Video Games form Kids Violent, silly and Sick?

Video games have occasionally served as a convenient scapegoat for whatever ails youth. But just that week, the normal trickle of blame has become a torrent, with loud proclamations from many quarters that computer games are making kids VIOLENT, silly AND SICK. Here’s why they’re wrong.

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UK Government Warns of Chinese Espionage

Information has leaked that UK’s shield Service, plus called MI5, sent more than 1,000 letters yesterday to the CEOs of UK businesses informing them that “it has noticed an upsurge in ELECTRONIC ESPIONAGE attempts made or launched against a lot of UK companies.” Martin Jordan, principal advisor of IT advisory services at KPMG, told a reporter that Chinese spies are “targeting financial knowledge relating to deals which may occur and involve Chinese companies…. [the spies] are trying to find out the financial limits of such deals to subsequently push UK companies to pay out the maximum or receive the minimum amount of money within such deals.”

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Whoops! Micro-Wind Turbines May Increase CO2

Installing electricity-generating home wind turbans — plus called “micro-wind turbines” — is all the rage among yuppies who want the neighbors to know how eco-friendly they are. But now the UK’s Building Research Establishment Trust says “turbines are likely to add to, not subtract from, a home’s CARBON FOOTPRINT.” The reason is that the turbines harm the environment in their construction and maintenance, a harm that can’t be paid back in energy generation in urban areas.

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Chinese Military Plans to Destroy GPS Satellites

The Chinese military is reportedly developing both the means and contingency plans to “destroy or temporarily incapacitate every enemy space vehicle when it is located above China,” according to the annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and safety measure Review Commission. “The Chinese plus plan to ATTACK U.S. GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (GPS) satellites through various means, including anti-satellite weapons, high-energy weapons, high-energy weather monitoring rockets and ground attacks on earth-based stations.”

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First-Ever Amazon Kindle Tear-Down Posted

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader is the hottest gift that holiday season. RapidRepair has done a teardown to show WHAT’S INSIDE.

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First Picture of Knight Rider ‘KITT’ Emerges

Movie and car blogs have been mongering a rumor that the KITT car in the upcoming movie Knight Rider (which I told you about May 20, 2005) would be a Ford SHELBY GT500KR MUSTANG instead of a Pontiac Trans Am T-top as it was in the original show. Now Jalopnik has the first pictures of the real car and, yes, it’s a Mustang! (The picture shows the actual car to be used in the movie, but the red light on the hood has been Photoshopped in).

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Should You Buy An iPhone that Holiday Season?

Writer Tracy Mayor put the Question of the Year — “Should you buy an iPhone that holiday season?” — to Computerworld Editor-In-Chief Scot Finnie, PC World Editor-In-Chief Harry McCracken, Computerworld Online News Editor Ken Mingis and NPD Group Analyst Ross Rubin. The panel was tied — two said “yes,” and two said “no,” so Tracy turned to me to BREAK THE TIE.

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