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The Courts

Submission + - Turks ban Youtube

truehand writes: BBC and New York Times report that access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey following a court order. The clip prompting the ban reportedly dubbed Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, and Turks homosexuals. YouTube removed the video that was uploaded to the site by a Greek, but the ban is still in effect for the entire site. It's not the first time YouTube has been banned, though. The Australian state of Victoria recently banned it from government schools in a crackdown on cyber-bullying after a gang of male students videotaped their assault on a 17-year-old girl on the outskirts of Melbourne.
Games

GDC: The OLPC Project And Games 36

Gamasutra continued their extensive coverage of GDC Tuesday, with information on the second day of serious and indie gaming tracks. For those who have been following the One Laptop Per Child Project, one of that project's developers put out a call for serious games to support the device. With plans already in the works to get Sim City open sourced and on the machine, OLPC content manager SJ Klein hopes that more serious titles will enable children to learn through play. Other sessions on Tuesday included a look at the Gatekeepers of indie content, suggestions on prototyping for indie developers, and what sounds like a humorously interesting presentation from Eric Zimmerman about milking the casual games cash cow.
Networking

Submission + - Everything you need to know about IPv6

Butterspoon writes: "Ars Technica is running an excellent article entitled "Everything you need to know about IPv6", which should be regarded as essential reading for anyone who is overly comfortable with their IPv4 addresses. From the artice:

As of January 1, 2007, 2.4 billion of those [IPv4 addresses] were in (some kind of) use. 1.3 billion were still available and about 170 million new addresses are given out each year. So at this rate, 7.5 years from now, we'll be clean out of IP addresses; faster if the number of addresses used per year goes up.
Are you ready for IPv6?"
Nintendo

Submission + - EALA: Spielberg Project on Wii

hammersuit writes: "GameDaily XL has an excerpt from an interview they did with EALA VP and GM Neil Young in which he discusses in more detail the Steven Spielberg projects and how they're moving along. It was revealed that two of the three projects are already in development, with one of those being produced exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. More details in the article, but it seems Spielberg may be just the latest megafan of the Wii."
Microsoft

Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail 246

tora201 writes "Microsoft Australia is offering university students in that country Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition for just $75 Australian dollars, a 95% discount off the usual retail price. Alternatively students can buy a one year renewable license at just $25, or download a trial version that can be later activated. Eligibility is determined through a valid Australian university e-mail address with payment made via credit card."
Software

Submission + - Did Adobe yank the photoshop brush patch?

raasdnil writes: "The Q Blog gives a story about a possible pull of the CS3 brush cursor patch. Briefly Photoshop TV, Episode 71 "Things To-Do" talks about a Photoshop CS3 brush patch being available for "private download". Attempting to get this patch in Adobe results in dead ends. After searching, you used to be able to find mention of it on Jack Nack's blog, but now it has been deleted and you can't find mention of it anywhere. I wonder if pulling the patch has anything to do with the $900 million predicted sales that Macworld reported would happen with CS3 being released?"

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