The Jets might have let the merchandising genie out of the bottle way too soon.

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Mass Effect 2 is just a week away from release and BioWare has just givin us another tease with their launch trailer.

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A team of computer scientists from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA are claiming to have found an “effectively perfect” method for blocking spam. The new system deciphers the templates a botnet is using to create spam and then teaches filters what to look for. “The system … works by exploiting a trick that spammers use to defeat email filters. As spam is churned out, subtle changes are typically incorporated into the (more…)

As videogames become more ingrained in our culture, they pop up more often films, literature, and television. Nowadays, most big-budget Hollywood projects write name-brand games into their scripts when called for.

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Dan Jones writes “Kiwis have built an entire school IT system out of open source software, in less than two months, despite a deal between the New Zealand government and Microsoft that effectively mandates the use of Microsoft products in the country’s schools. Albany Senior High School in the northern suburbs of Auckland has been running an entirely open source infrastructure since it opened in 2009. It’s using a range of applications like OpenOffice, (more…)

A group of cops, prosecutors and judges is cheering the recent successful marijuana legalization vote in the California state legislature. They liken the ban on recreational drugs to Prohibition, when the government’s ill-fated attempt to end the sale of liquor created a lucrative industry for criminals. Sound familiar?

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