30th June 2007 Archive

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Theatre and democracy in Second Life

Column Everyone gets a part

Sometimes, when the right people are together, the most mundane conversation can lead to interesting and unexpected observations. In this case, an argument with a Second Life friend about a dress evolved into a decent discussion of online RP environments like SL, and just how much theatre one brings to the game, and how much of …

Music and Media 30 Jun 2007, 02:02
Space nuke boffin: NASA Moonbase needs nuclear rockets

Could face stiff opposition from granola tendency

One of America'a top nukes-in-space boffins says it's time to consider nuclear-powered rockets again. He reckons atomic boosters could cut the cost of NASA's upcoming Moonbase plan. Stephen Howe is director of the Centre for Space Nuclear Research, a division of America's Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and he was speaking at …

Space 30 Jun 2007, 07:02
Now you see us, now you don't: ICANN goes transparent

ICANN San Juan 2007 What about those voting rights, again?

The Wednesday ICANN-arama wrapped up with a session covering ICANN's ongoing efforts to improve its management and accountability practices: the "Accountability and transparency management operating principles" workshop. Maybe the title itself had something to do with it, but this very lightly attended workshop had the ring to …

Law 30 Jun 2007, 13:02
Apple iPhone

Review May return it

No, Apple didn't send us an iPhone. Newsweek got one. And The Wall Street Journal. And The New York Times. But Jobs and Co. have a very different attitude towards El Reg. We weren't likely to get an official review unit even before our very own Ashlee Vance publicly questioned the sanity of the company's PR staff. We had to wait …

Reg Hardware 30 Jun 2007, 17:09
A glitch in the Matrix, or a hungry exploit?

Weird internet behaviour. What's going on?

Sûnnet Beskerming researchers observed an interesting deviation in global network traffic over the last 24 hours, particularly for South American, Asian, and Australian networks. Normally, global Internet traffic (as observed by the Internet Traffic Report) oscillates around nine per cent packet loss, with global response times …

Enterprise Security 30 Jun 2007, 23:37