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Submission + - NPR Story Advocates Popup Ads for Free Gifts

Submitted by jnothinghead on Sunday February 18, 2007 @10:09PM

jnothinghead writes: I woke up in a daze yesterday morning to this story on Weekend All Things Considered on NPR. The subject of the interview, a neurology resident at Johns Hopkins, was preaching the benefit of clicking popup ads for prizes. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=7466068 I was pretty amazed at the cavalier attitude in the interview toward popups. There was no mention of spyware or any other type of malware. What really got me was that this doctor admitted to looking for free prizes at work. My company has an AUP, I'll bet that Johns Hopkins has one too. This probably does not fall under the agreement as appropriate use. I bet the security folks at Johns Hopkins are cringing at the liabilities this doc has introduced so he can win a free vacuum.

Journal Journal: Geeks race in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race

Journal by gizmateer on Sunday February 18, 2007 @09:25PM

Several Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses.

Submission + - Quake Ported to Nintendo DS

Submitted by Joan Cross on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:11PM

Joan Cross writes: ID Software`s Quake the first-person shooter computer game that was released back in 2006 has today been ported to the Nintendo DS, the coder Simon Hall has manged to squeeze the program, working state and game data into the four megabytes of main memory of Nintendo`s handheld. The game is fully playable with both shareware or commercial pak files, total conversions and mods will work also.

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