Comment Imagine Microsoft approval (Score 1) 406
Don't you think the main target will become Firefox? and a lack of funding, a truckload of frustration and the end of another era?
ps. I don't use IE.
Comment EVE online, CCP (Score 2, Interesting) 117
Now I am wondering if CCP is getting their servers back to Iceland instead of the UK
EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) 308
captainktainer writes "In one of the largest tests of EVE Online's new player sovereignty system in the Dominion expansion pack, a fleet of ships attempting to retake a lost star system was effectively annihilated amidst controversy. Defenders IT Alliance, a coalition succeeding the infamous Band of Brothers alliance (whose disbanding was covered in a previous story), effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets. A representative of the alliance claimed to have destroyed a minimum of four, possibly five or more of the game's most expensive and powerful ship class, known as Titans. Both official and unofficial forums are filled with debate about whether the one-sided battle was due to difference in player skill or the well-known network failures after the release of the expansion. One of the attackers, a member of the GoonSwarm alliance, claims that because of bad coding, 'Only 5% of [the attackers] loaded,' meaning that lag prevented the attackers from using their ships, even as the defenders were able to destroy those ships unopposed. Even members of the victorious IT Alliance expressed disappointment at the outcome of the battle. CCP, EVE Online's publisher, has recently acknowledged poor network performance, especially in the advertised 'large fleet battles' that Dominion was supposed to encourage, and has asked players to help them stress test their code on Tuesday. Despite the admitted network failure, leaders of the attacking force do not expect CCP to replace lost ships, claiming that it was their own fault for not accounting for server failures. The incident raises questions about CCP's ability to cope with the increased network use associated with their rapid growth in subscriptions."
Comment Battery drownage? (Score 1) 52
It must have an substantial drownage of battery life needing to run vm's...
Or not?
Comment Let' see how fast they will run out of customers (Score 4, Insightful) 222
Since they probably will go disconnecting people very soon. And that will end up getting another ISP to get connected again.
Comment Microsoft donates after Apache donated forever (Score 1) 184
I think it is more the other way round, Apache has donated microsoft it's whole life.
Microsoft is just trying adapt.
Comment Psychology is an exact science? (Score 1) 116
Now I'm not gonna say there is or is not a link, I don't know.
But since when have researchers mapped the behaviour of the brain and the way it reacts to certain gaming or television related stuff?
They are just guessing according to the things they have experienced and learned.
Maybe they are asking themselves the wrong questions and making the wrong assumptions.
Just remember that psychology is not really founded upon exact measurements.
Ohhhh wait, it is just a _single_ judgement, made by 1 person, 1 point of view
I lol'd
Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas 559
Voidsinger writes "The latest firmware updates to correct Seagate woes have created a new debacle. It seems from Seagate forums that there has yet to be a successful update of the 3500320AS models from SD15 to the new SD1A firmware. Add to that the updater updates the firmware of all drives of the same type at once, and you get a meltdown of RAID arrays, and people's backups if they were on the same type of drive. Drives are still flashable though, and Seagate has pulled the update for validation. While it would have been nice of them to validate the firmware beforehand, there is still a little hope that not everyone will lose all of their data."
Comment Hackers Unite (Score 1) 595
Or did they already do that when joining the UK police force?
Remember those nerds? you crappy loosers kicking those pesky little nerds at the schoolyard?
What the hell is wrong with this crap government? There is no democracy, this is dictatorship, they dictate what you can and cannot read,write,comprehend unless it has been bended into a shape they want you to know.
Why isn't there anyone standing up like the piracy people in Denmark huh?
If this was a democracy, than the people that have been chosen, can be put back in there closet for acting and behaving like these twats in Brussels...
I hope they read my shitty toilet paper that is flushing down this very moment. I hope they like it... and when you are down there, stay in those sewers you morons.
Where is freedom? Who was that person that wrote this:"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet'"
If I'd had the skills I'd blew up those machines in the UK... And _I_ hope that they are reading this.
Comment No addons, No chrome (Score 4, Interesting) 426
As long as there are no addons like adblock possible i'll be sticking to firefox...
Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving 452
An anonymous reader writes "Canadian company Aegis Mobility has developed software that detects if a cell phone is moving at 'car' speeds. If so, the software, DriveAssistT, will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over. Calls are not blocked entirely; callers will be notified that the person appears to be driving, but they can still leave an emergency voice mail, which will be sent through immediately."
