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08/12/2010 11:15

Strap on your utility belt usb to hdmi and don your face mask—the DC Universe Online beta has arrived. Sony Online Entertainment has finally opened up a server for testing that allows players to take up sides with villains like the Joker and Catwoman or heroes like Superman and the Green Lantern and play through a portion of the new MMORPG.

 

In DC Universe Online, the world is faced with a crisis—an invasion by Brainiac once all the superheroes and villains have killed each other off. Lex Luthor, who witnesses the invasion, travels back through time to warn his new allies, Batman and Superman among them, and to spread Brainiac's tiny "exobots" through the general population, giving them superhuman powers. He hopes to create a super-army that will be able to stop playstation move gun Brainiac in time.

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities in the first-of-its-kind game-console-modding criminal trial abruptly dropped their prosecution here Thursday, “based on fairness and justice.”

 

The government has decided to dismiss the indictment,” prosecutor Allen Chiu told the judge shortly before the jury was to be seated on the third day of trial.

 

The announcement came a day after a whirlwind of legal jockeying in the case against defendant Matthew Crippen, a 28-year-old Southern California man. The government charged that Crippen, a hotel car-parking playstation move accessories manager, ran a small business from his Anaheim home modifying the firmware on Xbox 360 optical drives to make them capable of running pirated or unauthorized games.

Though Congress still bickers over net neutrality, spying on Americans, and universal health care, at least Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing: TV commercials are too damned loud. After approval by the House, the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act is now on its way to President Obama's desk. It was passed by the Senate earlier this year.

 

Rep. Anna Eshoo's (D-CA) bill will require commercials to be at the same decibel levels as programs during which they play. Once signed, the CALM Act will give the FCC a mandate to regulate and enforce volume limits on commercials, ensuring iPhone 4 Cases that their maximum loudness does not exceed the average maximum loudness of the program they're accompanying. Advertisers will have one year to implement technology to keep the volume levels in check.

 

Rep Eshoo noted that the FCC has received complaints about loud commercials since the 1960s, and that the issue has been the number one consumer complaint about TV in 21 of the last 25 FCC quarterly reports.

 

"Consumers have been asking for a solution to this problem for decades, and today they finally have it," Rep Eshoo said in a statement. Thanks to the CALM Act, "consumers will no longer have to experience being blasted at—it's a simple fix to a huge nuisance."

 

Those in the Orbiting HQ still subjected to LED Watch commercial TV (Netflix, anyone?) are already celebrating.

 

 

 

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