I do not know if I should fear this comming to the big screen. Acording to GamePron, Mass effect movie rights have been acquired by Legendary Pictures who are best known for their co-productions of The Dark Knight, Clash of the Titans, 300, Watchmen and, um, The Hangover, as part of their co-financing agreement with Warner Bros.
Now mass effect has a very good story line, but I wonder how will they succeed putting this into a movie with so many small details. Hope they succeed better than Crash of the Titans !
Not that I want to do Ubisoft a favor by doing some publicity here, but since one of my friend worked on implementing the acrobatics on the xbox 360 version, I just want to congratulate Guillaume Blanchette-Doutre for his contribution to the prince of persia legacy. Guillaume is the one who actually inspired me to return to school to get an engineering degree at École de technologie supérieure 10 years after my computer science degree.
So congratulation for a 79.85% score on gamerankings for your first AAA Guillaume !
I took the time tonight to assemble all the Unity3d tutorials I made so far in one clear section on the top of the site. Let it be known that it is not because I help people out with Unity3d that I ditch my UDK fans, “au contraire”, I still fully support all the tutorial I made so far. There are still known bugs about the state handling in the AI UDK tutorial that I did still did not find why it randomly crashes. Anyhow that tutorial was meant as an educational starting point, not production code.
So hope you like the new section, I will try to add new CSharp snippets here and there. Because my school is taking me some time again, I will maybe post some nice tricks I discovered about general programming and Java.
Over at the reason.com blog, they got a video showing a police SWAT raid that storm what would seem like a totally normal home, shoot the dog. They found a “small amount” of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. Now explain to me how the kid will grow up, when at probably 5-6, the government authority stepped into your house and killed your pet friend for no reasons. The dog could not even had chewed theses guys armor.
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This could simply not happen here in Canada, first because even if you got a warrant, it does not give you the right to kill anybodies dog in front of children, at least the police here uses their gun as last resort. United state is a police state !
Want to beat the hackers at their own game?
- Learn how hackers find security vulnerabilities!
- Learn how hackers exploit web applications!
- Learn how to stop them!
This codelab by Google, shows how web application vulnerabilities can be exploited and how to defend against these attacks. The best way to learn things is by doing, so you’ll get a chance to do some real penetration testing, actually exploiting a real application. Specifically, you’ll learn the following:
- How an application can be attacked using common web security vulnerabilities, like cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (XSRF).
- How to find, fix, and avoid these common vulnerabilities and other bugs that have a security impact, such as denial-of-service, information disclosure, or remote code execution.
The codelab is organized by types of vulnerabilities. In each section, you’ll find a brief description of a vulnerability and a task to find an instance of that vulnerability in the lab. Your job is to play the role of a malicious hacker and find and exploit the security bugs. In this codelab, you’ll use both black-box hacking and white-box hacking. In black box hacking, you try to find security bugs by experimenting with the application and manipulating input fields and URL parameters, trying to cause application errors, and looking at the HTTP requests and responses to guess server behavior. You do not have access to the source code, although understanding how to view source and being able to view http headers (as you can in Chrome or LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox) is valuable. Using a web proxy like Burp or WebScarab may be helpful in creating or modifying requests. In white-box hacking, you have access to the source code and can use automated or manual analysis to identify bugs. You can treat Jarlsberg as if it’s open source: you can read through the source code to try to find bugs. The lab code named Jarlsberg (nothing to do with the cheese !) is written in Python, so some familiarity with Python can be helpful. However, the security vulnerabilities covered are not Python-specific and you can do most of the lab without even looking at the code. You can run a local instance of Jarlsberg to assist in your hacking: for example, you can create an administrator account on your local instance to learn how administrative features work and then apply that knowledge to the instance you want to hack. Security researchers use both hacking techniques, often in combination, in real life.
Come on I know you are dying to look at it !
