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<title>Flagship Studios' Founder Discusses Its Demise</title>
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<description>1Up is running a lengthy interview with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company, known primarily for its Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, announced massive layoffs last month, and is now simply winding down and taking care of a few final issues. Roper gives quite a bit of detail regarding the financial machinations of a game developer and the current status of the games' code. Co-founders Max Schaefer and Travis Baldree gave a related interview recently as well. "The subscription money we did get, we all poured directly into keeping the game online, keeping it up and running. But the development demands far outstripped the revenues. There just wasn't a good contemplation early on of how that would work. It wasn't like: This is the budget that comes in every month; we'll do whatever we can do with that. We just said [that] development will get done out of the revenues, and whoever pays for development, they get paid back out of the revenues. And there wasn't really enough revenues coming in to cover the expected and required development."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1852220&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1852220"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1852220&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>Soulskill</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T20:10:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>money</dc:subject>
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<title>MIT Students' Gag Order Lifted</title>
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<description>mytrip and several other readers let us know that a judge in Boston has lifted the gag order &amp;mdash; actually let it expire &amp;mdash; against three MIT students who discovered flaws in the security of the local transit system, the MBTA. We've discussed the case over the last 10 days. "Judge O'Toole said he disagreed with the basic premise of the MBTA's argument: That the students' presentation was a likely violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 1986 federal law meant to protect computers from malicious attacks such as worms and viruses. Many had expected Tuesday's hearing to hinge on First Amendment issues and what amounts to responsible disclosure on the part of computer security researchers. Instead, O'Toole based his ruling on the narrow grounds of what constitutes a violation of the CFAA. On that basis, he said MBTA lawyers failed to convince him on two points: The students' presentation was meant to be delivered to people, and was not a computer-to-computer 'transmission.' Second, the MBTA couldn't prove the students had caused at least $5,000 damage to the transit system."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1848245&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1848245"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1848245&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T19:22:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>court</dc:subject>
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<title>Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing</title>
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<description>Anti-Globalism sends in Ars coverage of a speech by Jim Griffin, who is a consultant for Warner, one of the big four music labels. Griffin is encouraging dialog on the idea of blanket licensing of music &amp;mdash; a topic heretofore more likely to be heard from the EFF or the Barenaked Ladies. "Taking music without paying for it may not be 'morally voluntary,' Griffin says, but he admits it has become 'functionally voluntary.' No civilized society, he adds, can endure 'purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture.' So Griffin's job is to help Warner monetize digital music, and he's convinced that the issue of payment for music is nothing less than 'our generation's nuclear power.' Griffin's most intriguing idea, and one he's been pitching for some time now, is a voluntary, blanket music license; essentially, bringing the collection society model to end users. In this model, consumers would pay royalties into a pot (by paying an extra monthly fee to their ISPs, for instance) and would then have access to all the music from all the labels that participate in the scheme."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1821215&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1821215"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1821215&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T18:38:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>music</dc:subject>
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<title>Mars Lander Snaps the Most Detailed Pics Yet</title>
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<description>An anonymous reader writes "The Mars Lander has taken its very first microscopic image of a piece of Martian dust (image). The particle, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is shown at a higher magnification than anything ever seen from another planet. The piece of dust is a rounded particle about a millionth of a meter across. This particle is one of the countless specks of dust that continually swirl around the Red Planet, coloring the Martian sky pink. 'Taking the images required the highest resolution microscope operated off of Earth and a specially designed substrate to hold the Martian dust,' said Tom Pike, a Phoenix science team member. 'We always knew it was going to be technically very challenging to image particles this small.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1743258&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1743258"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1743258&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T17:53:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/369203240/article.pl</link>
<description>German police have confiscated the world's fastest office chair and arrested its 17-year-old inventors. The duo added a lawnmower engine, brakes and a metal frame to the office chair and were reported to be driving it all over the streets of Gross-Zimmern. Police did not comment on the chair's handling or acceleration but I look forward to it being profiled on Top Gear.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1552255&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1552255"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1552255&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=dGk2bH"&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=dGk2bH" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/369203240" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T17:10:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Leaping the Uncanny Valley</title>
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<description>reachums submits this glance at "the newest level of computer animation," intended to get past the paradoxical "uncanny valley" &amp;mdash; that is, the way animated humans actually can appear jarring as the animation gets hyper-realistic. "This short video gives us a glimpse of what we can hope to see in the future of computer games and movies. Emily is not a real actress, but she looks like a real person, something we haven't truly seen before in computer animation."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1541233&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1541233"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1541233&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=cj5gqf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=cj5gqf" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/369162376" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T16:19:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>graphics</dc:subject>
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<title>A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/369136747/article.pl</link>
<description>Ashik Ratnani writes with this snippet from Hungry Hackers: "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool, is planning to release it in two weeks."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1433206&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1433206"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1433206&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=mU9AWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=mU9AWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/369136747" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T15:26:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>security</dc:subject>
<slash:department>oh-that-hurts</slash:department>
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<item rdf:about="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1417238&amp;from=rss">
<title>OpenSolaris From a Linux Admin and User Perspective</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/369098536/article.pl</link>
<description>MSa writes "How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences between the OS and a typical Linux distro. If you want to sample the mighty ZFS filesystem, OpenSolaris is definitely the way to go."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1417238&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1417238"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1417238&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=PGU0E4"&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=PGU0E4" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/369098536" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T14:34:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>unix</dc:subject>
