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EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."

Comment Re:Kill the GIL! (Score 1) 234

by Scarblac (#27372395) Attached to: Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance

Yes, good luck with that! Because the current implementation slows it down by 7/8ths on my 8-core server.

Well, that's not true. The interpreter has a global lock, but usually most of the time spent will be in things like I/O calls, that are written in C and thus have no problem with the GIL. You're trying to make it seem like there is no advantage to threading in Python, but that's just wrong.

Comment We decided not to (Score 1) 409

by Scarblac (#26637137) Attached to: Umbilical Cord Blood Banking?

Between now and a month from now, I'll hopefully be a parent too. We've also had this discussion. Eventually we decided not to do this, because it's just very unlikely to ever help.

The technology is unproven. The amount of blood taken is quite small so it's likely to only be useful in the first few years of the child's life, any later there would be more needed. In the few cases where these cells could be used, donors can often be found. And in a few more years, we should be able to get stem cells from other tissue.

In total, we decided it wasn't worth it.

One useful page for us was this, but it's in Dutch.
Portables

3 Rugged Notebooks Take a Beating 119

Posted by timothy from the catharsis-defined dept.
bsk_cw writes "Brian Nadel got a chance to try to destroy three 'fully rugged' notebooks and get paid for it — Computerworld had him drop, spray, drown, bake, shake, and freeze notebooks from General Dynamics Itronix, Getac, and Panasonic. All three suffered some damage, but only the Getac M230 actually died as a result. Brian made videos of the tests (which were apparently done in his home, including his kitchen)."
Space

US To Shoot Down Dying Satellite 429

Posted by Zonk from the we-who-may-be-about-to-reenter-orbit-salute-you dept.
A user writes "US officials say that the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March. We discussed the device's decaying orbit late last month. The Associated Press has learned that the option preferred by the Bush administration will be to fire a missile from a U.S. Navy cruiser, and shoot down the satellite before it enters Earth's atmosphere. 'A key concern ... was the debris created by Chinese satellite's destruction -- and that will also be a focus now, as the U.S. determines exactly when and under what circumstances to shoot down its errant satellite. The military will have to choose a time and a location that will avoid to the greatest degree any damage to other satellites in the sky. Also, there is the possibility that large pieces could remain, and either stay in orbit where they can collide with other satellites or possibly fall to Earth.'"

Comment Re:Nintendo DS (Score 2, Interesting) 479

by metroid composite (#22229882) Attached to: What's the Best Game Console of All Time?
I actually agree, though for different reasons. I own probably twice as many DS games as I own for any other systems (barring perhaps PC) and I've been buying systems and games for 20 years. DS just has an excellent mix of completely wacky innovation type games, and traditional old-school style gameplay (including the rebirth of some genres I like, such as text adventures), and games I can show to my grandmother at social gatherings and catch her interest. For that matter, DS is also well on its way to being the best-selling system of all time--you could argue it's the people's choice.

Comment Re:Murphy's Taproom (Score 1) 22

by IO ERROR (#21091227) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Manchester, NH, US
So we had the party Saturday, and this afternoon, FedEx shows up with a package containing six T-shirts, all size XL. Clearly someone's on the ball out there. I'll be getting hold of those of you who were there to see if you want one and to arrange to get it to you.
Networking

Submission + - IPv6 Cutover January 1, 2011

Submitted by IO ERROR
IO ERROR writes: An internet-draft published this month calls for an IPv6 transition plan which would require all Internet-facing servers to have IPv6 connectivity on or before January 1, 2011. 'Engineer and author John Curran proposes that migration to IPv6 happen in three stages. The first stage, which would happen between now and the end of 2008, would be a preparatory stage in which organizations would start to run IPv6 servers, though these servers would not be considered by outside parties as production servers. The second stage, which would take place in 2009 and 2010, would require organizations to offer IPv6 for Internet-facing servers, which could be used as production servers by outside parties. Finally, in the third stage, starting in 2011, IPv6 must be in use by public-facing servers.' Then IPv4 can go away.
Programming

Visual Basic on GNU/Linux 383

Posted by CmdrTaco from the but-why-you-might-ask dept.
jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

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