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Valve Announces Dota 2 128

RulerOf writes "Just over a year after hiring IceFrog, the lead developer of the wildly popular DotA Allstars mod for Warcraft III, and the speculation surrounding Valve's recent trademark filing for the 'DotA' name, Valve has officially announced Dota 2. Gameplay of Dota 2 is being ported 'exactly' from the current DotA Allstars and includes every hero, but vast improvements are being made to the game including VoIP, a coaching system, in-game rewards, and AI that takes over for disconnected players. Lastly, it all runs on top of the Source engine. (GameInformer's website appears to be struggling right now though, as they had an exclusive on this story.)"
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AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269

Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
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The Parking Meter Turns 75 Today 126

nj_peeps writes "75 years ago Carl Magee filed a patent application for what would become one of the most hated inventions in history: the parking meter. From the article: 'Magee's brainwave was to install a device that had a coin acceptor and a dial to engage a timing mechanism. A visible pointer and flag indicated the expiration of the paid period, meaning you either had to move, put in more money, or face the wrath of the local constabulary. The design continued largely unchanged for more than 40 years.'"

Comment Re:Oh the fun of diving on garbage. (Score 2, Interesting) 169

Do you really want a bunch of inexperienced divers with no bouyancy control
slamming into natural reefs & kicking up silt?

Aside from being something different to see, wrecks make good training sites for all
sorts of skills.

As an added bonus they have a commercial/tourist value that helps
make providing and improving marine habitat more affordable.

Comment Re:Why not? (Score 1) 120

The ethics rules/courts tend to weigh heavily on the side of protecting the "client"

It's probably not reasonable, in most cases, to expect a forum
poster is your attorney, but there is no reason why you can't
create an attorney-client relationship on an online forum.

If someone makes a claim, the "reasonableness" test is a point that will end up in litigation. By clearly stating that you are not their lawyer, you are hoping to make it so unlikely the plaintiff will will, they won't bother to file in the first place. (Or, if they do, you can easily get the claim dismissed.)

Your example is an obvious extreme, no one has any reason to
assume you are a lawyer and the "advice" is very general. That does not mean you can't craft a post that would truly be problematic.

Oh yea... IAAL BNYL

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