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Submission + - FBI used FedEx to sneak Dotcom information out of New Zealand (stuff.co.nz) 1

Submitted by bpkiwi on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:57PM

bpkiwi writes: FBI agents, working with New Zealand police on the Megaupload case, took a copy of Kim Dotcom's hard drives and then immediately sneaked out of the police facility and FedEx'ed them back to the USA. Despite the fact that removal of evidence in this manner without official approval (and a chance for the defendant to challenge it) appears to be illegal, the New Zealand government is now left arguing on a technicality — that the law only covers 'physical' items.

Submission + - Carmageddon: Reincarnation Linux Version confirmed (kickstarter.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: Stainless Games have been fundraising for Carmageddon: Reincarnation, a modern day remake of the classic Carmageddon racing games, on Kickstarter.com for weeks. Stainless said that if they hit 600,000 Dollars in pledges before time runs out, the would commit themselves to creating a Linux port of the game, as well as a MacOS port. Today they made it official: The fundraising has come so close to netting 600K overall, with a few more hours left to go, that they are officially committing themselves to creating a Linux port of the new game. PC gamers will get to play Carmageddon 4 first, with a February 2013 release date. The MacOS & Linux versions will follow the PC version later in 2013.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 432

by Wacky_Baccy on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @06:37PM (#25475669) Attached to: Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code

It seems not to be specifically for AppleBASIC, but is this possibly the one?

This part sounds promising:

Pages and pages of program listings in tiny, all-caps, dot matrix type, with brief introductory paragraphs. Plus, funny illustrations of strangely plausible robots. Don't underestimate the appeal of the robots.

A commenter on that entry also says this, lending plausibility:

I remember checking out of copy of that book from the libray and typing games into an Apple II, making minor adjustments so Applebasic would be happy.

Amazon.com has some used ones listed -- even a couple listed as "new", with a price-tag to match! ;)

If it's not this one, then I hope you find it eventually. I've had similar somewhat frustrating experiences trying to remember kids' TV shows and various books I read as a child, and it's always pleasantly nostalgic to finally pin something down.

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