him, he says he'd be happy to work for Nagrastar -- jumping sides once again. "I could design a whole entire chip for them like I did for NDS," he says. "NDS thinks today that their technology is superior to everybody else's and it probably is, because they're 17 years ahead of Nagra technologically. But Nagra could catch up overnight if they used my services. "I'm a very valuable asset as far as smart-card technology goes," he adds. "I know everything about (NDS) as far as their intellectual property models go."

Then again, its Wired magazine. They exist purely to create arrogant douchebags, dont they?

Comment Re:Impressive stuff. (Score 1) 91

What is described here does not follow the general trend of games. There are more cases of games that look great with little subsistence that did well compared to the other way around. Marketing is also dependent on graphics because it is easier to market something that looks cool. It is a lot easier to market a game like FF13 that looks totally awesome versus say, pong, regardless of the actual game content.

But let's suppose people really do buy good games with poor graphics. Suppose the next Zelda just totally sucked but was perfect in every cosmetic category, and as a result it bombed. Does that mean Miyamoto should start talking to the other 100 members of his team like the graphic designer or the music composer on how to design a better Zelda game? No it just means they need someone to replace Miyamoto as the head guy and keep the guys who managed to do the cosemetic stuff perfecetly. How 'fun' the next Zelda is will almost certainly depend on what Miyamoto did. Likewise Metal Gear will depend on Kojima for all its 'fun'. Now beyond those two I don't know anyone famous enough to tie to a franchise, but you can be assure there is one such individual that is responsible for the bulk of any game's (or lack thereof) fun factor.

I don't understand why people hate great graphics. Graphics and fun are complementary and managed by totally different entities. If one failed it's not because the other is hogging all the resources. Miyamoto probably wouldn't even be very good at cranking out polygons, just like surely they do not ask the graphic designers how to make the Zelda engine. If the next Zelda game has stick figure graphics it doesn't mean that the fun factor must go up because all these guys who should be doing graphics are helping design the games (in fact that will almost certainly make the game a lot worse). If the next Zelda game had great graphics it is not because Nintendo forced Miyamoto to learn how to design computer graphics instead of doing his normal job.
The Internet

Wikileaks — Anonymous Whistle-Blowing 162

too_old_to_be_irate writes to tell us about a site that word got out on before they were ready. Wikileaks aims to be an anonymous and uncensorable repository of leaked documents, posted for commentary by interested parties. It's expected to go live in a month or two. From the site: "Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. We have received over 1.1 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."

CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator 69

sloit writes "Just spotted, the CERTStation Threat level Aggregator displays the current threat level, in real-time, as assessed by 8 of the Internet's leading vulnerability watch services such as Symantec Threatcon, ISS Alertcon and SANS Infocon on one publically accessible Web page. Well, that saves a lot of daily trudging!"
It's funny.  Laugh.

Wired News 2006 Vaporware Awards 215

silentounce writes "Wired News has released the winners of its 9th annual Wired News Vaporware Awards. I won't list any of them in the summary because I don't want to spoil anyone's surprise. They have some interesting entries, one that is more a concept of a product than an actual product. I'm not sure how you can claim something is vaporware if it hasn't even been given a specific name or a developer yet, but apparently they think they can. "
PlayStation (Games)

Demo PS3 Units freeze on Purpose 363

AbsoluteZero writes "A Sony rep has claimed to Destructoid that demo PS3 units in kiosks across the country were built to freeze up on purpose. From the article: "We do that so that people won't play it all day long," he explained. "Specifically during Motorstorm, we made it freeze up a lot.""

MultiSwitch, the First USB Sharing Hub 102

Iddo Genuth writes "A new extension to USB that will enable sharing of various USB peripherals between computers will be available early in 2007. The new MultiSwitch hub technology, developed by SMSC, allows the sharing of information and content from devices such as DVD players, cameras, printers, and scanners, and between laptops and desktops using a simple USB cable. Future hubs may also allow wireless sharing of peripherals."

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