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  1. Fantasy Grounds on Tabletop Gaming Over the 'Net? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been looking for this kind of software for a couple of years now. OpenRPG is as user frindly as open source software was 10 years ago. I'd given up until I stunmbled upon Fantasy Grounds. It is almost every thing I've been looking for. I've paid up and converting it now so I can run SLA industries. This along with Teamspeak and MorphVOX I'm looking forward to running some great games.

  2. Re:Ridiculous on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 1

    Singing "He's a dedicated follower of Spelling", just doesn't sound right.

  3. Re:Ridiculous on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 1

    He's a dedicated follower of grammar.

  4. Re:Ridiculous on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 1

    2 slashdotters are doing damage to the good name of Britain. What about all those MI5 operatives that leave their laptops in clubs and Taxis, the police and health services that dump hard drives full of sencitive data and the general incompantance of the government.

  5. Re:Don't give British education a bad name, sonny. on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the side effect of living in the spell check generation. Besides, English is my second language. Gibberish is my first.

  6. Re:Don't buy it.... on Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card · · Score: 1

    Some admins are stupid enough to use their company name as the admin log in.

    Or maybe used a password list

    Other way could be social engineering to get a basic User's login and escalate your privalidges from there.

    Vunriblities in software/services installed.

    and 101 ways I wouldn't even think off.

  7. Re:Bugs? What bugs? on Ask Questions of the World of Warcraft Team · · Score: 1

    Simple. A number of bugs can be used to cheat and bypass elements of the game. The delay between US and EU patch release revealed an enchanting bug that could have unballanced the game.

  8. inteligent design or random chance on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    There are billions upon billions of stars in the universe. Most of the stars will have planets, some planets will be in an area in which life could emerge. Even if only one in a billion of these planets could have life, we have a billion planets each with a spark of life.

    Then we have the random chances of mutation and adaption. Then add billions of years of evolution.

    The inteligent deisgn of life of this planet has taken more time than we can actually comprehend.

    Mankind has looked to explain the world around him. 4000 years ago in would make more sence to primitive man that the sun is infact a God or spirit, than a huge ball of firey gas millions of miles away.

    As we evolved so did our beliefs, many Gods/Spirits gave ways to the few and then to the One. While there are many things science can not explain (for a long time to come), given time it will.

  9. Anachronox and Half-life 2 on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    In Anachronox there was an NPC that collected moss. Give him moss and he'll give you something useful. Walking back from the shops one day (in the real world) I found my self looking at a clump of moss, deciding whether it was worth making my way back to this NPC. And Half-life 2... there is no grav gun in reality

  10. Re:Haha on Home-made Portable PlayStation 2 · · Score: 1

    Indeed Van Helsing was the worse film ever made.

  11. Re:Quote from B5 on Importance of Colonizing Space on Elon Musk Wants Space Colonists, Not Just Tourists · · Score: 1

    The life expectancy of a star depends on many factors (size, composition etc). Just as different trees would offer various levels of protection during a rain storm. We have billions of years before our sun goes pop and tens of million before the suns expansions makes the planet unlivible. Bigger problems are population growth, polution, engery, resources and bio-diversity. At current population growth we only have a few hundred years before we hit critical mass.

  12. Gates the Dad... on Gates Gets Government Guards for Gala · · Score: 1

    I like the comments about Bill's daughter and I would love to have seen that event. Its easy to forget that he is a father. No matter what your status, our children can make us feel both humbled and rich.

  13. first post? on Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer Online · · Score: -1, Troll

    read the subject

  14. This is no hot air ballon. on More on Inflatable Space Hotels · · Score: 1

    The Inflatable space hotel will not float on the earth's atmosphere. It will be placed in a geo synchronous orbit, just like IIS.

  15. Re:Violent Chinese on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    Violence is just one of the side effects of extream poverty. The older brothers actions, while wrong, are understandable. I've known people who have been attacked for little more than a laugh with greater force than you've described. I know I'm lucky; I have very few violent incidents as an adult, but I don't think for one minute that you can label an entire country on you experence.

  16. Re:Friend or foe on Army Discusses MMO Troop Training Sim · · Score: 1

    I agree, but vehicle marking and configuration should not. While this is of little help in ariel combat (I have no idea whether military aircraft would have transponders), it should help distinguish ground units. Given a large number of the arms used by the Iraqi army where sold by the British and US governments, there could be similar vehicles being used. Specially with us brits using so much legacy equipment. But if the same two vehicles, one from each army, was placed side by side they would be unqiue. This kind of training would be better performed in a breifing rather than a virtual simulation.

  17. Friend or foe on Army Discusses MMO Troop Training Sim · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about training on the difference between Friend and foe. I'd feel happier thinking US troops had a couple of hours training showing them the equipment used by allied and enemy troops, than a frag fest, before going into combat.

  18. First IT Job on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My first proper IT job paid 13'000 GBP a year. For that I was a part of a three man team maintaining 8 Servers + 70 users. I was the DBA and rewrote all internal systems for the Y2k Bug. Personally I wouldn't complain, from this point on you gain commercial experience. Which is worth twice the time you spent at Uni.

  19. Excelent, I was looking for a career change on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 0

    shame I wouldn't know where to look for my big end.

  20. My three year old could do ktuberling on A Babe in Tuxland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Emily, my three year old could do the Mr Potato head game. What I found curious is the machine is dual boot and she knew which OS had the game. I'm glad other posters have mentioned using X is childsplay not linux. I've still not got full functionality from my radeon 9200 under linux. That said, I'd rather let Emily run amok in linux than window.

  21. How about target awareness on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 1

    As a Brit, I would like to see the US Army forget drugs that help soldiers go five days with out food, about start teaching them the difference between friend and foe. Some of the earliest casualties in the "liberation" of Iraq died due to "friendly fire". Same applies for Afghanistan and the first Gulf war. And before someone defends these accidents with "it different in a combat situation" or "in war you don't have the luxury of time", I want to point out British soldiers (I have family in the army) are trained not to panic. "Fight or flight" instincts are conditioned into "ascertain level threat and react accordingly".

  22. Re:Messing with thier system on RFID Tags For The Rich · · Score: 1

    Like most people here, I do not dress like the average Joe. From personal experience I've been followed by shop security and treated in a condesending manor by staff, just for the way I look. Prada want to make money, Prada staff like to think they are part of the social elite.

  23. Re:Pretty hilarious... on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 4, Informative

    /. is not a news site. We are not journalists. We are not paid to give an informative unbaised opinion. The BBC however are,we (brits) pay them to give us the facts, the truth.

  24. Re:Sixth form of matter? on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Bose-Einstein condensate" was created in 1995, Douglas Adams was very much alive and kicking.

  25. its not the size its what you do with it.... on 61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1, Redundant

    half life 2, would be a prime example!