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Room service

Somewhere in Bellevue, Washington the Valve Corporation is working on a gaming PC that Gabe Newell describes as “living room-friendly.” So it’s safe to assume that, in addition to being compact, quiet, and easy to hook up to a TV, it’ll be based on standardized components inside a sealed case that does everything but detonate upon opening to prevent you from messing with the hardware.

I can’t say I’m not looking forward to one. I can easily imagine something that gives me easy access to my PC games in the living room vastly extending the amount of time I spend slumped on the couch. On the other hand, I know that the most effective and dependable way to make something easier to use and “living room-friendly” is to remove choices. I think of PC gamers as people who do things the way we feel like doing them. We’re people who like to mess with things: we customize, tweak, break, reconfigure, and perfect. It’s a platform for our imagination and expression as much as for our entertainment—even if we’re just expressing our choice of videocard.

All in all, I can live with the standardized hardware, but not without mods and my choice of controllers. The more flexibility and choice the mysterious “Steam Box” can offer me, the more likely I’ll cotton to it.

What about you? What would convince you to pony up for a living room rig from Valve? Let me know at logan@pcgamer.com.

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BRINGING YOU THE SCOOPS THIS MONTH...

Evan Lahti @elahti

Played an unhealthy amount of CS:GO. Dreamt of a future where FPSes were popular eSports.

T.J. Hafer @anubistj

Was declared a saint in Crusader Kings 2, and spent the holidays acting all smug about it.

Tyler Wilde @tyler_wilde

Hunted through Far Cry 3’s menus to find and kill its cruelest antagonist: constant tutorial pop-ups.

Tom Francis @pentadact

Our efforts to delay Gunpoint continue: this month we made Tom play BioShock Infinite.

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Zinio: LOOKING DEEP WITHIN, Maximum PC | Feb-13

LOOKING DEEP WITHIN

Quinn Norton

Byte Rights

OVER THE YEARS, there’s been talk on and off about a technology called Deep Packet Inspection, but apart from sounding like the title of sysadmin-themed porn, why should you care?

Technically, DPI is what happens when an ISP looks past the headers, or metadata, of the packets that carry information all around the Internet and into the content. On its own, looking doesn’t hamper the Internet, but only that packet header is required by the machines that need to pump the cats through the series of tubes.

Like all technologies, DPI isn’t inherently good or bad, but potentially either. Good uses include cleaning up spam and viruses, and useful traffic shaping. Bad uses include dystopian control of digital expression and perfect totalitarian surveillance.

But let’s break that down a bit. Because DPI looks into each packet, it can be used, as in the case of the NSA warrantless wiretaps, to copy every packet. In the case of Comcast, it was used to identify Bit-Torrent traffic and disrupt it. In America, it’s been used to very specifically target advertising. In other countries known to use DPI, like China and Bahrain, it could be (and likely is) used for specifically targeting political activists.

DPI is the technology that allows violation of net neutrality, lets ISPs throttle competing services, and rights-holders to comb the net looking for content. But despite the dark side, given how easy and useful for companies it is, it’s inevitable. Without rigorous legal protection, you’ll never know if it’s used on you.

The only thing that slows down DPI at all is encryption, coded messages ISPs can look at but never make sense of. Fortunately, encryption tools are becoming available to everyone. DPI is the future of the net—and so is you encrypting your way back to free speech and privacy.

Quinn Norton writes about copyright for Wired News and other publications.

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Strike Suit Zero

Otra de esas historias de éxito de Kickstarter que ya están dando frutos.

Earth needs you! Help us raise enough to finish Strike Suit Zero, and bring the space combat genre back with a bang.

Es un juego de PC, de hecho es una carta de amor a un genero que ya está casi desaparecido, ¿y cómo no?, esto se juega mejor con joystick y las niñas consoleras todo lo quieren hacer con gamepads.

Le faltan cosas, como el famoso barrel roll , pero tiene EMPs para reemplazarlos.

Se le nota que su inspiración son los clásicos del genero porque sigue sus tradiciones muy de cerca, desde las misiones (las escoltas siempre son frustrantes)  y la dificultad, que es de los viejos tiempos, no para esta generación de "push button to win" y se vuelve repetitivo muy pronto, de nuevo, sólo los que lo extrañaban no sentiran ese tedio.

Tiene cosas muy interesantes como el soporte multimonitor, pero que difícil es que el force feedback funcione en los joysticks como el force 3d pro .

En resumen, un homenaje a los clásicos de un género que siempre fue de PC, y que ne PC ha logrado seguir con vida, financiado de un modo novedoso.

Es difícil, quenadie se engañe

Maldita maldición: Lakers

Octubre, Noviembre, Diciembre, Enero...Febrero parecía ser el fin de estos (apenas) cuatro meses (que se han sentido eternos) de esta temporada de pesadilla para los Lakers, cuando por fin parecía que se había tocado fondo y sólo se podía mejorar, se atravesó el juego de Phoenix (igualito que el de Orlando), juegos que se debieron ganar y por incapaces se perdieron, y luego en Brooklyn perdimos a Pau, si bien nos va llegará al final de marzo.

