Monday, May 30, 2011

LA Noire, in the shadow of GTA

Sex cases, murder or drug trafficking in the City of Angels in the late 1940's ... Console XBox 360 and Playstation 3, LA Noire waives all the tricks of the thriller. With the history of Cole Phelps, a former soldier turned police detective in Los Angeles, Rockstar Games, best known for his series Grand Theft Auto (GTA), intends to revisit the novel black and offer a unique game mechanics.

Team Bondi, the Australian studio that designed the game to Rockstar, did not want to emulate the proven mechanical set of famous gangsters. Opting for greater screenwriting adventure, LA Noire was first removed from the completely open world of GTA. And while Grand Theft Auto places a high priority for action, the new title from Rockstar concentrates most of its game mechanics on the investigation and interrogation.

Television stations will no longer include their Facebook pages

Refer viewers to the Facebook page of France 2 and TF1 smacks of surreptitious advertising for social networking. The High Council of Audiovisual (CSA) held on Saturday that "the return of viewers and listeners to the show's page on social networking without mentioning this is informative, while the reference to these pages by naming the relevant social networks is an advertising character.

" These references are surreptitious advertising for Facebook, Twitter, slice the audiovisual watchdog. Seized by a chain which does not reveal the name, the CSA does not prohibit chains about Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The decision is limited to references to the pages or channels or accounts of their broadcasts on social networks.

If the power does not listen to the people of the Internet

You can organize a "historic event" on the Internet without the "people" of the Internet? You can enhance the role of the Internet to make possible the democratic changes and then be silent or reticent on effective protection of fundamental rights on the network? You can define the Internet a "common good" and then say the opposite, his submission to the logic of private property? Yes you can, as it may seem paradoxical or contradictory.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Lockheed Martin suffered a virus attack

The defense group Lockheed Martin announced Saturday it had been a "significant" attacks against its computer system on May 21, he claims to have rejected. "With the measures taken timely and appropriate to protect the network and to improve computer security, our systems remain secure," said Lockheed Martin in a statement, which states that "no personal information of customers or staff were affected ".

"Google has processed more than three billion"

LONDON - That the web of company Google is obscure, we know even in Italy. The search engine sells advertising space in our country and bill in Ireland. Now the case broke out in Britain. According to the Sunday Times, the company has managed to pay no more than 3 billion (circa3, € 5 billion) of pounds of charges in England and other countries over the past 5 years, thanks to an elaborate corporate network that uses different jurisdictions including Ireland, Netherlands and United Kingdom, to end the income to Bermuda.

Cyber attack against Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is one of the largest defense firms in the world and prime contractor for the U.S. military - now the computer network of the group appears to have become an attack target by cyber criminals. Other military companies could be affected. Washington - It was the nightmare scenario for many large companies: In March, hackers had attacked the well-known U.S. security company RSA. Their goal was a common authentication system "SecurID" was used worldwide by many large companies - including from arms companies such as Lockheed Martin. The users who have a kind of key supporters - a so-called token - around with them, indicating a constantly changing code.

HTML5: the standard is very close

The new HTML5 is almost ready to become a standard, so it seems to understand the last statement issued by the World Wide Web Consortium, where he wrote that the next W3C HTML Working Group scheduled for August 3, invite new voices to determine whether the suited to meet the specifications. Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C manager responsible for HTML5, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics eWOFF (Web Open Font Format) commented: "We note interest in HTML5 everywhere, and I am very happy that HTML5 has reached the last call, HTML Working Group is the largest W3C group with more than 50 states and more than 200 invited experts.