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Submission + - EVE Online channels in-game donations to Haiti (eveonline.com) 1

PurpleCarrot writes: Players in the MMORPG EVE Online have been encouraged to convert their virtual income into real monetary help for the Red Cross efforts in Haiti through donations of PLEXes, or game-time extensions. CCP, the developer of EVE Online, will forward 100% of the proceeds generated from donations to support Haiti. PLEXes (which extend a player's subscription for 30 days) are sold in batches of two for $34.99 in the United States, and are freely traded in the game's marketplace for ISK, the in-game currency.
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Submission + - Microsoft DDOSes CPAN Testers

club writes: The Centralised Perl Archived Network testing service suffered an outage after being the victim of a DDOS attack from Microsoft. MSNBot hit the server 20-30 times every few seconds, generating the (very expensive) reports page repeatedly — blatantly ignoring the site's robots.txt file. The disgruntled admin postulated "DOS attacks usually get people charged and arrested. If CPAN Testers was a legal entity, then I might have been able to follow this through."

Comment Re:No thanks. (Score 1) 309

Yes, I'm bitter at the terrible mess that was Champions Online. But they have not shown any change as a developer.

You're surprised by this? I think the fact that have Bill Roper on their team should have been a sufficient warning to steer clear. The video game industry must be the only one where someone can release a completely mess, cause over 100 people to lose their jobs due to your own incompetence and still want a company to employ you.

And yes, I'm bitter because I have a Hellgate: London disc that only served as a coaster.

Comment Well there's a twist (Score 2, Informative) 527

Most of the Mozilla Corporation's profit comes from Google. In 2006 they made 66.8 million dollars, 85% of which was from Google.[Citation given]

And now they're telling people to abandon Google and go with Bing -- which is owned by a competing that would gladly kill Firefox if given the chance.

I really think Dotzler is a bit off the mark here.

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