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6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive 504

Posted by timothy from the buck-beats-scapegoat dept.
nandemoari writes "A six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game has been criticized by parent groups and crusaders (or in the eyes of gamers, nincompoops) like former lawyer Jack Thompson for years (Thompson once tried to link the Virginia Tech slayings to late-night Counterstrike sessions. He's since been disbarred). However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft."
The Courts

RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient 663

Posted by kdawson from the kicking-dogs-on-the-way-home dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Just when you think they've reached rock bottom, it seems the RIAA always finds room to sink a little lower. This time they've sued an innocent, 19-year-old transplant patient, hospitalized with pancreatitis and needing islet cell transplants. Although the young Pittsburgh lady claims that she did not infringe any copyrights, she failed to answer the complaint in time, and a default judgment was taken against her. A Pittsburgh area lawyer has stated that he will represent her pro bono and make a motion to open up the default."

Comment Re:Okay... (Score 1) 423

by bakahito (#20383875) Attached to: Mark Russinovich On Vista Network Slowdown
I understand your position on why this is a good feature for older systems that would experience such problems, but to get the "Core Vista Experience" you need a computer that is fairly recent. Vista is marketed as "Experience the Wow" or the "The wow is now", whatever I'm not sure on it, but that requires a computer that shouldn't experience the problems that this "feature" was intended to fix.
Biotech

Toward a 3D Search Engine 83

Posted by kdawson from the shape-matters dept.
Plasma Droid writes "NewScientistTech has a story about a 3D molecular search engine that is over 1,500 times faster than anything previously developed. The researchers, from Oxford University, developed a lightning-fast way to quickly match 3D shapes mathematically. This could not only speed up searches for new drugs, but lead to 3D search engines, for finding objects uploaded to platforms such as Google Earth, they say." The problem will be in jump-starting the supply of 3D data about molecules and everything else.

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