Archive for October, 2008

More abuses of the patriot act by the Maryland police dept.

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

In an article from commondreams.org- In an inevitable and unfortunate new decree by the Maryland Police department, they are now classifying non violent anti war protestors as “terrorists”. Evidentaly, if one opposes the death penalty or is against the war in Iraq in Maryland, you are now a threat to the state.

One of the most stunning draconian statements came from the former state police superintendent who authorized the operation, Thomas E. Hutchins:

“I don’t believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government,”

First amendment? Wow, down the chute we go! weeeee!

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Posted in Conspiracy, Crime, Government, Law, Liberty, Tyranny |

Microsoft Code contest is hacked and may end up a disaster

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Here I come Vegas!

Here I come Vegas!

From ITwire:

Microsoft Australia issued a week long coding challenge called “DevSta” looking fo the next generation of star developers. The grand prize includes airfare to Las Vegas, accommodation at the Venetian and tickets to the MIX09 Developer Conference in March next year, along with Visual Studio 2008, an Xbox 360 Elite console pack and a Samsung Omnia mobile phone. Runners up win various combinations of Visual Studio, Xbox 360 Elite packs and Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000 keyboard and mouse combos.

Even with the lure of Microsoft riches it looks like the turn out is abysmal at best. In addition to lukewarm submissions, the contest was hacked by several members of a Turkish hacking group (from the article).

Even though the identities of Lamerdir and Ov3rlord aren’t clear, one thing is certain: Microsoft won’t be forgetting the embarrassment caused to their DevSta challenge. And unless the volume of submissions increase dramatically within the next 19 hours someone may be awarded an Xbox for doing nothing more than rewriting the Windows calculator as a .NET app.

.Read the whole article and view the screenshots here.

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The most addictive web game I’ve ever played!

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

If your bored and would like to kill some time, head over to fantasticcontraption.com and try out this physics based flash game. I played with this for a few hours and was immediately addicted.

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Posted in Science, Video games, web |

Josh Brolin puts acting career in Jeopardy

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

In one of the most unwise career decisions, Josh Brolin is committing professional suicide by doing what no actor should ever, ever do. He has decided to go “Full retard” in his latest movie!!

Maybe he will make a comeback like John Travolta or something, but wow, talk about tanking ones career…

Watch the trailer below to see previews.

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Featuring Lil’ Bill O’Reilly

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

For those of you who have seen the Bill O’Reilly meltdown video, there’s a new little tyrant in town. Lil’ Bill O’Reilly. Watch out Colbert, this kid will kick your ass!

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Posted in comedy, Media, TV |

Apple to close i-tunes store?

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Money.co.uk is reporting that America’s Copyright Royalty Board will meet to discuss the raising of royalties for digital music purchases from 9 cents to 15 cents per song. THis leaves the “middlemen” of the digital music peddling business stuck with the bill. Eddy Cue, the VP of the itunes store said,

“If (the iTunes store) were forced simply to absorb any increase in its mechanical royalty rate, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss. Apple has repeatedly made clear that it is in this business to make money and most likely would not continue to operate (the iTunes store) if it were no longer possible to do so profitably”

With other apple products like the iphone depending on itunes activation and syncing, I wonder how this will affect the procedures if the store shuts down?

Read the full article here.

UPDATE: Looks like the appeal failed. Marketwatch is reporting that the rates will remain the same. The itunes store is safe.

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