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Submission + - Judge bans use of partial fingerprints (baltimoresun.com)

Submitted by moderatorrater on Friday October 26, 2007 @12:26PM

moderatorrater writes: The Baltimore Sun has an article on a judge that has banned partial fingerprints from a murder trial., a potentially huge upset in the way cases are investigated.

The judge's 44-page ruling breaks down recent problems with fingerprint analysis and ways that it can become biased against suspects.

Submission + - Nintendo hold top ten selling games in japan (gamasutra.com)

Submitted by moderatorrater on Friday July 20, 2007 @12:20PM

moderatorrater writes: For the third time this year, the Wii and the DS have swept the ten top selling games in japan. From the article:

The domination of Nintendo formats continues until number fourteen, with Banpresto's Super Robot Wars: Original Generations — one of four PlayStation 2 games in the top fifty.
A lot of people are saying that the Wii is going to start showing a decline; when exactly was that supposed to happen?

Submission + - Wii lightsaber game in the works (gamasutra.com)

Submitted by moderatorrater on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:32PM

moderatorrater writes: Gamasutra's reporting on a Lucasarts employee answer to a question about a Wii lightsaber game. From the article:

We're all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It's a lot of fun, and we'll get there.
Hopefully it's more like Jedi Academy than Jedi Power Battles.

Submission + - ACLU sues Boeing subsidiary over torture cases

Submitted by moderatorrater on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @02:08PM

moderatorrater writes: The ACLU is suing a subsidiary of Boeing for helping the CIA abduct and torture people. From the article:

"Publicly available records demonstrate that Jeppesen facilitated more than 70 secret rendition flights over a four-year period to countries where it knew or reasonably should have known that detainees are routinely tortured or otherwise abused in contravention of universally accepted legal standards," the suit states.

Submission + - Nintendo holds 20 best selling games in Japan

Submitted by moderatorrater on Thursday May 10, 2007 @12:18PM

moderatorrater writes: Further evidence of Nintendo's dominance comes from Japans sales charts for last week. The top 21 games were all for either the Wii or the DS and all but 6 were published by Nintendo themselves.

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