Tag archive: ban

Good, rational decisions are rarely born out of fear. Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) met to discuss a massive collision involving “two school buses, a bobtail, and a passenger vehicle” back on Aug. 5, 2010 in Missouri. This collision was caused by a truck driver who was texting while driving. While there is no doubt that texting or reading anything on your phone is a bad idea and a ban on it is probably a… Read More

Beware cheaters, for EA and DICE are looking for you. In a tweet on the official Battlefield page, DICE has confirmed that people deemed to be cheating, specifically boosting their stats by artificial means, will face the wrath of the ban hammer and have their stats wiped. “This week we’ve banned hundreds of offending accounts and have stats-wiped accounts for exploiting (such as boosting)…” a tweet from DICE stated. A new and nefarious exploit… Read More

Following the successful hack of the PC beta for Battlefield 3, EA and DICE have issued a warning that joining in a hacked server could result in a ban from not just Battlefield 3, but all EA games purchased through Origins. It began the other day when hackers found a way to increase the player cap for the Paris Metro map, which is the only map currently available via the ongoing beta for Battlefield 3. Currently the game is limited to… Read More

A game that focused on controversial aspects of the smartphone manufacturing process received approval from Apple and was placed in the App Store on Saturday. Three days later, however, it was pulled. As reported by the New York Times, the 99-cent game, called Phone Story, tracked the life of a mobile phone, from the mining of precious metals required for making the device to factories in China where the phones are assembled. The blurb on the… Read More

Radio and television news anchors may no longer say the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air, unless the terms are part of a news story. This prohibits French news organizations from urging their audience to “follow us on Twitter” or “check out or Facebook page,” or other such promotions. The ban actually stems from a decree issued by the French government on March 27, 1992, which forbids the… Read More

Parents should be responsible for determining whether children can buy or rent violent video games, says a new survey by Gallup. The U.S. Supreme court is hearing arguments today over a 2005 California law that prohibited the sale of violent games to anyone under the age of 18. Though the law never took effect, it has been bouncing around the courts for five years. Gallup surveyed a random sample of 1,033 adults living in the United States on… Read More

In December 2006, North Carolina introduced a ban on using cell phones while driving, in the hope that teens – the worst offenders – would put their cells down in the car. However, a study shows that hasn’t been the case – more teens have been observed using their phones while driving than before the ban, up from 11% to 12%. The observations were made as they left school in the afternoon. About 2% were reportedly… Read More

Pakistan yesterday lifted the ban on YouTube that had existed in the country since Friday, and which had caused a global blackout of the Google-owned video-sharing site for a couple of hours following an error.   The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority told ISPsthey no longer had to restrict access to the site. The ban had been put in place, it was said, because the site showed material offensive to Islam, which some believed to be a… Read More

The United States Senate has approved a measure which would extend the prohibition on taxing Internet services in the United States for another seven years. Although the measure must still be reconciled with a different House bill before being sent along for approval by President Bush, observers widely believe the current ban on Internet taxes will be extended. The current moratorium on taxing Internet services was originally enacted in… Read More

The free-wheeling, anything-goes nature of the online virtual world Second Life is one of the things which appeals to many residents. Unlike games like The Sims and World of Warcraft, almost everything in Second Life is created by residents, who build and program objects, buy virtual “land” to set up homes and businesses, and interact with (potentially) millions of other in-world avatars. But that free-and-easy world has become… Read More

“The move was a slight nod to the cable providers, who wanted the ban removed altogether, and a minor setback to the consumer electronics industry, who would have preferred that it stay on schedule. The ban would prevent the largest cable companies from integrating their digital content security devices with their navigation devices, allowing consumers to 'mix and match' the navigation or DVR set-top-box of their choice… Read More

Quote from the story: “This will soothe the competative market and force the wireless operators to mainly focus on networking and their facilities enabling them to have a much more efficient network operator. A temporary ban on wireless operators from signing on new subscribers will cool the overly competitive Korean market and prevent companies from spending heavily on marketing, enabling them to invest on network and facilities… Read More

The 93-to-3 vote renews a ban that had expired last November. But senators decided to let states that started taxing Internet access before the ban was imposed six years ago keep imposing those taxes. State and local governments will also be free to tax the new Internet phone technology known as Voice Over Internet Protocol. It allows consumers to make phone calls over the Internet. Read the full story at CNN.com.