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ESRB Supplements Rating System With Summaries 53

Posted by Soulskill from the rated-p-for-pedants dept.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) announced today that in addition to their standard ratings for video games, they'll begin including summaries of the games, highlighting the parts which earned the rating. As Giant Bomb points out, some are quite entertaining to read. The new policy drew praise from Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), both of whom have spoken out against "inappropriate" game content in the past. The summaries are viewable at the ESRB's website; thus far, they've only done them for games rated since July 1st.
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Slashdot's Disagree Mail 126

Posted by samzenpus from the keep-trying dept.
Usually persistence is an admirable quality. There comes a time however when you reach that fine line between endeavoring to persevere, and drunk dialing your ex-girlfriend. The mail this week is from people who don't know when to say when. You have to admire their determination and feel a little bit bad that they don't have anything else to do. Read below to see how many times someone can click send in a day.
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Submission + - Microsoft Exchange users beware of DST

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OnlineAlias
OnlineAlias writes: "Because of Federal Daylight Saving Time changes this year, the administrators of the calendering and collaboration software that is part of Microsoft Exchange are having fits. Earlier this year, Microsoft released a patch for the desktop, which would correct the meetings one sent. Then Microsoft released a new patch for the patch, which supposedly fixed it again. Meanwhile, administrators were being asked to run crude tools to fix appointments that may or may have not been sent from a machine that was patched. Last week (2 weeks before DST!)Microsoft updated that tool, and gave options to send that tool out to users. The tools are meant to be packaged up and deployed to thousands of desktops within a week, and there is no guarantee that those will work either. In fact, testing shows that they may do more harm than good.

So beware all of you Exchange users, most companies are just not taking the risks associated with the Microsoft tools and are asking users to fix their calenders manually. Get ready for much confusion as companies try to figure out when meetings are actually supposed to occur. Thanks Microsoft!"
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Submission + - Microsoft donating to charity for your IMs

Submitted by Mini-Geek
Mini-Geek writes: Microsoft has launched i'm. After you put the code in your Windows Live Messenger (needs to be 8.1, so no Linux without some sort of emulator) Display Name, Microsoft will donate money to the charity you chose for every ad you see in the message window. From the link: "i'm is a new initiative from Windows Live(TM) Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i'm, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We've set no cap on the amount we'll donate to each organization. The sky's the limit. There's no charge, so join now and put our money where your mouth is."
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent

Submitted by MITEgghead
MITEgghead writes: Video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision. Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter — a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics...Students were then divided into two groups. The experimental group played Unreal Tournament, a first-person shoot-'em-up action game, for roughly an hour a day. The control group played Tetris, a game equally demanding in terms of motor control, but visually less complex. After about a month of near-daily gaming, the Tetris players showed no improvement on the test, but the Unreal Tournament players could tell which way the "T" was pointing much more easily than they had just a month earlier.

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