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  1. Weird on Activision Axes Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    I recall a time when Guitar Hero was one of the best selling games around

  2. Re:Wrong summary? on Big Brother Friends Facebook · · Score: 1

    Thanks for clarifying this. The summary gave me the impression that this is an app that companies can use to monitor their employees conversations

  3. Wrong summary? on Big Brother Friends Facebook · · Score: 1

    In the article there's no mention of monitoring employees conversations, SEC or FINRA..Am i missing something?

  4. Re:Don't give your paying customers a reason to qu on PS3 Piracy Threats Cause Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 1

    But DRM makes buyers look into piracy.

    This. Also, instead of investing so much money into DRM research, they could just cut game prices and see their sales go up. $80/60euro per game? Please.

  5. Re:10 INPUT "Flogging a dead horse: ", U$ on Super Mario Coming To the 3DS · · Score: 1

    I see your point but i was referring to the remakes not the sequels -- Hollywood has had movie sequels for decades. When you have already released a ton of games for a franchise, anything new you do seems more like a remake for the new platform rather than a sequel.

  6. Re:10 INPUT "Flogging a dead horse: ", U$ on Super Mario Coming To the 3DS · · Score: 1

    The gaming industry is turning into Hollywood very quickly. The end of originality?

  7. Video driving vs real thing on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 2

    Top Gear tested this on laguna seca track back in 2005. Clarkson attempted to beat his gran turismo record of 1.41 but only made it to 1.57, and he said that the game omitted a few details of the track, and the game's physics allowed him to brake later when coming into turns than he could in real life. Video here. And since we're on the "safety" thing, you cannot press a key to restore your car on the track

  8. Backup schedule on How Do You Protect Servers From a Rogue Admin? · · Score: 1

    Schedule weekly backups of your data and have the admin hand them over to you. Also any admin should be legally responsible for any damages inflicted on purpose. If you make that clear nobody's gonna bother damaging your data out of anger or revenge and risk being arrested

  9. Re:In other news on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    If it has a properly secure password on it that is changed often enough, it really isn't that much less secure than SSH.

    Except that your password is sent in clear-text over Telnet.

  10. Re:People stopped using Telnet? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 2

    Yes the telnet client is really useful, but its the server that has some..uhm.."issues".

  11. In other news on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Number of incompetent administrators who still use the telnet protocol rises. More at 11

  12. Re:Bloody Hell on Google Censors "Piracy Terms" From Instant Search · · Score: 1

    Yes, as long as this makes the entertainment industry whine a little less, its good. Although no one can say for sure that this restriction won't "jump" into the full search engine sometime in the future

  13. Re:Other than the symbolic part on Social Media As a Weapon In Egypt · · Score: 1

    They have embassies around the world. Also, talking out loud in Facebook may seem as a good way to protest but your "voice" is just one click away from being shut

  14. Other than the symbolic part on Social Media As a Weapon In Egypt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is the actual purpose on doing DDoS attacks on some rarely visited government web sites? If people want to actually change things, they should really go out and protest against the government rather than sitting behind the safety of their monitors clicking endlessly until some crappy configured server goes down.

  15. Re:False on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 2

    I never had such issues and i've administered quite a few boxes with more than 2 or even 3 ethernet ports

  16. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    I too prefer the old look

  17. Uh oh on The Matrix Re-Reloaded · · Score: 1

    More love drama and "talk philosophical nonsense so that you sound cool" on the way

  18. At least on Blizzard Won't Stop World of StarCraft Mod · · Score: 1

    This mod got a lot of publicity and the modder(s) will probably find a job pretty easily in the gaming industry.


    FTFA:
    In the meantime, a representative from League of Legends developer Riot Games has reportedly reached out to Winzen to speak "about potentially working for Riotgames [sic]."

  19. What data? on Microsoft Explains Windows Phone 7 'Phantom Data' · · Score: 1

    So it was a 3rd party application which they do not name. Perhaps they could at least explain what kind of data were being sent... oh wait..

  20. Re:then? on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 1

    I can see no reason why Wikipedia should not have an article on almost any subject, no matter how obscure, so long as there is reasonable reference material to base it on.

    Correct. Wikipedia is a great opportunity to gather all human knowledge in one, accessible from everyone, place. It sounds (and probably is) impossible, there are lots of flaws in the current system, but one can only hope (and try) for the better.

  21. Re:then? on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and old/obscure games are not notable.

    a pottery bowl wasn't notable 2000 years ago but now we show them off in museums

  22. Re:Big Mac Attack on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Big McShark

  23. Re:The answer - not for decades on How Long Before Apps Overtake Physical Video Game Content Sales? · · Score: 1

    The only way for the physical stores to keep up to the competition of Steam and the likes of it, is with "special"/"collector's" editions of those games...Which, now that i think of it, you can buy from amazon for the same price including shipping...well, never mind, they're doomed.

  24. Re:Save on supervisory staff on The Prospects For Lunar Mining · · Score: 1

    Yeap, great movie!

  25. Re:Successful game on Balancing Choice With Irreversible Consequences In Games · · Score: 1

    The event was unavoidable because of the player's choices earlier in the game. I haven't played ME2 yet to know how true this is, but it sounds good. All cRPGs should be like that, most of them just leave you a choice at the end of the game (i.e. Baldur's Gate). One game that had real "Irreversible Consequences" choices is Deus Ex (IIRC)