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  1. Re:In my head: on Massive Bank Fraud In EVE Online · · Score: 1

    Kneejerk response #1: This jerk is why we're all going to have to pay income taxes on our MMO loot someday.

    Every transaction in EVE is taxed. The exact percentage depends on your social skills, but the ISK you get for killing stuff as well as for trading is reduced by a small percent.

  2. Re:No, gamepads suck on In Defense of the Classic Controller · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try playing a fighting game with a keyboard and mouse. As much as I like that combo for shooters, I cannot imagine playing a game like Devil May Cry 4 or even Prototype without a gamepad. The xbox360 one is rather clumsy and doesn't fit my hands, so maybe try some other ones if that's the only one you tried? My Thrustmaster Dual Trigger 3-in-1 is stunning compared to how the xbox one feels.

  3. Re:Or, the alternative... on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    Read up on some of the history to know why the autopilot is warping to 15km and you can manually warp to 0km.
    In short, long ago there was no warp to 0km and people used bookmarks instead. There was even a skill to create bookmark sets and sell them to other people. Of course when every player had thousands upon thousands of bookmarks loaded, the servers were severely overloaded by it. That caused CCP to give in and wipe out all the bookmarks, giving the players a warp to 0km option instead. Safely warping on top of a gate and jumping in two seconds was never meant to happen in EVE, but player pressure caused CCP to give in.
    Keep in mind that EVE is specifically made in such a way that nowhere is absolutely safe. You can get podded even in 1.0 space if the attackers know what they're doing.

  4. Re:But where does all that money go? on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: 1

    Next time use the snark sign: ~

  5. Re:incredible artist rendition on When Comets Attack · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the logical trajectory be more like \/ ?
    It would take considerably more energy to completely stop the fall and accelerate the rock back to escape velocity, than it would to simply change the trajectory.

  6. Re:Multiplayer on A History of Rogue · · Score: 1

    Mod anon up!

  7. Re:Erm.....What the hell? on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 4, Informative

    In Vista you can go: Press Start button, type "word", hit enter. And you open MS Word using a CLI-like interface.

  8. Re:Yay! Japanese dating sims for the DS on GTA Chinatown Wars May Pave the Way for M-Rated Content On the DS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now with touch controls.

  9. Re:This is one place local governments have failed on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Internet access is slowly becoming another "must have" commodity. And as with water, electricity, telephones (the landline type), mail, public transport, etc. They are simply best left to the government to finance. Or subside.

    If running water, electricity, or mail would be left only for big corporations to run, citizens of smaller (sub 10,000 people) cities would barely have running water.

    Consider mail. Do you really think the post office wants to deliver mail to everyone? If the recipient lives in an urban area and the postman gets an average of at least 5 letters per mile, then it isn't bad. But when someone lives in the middle of nowhere and the postman needs to travel five miles per letter, then it simply isn't profitable. Yet people would rebel if suddenly half of the country wouldn't be able to receive mail or have electricity.

  10. Re:18K legitimate copies, 100K pirated... on How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can buy the game online via StarDock's Impulse system. Works just like Steam and accepts the same payment forms from what I know.

  11. Re:Sound quality on YouTube Symphony Orchestra Set To Debut At Carnegie Hall · · Score: 1

    I'm only guessing here, but if the video isn't laggy, they could simply see how well she can handle the music instrument.

  12. Re:Popular Domain? on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    I have two GMail accounts. One has the same login as the one I used for my account on DeviantArt, and the second is just random gibberish. As one can guess, the first one gets ton of spam (though it's filtered, but I don't use webmail) and the second doesn't get any spam at all.

  13. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Getting a bullet through the head does NOT mean you die. Stop watching Hollywood films. You have a not-so-small chance to survive the bullet through your head and then you simply die of cerebral haemorrhage.

    Maybe blowing the sentenced up with explosives? A small lead container with walls strong enough to be reusable and enough explosives to annihilate the human?

  14. Re:wrong direction. on Shadow of the Colossus To Become a Movie · · Score: 1

    Make a damned PC port. Not a film.
    I want to play it too :(

  15. Re:Yeah, but what's the point? on Segway, GM Partner On Two-Wheeled Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Remove one wheel and you've got a unicycle.
    You won't even need the gyroscopes as the human will do all the balancing.

  16. Re:Waste on Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood · · Score: 0

    Keep in mind that the alcohol you drink goes through your liver first. Only a small portion of the alcohol you drink actually gets into your blood stream, so even a small amount produced by the yeast cells may be dangerous.

  17. Re:They forgot about gravity... on Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    I think they want to study the psychological impact of being together in a tiny room for long periods of time. Lower gravity is hard to simulate anyway.

  18. Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    You must have misremembered something. I grew up on English cartoons and video games and learned the basics of the language from them. I couldn't write more than two words correctly, but I could understand basic English before they even began teaching us it in school.

  19. Re:Name vs. content on Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would move the porn sites to kittens.ie or something similar. It's not an offensive name, and if some people get offended by the content, I get:
    1) Free publicity
    2) More profit

  20. Re:But what Slashdotters really need to know... on Researchers Identify Phantom Limb Brain Activity · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Look! No hands!"

  21. Re:Crap on New Speed Record Set For Wind-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 1

    That's why he said "non-archaic". Now we're past people unable to read, and dividing into fractions is more convenient than memorising ten different measurement units.

  22. Re:Thank Goodness for ASCII Art on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    Not everyone can copy a statue. While anyone could copy stone ASCII art :P

  23. Damn Mythbusters. on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now they "accidentally" blew up a star. Great!

  24. Re:As an alternative, on Mobile Gaming and the War On Fat Fingers · · Score: 1

    What happened to the stylus? It's thin, allows for better precision, and is added to every touchscreen product.

  25. Was this useful? on iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service · · Score: 1

    Huh? I don't know how it's set up in the US, but in Poland all the phone companies have limits set for free internet text messages.
    I don't recall the exact limits but each IP has a limit of sending around 20 messages per 24h, and each phone has a limit of receiving around 20 messages per 24h.