Video Game Violence Strikes AGAIN!
This guy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed twenty two times over an Xbox Live chat that turned "bitter." Who cares about the facts in the case, if your child plays video games, you may already have a killer living with you.
An online fight led to an in-person attack for a young man in Oakley, and he ended up with nearly two dozen stab wounds.This stabbing all started with a conversation on an Xbox Live headset that allegedly set a 17-year-old off, not with a joystick, but with a real knife and gun. Kevin Kemp, 20, didn't mind showing the scars from his battle Monday. There are 22 stab wounds now stitched back up.
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Intel To Develop New SSD Specs for Ultrabooks
DigiTimes, citing its usual anonymous industry sources, claims that Intel is developing new SSD specs for Ultrabooks. Here's a quote from the article:
Intel is looking to unify specifications for mSATA SSDs targeted at ultrabook applications, and is seeking cooperation with PC vendors and NAND flash companies. Details regarding the new SSD specs for ultrabooks will likely be finalized in September, according to sources at memory makers.
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Texting While Driving FAIL of the Week
Dude, I need to quit texting before I....
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Even more chilling was a message he'd written in the moments prior to that: "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident," he'd typed. Luckily for him, the prophecy was only partly right.
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Hands On With The Oculus Rift
The crew at Legit Reviews got a little hands on time with the Oculus Rift today. The prototype may look funny but, according to the article, it works. Hit the link for the complete rundown.
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DHS Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube?
The Department of Homeland Security can issue YouTube takedown notices now?
I reached out to people at YouTube to see if they could explain why DHS appears to be issuing DMCA takedowns, and got back the equivalent of a "no comment." I also reached out to Homeland Security, who at first seemed interested in looking into the details and then completely stopped responding to emails. Having not received further communication from them in over a week at this point, I'm just going with the post as is, in the hopes that maybe someone out there can explain why the federal government is using copyright to censor speech?
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Privacy Plug-In Blurs Facebook Photos
Hi there! Are you too stupid to adjust the privacy settings on your Facebook profile? McAfee is here to help!
When someone views your pictures using Social Protection they will be prevented from downloading or sharing those pictures. Much more sophisticated than just preventing dragging and dropping a snapshot from Facebook to a desktop, Social Protection also prevents you from capturing a screenshot of the image, displaying a padlock icon over the picture if someone makes an attempt.
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The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games
I am almost scared to post this list of the 40 most powerful people in video games because Apple's CEO sits in the #1 position.
The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy them or even what games are like. We've often wondered who the most powerful person is in video games. And we've wondered who the second is, the third and the 38th. Now, we bring you the results. Our results of the top 40.
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Carmack Sorry About Performance Of Rage On PC
You guys remember Rage don't you? You know the game with the awesome hi-res textures designed with PC gamers in mind. Well, for some odd reason, John Carmack decided to say he is sorry the PC version of Rage sucked and he promises the company will do better next time.
As part of his keynote, Carmack said that he was happy with Rage's gameplay, but that the company could have taken more time on things like the checkpoint save system and the weak ending. But he said it was "inexcusable" to release the game on PC when half the users could not play the game because of driver issues. "There's just no way to argue our way out of it."
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First Beer in Space
How would you test that "super cold" label on cans of Coors Light? I guess sending one into space is as good a way as any. Checking the fridge would have probably been easier but that isn't as [H]
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Activision CEO: Competitors' Games Are Less Than Adequate
The quote of the day is brought to you by Activision's CEO Bobby Kotick.
"I think you have had, unfortunately, a stream of products that are less than adequate from some of our competitors and I think the demands and the expectations in the marketplace [are] for great quality products. And if you look at the success that we're having, it validates that there is an opportunity for great quality products, but I think where we are in the console cycle makes it more challenging for anything other than great quality products."
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Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Budget "Too Expensive To Justify"
After finding out how much the program actually costs, France's new Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti says that funding for its three strikes anti-piracy program will "be greatly reduced." The country currently spends about $15M a year on the program and employs 60 officers.
A statement by French Culture Minister Aurelie Filipetti spells bad and possibly fatal news for the country's "three strikes" anti-piracy scheme. The Minister said that not only is the cost of running Hadopi too great to justify, but the agency has failed to deliver when it comes to developing the availability of legal content. As the final insult, Filipetti said that Internet disconnections are a disproportionate way to deal with infringement.
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