Nuclear Monster

  • Game Dev Story is a business simulation about choices.

    What genre, what platform, and what theme do you want for your game?

    Is the game cute and simple or realistic and innovative?

    Do you want to use an in-house art, story, and audio folks or outsource assets and writing?

    There are quite a few choices and you’ve got the freedom to make larger decisions about advertising campaigns and which development path to focus on.

    Nothing is free, you’ve got to pay platform holders for devkits, employees their salaries, and fees for everything and everyone in the studio. Game developers won’t choose to grow on their own, you’ve got to prod them forward with research data gathered during development. Once they’re more talented their salary has to rise too. Though at least the game doesn’t simulate headhunters to recruit your developers out from under you. (more…)

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  • Schneier’s write-up of the Stuxnet worm is good:

    None of this points to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, though. Best I can tell, this rumor was started by Ralph Langner, a security researcher from Germany. He labeled his theory “highly speculative,” and based it primarily on the facts that Iran had an usually high number of infections (the rumor that it had the most infections of any country seems not to be true), that the Bushehr nuclear plant is a juicy target, and that some of the other countries with high infection rates–India, Indonesia, and Pakistan–are countries where the same Russian contractor involved in Bushehr is also involved. This rumor moved into the computer press and then into the mainstream press, where it became the accepted story, without any of the origina caveats.

    via Schneier on Security: Stuxnet. Make sure to check out the comments as well.

  • “They actually conducted surveillance. They followed him from his work to his house,” Feldstein says. “They staked out his house. They looked at it for vulnerabilities … [and dicussed] how they could plant poison in his aspirin bottle. They talked about how they could spike his drink and they talked about smearing LSD on his steering wheel so that he would absorb it through his skin and die in a hallucination-crazed auto crash.”

    via Nixon’s Failed Attempts At ‘Poisoning The Press’ : NPR.