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"The airport scene in Modern Warfare 2 has been the subject of much debate since the game was released.
Jesse Stern, scriptwriter for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has given a frank interview about the controversial airport scene which occurs early in the game, claiming ...
Other
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
"August 13, 6:40 PM: I'm driving East out of San Francisco on I-80, fleeing my life under the cover of dusk. Having come to the interstate by a circuitous route, full of quick turns and double backs, I'm reasonably sure that no one is following me. I keep checking the rearview mirror anyway. ...
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"Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has been utilizing electronics and the internet to piss off just about every high-level administrative authority in the US. In the late 90s, his performance-art-cum-activist organization the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) set up a ...
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"A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.
It's not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research ...
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"Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. It's completely free, though you'll need VMWare running ...
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Chrome
Linux
"In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said the mother gave him permission to use the Taser.
When he arrived, the girl was curled up on the floor, screaming, and resisting as her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.
"Her mother told me to take her if I needed ...
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"The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.
E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
A university spokesman ...
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"Yup. You read that right. Modern Warfare 2 PC now has dedicated servers.
Wait, PC gamers! Before you send Bobby Kotick a thank you letter, know that it wasn't they who did it, but rather the gamers who took Infinity Ward and Activition's attempts to lock down the game as a ...
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"Careful what you say that iPhone over there could be a live microphone.
Which is to say there's a new, free iPhone app called Soundbiter designed to monitor the world's audio and upload it to Twitter and Facebook with the push of a button.
When running, the Soundbiter app is constantly ...
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@ RockPaperShotgun
"Just as a FYI. (Click for the full thing)"
@ Kotaku
"According to "internal Activision estimates", Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 didn't just have a good launch, it had "the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment".
This claim is based on ...
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Activision
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
" Think you can type? Now's your chance to jump in the ring err, take a seat at your keyboard and go head-to-head with the fastest typists around. Put your fierce typing skills to the test for a chance to win $2,000 and be crowned the first-ever Ultimate Typing Champion. "
The current ...
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@ Ars Technica
"Intel and AMD are fierce competitors in the world of chipmaking, but in recent years they've taken the fight to the courtroom. AMD has sued Intel for antitrust violations (allegations that have been picked up by a number of governments), while Intel fired back by claiming ...
Motherboards and Memory
AMD
Intel
Alright. You put a lot of miles on a mouse. Over time, they get quirks, and those are actually just little stress fractures and other flaws that you beat into them, and I don't just mean the body of the mouse. The feet are ablative and wear away, the plastic used to make the buttons go ...
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"In fact, many of you have commented that you have cancelled your preorders in response to the design decisions made by Infinity Ward. But Activision, publisher of what will be one of the largest titles of the year, doesn't seem all that worried about the backlash from PC ...
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Activision
"The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:
* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed ...
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Barack Obama
Flickr
YouTube
" As a fan of the ridiculous acrobatics in the games, one of the aspects I was specifically watching for in the trailer was the stuntwork. As expected, the action is heavy on the CG, but as a result the free running in the trailer is as unbelievable as in the games, if not more so. Some ...
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"The first step to solving this problem of limited inventory space is to use your characters as mules. In my game, every single character has a secondary weapon equipped. Every amulet and belt slot is used. Both ring slots are filled. Not necessarily because the character is going to use those ...
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BioWare
"In terms of data on current human scales, a yottabyte is nearly infinite (though I'm sure the NSA will manage to fill the thing in like 2 weeks, and iPods will come with yottabytes in just a few months).
To be fair, the yottabyte figure is just one estimate generated by a Pentagon think ...
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LIFE
Unfinished Windows 7 Feature Turns Laptops Into Wi-Fi Hotspots
"A Philadelphia developer has rooted out an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other Wi-Fi-enabled devices to share the connection without special software. Nomadio, which ...
OS
Windows 7
@ Wired
"The good news is that this feature-rich handset, running version 2.0 of Google's Android OS, compares very favorably to the Goliath of the smartphone world as a utility mobile-computing device and, oh yeah, a phone. The bad news is that there may be too many good things going on to ...
