Only those watches are banned that have a limited telephony function, with which the children (and also other people in its presence - like teachers, playmates, maybe even you) could also be monitored acoustically (this interception function will then be referred to as a "baby monitor" or "monitor function").
Remotely activated mobile phone (or watch) microphones are classified as illegal listening devices by Germany's Authority for Telecommunications, as Germany punishes "violations of the privacy of the spoken word" in its penal code.
Microsoft Research released the source code in 2004 (some kind of shared source license) and a small but determined community of players and developers enjoys and keeps improving the gameplay (the R6 client is currently in beta).
For all those who don't believe that a single ISP can be responsible for this amount of spam: take a look at the munin graph from our spam scanner.
When I looked at it in the morning I went "huh, did I misconfigure something on our mail server?", didn't find anything, went to Google News and submitted to/. shortly after that.
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Only those watches are banned that have a limited telephony function, with which the children (and also other people in its presence - like teachers, playmates, maybe even you) could also be monitored acoustically (this interception function will then be referred to as a "baby monitor" or "monitor function").
Remotely activated mobile phone (or watch) microphones are classified as illegal listening devices by Germany's Authority for Telecommunications, as Germany punishes "violations of the privacy of the spoken word" in its penal code.
Also: original source (in German).
This game was way ahead of its time for 1999 and died way too soon. Curse you Microsoft for killing it!
But it's still around! Check out Free Allegiance.
Microsoft Research released the source code in 2004 (some kind of shared source license) and a small but determined community of players and developers enjoys and keeps improving the gameplay (the R6 client is currently in beta).
For all those who don't believe that a single ISP can be responsible for this amount of spam: take a look at the munin graph from our spam scanner. When I looked at it in the morning I went "huh, did I misconfigure something on our mail server?", didn't find anything, went to Google News and submitted to /. shortly after that.