Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Sunday, August 26th, 2007 969 views
Looks like 2K Games are in for a rough ride with it's much anticipated release of Bioshock, the successor to the popular System Shock games. Following several blog posts, a slashdot article and an uproar on 2K Games' official forums, it's clear that the much maligned SecuROM DRM/copy protection is ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007 2,403 views
Yeah it's a product review. No, it won't be pretty, but it will be kinda short. The Maxtor MSS2 is a 1 terrabyte external network attached storage device (NAS), with 2 500G Maxtor SATA drives configured in a RAID (default RAID0). What's more, it's a worthless piece of shit. ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007 1,363 views
Them thar 'Merkins are at it again. This time, a student is detained by police and put into an "alternative education center" because he's a threat to the school. Why? He made a 3D computer game map of his school... Oh and police found a hammer in his home. "Insane" ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 1,368 views
Make sense to you? Well according to this site,
It's the HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. I was not aware that a string of numbers and letters was copyrightable. Perhaps its just my ignorance but it seems that someone is abusing the DMCA again.
Apparently this top-secret number ...
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 838 views
From time to time I shake my head in disbelief at the antics of the Chinese government and their internet filtering. Well yesterday, two members of the Computer Crimes Commission put forward a proposal (in Norwegian) that, if enacted, would force Norwegian ISPs to filter all illegal content on the ...
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