Comment VR and AR (Score 1) 309
Augmented reality and true virtual reality using mobile devices with some such wireless tech. Personally I was hoping for a holodeck.
Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate 239
Benjamin Duranske writes "Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"
Comment Magnetic Field (Score 1) 686
I once had a celeron 300 that sat on top of a 15 inch speaker and never once thought about the magnetic field it generated at 200 watts. Several times I brought it over to a friends house and everytime without fail, every byte of data would corrupt. So I would just reformat, install the games and swear he had a grimlin. It wasnt until i brought it over to another friends house that I realized when it was sitting on the speaker it adapted to the new field and when I moved it, the harddrive would just fall to pieces. So I just started bringing over my stereo with me and never had another problem...