<slash:department>looks-quite-nice</slash:department>
<slash:section>linux</slash:section>
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<title>Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare</title>
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<description>bcrowell writes "The LA Times has a front-page article about how open-source college textbooks are starting to gain traction. One author says, 'I couldn't continue assigning idiotic books that are starting to break $200,' and describes attempts by commercial publishers to bribe faculty to use their books. The Cal State system has started a Digital Marketplace to help faculty find out about their options for free and non-free digital textbooks, and the student group PIRG has collected 1200 faculty signatures on a statement of support for open textbooks."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1316227&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1316227"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1316227&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=MS3oq6"&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=MS3oq6" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/369053315" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T13:41:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<slash:department>pirg-nonethless-annoying</slash:department>
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<title>Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/369034644/article.pl</link>
<description>k33l0r writes "Dell's entry into the sub-notebook market, the Inspiron 910, will ship with Ubuntu preinstalled. This was confirmed this morning when Gizmodo published (leaked) specifications for the Inspiron 910." I hope that's not the final form of the keyboard, though -- lots of wasted space on each side.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1222226&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/1222226"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1222226&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T12:53:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>linuxbusiness</dc:subject>
<slash:department>welcome-news</slash:department>
<slash:section>mobile</slash:section>
<slash:comments>193</slash:comments>
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<title>Best Terrestrial/OTA HDTV Setup For an Apartment?</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/368987967/article.pl</link>
<description>thesandbender writes "I don't watch TV but keep an HTPC for watching movies. One of my relatives is very ill and I'll have a lot of family rotating through my apartment and I'd like to have a few more options for entertainment. I'm running Vista MCE and bought a Hauppauge HVR-1800 with a DB8 HDTV antenna and I've used AntennaWeb to point the DB8 in the best direction. The results have been terrible and I'm looking for recommendations / suggestions for hardware and setup. I am on the first floor of a three-story apartment building and I can't mount any external antennas (I know this is a major issue). Thankfully almost all the transmitters are located in the same place so a good, compact directional antenna might be effective. And please... no platform bashing. They all have their issues (I have a lot of h.264 encoded files... hardware/GPU acceleration on Linux is very, very limited at the moment)."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/0131215&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/0131215"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/0131215&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T12:09:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>tv</dc:subject>
<slash:department>i-want-my-i-want-my</slash:department>
<slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section>
<slash:comments>202</slash:comments>
<slash:hit_parade>202,200,163,112,28,18,13</slash:hit_parade>
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<title>The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/368879157/article.pl</link>
<description>After the first announcement on 1997-04-27 and over eleven years of fresh start after fresh start, Duke Nukem Forever finally comes to your system. At least if your system is an Xbox 360. Jon Siegler, the webmaster of 3D Realms, confirms this on their site: "As has been reported around the net today, we can confirm that the game has indeed passed final certification with Microsoft on Friday the 15th of August (on our first try, no less). That means the game is done &amp;mdash; it is now in the hands of Microsoft." Update: 08/19 10:47 GMT by T : Several readers have written with a correction: this announcement is actually about Duke Nukem 3D, rather than Duke Nukem Forever.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/0019255&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/0019255"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/0019255&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>Hurricane78 (posted by kdawson)</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T09:20:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>fps</dc:subject>
<slash:department>better-be-good</slash:department>
<slash:section>games</slash:section>
<slash:comments>260</slash:comments>
<slash:hit_parade>260,246,211,150,72,45,33</slash:hit_parade>
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<title>Google Revs Android, FCC Approves First Phone</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/368783661/article.pl</link>
<description>Cycon writes "Google has announced, 'We're releasing a beta SDK. You can read about the new Android 0.9 SDK beta at the Android Developers' Site, or if you want to get straight to the bits, you can visit the download page.' A new Development Roadmap has also been released to help developers understand the direction the software is taking (as this is still only a Beta release). In addition, the FCC has approved the HTC Dream, and it is believed Google and T-Mobile will launch the phone in the US on November 10, since a confidentiality request attached to the application asks the FCC to keep details secret until that date."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/0049209&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/19/0049209"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/0049209&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T06:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>google</dc:subject>
<slash:department>dream-machine</slash:department>
<slash:section>tech</slash:section>
<slash:comments>216</slash:comments>
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<title>OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/368683496/article.pl</link>
<description>Brian Jordan writes "For 48 hours during the weekend of August 29-31 at the OLPC Physics Game Jam Boston, game developers will compete in teams of 2-4 to design and implement a physics-based game for the One Laptop per Child XO laptop. There are prize categories for indie, professional, and remote developers (Ludum Dare style). In addition to OLPC/Jam-related swag for all participants, one team will win an XO laptop. Participants should have some game development experience, but we'll be going over the development process during the event &amp;mdash; read below for details. If you'll be in the Boston area this weekend, or want to participate remotely, sign up before August 22. If you're a graphic artist, sound designer, musician in the Boston area, or want to be a volunteer, get in touch." Click the magic link for details of the crash course in game programming being offered.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/18/2258228&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/18/2258228"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/18/2258228&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T03:40:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>programming</dc:subject>
<slash:department>come-to-learn-come-to-win</slash:department>
<slash:section>developers</slash:section>
<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
<slash:hit_parade>57,51,38,26,13,10,6</slash:hit_parade>
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<title>Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/368616346/article.pl</link>
<description>ElvaWSJ writes "A small subculture of amateur physicists and science-fiction fans &amp;mdash; fewer than 100 worldwide &amp;mdash; are building working nuclear-fusion reactors at home. The designs are based on the work of Philo T. Farnsworth, an inventor of television, from the 1960s. Some of these hobbyists hope similar reactors can one day power the planet, but so far they consume more energy than they create."&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/18/2353255&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;&lt;img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;amp;op=image&amp;amp;style=h0&amp;amp;sid=08/08/18/2353255"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/18/2353255&amp;amp;from=rss"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;
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<dc:creator>kdawson</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-19T01:37:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>hardhack</dc:subject>
<slash:department>things-that-hopefully-do-not-go-boom</slash:department>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<slash:comments>348</slash:comments>
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