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In June 2009, China banned the "gold farming" practice.
Saw this article a while back: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/218101859
"In addition to its ongoing crackdown on Internet porn, the Chinese government has declared that virtual currency cannot be traded for real goods or services..."
It's worth noting, though, the in-game items like armor and weapons are not considered currency, and therefore are not covered by the ban. So, my question is, what's stopping people from farming the gold, buying a shiny new breastplate, and selling it off to the highest bidder for real-world cash?

Apo's Final Performance Description
The following is a copy of the scene performed in class today from my second webpaper written with tangerines. In terms of the presentation schedule, I introduced the plot and tangerines elaborated on the character development prior to the performance.
A NATURAL DISASTER
By: Sadie Mahmoud & Apocalipsis Rosario
CHARACTERS

At MIT: technology and militarism; selling sex through mobile technology
There's so much going on in the MIT Gender & Tech course that I wish we could participate in and learn more from-and-about! Tomorrow night they are discussing technology and militarism, with help from Jennifer Terry's Killer Entertainments site on Vectors, and the author's note.

The Beauty of Scientific Writing
Last Thursday in Paul's section we were discussing how we felt about scientific writing. The majority of the class seemed to agree that scientific is boring and not accessible to the public. While initially I disliked reading scientific papers, over the course of this year scientific writing has really grown on me. On of the things that I find important in scientific writing is the effort made to keep everything objective. Personally, I have a really hard time reading something and interpreting it in one way. I often get lost on the connotation of words and I feel myself choosing the meaning I think fits best.
Notes 4/25
Notes 4/25
Werner Herzog quotation:
· Understanding between people
· Responses imply some ‘dark corners’ are necessary
Supports Chorost: increased exposure to the ‘dark corners’ is a negative aspect of increased internet communication
Chorost on privacy:

a view on life
On Tuesday we were given professor Grobstein and Dalke's view of the semester and the course. through this we learned about the three spheres and the evolution that seems to be occurring. I was introduced to the noosphere which compromised the evolution of human thought. This showed a growth from the inanimate, to the body, and then the mind. the idea that we continue to live on through ideas and thoughts.
Frankenstein: An expecting Parent
I found this cartoon of Frankenstein in the New Yorker. I thought it was interesting in the way it presents Victor Frankenstein as an expecting parent, especially considering the way that in the actual story, Victor creates a monster but doesnt consider what the effects of his creation will have.
Generated poem by cara and spreston
Where is the dead computer?
The program dies like a dead information.
Never fight a cyborg.
Sign on roughly like a normal cell phone.
Why does the phone sign on?
Phones fall!
The digital user quietly break downs the information.
Where is the virtual program?
Cyborgs endure!
Female, reality, and beauty.
Beautiful, ugly goddess desire a digital, lively cell phone.
Sign on swiftly like a lively cyborg.
The virtual cell phone fights the cell phone.

Oh, Poem Generator
Where is the small cyborg?
Gender, meaning, and dimensions.
Informations game like small informations.

Generated Poems
This poems were generated using Poem Generator.
1
Ah, media!
Generated, digital Adas digitally teleporting a male, performed cyborg.
Transporting mockingly like a illusion computer.
Humans critique like digital machines.
Notation, identity, and music.
2
Golly gosh, hierarchy!
Lord, decode!
Why does the SRA hyper reading?
Never expression a cyborg.
Machines close reading!
3
Male, female humans seriously flying a performed, performed human.
The SRA transportings like a generated alien.
All Adas flying male, female cyborgs.


