Not only games but also movies. There's some argument for making sure the person is looking at the thing you want them to, but if you need to make everything else blurry to do so, makes you wonder.

It's one of the reasons 3D films don't work in general - they include depth of field. The only 3D film I've seen that really worked was Avatar - which has no depth of field. At all. I enjoy the movie more for this technical reason alone - I can look where I want!

This is my experience too. I think there actually is legal precedent that specifically says a fax transmitted signature/document is equivalent. Until there's precedent saying the same thing for scanned&emailed documents, it's not going to change.

A previous employer had me fax my time-sheets to them. The timesheet was supplied as a PDF form, the office "fax machine" was a network printer/scanner, which emailed toe document as an attached PDF to a server, which had a modem and would fax it out. The system on the other end was pretty much the same - the fax to the local city number would result in an emailed copy sent to the outsourced accounting department. I found this out one day when the timesheet was lost.

The main reason these are notable is these are not mods. There is no programming code involved. This is all done within the games mechanics. And those mechanics are limited to little more then wires and some simple logic gates.

Yes, I came into this to suggest Zimbra - I'm not sure how open it is (although I know they repackage open software) but it does work. There are technical issues still (such as domain aliases not working when set through the web UI and/or needing a full restart to apply some changes ), but once it's set up, it is quite user friendly and does most of what you expect.

That is also what I read!

I too am interested in hearing more about this.

Oddly enough, I'm working for a company that's working on a modelling tool for "infinite detail", with a aim for 3d fabrication. But it's not voxels, like the engine here shows.

I think the more important news here is - Linus uses Google+ for announcements now?

Facebook really is in trouble now.

Sued by Comcast and Verizon for "unfair competition" in 3, 2, 1...

Converting the 5% to 4.7m people is an excellent point. 5% seems reasonable, but when there are 4.7 m "excessive users", that's a LOT of people who won't be getting what they paid for. 4.7m isn't a statistical blip or rare case.

This is the same government that wants to be able to blacklist any URL secretly.

The EFA AU said it best: http://www.efa.org.au/2011/02/03/conroy-not-fooling-anyone/

This is what I see happening - IPv4 addresses will start being traded "privately".

You're overlooking that an IPv4 only host can't RESPOND to an IPv6 address. Instead you get IP6to4 NAT, which has to be a service provided by someone, that connects the IPv6 network to the IPv4 network, so the IPv4 destination sees the request originating from an IPv4 address.

Thats another thing I find "amusing" about all this - many of the games that would have gone under a R18+ classification (based on doing so everywhere else) instead were released UNCHANGED as M15+.

One of the criticisms made against the publicized "tell us if you want this" survey was that the results were swayed by an interested party (gamers). Gee, really, you ask people if people want something, and the people who want it are the ones who answer? And they got a LOT of answers, meaning there are a LOT of interested gamers. But the results were effectively thrown out, on claims of bias. Bias towards the answer the people running the survey didn't want, I say.

I was going to post this. My daughter (6) loves nothing more then to play Minecraft with me - which means telling me what to do constantly. Her favorite activity seems to be kiting creepers.

She hasn't got the coordination/experience to manage to play herself - she much prefers to tell me what to do. It must be a girl thing.