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Comment: Re:... and the Gold Sellers Unite! (Score 1) 70

by DDX_2002 on Friday May 08 2009, @04:07PM (#27881215) Attached to: CCP Speaks On Player-Elected Advisors For <em>EVE Online</em>

One could argue that if the gold sellers are motivated enough/have enough accounts to elect representatives, then they SHOULD get to be represented as they're a large part of the playerbase. It's EVE- just because it isn't very nice doesn't mean it isn't legal.

Comment: Re:So who gets elected? (Score 1) 70

by DDX_2002 on Friday May 08 2009, @11:42AM (#27877123) Attached to: CCP Speaks On Player-Elected Advisors For <em>EVE Online</em>

You just told a member of Goonswarm (a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the trolls on the Something Awful forums) not to bring teh drama. Goonswarm's battlecry isn't For the Lulz!, but it should be.

Suggestion: Don't Name Your Illegal Computer Spying Business 'Hackers Are Us'->

From feed by techdirtfeed on Thursday April 26 2007, @06:32PM

While everyone has different ways of going about marketing various businesses, you would think that if you're involved in something illegal, you wouldn't refer to your organization in a way that reveals the illegality of what you're doing. Apparently, a private detective firm in the UK had a separate group which they proudly named "Hackers Are Us," which was making quite a bit of money by helping people get info from the computers' of others. There's no real mystery (and no real "hacking") in how they did so. They just sent an email and used some social engineering to convince people to click on the attachment, which loaded a keylogger. Pretty straightforward. Of course, the group is now in court trying to defend these actions -- but the use of the name probably doesn't help.
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Lawmakers propose reversal of Net radio fee hikes->

From feed by cnetfeed on Thursday April 26 2007, @06:12PM

Congressional bill seeks to overturn a decision that Internet radio advocates say will cripple their services by hiking royalty fees.
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Glitch Has Users Fuming, Google 'Frantic' 349

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 26 2007, @05:53PM
from the look-before-you-goog dept.

netbuzz writes "A problem with Google's Personalized Home Page feature has apparently cost a lot of users their carefully crafted doors to the Internet. And Google, which says it is frantically searching for a fix, also acknowledges that it is not sure if it will be able to recover the lost settings. 'The problem is the latest in what seems a regular stream of technical glitches and availability problems affecting Google's online services. In the past six months, Google services like Blogger, Gmail and Google Apps have all experienced significant technical issues that have left users fuming. The problems highlight one of the risks of relying on hosted applications providers, which offer to house software and its data for individuals and organizations. Google is one of the biggest cheerleaders for this software provisioning model, which many see as a viable option to the traditional approach of having users install applications on their own PCs and servers.'"