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Submission + - Genocide Has Never Been More Adorable (frogames.com)

Submitted by Pink Penguin on Thursday September 13, 2007 @04:14AM

Pink Penguin writes: Sick of BioShock? Friends don't want you in their Quake Wars team? File Front found what could be a gem for you, Penguins Arena the unique "First Penguin Shooter".
It all begins when a penguin legend comes to life in the form of Sedna, the ancient Penguin Goddess. Global warming, pollution... Penguin tribes are endangered. Sedna utters them that there is room for but one tribe. And so the purging begins.
This game won the Intel Game Demo Contest 2007.

Submission + - Photonic Laser Thruster: Earth to Mars in a Week (newsedge.com)

Submitted by

serutan

on Thursday September 13, 2007 @04:12AM

serutan writes: "Using lasers to drive spaceships has been a subject of interest for many years, but making a photonic engine powerful enough for practical use has been elusive. Dr. Young Bae, a California physicist, has built a demonstration Photonic Laser Thruster that produces enough thrust to micro-maneuver a satellite. This would be useful in high-precision formation flying, such as using a fleet of satellites to form a space telescope with a large virtual aperture. Scaled up, a similar engine could speed a spacecraft to Mars in less than a week."

Submission + - Germans reject file-sharing paranoia (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

athloi

on Friday August 03, 2007 @09:39AM

athloi writes: "German prosecutors have begun denying requests to force ISPs to identify the subscribers behind IP addresses, saying that the alleged file-sharing was a "petty offense." According to German-language Heise Online, the court said that the labels did not explain how a "criminally relevant damage" could have arisen from the alleged file-sharing. Unlike the US legal system, German law has no provision allowing for civil proceedings to obtain ISP subscriber info.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070802-file -sharing-is-a-petty-offense-say-german-prosecutors .html"

Submission + - Your web cam may have you on Candid Camera (www.ctv.ca)

Submitted by debest on Sunday June 17, 2007 @10:41PM

debest writes: So, you're looking to buy yourself a wireless web cam. Better make sure it's never been used before! Someone purchased this Linksys camera from an office supply retail store and was using it for months, not knowing that someone else had already purchased it, returned it, then started receiving emails from the new owners of the camera that included attachments of the new family's activities. Apparently the first guy configured the camera to email himself a video whenever it detected motion, but didn't clear the settings before returning it. The new owners had no idea that the camera had been configured to do this. Since he had no idea who the new owner was, he gets the story on national television news. Seems they discovered the family since the story went up.

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