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'SnowWorld' VR Game Reduces Pain for Burn Patients-> 0

Submitted by Bonker on Monday January 31 2011, @02:52PM

Bonker writes "The Beeb has news of a simple VR Game being used during treatments and rehabilitation for burn patients. Players, who engage in a fast-paced snowball fight with penguins and snowmen report feeling less pain. 'SnowWorld' was developed by Professor Hunter Hoffman and Professor David Patterson at the University of Washington Harborview Burn Center in Seattle."
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Police database used to harass family-> 2

Submitted by Bonker on Sunday February 10 2008, @11:59AM

Bonker writes "A police officer in DeKalb County, Georgia, used a Georgia Crime Information Center computer to retrieve personal information about a woman dating her separated husband. She then created a flyer with the woman's picture entitled 'Homewrecker' and mailed it to the woman's family, neighbors, and others. Despite the fact that using the computer system for personal reasons is a crime, the officer, Teresa Shover, a 13-year veteran, receive a five week suspension."
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Truecrypt 5.0 Released-> 0

Submitted by Bonker on Wednesday February 06 2008, @02:24AM

Bonker writes "I haven't seen anyone mention that, with little fanfare, Truecrypt 5.0 was released earlier today. New features include 'full system disk encryption' — the ability to fully encrypt your boot partition in Windows, a GUI for their Linux build, and a MacOSX version."
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The Best MMO You're Not Playing: City of Heroes-> 0

Submitted by Bonker on Wednesday July 25 2007, @10:59AM

Bonker writes "While Blizzard is certainly king of the MMO empire at the moment, it worth noting that Cryptic Studios has released the tenth free expansion to its popular comic-book themed MMO, 'City Of Heroes/City of Villains'. 'Issue 10: Invasion' sees Heroes and Villains alike defending their cities against attack from the alien Rikti. The expansion has a lot of new content, including a revamped co-op zone for Heroic and Villainous players to take the fight to the aliens. It also includes large-scale city-wide air-raids in which players can fight against spaceship bombers and teleporting alien invaders. Despite the 'large-scale' nature of the event, it's been coded so that it scales with the players attending. Solo-players can fight against the aliens just as well as team-oriented players. If you're not playing 'City Of' right now, you're really missing out on one of the most fun, most dynamic MMO gameplay experiences around."
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