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    Designer Leaves Board Game in Desert for Future Players

    Don't thank me, thank the The Schwartz
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    Designer Leaves Board Game in Desert for Future Players

    Yes I've wanted to use this in a relevant context for ages: <spoiler=Gentlemen we must comb the desert> <youtube=g4OBUupicWg> That felt good OT: meh if the game isn't meant to be played for 2000 years then I just won't care about it
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    Whats the DRM like for From Dust

    Hey, I've been interested in getting From Dust for while but I've heard it had ubisofts always online DRM which has kept stopping me from buying it. I heard on these forums a while ago that it had been removed but also that at some later point it had been reintroduced. So simply put Escapist...
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    Do you preorder anymore

    I generally won't, unless I like the other products that the dev releases, or know that their past catalogue is generally of high quality or I get access to pre-release game such as ARMA 3 or Kerbal Space Program
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    Are there any JRPGs out there for PC?

    To be honest the title says it all, I am looking at expanding my repertoire and I've never played any JRPG ever. So does anyone know if there are any on the PC and are they worth buying?
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    It give me chills every time...

    Being English I have to say this gives my spine a gold old shudder (btw I am not a fan of Churchill I think for a large chunk of his political career he was an out of touch, opportunistic, aristo but in terms of reassuring a nation (which at the time thought it was nigh-untouchable and was...
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    Pigeon's Last Message Mystifies British Codebreakers

    Sorry you do seem to know your stuff. I just get a bit annoyed when people just yell things like "why can't they just brute-force it etc" without any idea how cracking works. Plus I hadn't slept for a while when I wrote that.
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    Pigeon's Last Message Mystifies British Codebreakers

    Except those codes are unique, and on top of that, your looking possible at more than one level of ciphering. Brute forcing passwords (in a computing sense) essentially relies on someone encrypting the random string you've sent and hopefully you'll create the correct hash.
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    What gimmicky items have you bought?

    Be fair I could just leave the entire thing on the train and that would be fine. Hel I may even get a job in government.... can't do worse than the current tossers in charge
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    What gimmicky items have you bought?

    Unfortunately being English and not wanting to spend the time in one of those dreadful American Prisons (you can't get good tea for love nor money let me tell you) I figured it would be safer to do more ordinary boring topics. That and the fact I don't think the Ethics board would have let me do...
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    What gimmicky items have you bought?

    My dissertation is related to the various digitial security and I want/need a device with a relativly new version of android (that isn't rooted) to attack for my hypothesis
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    What gimmicky items have you bought?

    I'm considering getting a Nexus 7 mainly for my dissertation... yesss dissertation that sounds plausible lets go for that
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    Valve Invites "Experienced Linux Users" to Test Steam

    Yeah but you can get rid of the Unity Desktop Environment and replace it with a better one quite easily. <link=http://linux-software-news-tutorials.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/ubuntu-1110-oneiric-remove-unity-and.html> Here...
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    Linux users help me out.

    You might wanna check if itunes and Photoshop suite runs under wine otherwise you're gonna need a to run them in a Virtual Machine running windows or Dual boot. If you need more help PM, I'm not quite a guru but I can probs help with most small problems If you need a guide to...
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    Virus's Getting worse?

    DoS attack would mean he wouldn't be able to get any pages at all, or cause his computer to lockup, connecting to the local network only will you with DHCP (to get an IP address, then all the services on his computer that require info from the web and connect automatically will send requests...