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Peter Ludlow on policing SL: Companies like SL have a difficult time dealing with transgressions b/c dispute resolution is hard, & dealing with troubled adolescents and troubled adults is hard. It can be done, but the people that game companies throw at these social problems are typically either people with an engineering background or unpaid volunteers with little to no formal training. -
1voteIn a ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said MySpace is protected under the Communications Decency Act and cannot be expected to verify the age of every user because that "would of course stop MySpace's business in its tracks."
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1voteAfter being snubbed by publishers for years, Mr. Sigler began recording his first book, “EarthCore,” in 2005. He offered it as a podcast in 22 episodes (roughly 45 minutes each) that he posted online and sent free to subscribers for downloading. Before long, Mr. Sigler had 5,000 listeners; by the time he finished releasing his second novel, “Ancestor,” last January, he had 30,000.
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The 26 yr-old founder's idea was “to turn cyberlosers into social-networking magnets” by providing fictitious postings from attractive people. The postings are written by the client or by Mr. Walker and his employees, who base the messages on the client’s requests. FakeYourSpace says it does not post any messages that are threatening, pornographic or illegal. -
1voteHaving trouble making friends on MySpace? Another social-networking Web site is looking to set you up with some friends you might like. Mindkin was designed by students at Carnegie Mellon University as an online matchmaker, to help users find friends they may be compatible with. The university's student newspaper, The Tartan, says people are getting fed up with Facebook, MySpace, and other sites on which users must choose their own connections, often ending up with online "friends" whom they hardly even know.
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1votePrinceton University’s Undergraduate Student Government has created a Web service that allows students to complain to the professor when, say, he or she uses too much PowerPoint in class, without ever revealing their identities. The comments will be screened to filter out the nasty, according to the Daily Princetonian. Students will finally be able to give their professors a piece of their minds before the semester ends, without having to suffer any repercussions.
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1voteResearchers at the University of East Anglia, in England, are developing computer methods to read people’s lips captured on video and convert the information to text, according to United Press International. Police hope to use the technology for fighting crime and protecting against terrorism. Although the technology is still being developed, researchers are optimistic that they will succeed. And law-enforcement officials are interested because fewer people know how to read lips than in the past. However, the presence of such technology could raise privacy concerns if it were widely used.
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"Kids who grow up under conditions where they have to multitask a lot may be developing styles of coping that would allow them to perform better in future environments where required to do a lot, but that doesn't mean their performance in the workplace would be better than if they were doing one thing at a time." -
1voteA one-time college couple say their melodramatic Valentine's Day breakup — complete with singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade — was real. Those who were there say it all seemed a little too staged. "To be honest, it wasn't really about her," Burke said. "I thought the relationship was headed that way anyway, so I just wanted to see people's reactions to the breakup."
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1voteThe popular MySpace social-networking site — where people create elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video — is supposed to offer anonymity to visitors who browse the pages. But Harrison and Mondelli's program collected e-mail addresses and Internet Protocol addresses, prosecutors said. Such information could have been used by stalkers trying to locate MySpace users, said Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey A. McGrath.
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