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CCP Announces Console MMO Tie-In To the EVE Universe 89

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @12:49PM from the ambitious-endeavours dept.

Hork_Monkey writes "CCP Games, developer of the popular MMO EVE Online, has announced a new game called Dust 514. Building on the EVE universe, this game will provide planetary combat from an RTS and FPS perspective, with significant impact into the space combat aspects of EVE Online. Love or hate EVE Online, this appears to be an innovative way to expand the overall universe by catering to a different gamer audience. A video with a trailer and further explanation was posted from GDC Europe."

Comment Argh! The plan is NOT torpedoed! (Score 1) 308

by coljac on Thursday February 26, 2009 @05:11PM (#27003741) Attached to: Australian Internet Censorship Plan Torpedoed

A journalist reports on a minor development, uses some colourful language ('scuttled'), Twitter goes beserk and now Slashdot is reporting that the whole thing is over.

One senator changing his mind doesn't mean the plan is over. It's still official Government policy. A live trial is still being conducted by six ISPs.

Having one less senator who might support the plan is fine, but the Government can water the plan down slightly, pursue a non-legislative means of getting the filtering enacted, or call a new election at any time. Until the Government publicly backs off from the plan, we need to fight it.

This is really going to throw the spanner into the works of our ability to drum up public opposition (I'm with Electronic Frontiers Australia).

Comment Remembering credentials?! (Score 4, Insightful) 195

by coljac on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @06:00PM (#26894353) Attached to: Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587

I like the suggestion that people are somehow lax in security because their mail client remembers their password. Who are these guys who type the password in every 3 minutes when they check their mail?

Submission + - Australia Gets a Do Not Call Register

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @10:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: After much wrangling and fighting, Australia has finally started taking submissions on its new Do Not Call register. Telemarketers calling numbers present on this list, as of the end of May, will be subject to fines ranging from $AU1000 up to over (*places pinky beside mouth*) ONE MILLION DOLLARS (*removes pinky*). There are concerns that the new register doesn't go far enough — that people should opt in to telemarketers' calls, and also quibbling over the exemption of political, religious, and charitible organisations.

But still, an excellent start. Note that the server for the register is running slow as this submission is being typed up — it seems that this move is mildly popular amongst the population.

Journal SPAM: Homeless man disrupts Internet2 service 4

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @09:10PM

HiL? Nah - wrong coast.

Robb writes: "Question: When can a cigarette take down your network? Answer: When you throw it at a bridge and light it on fire."
Authorities say the fire, which also disrputed service on the Red Line subway, started around 8:20 p.m. when a homeless man tossed a lit cigarette. The cigarette landed on a mattress, which ignited and led to a two-alarm fire

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