¿cómo se puede tener tanta mala suerte? , es como si toda la mala vibra de los haters (ya vieron que Kobe y MWP están en la lista de los 10 atletas más odiados) hubiera tomado forma, Nash, Blake, Gasol, HOward, otra vez Gasol, otra vez Howard y Jordan Hill está fuera, nunca están todos sanos, o a gusto con el coach que se ha pasado pasando sobre Pau, Morris y Duhon no están para competir ¿y Sacre? , tal vez nunca lo sabremos

Legend of fat Ninja

Poco que agregar, es gratis, es una historia de éxito, los ports se pagaron con ayuda de un kickstarter (rebasando la meta por muy poco)

by Zephyr Games

Legend of Fat Ninja features hours of single player gameplay for iOS and Android. It’s a fast-paced arcade game and a blast to play!

Download #LegendOfFatNinja For FREE thanks to @appoday tinyurl.com/ahrnffw #iphone #ipad #itunes
— Legend of Fat Ninja (@FatNinjaLegend) February 6, 2013

Help Fat Ninja become the greatest chef the world has ever known!

Located near the peak of Mt. Fuji, the famed Iron Skillet Academy has existed for centuries, working to mold the best chefs of the age. Combining the unique ninja style of combat with the culinary skills of past masters, the academy is incredibly exclusive some years having not a single graduate!

This year is different however, not one but two ninja chefs have graduated! Kureijita, aka The Fat Ninja, and his sidekick Kaminoha! They have left the Iron Skillet and have now endeavored to open their own famed noodle shop. But in order to be the very best, they will have to find legendary ingredients that other chefs across the land use. In order to do this, they will travel to the homeland of each of these famed chefs and defeat them and their servants, all while serving up the highest quality noodles to the locals!

Vintage Kobe

La música no es la que yo elegiría, pero bueno.

Este vídeo de la jugada del juego de ayer nos deja ver la intimidad del basketball de la NBA, este hombre de 34 años se escapa con una clavada (y le pegaron en la cara) y las reacciones de Antwan y Earl, así como de la audiencia (que se nota que hay Lakers en NY) son impagables.

Quería hacer un experimento con este post y hacer todo en la nexus 7...pero...si hay una PC ¿qué necesidad de estar batallando tanto?, puede que todavía la use para unas screenshots

El vídeo nos deja ver claramente que se escapó del bloqueo con mucha suerte (aunque hubo un ligero contacto en el desarrolllo de la jugada, que la verdad, yo preferiría que no se marcarán, este es un juego de hombres) y que el resorte ya no es lo que fue, pero ya quisieramos todos llegar así a los 34, a lo mejor sin tanta lesión (que ayer Kobe estaba en su costumbre de jugar aunque no esté al 100%)

Gracias por el tip de que no había vídeo @Wookiee__

WebRTC Firefox+Chrome

Lo puedes probar aquí webrtc.org/demo y caray, que raro (al menos así se siente) es que esto no haya ocurrido años atrás, en los días en que la red era más libre, y no ahora en que tiene ataques por todos lados, pero bueno, si lo vas a usar para llamar a tu tía de Pachuca, pues no creo que nadie te espíe.

Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling!

Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling!

Una maravilla eso de seguir estandares, esperemos que pronto Opera, IE, Safari y anexas sean capaces, ojalá no se vuelva esto un killer app y lo puedas usar en todos lados, las ventajas de las que se habla, es decir, cero plugins, instalado desde el inicio lo hacen una muy buena opción, aún para los que ya hemos hecho esa labor de llevar a nuestros padres a usar Skyoe y whatsapp.

Mozilla is excited to announce that we’ve achieved a major milestone in WebRTC development: WebRTC RTCPeerConnection interoperability between Firefox and Chrome. This effort was made possible because of the close collaboration between the open Web community and engineers from both Mozilla and Google.

Literalmente las guerras de SOs ya son ejercicios de futilidad, todo lo hacemos en la red, menos jugar.

To help celebrate this momentous milestone, we thought it would be fun to call up our friends at Google to discuss it with them. Check out this Firefox-Chrome demonstration call between Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer, Todd Simpson, and Google’s Director of Product Management, Hugh Finnan,

250,000

2013 sigue en la línea de 2012, parece que las contraseñas ya no sirven de mucho

“@anfetas: Todas, todititas las cuentas de Twitter han sido comprometidas.”
— Jorge F- ヒッフ (@JIFF01) February 2, 2013

Dear Twitter User:

As a precautionary security measure, we have reset your Twitter account password. Check your inbox for a separate email from Twitter with instructions on how to reset your password. If you don't see an email, you can go to this page in our Help Center to request a password reset. More information is below.

We recently detected an attack on our systems in which the attackers may have had access to limited user information - specifically, your username, email address and an encrypted/salted version of your password (not the actual letters and numbers in your password). Further information about the attack can be found in this blog post.

Since your password has been reset, your old password will not work when you try to log into Twitter. We strongly encourage you to take this opportunity to select a strong password - at least 10 (but more is better) characters and a mixture of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols - that you are not using for any other accounts or sites. Using the same password for multiple online accounts significantly increases your odds of being compromised.

For more information about making your Twitter and other Internet accounts more secure, read our Help Center documentation or the FTC's guide on passwords.

This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. For that reason we felt that it was important to reset your password and publicize this attack while we still gather information. We are also helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.

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