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Submission + - FFVII RPG in Second Life with Square's OK (maybe)

Submitted by

wjamesau

on Friday May 04, 2007 @04:21PM

wjamesau writes: "A group of Second Life Residents have created an amazing-looking RPG inspired by the city of Midgar from Final Fantasy VII, with a scripted combat system and game masters who run the SOLDIER versus AVALANCHE action. An interesting twist is that Squaresoft, the owners of the Final Fantasy IP, apparently gave the non-commercial project their blessing — or maybe not. The island of Midgar has changed ownership so no one's quite sure, but the several hundred players keep it going through donations, and even stranger (as my game review Onder Skall reports): "Operating as if Square gave approval has made them act as if they work for Square. They have rules about never sharing information about pirating Final Fantasy gear, and are the best promotion of any brand in Second Life. If Square were ever to come to Second Life, no PR manager could dream of creating a more dedicated player base than this one.""

Submission + - World's first iPod dock for pianos

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Friday May 04, 2007 @04:07PM

coondoggie writes: "Pianos suck, unless of course they have an iPod dock. That's right. But after today, that's no longer a problem because PianoDisc this week introduced its iPod docking piano 'iQ' which it says though is patented technology will let almost any piano play itself according to the melody of the iPod. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1486 9"

Submission + - What do you do when a registrar rips you off?

Submitted by RelievedSimpleton on Friday May 04, 2007 @03:43PM

RelievedSimpleton writes: After previously purchasing a domain from RegisterFly.com I decided to renew my domain as well as purchase two more. After adding $25.00 worth of funds to my account I attempted to buy two domains and renew the domain I previously purchased from them. After filing multiple complaints through the support ticket system as well as attempting to call all the numbers listed on their website, which were either disconnected or unavailable, I went to my credit union only to find that the credit union couldn't do anything except let me know they also fraudulently charged $19.98 to my account twice, now bringing the total to $64.96. I then went to the Better Business Bureau website to file a complaint only to find that there were multiple complaints before mine. Also, I attempted to file a complaint through InterNIC only to find that their ICANN accreditation is pending termination. So my question to you, the users of Slashdot, is what do you do when a registrar rips you off like this, while continuing to say they are an accredited registrar when it is untrue?

Submission + - Sony Decapitates a Goat in PR Stunt

Submitted by AbsoluteXyro on Saturday April 28, 2007 @11:26PM

AbsoluteXyro writes: PETA is going to be pissed. London Entertainment Guide (Slightly NSFW) breaks the news that electronics giant Sony, in another stroke of marketing brilliance, decided to decapitate a goat and invite guests to "reach inside the goat's still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach" as a PR stunt to promote God of War II at a recent party in Athens. Images from the party, including at least one showing the freshly decapitated goat's head hanging by it's corpse by a thread of tissue, have been published in a two page spread in the latest edition of Playstation Magazine. Interestingly, Sony UK has refused to say how the goat was killed, but judging by the pictures, we can guess.

Submission + - WoW Gold paid for real sex

Submitted by

Shohat

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @03:58PM

Shohat writes: "A woman posted an ad on Craigslist, offering a certain something for some quick cash in her game of choice, WoW.The offer was very specific, and And she got what she wanted — enough money an epic flying mount - Screenshots of the postings prior to removal .
First of all, is this prostitution? Sure seems like it, although MMO money isn't entirely established as legally worth real money yet, even if people buy and sell it all the time on multiple online and offline markets."

Submission + - Bill would nullify Internet radio royalty increase

Submitted by skelator2821 on Friday April 27, 2007 @09:23PM

skelator2821 writes: Supporters say it would save webcasters from bankruptcy. Could they finally be doing something right for consumers and the Music world? http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9018099&intsrc=hm_ list

Submission + - Supercomputer Simulates Mouse Brain

Submitted by

ougouferay

on Friday April 27, 2007 @09:01PM

ougouferay writes: "The BBC is reporting that a team of researchers from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada have used a BlueGene L supercomputer to model a mouse brain consisting of 8000 neurons and 6300 synapses.

