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Submission + - "Star Trek Gamers" Blacklisted By Bethesda

Submitted by sandus on Sunday February 11, 2007 @01:21PM

sandus writes: The largest Trek game fansite StarTrek-Gamers.com was officially blacklisted by Bethesda Softworks not long ago. To discover the reasoning behind this decision the Fallout news site NMA has conducted an in-depth interview with StarTrek-Gamers' webmaster, Victor. From the interview:

NMA: Star Trek Gamers has been officially blacklisted by Bethesda. Why, do you feel, did Bethesda do this?

Victor: They did it for several reasons. One of them being that one or two other major fansites haven't officially come out in public on their front page and panned Legacy, only the STG did.

Submission + - Ebay to halt all sales of Virtual Items

Submitted by

Alexandra

on Thursday January 25, 2007 @05:42PM

Alexandra writes: "MarkeeDragon News & Views reported today that EBay has halted all sales of Video game related intangible goods. Even so there has been no official statement as of yet from Ebay ,inside sources confirmed that this policy went into affect 2 weeks ago. What does this mean for gaming economies? Only time will tell. Full Story MarkeeDragon.com"

Submission + - Sony says 'no' to porn on Blu-ray Disc

Submitted by

reversible physicist

on Friday January 19, 2007 @07:08PM

reversible physicist writes: "From an article in Infoworld:

The choice of which high-definition disc format to use was "kind of made for us, so everything we are replicating right now is in the HD DVD format," said Robby D, a director at popular adult film maker Digital Playground Inc. "As far as I understand, Sony has said to the replicators that if you replicate adult, you'll lose your license."

Many believe that Sony's Betamax video tape format, while technologically superior to VHS, died because the adult movie industry was barred from using Betamax, noted Jake Richter, an analyst at Jon Peddie Research. "Is Sony doomed to repeat one of the mistakes of the past? It seems like that may be the case," he wrote in a report."

Submission + - It's A Drudge Day in History

Submitted by pilsner.urquell on Friday January 19, 2007 @06:59PM

pilsner.urquell writes: PajamasMedia. Has declaired this to be A Drudge Day in History
On this day in 1998, Matt Drudge @ The Drudge Report first broke the news that there was more to the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky story than passed through the lips of the then President.

It seems that Newsweek killed the story.

Submission + - 650 video tutorials for programmers

Submitted by

huyvun

on Thursday January 18, 2007 @05:54AM

huyvun writes: "650 video tutorials on programming, covering subjects such as php,perl,javascript,ajax,mysql,css etc.
site url http://nerdtv.vwho.net/"

Submission + - ISP offers students cash for open source code

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18, 2007 @01:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a world dominated by ISPs straight from the "could-not-care-less" Slashdot department, this article provides a refreshing view of the future of ISPs.

From the article: "As an incentive to get students to push the code boundaries of open source software, a British software network is offering cash for fresh code, reports Welsh IT News Online."

My question to Slashdot is: what other ISPs provide these sort of interesting incentives?

MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents 282

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 18, 2007 @01:36AM from the think-of-the-children dept.

mrspin writes "Following continuing pressure from politicians (and parts of the media), MySpace is planning to offer parents the chance to download software which will monitor aspects of their children's activities on the social networking site. From a business point of view, the move appears to be a highly risky one. The young users of social networking sites are notorious for their lack of loyalty — and history suggests that a change like this could tempt many to abandon MySpace for the 'next cool thing'."

Journal SPAM: Detroit FREEP: Adultery could mean life in prison 5

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @04:15PM

From the Theocracy Watch Dept.:

Adultery could mean life, court finds

That's what the law says in sex-drug case Cox appealed
January 15, 2007

BY BRIAN DICKERSON

FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Journal Journal: Penalized for being a Good Consumer

Journal by sglider on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @04:02PM

I *just* got off of the phone with two member of Chase Credit Card's finest, a customer service care representative, and an Account supervisor by the name of 'Jason'.

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