Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Sunday, August 26th, 2007 378 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 422 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. ...
Posted in Gadgets, Rants | 4 Comments »
Friday, May 4th, 2007 277 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 441 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 279 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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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 197 views
Apparently the Pentagon has started the War on Information, with a special unit dedicated to fighting "inaccurate" news stories. Saying nasty things about the Bush administration helps the terrorists of course, so unless you want an extended vacation on Cuba, stay in line! I don't know if I should laugh ...
Posted in Politics, Rants | 1 Comment »