The team have reported observing "biologically consistent dynamical properties", neurons form spontaneously into groups and synapses firing in ways similar to patterns seen in nature."

Submission + - Forensic Tool for Macs

Submitted by Zygote on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:05PM

Zygote writes: http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?m ain_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=195 "MacLockPick(TM) is a valuable tool for law enforcement professionals to perform live forensics on Mac OS X systems. The solution is based on a USB Flash drive that can be inserted into a suspect's Mac OS X computer that is running (or sleeping). Once the software is run it will extract data from the Apple Keychain and system settings in order to provide the examiner fast access to the suspect's critical information with as little interaction or trace as possible."

Submission + - Nintendo Plans to Boost Wii Production

Submitted by NanTendoo on Friday April 27, 2007 @06:59PM

NanTendoo writes: Nintendo's president acknowledged Friday that the shortage of the hit Wii game machine was "abnormal," and promised production was being boosted to increase deliveries by next month. "We must do our best to fix this abnormal lack of stock," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told reporters. "We have not been able to properly foresee demand."

Submission + - Potentially Habitable Planet Found

Submitted by

HRH King Lerxst

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @01:57PM

HRH King Lerxst writes: "The Associated Press reports that Astronomers have identified a planet outside Earth's solar system that may support human life. The planet's temperatures are similar to those of Earth. "It's a significant step on the way to finding possible life in the universe," said University of Geneva astronomer Michel Mayor on Tuesday. "It's a nice discovery. We still have a lot of questions." It's circling a Red Dwarf."

Submission + - Books, DEA, Homework Censored by Boston WiFi

Submitted by

subluminal

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @01:37PM

subluminal writes: "An MIT student reports that the no-cost, government-funded wifi pilot at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, 'The Cradle of Liberty', uses phrase lists to block public access to many sites. Among those blocked are Cory Doctorow's book Eastern Standard Tribe , information about lotteries (but not the Massachusetts State Lottery site), criminal justice policy sites, the ATF and the DEA."

Submission + - RIAA Secretly Tries to Get ISP Subscriber Info

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @01:30PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA secretly went into federal district court in Denver, Colorado, the home town of its lawyers, and — in an attempt to change the rules of the game — made an ex parte application to a federal judge there, asking him to rule (pdf) that the federal Cable Communications Policy Act does not apply to the RIAA's attempts to get subscriber information from cable companies. ("Ex parte" means application was secret, no one else — neither the ISP nor the subscribers — were given notice that this was going on.). They were, in effect, asking the Court to rule that the RIAA does not need to get a court order to be able to force an ISP to disclose confidential subscriber information. The Magistrate Judge declined to rule on the issue (pdf), but did give them the ex parte discovery order they were looking for."

Submission + - Internet Gambling in US May return

Submitted by

joedoc

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @10:56AM

joedoc writes: "Not much about this on the wires yet, but Reuters is running a story that Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass) will introduce a bill on Thursday that will lift the current ban on Internet wagering on casino gaming sites. Internet gambling was banned last year when President Bush singed a bill outlawing the use of bank and credit card transactions to fund those activities. I generally support the conservative side of things, but the libertarian in me always believed this was an example of egregious nanny-state politics that never should have passed muster."

Submission + - I want my own enterprise dynamic DNS server!

Submitted by Biff98 on Monday April 23, 2007 @08:01PM

Biff98 writes: We manage thousands of hostnames for field gear with DynDNS.org. It's always been our intention of configuring our own DDNS server and bring it in-house. Given the recent DynDNS outage due to a DDOS attack, resulting in the inability to resolve names for multiple days, there has been "encouragement" from management to move forward on bringing DDNS in-house. The problem is I can't find any easy-to-use, scalable software to accomplish this task! BIND doesn't scale well, and I don't consider MintDNS an option due to the required platform (Windows Server w/ AD & IIS). Has anyone out there solved this problem before?

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