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Submission + - Woman trades sex for WOW gold

Submitted by JTT on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:56PM

JTT writes: There are multiple sites reporting that in April a woman used craigslist to trade sex for WOW gold in order to purchase an 'Epic Flying Mount'. Aparent pictures of the craigslist ads can also be found floating around the net. The 'player' followed up with 'I got MY epic mount AND I got laid which is more than most of you failures can ever hope for.'

Submission + - DEFCON for Linux Announced

Submitted by dylan_- on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @08:44AM

dylan_- writes: UK indie game developer, Introversion, best known for the weirdly retro Darwinia have released the much-awaited Linux version of their latest hit title DEFCON. If you liked the film "Wargames" then maybe this is for you.

As the website says:
"It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe — just maybe — you can lose the least."

Submission + - Ignorance Denied 3.0 - Gravitas - a skill game of

Submitted by

smirkley

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @02:26PM

smirkley writes: "http://www.ignorancedenied.com/viewthread.php?tid= 5620 This game currently under development is gaining widespread enjoyement at the source site. Traveling through space and manipulating trajectories while avoiding collisions on the way to your target."

Submission + - "King of Kong" documents excellence in Don

Submitted by

Carl Sable

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @12:13PM

Carl Sable writes: "I saw the documentary "King of Kong" last night at the Tribeca Film Festival. This film concerns the rivalry between Billy Mitchell — a legend among the classic arcade game diehards — and Steve Wiebe — a newbie who is on a quest to take over the title of best Donkey Kong player in the world. Also documented are many of the key players of Twin Galaxies, the organization that keeps track of, and verifies, world records for classic arcade games. I went to see it figuring it would be a mildly amusing story, and instead saw what I consider to be a wonderful film on many different levels. It is vastly entertaining with great character development, and perhaps most surprising, it is exciting — the entire audience applauded at several points throughout the film. It looks like tickets are still available for Wed, May 2, at the time I am posting this, and if you're in the NY area, I highly recommend it."

Submission + - Warcraft Player Gets Real Beatdown From GamingGirl

Submitted by Funny Finder on Monday April 30, 2007 @06:11PM

Funny Finder writes: Mexican World of Warcraft player Bronco Carson reported to local police on Saturday that 3 men broke into his home and beat his arms with clubs and smashed his computer. Warcraft Story

Submission + - Windows Vista may be seen as a risk

Submitted by

netrarc

on Monday April 23, 2007 @11:15AM

netrarc writes: "Dell has polled its customers and decided that shipping all of their new systems with Vista may not be what the users want. According to 11,000 respondants on Dell's IdeaStorm site, XP should be kept around for a while longer.

Quote from the article: "In most cases people usually want the latest technology, but in the case of computers the vast majority of non-Geek, non-power users just want something they know they can use. Your typical family will have a Windows XP machine, and the parents have learned to use it. If they upgrade, the move to Windows Vista may be seen as a risk."

Submission + - Star Trek's space shields may become real

Submitted by on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6567709. stm

Feed Professor Isolates Roots Of Some Violence (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:12PM

A Purdue University communication expert says incivility is on the rise because people are lonely from lacking the basic relationships and friendships that are essential to human beings.

Feed Map Predicting Spread Of Avian Flu (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:12PM

Scientists examined data from the 2003 outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the Netherlands and produce a model which can predict the probability of infection from one farm to another: the "transmission kernel." They also identify high-risk areas in the Netherlands and analyze various control strategies, concluding that in these regions an epidemic can only be brought to an end by massive culling of susceptible farms.

Submission + - Bering Strait tunnel

Submitted by igny on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @11:56AM

igny writes: Russia considers plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion US project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.

The proposed railroad would stretch about 6,000 kilometers, including 4,000 kilometers in Russia, and the tunnel would be 102 kilometers long. Ultimately, it would be able to carry 70 million tonnes per year. It could take nine to twelve years to build the railroad and 13 to 15 years to receive a return on the project.

However, a number of technical and environmental issues remain unresolved. Also there are risks of strong earthquakes which are relatively frequent in the region.

Submission + - Jack Thompson Blames Games for VA-Tech Shooting

Submitted by Cheeziologist on Monday April 16, 2007 @03:29PM

Cheeziologist writes: In an interview on Fox News today, Jack Thompson, notorious critic of the supposed effects of video games on children and young adults, claimed that "he [the gunman] immersed himself in counter-strike [and] half-life" and that it was the influence of these video games that caused the gunman to open fire on the Virginia Tech campus, killing approximately 30 people.

Journal Journal: Jack Thompson is evil 1

Journal by fishdan on Monday April 16, 2007 @03:26PM

Jack Thompson is currently on Fox News blaming video games for the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

Jack said that it would be impossible to carry out a massacre of this proportion without training, and that he was sure when they examined the shooters computer, that "training" program like GTA would be find.

Submission + - 22 Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting

Submitted by nexuspal on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:41PM

nexuspal writes: 22 confirmed dead at Virginia Tech. Shooter killed some at residence hall then two hours later killed others in classrooms. Worst school shooting in US history. CNN Link

Submission + - At Least 22 Dead At Virginia Tech

Submitted by wiredog on Monday April 16, 2007 @01:21PM

wiredog writes: At least 22 people have been killed and 21 more injured by a gunman (who is one of those killed) at Virginia Tech. This is a more people than were killed in the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999. A statement from the University President here. Coverage from the BBC, and The Washington Post.

Submission + - Microsoft's War on Linux: It's 58% Faster!

Submitted by Yfrwlf on Thursday April 12, 2007 @01:18PM

Yfrwlf writes: Most techies are aware of Microsoft's frontal assault against Linux called Get the Facts, but I decided to pay attention long enough to find out exactly what "facts" they were claiming. From the AMD "case study": "In 2005, AMD increased the speed of a key Oracle-based production-planning application that ran on Sun Solaris by recompiling it to run on both the Windows Server® 2003 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS operating systems. With expert help from the Microsoft Field Services Account Team and Performance Tuning Corporation, AMD identified configuration errors and ways to further optimize the application's performance. In a key benchmark test, the Oracle application ran 58 percent faster on Windows Server 2003 than on Linux." If they needed help to configure Windows to run it, no doubt they were clueless about how to do it in Linux, too. I'd be interested in testing the speed of this program on my own machines to verify this. If only they told us what program it was. It was "key", after all.

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