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Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time 563

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 28, 2010 @03:24AM from the what-about-lan-play dept.

Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."

Foldit Player May Have Created a Useful Protein 144

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @12:44AM from the know-when-to-hold-'em dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The organizers of the game Foldit, where you fold proteins for scientific research, announced that a user has found a protein that may be able to bind influenza viruses. Researchers plan to test the protein in a lab over the next few weeks to see if it might be medically useful."

Comment PC-only MMO? (Score 0) 121

by msavory on Thursday May 06, 2010 @03:36AM (#32108812) Attached to: <em>WoW</em> On an iPad Via Gaikai

"Famed developer David Perry has posted an image on his blog of an employee playing the PC-only MMO World of Warcraft on the Apple iPad."

..it runs on both PC and Mac.

Comment No Chome? (Score 0) 258

by msavory on Friday April 02, 2010 @03:06PM (#31708998) Attached to: Google Gets <em>Quake II</em> Running In HTML5

Why Safari and not Chrome?

California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere 155

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 06, 2010 @12:00AM from the some-more-tea-dear? dept.

MichaelSmith writes "Scientists think that there might be arsenic-based life in Mono Lake, California. If it's shown to exist, such life could have evolved independently from our own, or it could have forked from ours at a very early stage."

Comment Can't help myself (Score 1) 170

by msavory on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @04:18PM (#31263876) Attached to: Latvian "Robin Hood" Hacker Leaks Bank Details

Bunch of Fapa's.

Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:22PM from the rodents-of-unusual-size dept.

Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."

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