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Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads 267

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 21, 2009 @05:36PM from the barely-legal dept.

arbitraryaardvark writes "An Ohio swinger's magazine objects to keeping proof on file that its advertisers are over 18. I reported here in 2007 that the 6th circuit struck down U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 as a First Amendment violation. The full 6th circuit has now overturned that ruling. The case might continue to the Supreme Court. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports."

Comment Re:Why is this on the -/ frontpage? (Score -1, Troll) 268

by Gewalt on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @11:12AM (#26342799) Attached to: Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel"

My only connection to this website just got severed. I used to keep /. RSS feed on my igoogle. But I got tired of seeing fark shit like this. So goodbye /., you just to be great.

Taco, you killed slashdot. Idle may have been the weapon, but it was you who wielded it.

Comment Re:I don't know what to make of this (Score 1) 410

by Gewalt on Thursday November 06, 2008 @11:25PM (#25671169) Attached to: Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine

There are only 4 main engines. Gecko and Webkit, which you already mentioned, then there's opera's and IE's engines, neither of which I can remember the names of at this moment.

There are many other minor engines as well, I call them minor because they are not even remotely html spec complete.

Starcraft 2 To Be a Trilogy 253

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 10, 2008 @07:45PM from the three-is-better-than-one dept.

The Starcraft 2 gameplay panel was an eventful one at Blizzcon today. The developers faced an obstacle when designing the game; the plans they had were just too massive to implement in a single game on anything approaching a reasonable timeline. Their solution was to divide the game up into three separate, stand-alone titles: Terran: Wings of Libery, Zerg: Heart of the Swarm, and Protoss: Legacy of the Void. Read on for further details.

MediaDefender's Parent Company Joins P2P Market 40

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 04, 2008 @08:19AM from the playing-both-sides dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news that ArtistDirect, the company who acquired MediaDefender, has launched another company called PiCast for the purpose of P2P video distribution. The reader says: "This is a strange twist for a company which last year set up a video-sharing site called Miivi in an attempt to entrap users uploading copyrighted content, and was caught launching a DoS attack against Revision3, which we discussed earlier this year."

Apple Drops Part of iPhone Developer NDA 175

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @01:50PM from the squawky-wheel-gets-degreased dept.

ds writes "Apple, this morning, announced they are dropping the iPhone Developer NDA in respect to released software. Previously, iPhone developers were legally bound even after their software had been released." Another reader adds, "Early release software is still covered, but this should bring about increased developer interaction, as well as a slew of iPhone dev books." The complete message about the NDA change can be seen for now at Apple's iPhone Developer site, and is reproduced below.

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