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Comment Re:Too many microtransactions. (Score 2) 181

In my experience, this only really kicks the hardcore players in the ass. I play sasually, and the various rewards given as time progresses work well to offset the non-pay penalties.
SWTOR does this well. Sign up for a secure key app, there is 100 coins a month. Progressing in levels and achievements in game nets you xp boosts and such. Quest rewards are the same for everyone- and often it is XP or power boosts as well. Spend the coin to pen pay-only areas for a week, go play them that week. if you like it open them again next month. Pop your XP boosts and you play a level game with a subscriber. Or, as you get high level, buy those market items from the auction house for game money. When you are sitting on a couple million with nothing else to spend it on, why bitch as a 10 pack of major XP boosts for 10k? Or a token to open restricted areas for a month for 100k?

Submission + - Land Rover's Transparent Hood Is The Kind Of Automotive Tech That Excites Us 1

cartechboy writes: Land Rover's Transparent Hood Is The Kind Of Automotive Tech That Excites Us

When we were kids, we were promised flying cars in the future, like The Jetsons . Well, now it's the future, and we don't have any flying cars. But Land Rover just unveiled some crazy new technology called the Transparent Hood system. It's brilliant in its simplicity, and yet quite complex in its implementation. Using a web of camera images and projectors, the Transparent Hood system projects the area just in front of and underneath the nose of the vehicle onto a head-up display along the lower portion of the windshield. Not only is this obviously breathtaking, but when it comes to off-roading—or parking in tight urban spaces—this could change the game. It will allow drivers to see precisely what's below them and immediately in front of them allowing precise placement of the vehicle's front wheels. The system also displays key vehicle data including speed, incline, roll angle, steering position, and drive mode. People, this is the future, and the future is now.

Comment How about, instead.... (Score 1) 342

We simply hold everyone responsible for their trades. No bailouts, not rescues, no help. You fuck up, YOU burn.

Restore regulation to help keep the inventors of new scams from their short term gains before the general surge crashes that particular market segment. I think a lot fewer major scams would happen if the downside of trading was left intact.

Comment Not news (Score 1) 1

SCADA systems are old, and originally never intended to be secure as they were not internet aware.
Add to that the fact that scada controls are expensive and last nearly forever in many cases- you get a mixed bag of new and old on the same network.

Source: I used to have to deal with SCADA on gas processing plants all over the southwest up to 2008.

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