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Linux

Submission + - LInux games for non-gamers

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Nethead
Nethead writes: "Due to some down-time I'm looking for some Linux games to pass the time. I've been playing BattleMaster, a PHP web game but it's only two turns a day and I'd like something a bit faster. I've not really played PC games since the Doom era so I'm really out of touch here. I don't have a real gamer box, just a simple video card. What do the slashdotters think I should try? A simple FPS or some type of networked game would do. What's out there for Linux?"
United States

Submission + - Dealing with -60f cold (nethead.org)

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Nethead
Nethead writes: "'Cold' is a relative term says this article in the Alaska Daily News. "The coldest temperature was 68 below in Chicken, AK yesterday." "I've been trying to drive a little bit into town, and as you drive, you can feel your steering wheel freeze up," a listener told NPR this week. Gasoline turns to a slushy pudding in your gas tank. "You can actually scoop it out,""
Biotech

Submission + - Tribes vie for control over plant DNA rights

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Nethead
Nethead writes: "The Everett (Washington State) Hearld reports that tribes could gain trademark control over all future use of native plants. Tulalip Tribes claim that the Treaty of Point Elliott guarantees their world patent rights on native trees, flowers, shrubs and even weeds — the DNA of every plant that naturally grows on tribal land. The tribes already have put the case before the United Nations.

If the tribes have their way the future could hold virtual borders through which the plants — and their genetic codes — could not pass without tribal permission. "We not only have a property right to the plant, but also an intellectual property right to the use of the plant," said Terry Williams, a Tulalip tribal leader on environmental issues. "Any breakdown of that plant to look at what generates medicinal purposes of that plant in the genes, that's our right as well.""

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