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South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths 148

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:55PM from the probably-just-making-more-time-for-starcraft dept.

eldavojohn writes "GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list."

Comment who gave the OK (Score 1) 973

by zaax on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @08:08PM (#31769702) Attached to: How Did Wikileaks Do It?

The reporters were embedded with the 'other-sides fighters'. The other side were fired on the reported lost their lives. BUT the main question why was the van fired on? The helicopter crew got an OK over the radio for both engagements, who gave that OK?

Comment We are the only ones (Score 1, Interesting) 454

by zaax on Sunday March 14, 2010 @08:23PM (#31476284) Attached to: SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET

Look how difficult it was to get here in the first place. We are the First Ones.

Comment charge for email (Score 0) 211

by zaax on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:54PM (#31159278) Attached to: Malicious Spam Jumps To 3B Messages Per Day

1c each, first 30 per day free. It would stop all spam dead

Comment Re:What about live traffic updates (Score 1, Informative) 300

by zaax on Thursday January 21, 2010 @08:09PM (#30854380) Attached to: Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones

They still change you for it (even though they get it for free), but Google don't.

Comment 1c / email (Score 0) 301

by zaax on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @09:10PM (#26140369) Attached to: CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong?

If very one was charged 1c per mail & laid down in legislation that is all that can be charged, it would close the free lunch table spammers are eating off.

Comment Re:Yes. (Score 0) 794

by zaax on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @09:44AM (#25816341) Attached to: Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?

It took me 2 hours this morning before it booted. First boot failed. Rung support
'Can you reboot?' - 15 mins later - failed to boot
'Oh ic whats wrong try re-booting again.'
15 mins later fails again 'Ooer and more you need a new base station we will send a tech ....

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by zaax on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @02:43PM

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