Direct your attention to this Slashdot story. This is the follow-up to an earlier story stating that, apparently, the US Military’s drone network had been compromised by a virus. Turns out it might just be their own monitoring software.
These are the same people trying to convince us that we’ve got a serious CYBERWAR threat staring us in the face. They can’t differentiate their own software from a virus.
So either these clowns can’t assess a threat to save their life, or the scale of the cyberthreat is completely out of our military’s league. In either case, alarming the populace about it will accomplish nothing and is probably nothing more than a political ploy to enact draconian wiretapping and anti-encryption legislation.
Just saw this over at Grinding.be. Quite the impressive mechanical beast!
Want to think of something real scary? Imagine this thing with two Microsoft Kinects and two independent, turret-mounted, fully-automatic weapons. Let’s add a grenade launcher and some armor plating while we’re at it. This thing could potentially become an automated death-machine. Think you could pull a RoboCop and run down/up a flight of stairs in order to escape? NOPE! It can easily traverse inclines and irregular terrain, and even if you did somehow manage to knock it over, it can get up effortlessly.
This is the elite order-keeper of our dystopian nightmares.
Capcom-Unity posted this recently and I am compelled to share it, for it is good. Through that link you will find renditions of the Moon Stage Theme from Duck Tales and the Title Theme from Mega Man 3. If you’ve never heard these themes or (heaven forbid) you’ve forgotten what they sounded like, take this opportunity to correct that problem. Truly some of the best game music ever made.
Hopefully I can get back to doing RPG stuff before long. I’m working on a redesign of the Dark Heresy character sheets, something that will make them look nice and more uniform in their layout.
Those of you who used to frequent my site have probably realized by now that a lot of the content you are familiar with is no longer here. I still have it, I’m just taking a bit longer than I would like in restoring the appropriate content to this site. What is “appropriate?” Not the RPG stuff. I still consider myself a RPG-player, and am still a huge fan of Fantasy Flight’s WarHammer 40K RPGs, but I’m going to be moving most of that content over to a site dedicated to such things. They’ll be back, and I’ll post the link to the new site once I get them online again.
In other news, my current website design looks like ass. I’m going to be changing it up again. Probably going to bite the bullet and make a html5 WordPress theme from scratch. Like that won’t take forever, right?
