These are some of my thoughts on the difference Diablo 3 classes. I'm not a serious gamer, and this isn't an attempt at theory crafting or suggesting that any of the classes are imbalanced. Item drops are random, and can make a huge difference to the damage your character does as well as it's survivability - in my playing I used what items dropped (that I could equip), so these comparisons aren't entirely "fair" in that regard, but I still think my points are valid.
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Diablo 3 is due out this year, possibly even next month, and I for one am looking forward to it! I play a lot of World of Warcraft, mainly working the Auction House and making gold, and Diablo 3 is going to have a "real money" Auction House. It probably wont make me rich, but it's always nice if your hobby generates some income ;)
Back on topic, there's a great Gamasutra article titled "Postmortem: Blizzard's Diablo II" which gives you an inside look in to the development that went in to Diablo 2 and lessons learned from Diablo 1, etc - some interesting stuff.
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Twitter does something I consider to be poor security-wise... not renaming, or removing EXIF information from, uploaded avatar images. There are a few potential security issues around this, all of which I've personally come across:
The image might be named with the person's first and last name - potentially disclosing more information than they intended to in their Twitter profile Many people download their Facebook Profile picture to use on Twitter - Facebook renames uploaded files to include the Facebook user ID, allowing you to easily find their Facebook profile (as opposed to trying to search on their first and last name) If the original filename is unique enough you can often find other related pictures just by Goolging You can use something like Jeffrey's Exif viewer to extract EXIF information from the image - often telling you what type of camera/phone the user has Sure, they're small things, but for anyone wanting to Social Engineer the target it could certainly help.
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There's a (Windows) program I use that stores it's data in SQLite files... password protected SQLite files... and I'd really like to take a look inside of them. I've tried looking for the password as an embedded text string, I've tried decompiling the .Net code (with Reflector - but it's obfuscated), and I've tried attaching a debugger and stepping through tons of ASM code, but still haven't been able to find the password.
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I might be a bit late to the party, but I've just found out about SanDisk's "2-in1" memory cards, which I think are awesome. They look and work just like a regular SD card (think digital cameras, etc) but fold half of it down and it reveals a USB adapter, ready to be plugged straight in to your computer:
What's so great about this, you ask? Well, I'd imagine it's far easier to keep one of these in your wallet than to carry a flash drive around with you everywhere (and I prefer to keep my keyring as small as possible so I'm not fond of attaching a flash drive to it).
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There's an interesting article over at Cracked.com about "5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald Duck"... like how they already did "Inception", in a comic book.
Check it out: http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invented-by-donald-duck-seriously.html#Title_box
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