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Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany 625

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @11:25AM from the ach-mein-leben dept.

D1gital_Prob3 tips news that Activision's recently-released shooter, Wolfenstein, is being recalled in Germany due to the appearance of swastikas in the game. Such symbols are banned in Germany, and the German version of the game went through heavy editing to remove them. Apparently, they missed some. Activision said, "Although it is not a conspicuous element in the normal game ... we have decided to take this game immediately from the German market." Reader eldavojohn points out a review that has screenshot comparisons between the two versions of the game.

Comment Re:Coolest? (Score 4, Interesting) 608

by A Unique Nick Name on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @07:38PM (#23926379) Attached to: Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster?

I fully agree. I'm the admin on a similar sized cluster (although our interconnects are much faster) that sees only about 50% utilization by the University. The rest of the time is lent out to other Universities without such a resource or need a place to run unfunded projects. I'd be amazed that such a resource would ever be allowed to be "played" on. Our up time is critical since many jobs take weeks sometimes months to run. Every effort is made to make the system rock solid and divide up the resources fairly.

Submission + - World's first tricorder created by Purdue

Submitted by aeoneal on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @05:42PM

aeoneal writes: According to Science Daily, mass spectrometry is no longer limited to what can be taken to the lab. Purdue researchers have created a handy 20 lb. device that combines mass spectrometry with DESI (desorption electrospray ionization), allowing chemical composition to be determined outside of a vacuum chamber. Purdue suggests this could be useful for everything from detecting explosive substances or cancer to predicting disease. Researcher R. Graham Cooks says, "We like to compare it to the tricorder because it is truly a hand-held instrument that yields information about the precise chemical composition of samples in a matter of minutes without harming the samples."

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