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Submission + - Valve Software On User-created Content

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Anonymous Coward writes: "Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz this week, Valve Software marketing director Doug Lombardi stressed the importance of user-created content, suggesting that home videogames consoles are going to have to embrace them if "they want online to matter". "I would argue that it's the biggest component those guys have to get over if they want online to matter", stated Lombardi. "Half-Life 1 was okay as a multiplayer game and Team Fortress Classic was really good, but Counter-Strike kicked both their asses no question. And that came from a kid going to college in Canada and another kid going to high school in New Jersey, who had our code and thought it would be cool to play our game.""
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Submission + - How image spam works

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Esther Schindler writes: "CSO Magazine has an article about "The Scourge of Image Spam," with an explanation of its effect (a year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam; today, up to 40 percent are in that category, and image spam is the reason spam traffic overall doubled in 2006). You might already know about that, ho-hum. But what's even cooler is a interactive graphic page which demonstrates the various methods used by image spammers and how it works."

Feed Replace your mouse with a DS, eliminate work-related fanboy downtime (engadget.com)

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Adding to the list of questionably-useful ways to use your Nintendo gear, German hacker Dankredues posted up a little app that lets you use the DS screen as a mouse. While it's no MIDI keyboard or homebrew tilt sensor, the app seems like it could make an interesting and cheap tablet for you to knock out that Princess Peach fanime you keep talking about. Wacom's not going to be losing sleep over this anytime soon though -- right now the software is available only in German, requires you to hardcode your IP address into the source before compiling, and opens two ports on your machine: one each for X and Y coordinates. Ouch. Give the dude some credit, though, he's only 14. True fanboys can prove their mettle by nabbing the software at the Read link.

[Via DS News]

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Feed Minuscule Molecules Pack A Powerful Punch (sciencedaily.com)

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A role for a microRNA in the immune system has been shown by a study of one of the world's first microRNA knockout mice in Science. The microRNA acts as a lynchpin to balance the response of immune defenses and the researchers suggest the corresponding human gene will have a similar vital role.

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