I’d hate to call this pack of fallacies an informed interview, since that presupposes a reasonable grasp and analysis of facts, but there are plenty of grandstanding quotes from a lawyer who like to misdirect the blame for violence onto video games. It’s the same paranoid, "blame the culture" crap that promised we’d have packs […]
Hopefully this is really more of a hire-the-bad-guys-to-help-the-good-guys kind of thing but I severely doubt it. Seems that the Department of Homeland Security has made an executive from Claria, formerly Gator, to a committee on protecting privacy. The article also has an excellent content-free defense of the inclusion from chief privacy officer Nuala O’Connor Kelly.
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If you’re considering going to the World Cup in Germany next year, it appears that tickets will have an embedded RFID chip linked to your passport. While this is meant to make it more difficult to resell tickets, it also means you have to plan very carefully what games you are going to and who
It seems Microsoft is trying to stem the tide of users ditching the security hazard that is Internet Explorer for Mozilla Firefox. They just announced that Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta Due This Summer. Why wait until this summer for a preview version of their next browser when you can get Firefox today? Not to
Once again, there’s something rotten in Denmark. From Gates vs Denmark on Groklaw, via BoingBoing it seems Bill Gates is close down 800 IT Jobs in Denmark if the country doesn’t support the software patents directive (what a star trek-y title by the way). Let’s hope Denmark’s politicians don’t cave in to this threat. The
Message Overload: The people who visit your site dont care about it nearly as much as you do. Im thinking specifically of message areas. At best, if you’re providing your own messaging system, you should open it up so that users can get to it from outside your site. Email is probably a safe choice
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Two quick recommendations of TV shows that are worth checking out. First, the Sci-Fi channels reincarnation of Battlestar Galactica is shockingly good. I knew they’d respect the source material since they did an admirable job with the Dune mini-serieses but I didn’t expect it to be as good as it is. There are throwbacks to
I’ve been hating computers today as I woke up to find a corrupted partition table on my linux hard drive. I couldn’t recover it so had to balst away the partition table and all data on the drive. Luckily, all my data is redudantly backed up on other drives and PCs so I didn’t lose
Our addiction to World of Warcraft has lead to the inevitable computer upgrade. Remember, gentle reader, that this game was already responsible for a video card upgrade on my own machine. But now that I’ve gotten Staci hooked on playing – she’s an elven hunter with a pet puma, we needed to upgrade the machine
A lot of hand-wringing is going on about EA’s monopolization of sports video games and exclusivity deal with the NFL, ESPN, and the imminent end of sports games. You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t think its time to panic yet. Now, before you label me an EA apologist or discount me as not
Sports Gaming isn’t dead . . .its resting its eyes. Read More »