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Comment Re:Original IP? Original Gameplay... (Score 1) 118

I agree, it's the gameplay that keeps me coming back. I'm no lore geek for WoW, but I don't dislike it. It's a cute novelty. I've never been a MMO person much but WoW is fun to play. The mechanics and abilities of the characters are classes are fun. I love PVP, it's what keeps me going on WoW because I'm burnt out on the PVE environment. I know I'm speaking about WoW more than MMOs in general,I wish they'd find ways to make the game play more fun, from level 1-80. I hate that it's end game focused. Take some new risks. Maybe new AI on the mobs? Mobs are so predictable, how about some more random things. Mobs that fight back smarter. Or bigger risk you take, bigger rewards, less quest based activities. New content all around to make you want to enjoy leveling up again, not just grind to 80 ASAP. New classes, new low level abilities not just new end game abilities. We don't need new settings or environment, it's all about the game play. Wow is a complication of every MMO and D20 RPG but I'm fine with that, because they nearly mastered the interface and making it fun to play. And STFU with the use of term IP. Intellectual property is an oxymoron.
Google

Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat 364

CWmike writes "The blogosphere regularly excoriates Microsoft for being a monopoly, but Google may be in the cross-hairs of the nation's next anti-trust chief for monopolistic behavior, writes Preston Gralla. Last June, Christine A. Varney, President Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief, warned that Google already had a monopoly in online advertising. 'For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem,' Varney said at a June 19 panel discussion sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute, according to a Bloomberg report. The US economy will 'continually see a problem — potentially with Google' because it already 'has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising.' Varney has yet to be confirmed as antitrust chief, and she said all this before she was nominated. Still, it spells potentially bad news for Google. It may be time for the company to start adding to its legal staff."
Windows

Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 1127

TechForensics writes "A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files." Read on for more details of this user's findings.

Comment Re:Not an isolated incident (Score 1) 389

An America West Airbus A320 flight I was on had something like this happen, just not as severe. Flying along in smooth air at cruise altitude, we suddenly drop like a rock for 5 seconds. The wing speed breaks deployed. Scariest drop I've ever had on all my time flying. The copilot said it was an "auto pilot adjustment" mmmm humm .....
Oracle

International Spam Ring Shut Down 243

smooth wombat writes "An international spam ring with ties to Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and the US is in the process of being shut down. Finances of members in the US are being frozen using the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 while the FBI is pursuing criminal charges. The group sent spam advertising male enhancement herbs and other items using a botnet estimated at 35,000 computers, and able to send 10 billion emails per day. The Federal Trade Commission monitored the group's finances and found that they had cleared $400,000 in Visa charges in one month alone."

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