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Total Information Awareness program, where they created an entire world of fake people buying and selling fake things, calling their fake friends and visiting fake dentists who filled fake cavities. They called it Vanilla World.

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FBI using Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) project RealWorld Platform

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However, unlike players of World of Warcraft or Eve Online, A-SpaceX’s analysts will be able to turn back the clock, and see how they arrived at conclusions

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Could terrorists use Second Life? Sure, they can use anything. But is it a significant augmentation? That's not obvious.

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"My whole mindset is, there are terrible things on the Internet: Can I write about them and transform them into something humorous?"

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Quanzhou Evening News about the hacker black market

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Li Jun goes to jail

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William Long thinks the Germany hack was by some regular ol' QQ burglars.

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With the help of a counselor, he's mapped out a life plan from now until he's 84. - Ed. Now that's disturbing.

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Sparter is a real money trading industry that uses an eBay-like “peer-to-peer” approach for the trading of game gold for WoW and other MMORPG online games. - Ed. Gold farmers of the world unite!

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One example is "Zon — The New Chengo Chinese." The five-level, massive multi-player online game weaves Chinese history and geography into an immersive environment aimed at middle- and high-school students.

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the gold farmer and RMT companies in Korea, such as ItemBay and Item PlayForum, have formed an industry association in order to have more leverage with the Korean government

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An MMO by the guy who made Ultima, which is blocked in China. Wah.

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if game gold is a recognized currency, what would be the anti-money-laundering reporting requirements when large "money" transfers were made?

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While the shock-and-awe bombing raged outside, Zeyad spent a lot of time playing "Crash Bandicoot" on his Playstation.

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In 2005, the 5.1 million people of Kyrgyzstan produced an estimated $2.2 billion worth of goods and services. The nation of Norrath, with a population of 420,000, produced the same level of output. Ed. - Norrath is in Everquest

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"Picture a Chinese guild conducting Falun Gong meditations in Booty Bay" Ed. and there are WoW players in Iraq and Iran. Assuming they're still alive.

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