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Submission + - Computer games and architecture - the first book (spacetimeplay.org)

Submitted by

Jason Roth

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @02:58PM

Jason Roth writes: "This excellent book is on the way — probably publishing in November. The contributors talk about the new connections between computer games and real-world architecture. These game designers are all involved: Ernest Adams, Ian Bogost, Noah Falstein, James Korris, Frank Lantz, American McGee, Keita Takahashi, Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman. Will be worth checking out."

Submission + - Watermarking to replace DRM? 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16, 2007 @02:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: News.com has an article on the announcement of Microsoft and Universal to introduce watermarking technology into audio files. The technology could serve several purposes including tracking file sharing statistics and insertion of advertisements into audio tracks. The article goes on to suggest that watermarking could possibly replace DRM in the near future.

Submission + - RIAA Defendant Cross-Sues Kazaa and AOL

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @02:37PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In what appears to be a first, RIAA defendant Michelle Santangelo, the 20-year old daughter of Patti Santangelo, has made a motion for leave to serve a third party complaint against Kazaa and AOL, as well as against someone who installed Kazaa software, in Elektra v. Santangelo II. Her proposed third-party complaint (pdf) alleges that any injuries plaintiffs might have sustained were the result of the third party defendants' "negligence and breaches... in the defective design of Sharman Network's program, "Kazaa" which was a dangerous instrumentality in its each and every use as it existed in 2002-2004; the trespassing and reckless installation by Matthew Seckler [the person who allegedly installed the software without authorization] of such program; the failure to warn by AOL and Sharman; the failure to block the downloading of such files by AOL; the improper blocking of alleged (RIAA) warning messages by AOL and Sharman; and, the secretive file sharing system of and by Kazaa.""

Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline 285

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @10:06AM from the meanwhile-my-beer-gut-it-on-the-incline dept.

jd writes "In a study covering five different periods of history, from 300 AD to the present day, and geographically spread across much of Europe, scientists have extracted the mitochondrial DNA from a sizable number of individuals in an effort to examine changes in diversity. The results, published in the Royal Society journal is intriguing to say the least. 1700 years ago, three out of every four individuals belonged to a different haplotype. In modern Europe, the number is only one in three. The researchers blame a combination of plague, selection of dominant lineages and culturally-inflicted distortions. The researchers say more work needs to be done, but are unclear if this involves archaeology or experiments involving skewing the data in the local female population."

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