I wonder how much demand there is for a site that is:

1) about security and privacy of communications in the digital age
2) with topics ranging from securing data stored locally on a computer, web browsing, email, IM, etc etc
3) is written in plain and easy to understand language
4) explains all the terms in simple language and gives examples of most common threats and how to identify them
5) introduces the reader to the most common solutions and concepts behind preventing privacy and data breaches
6) explaining why they should care in the first place

Any thoughts? 

People will always rip people off. Having said that I dont even know what GPL means, so YEAH! - A site like you describe could be very usefull! :P 

there are plenty of programmers in active studios pissing their pants thinking of what multi-threading will look like on the next series of Play Stations and X-boxes, and how that can be handled in a traditional imperative framework. 

 

Jago - its a good idea!

You see there are a lot of people out there who know very little about such things. A computer is a "box what does stuff".
The internet is a "box what does stuff".

I mean are you talking about spyware? Or what? 

Not much unless you have a great marketing campaign. Actually I am sure there are several sites like that already but few know about them.
"Stupid generic" people are the ones that need such info yet since they have no idea they won't bother.

For example in german there is http://hp.kairaven.de/ yet mostly people like me know it I guess.
http://michaelzimmer.org/ is mostly focused on search engines, surely worth adding to your feeds. 

PT > DE

:p 

Doom 3 source code might be released next year already according to John Carmack. At around 1:28:30 in http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/39660 

yeah I listened to that last night but forgot to post (doh). Good news indeed.

I guess Carmack is going "doh" as the doom 3 engine never really took off like ue3... 

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=15861&start= here is the official post i did in the mapper section. i can be reached at caleb.garner@gmail.com 

Hopefully someone can take all those cute little tweaks they did for Q4 and put them in, mebbe? That would be super-cool, thx ahead. 

PWNED! 

CONCURRENCY 

new contest: release a map before i do.
go! 

now THIS is immersion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uv-dvdsKns 

Cooooool :D 

I like it. Good lighting too - surely the D3 engine? 

even better - I'd say what you're seeing there is some serious idTech 5 action 

D3 source code next year?

That probably they are expecting RTCW2 to come out in the next 12 months, and that Prey2 will not be using the same engine as the original. 

._. 

will Prey 2 have a non-godmode option? 

._. 

 

So our community is clearly rather small and not quite so active at the moment, reflective of a social group held together by a common interest more than a place where level design is constantly ongoing. Mapping still goes on, just not to the degree that a call for everyone to try something simultaneously can elicit a strong, viable response (see: speedmapping, etc).

The recent interest in 'experimental' gameplay, especially from a couple of Speedy's maps, seem to be the freshest source of mappery right now. So, here's my idea: the "contest" is to release something on your own with whatever parameters you want, whenever, but surprise everyone else with it. Have an idea and make it - there's clearly plenty of them still out there. If we can't muster group activity at the moment, let's focus on individual maps, just to keep things fresh. 

WTF, for Quake 1 at least there have been plenty of good, varied, interesting maps this year, from new mappers, old mappers, semi-retired mappers. I've been impressed for sure.

P.S. This contest sucks.