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Comment Extra features cause slip (Score 1) 179

The worst thing I find, mostly with games on Kickstarter is that they set an initial goal £100,000 for example and then they hit it, within two days. So then they set these stretch goals and go "well at £200,000 we will add air combat to this game", "wow £300,000 awesome, now we will add naval...you guys don't mind us adding an extra 2 months to development right?" Wrong, don't estimate 8 months then when you get more push it further back. Some of these games (Elite for example) is set to ship March 2014, that's over a year away and you're expecting me to pop £40 out now for a game I may or may not see in 15 months, what is my incentive here other than I may get a £2 discount on a game in the future.
Botnet

Submission + - Zeus bringing botnots to the masses (arstechnica.com)

ryanmcdonough writes: "ArsTechnica has a report detailing the arrival of a new Zeus bot-net based around P2P control, meaning that a take down of C&C servers will no longer affect the survival of the bot-net.

Though researchers do say this won't affect long term efforts to take down bot-nets, rather, a bump in the road."

Submission + - Picture captures a billion stars (bbc.co.uk)

ryanmcdonough writes: "BBC is reporting:

Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.

It is built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile."

Australia

Submission + - Australian National Broadband Network releases 3 year plan (smh.com.au) 1

pcritter writes: The Australian Government has just announced the 3 year roll-out plan for its ambitious National Broadband Network. The plan details 3.5 million premises (30%) across the country to be connected to the NBN by mid-2015. A map is available showing coverage areas. The plan represents a major milestone in the NBN project, which aims to connect all of Australia with high speed broadband by 2021, with the 93% of the population on fibre to the premises (FTTP) of speeds up to 1000Mbits, and the rest on fixed wireless or satellite. The conservative opposition party had threatened to demolish the project if elected.

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