Week in pictures: Game on. roundup Gamers at E3 get a dose of next-gen consoles, games and 'booth babes.' [CNET News.com]

 

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What's in your wallet...The Economy of Online Crime. hdtv writes "You might call the thugs or thieves, but on their own closed forums and referral-only Web sites, they value honesty and reputation. Fortune magazine looks into the black market for stolen credit card numbers and identities. What's interesting is that so few of the criminals retrieve their information via breaking into online stores." From the article: "Gaffan says these credit card numbers and data are almost never obtained by criminals as a result of legitimate online card use. More often the fraudsters get them through offline credit card number thefts in places like restaurants, when computer tapes are stolen or lost, or using 'pharming' sites, which mimic a genuine bank site and dupe cardholders into entering precious private information. Another source of credit card data are the very common 'phishing' scams, in which an e-mail that looks like it's from a bank prompts someone to hand over personal data." [Slashdot]

 

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Total Immersion...Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods. the terminal of geoff goodfellow writes "The New York Times has an article on the Bagus Gran Cyber Café in Tokyo, where customers rent so-called media immersion pods. From the article: 'At first glance the spread looks officelike, but be warned: these places are drug dens for Internet addicts outfitted with VHS and DVD players, satellite and regular television on a Toshiba set, PlayStation 2, Lineage II and a Compaq computer loaded with software, all the relevant downloads and hyperspeedy Internet. In the nearby library were thousands of comic books, magazines and novels.'" [Slashdot]

 

 

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London 2006, Meet London 1984. Draape writes "Shoreditch TV is an experiment TV channel beaming live footage from the street into people's homes. According to the Telegraph U.K. television will broadcast from 400 surveillance cameras on the streets, into people's homes. For now they are only showing it to 22,000 homes, but next year they plan on going national with the 'show'. They fly under the flag 'fighting crime from the sofa'." [Slashdot]

 

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What's the Secret Sauce in Ruby on Rails?. An anonymous reader writes "Ruby on Rails seems to be a lightning rod for controversy. At the heart of most of the controversy lies amazing productivity claims. Rails isn't a better hammer; it's a different kind of tool. This article explores the compromises and design decisions that went into making Rails so productive within its niche." [Slashdot]

 

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Virtual Worlds...BBC starts to rock online world. The BBC has rented an island in an online world to host a virtual version of Radio 1s Big Weekend pop concert. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Ars Technica: CCP shows how you build and keep a dedicated online community. EVE Online has some great additions coming. (I think EVE is the best MMO on the market, which is to say that I'm not actually willing to pay for it, but I was willing to play the free trial.) [Hack the Planet]

 

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