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Comment Re:One of the first (Score 2, Informative) 140

by martian265 (#20499757) Attached to: How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons
What he meant is that most MMO betas delete all existing characters at the end of the beta. Hence, all of the money and equipment get deleted or go "poof" (as in when something disappears in classic cartoons). This happened at the end of the WoW beta, but not necessarily at the end of the LoTRO beta. In LoTRO, you could pre-order the game and your character and equipment rolled over to the production world. Hence, gold farming in that beta was productive, evil, but productive.

Feed Wanting Ahead - Birds Plan For Future Desires (sciencedaily.com)

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For a long time, it had been argued that only humans can draw on past experiences to plan for the future, whereas animals were considered "stuck in time." However, it has become clear that some animals can indeed plan for future needs. Surprisingly, the most convincing examples of future planning are not derived from our closest relatives, the apes, but from a bird, the Western scrub-jay.

Feed Gaming foe Jack Thompson sues Gawker Media (com.com)

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Blog: Claiming that the Gawker-owned gaming blog Kotaku failed to remove comments that he deemed 'threatening,' Thompson adds parent company to the list of organizations he's suing.

Feed Google glitch loses user data (theregister.com)

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Malfunctioning personalized homepage has users fuming

Google users are going ape crap after settings and data they've amassed over months have suddenly gone missing from their personalized homepage. According to the posts of hundreds of users on Google's discussion boards, sticky notes, tabs, links and other customized settings vanished earlier today.

Feed Triggering Bombs by Remote Key Entry Devices (schneier.com)

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I regularly read articles about terrorists using cell phones to trigger bombs. The Thai government seems to be particularly worried about this; two years ago I blogged about a particularly bizarre movie-plot threat along these lines. And last year I...
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Researchers Break Internet Speed Records 140

Posted by Zonk from the hey-you-yeah-you-using-firefox-pull-over dept.
MosiMosi wrote to let us know about a new development on the Internet2 front. Researchers in Tokyo have advanced the speed of the network, breaking records twice in two days back in December of last year. "On Dec. 30 [researchers] sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps. That likely represents the current network's final record because rules require a 10 percent improvement for recognition, a percentage that would bring the next record right at the Internet2's current theoretical limit of 10 Gbps."
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Journal Journal: Just to annoy ya I am going to run it in a Chroot 1

Journal by Elliot_Lin
I installed debian on my server a few days ago... that was fun. After I got through the downloading that is expected I went to install webmin... apt-get install webmin ... no... apt-get install webmin-core .... no again. So I wget the damn webmin configuration and install it. Then I restore my DNS configuration through it. But guess what? It can't use it as debian have gone out of their way to move EVERYTHING around. I mean EVERYTHING. It was impossible to sta

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