Submission + - Installing a game patch, CCP removes c:\boot.ini 1
egnop writes: "So there are about 300k subscribers that play the EVE-online game, at 5 december they had a large patch/upgrade for the game, imagine installing it, reboot your computer and it says, boot.ini missing can't start :-/
From their website: http://www.eve-online.com/
Posted — 2007.12.06 06:19:00 — [1]
Please do not reboot your computer without reading this information and determining if your system might be affected.
If you upgraded from the Classic client to the Premium client, using the content upgrade, then please read on.
Check the root directory of your hard drive and see if you have a boot.ini file, if so then you are not affected. The file is normally hidden so you need to click Tools : Folder Options : View and select "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" to be able to see it.
You can also check for the presence of this file by clicking Start : Control Panel : System : Advanced : Startup and Recovery : Settings (third button down). Windows will alert you if the boot.ini file is missing. ...
Now that is like sending out a virus to your paying customers, firing the QA departement and going bankrupped?"
Submission + - IPRED2 Slips Through in Europe :-(
egnop writes: "April 25, 2007
The European Parliament has just voted to pass the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2) without substantive amendment, despite growing public opposition from across the European Union. The final vote of 374 to 278 with 17 abstentions points to a margin of Parliamentary support that has been narrowing ever since the Directive left subcommittee. While we are disappointed that IPRED2 was not defeated at this stage, we can see clearly the impact of the efforts of the over 8,000 Europeans who've taken action against the Directive. We were told by the two largest political parties that they felt that the Directive had not been given enough time to be properly discussed, and that our campaign had definitely contributed to the discussion.
The fight now moves to the Council of the European Union, where it will be considered by representatives of the national governments of all EU Member States. Several states have started to mount resistance to IPRED2 in recent weeks, with the UK and Holland leading the charge. Europeans worried about their right to innovate, and their ability to live under clear, fair criminal laws must now turn to their own national governments to ensure that IPRED2 doesn't set a terrible precedent for copyright law, and the EU legal process. If the Council disagrees with EuroParl's action — which we believe is in reach — IPRED2 would be returned for a second reading. We will be tracking these developments and providing opportunities to act at CopyCrime.eu.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005219.php"
The European Parliament has just voted to pass the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2) without substantive amendment, despite growing public opposition from across the European Union. The final vote of 374 to 278 with 17 abstentions points to a margin of Parliamentary support that has been narrowing ever since the Directive left subcommittee. While we are disappointed that IPRED2 was not defeated at this stage, we can see clearly the impact of the efforts of the over 8,000 Europeans who've taken action against the Directive. We were told by the two largest political parties that they felt that the Directive had not been given enough time to be properly discussed, and that our campaign had definitely contributed to the discussion.
The fight now moves to the Council of the European Union, where it will be considered by representatives of the national governments of all EU Member States. Several states have started to mount resistance to IPRED2 in recent weeks, with the UK and Holland leading the charge. Europeans worried about their right to innovate, and their ability to live under clear, fair criminal laws must now turn to their own national governments to ensure that IPRED2 doesn't set a terrible precedent for copyright law, and the EU legal process. If the Council disagrees with EuroParl's action — which we believe is in reach — IPRED2 would be returned for a second reading. We will be tracking these developments and providing opportunities to act at CopyCrime.eu.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005219.php"
Submission + - Supreme Court posts video with online opinion
ptudor writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court announced several opinions on Monday and included with the electronic version of Scott v. Harris a sixteen minute video recorded by two police squad cars. The New York Times noted the sole dissenting voice of Stevens: 'The Court has usurped the jury's fact-finding function.' What elements of a jury's interpretation or nullification do videotape records impact? Does you car have a camera mounted yet?"
Submission + - Google's "supplemental index", according t
whoever57 writes: Forbes has an interesting article on the consequences of being dumped into a claimed "supplemental index",
also known as "Google Hell". It uses the example of Skyfacet.com, a site selling diamonds rings and other jewelery, which has dropped in Google's rankings and saw a $500,000 drop in revenue in only three months after the site owner paid a marketing consultant to improve the sites. Google rankings. The article claims that sites in the supposed "supplemental index" may be visited by Google's spiders as infrequently as once per year. The problem? Google's cache shows that Google's spiders visited the site ss recently as
April 28 and
April 24
