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(link) Wednesday, 9-November-2005 10:06:25 (GMT +10) - by Mred32
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The War of the Websites has taken another turn. I recently posted an article about Online Plagiarism, in particular, websites stealing content from other websites. Well, it's happened again with the war heating up to the point where one site allegedly plants malicious code on its front page with the intention of bringing another site down. Nasty! This time the site with the complaint have fought back, in a funny kind of way. Have a look at this short flash movie for a laugh. Warning, it does contain some Mild Cartoon Nudity and Mild Audible Explicit Language so maybe wait until you get home from work.
Game Development has changed a lot in recent years. Gone are the days of a single person coding the entire game over a few months and getting it ready for production. Ars Technica look at the nature of Consoles and Cross Platform game development.
DesignTechnica also have some ramblings about the game industry, and how it ties in with the movie industry. Anyone for Jaws on PC?
Gamers Hell have posted Part 2 of their PC Silencing Guide. For those who missed it, you might want to have a read of Part 1.
Beyond 3D have taken three GeForce 7800 cards from Leadtek and put them up against each other. The cards are the PX7800 GT TDH Extreme, PX7800 GTX TDH and the PX7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO Extreme. How did they fare? Read the article and find out.
With WOW (World of Warcraft) doing a roaring trade all over the world maybe its time to revisit an earlier version of the Warcraft game. Ptooey sent in this link to Warcraft III in Flash! You'll need the Flash/Shockwave player to play the game in your browser.
The ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) have launched a program to attempt to track down spammers. The idea is to make it easier for users to report suspected spam messages, via a toolbar button for those using Outlook Express, or by signing up with the program. It sounds like a good idea to me as any attempt to rid my Inbox of rubbish can only be a good thing. Find all the details here. They are also on the lookout for Zombies. Follow the link on that page for the full info. If you are a walking dead person who needs to ... oh, not that type of Zombie! Thanks for the link Paul and Tosser.
IBM have an interesting read about DRM and standards, or the lack of standards. "The tension between the inherent nature of standards and this particular usage of standards produces a variety of interesting counter-examples, technical curiosities, and other things worth closer examination." Tafe Dude sent the link and you can read it all here.
The Tech Zone have a short write-up about the differences between Wireless USB (WUSB) and Bluetooth. I guess the obvious difference would be 480Mbits Vs 1bit, but there might be other differences also.
I heard a recent news item about whether Australia should adopt an "R" rating for some computer game titles, something which we lack at this stage. Some states in the USA have done just that recently but the folks as Windows AtoZ believe it won't stop kids playing the games. Here's why.
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