Technology Review has a piece covering some shifting in the industries understanding and application of DRM; namely that the days of railroading customers with products that won’t work and then not offer refunds will hopefully come to pass in the coming years.
Ferdinand Schober, grad student previously at Microsoft who worked on the Halo and Gears [...]
IEEE Working on Alternative DRM Approach
Guy Sells Raffle Ticket, Loses 2010 Shelby Cobra GT500 at Quakecon Moments Later
Quakecon gave away 2 brand new 2010 Shelby Cobra GT500 cars this year in a raffle result that send one man to his knees in anguish.
You can watch the video below, it is on one gentleman (in the white hat) selling his raffle ticket to another attendee for $200 moments before they called the winners.
What happens next [...]
Sign up for Zappos VIP – Free Overnight Shipping for Life
Zappos is currently offering free signups for their VIP service which provides free overnight shipping for life. Thanks to Matt Young for sending in this heads up, you have until 9am EST on Wednesday the 25th to signup for this deal.
If you are already a Zappos customer (like me) just click through to the VIP [...]
All-Nite Scream-o-rama Postmortem
The All-Nite Scream-o-Rama at Tucson’s the Loft Cinema was so awesome and horrifying I had to wait a full week (and some change) to write about it.
In past years, I have been kind of a wuss and left after about three movies. The first year had to do with some not so friendly texting from [...]
Firefox 4 Adding GPU-Accelerated Graphics Rendering
Firefox 4 will be delivering GPU-accelerated rendering for graphical elements via the Direct2D APIs on Windows, among many other new features like a new tab layout, new look and feel for Windows and new privacy features.
Currently at Beta 4, Firefox 4 has had GPU-acceleration in the code-base, but it has always been disabled by default [...]
Halo Reach Leaked Online – Live Stream Available
CVG is reporting that as of this evening Halo Reach, the entire game, has been leaked online about 3 weeks before the official release date; September 14th.
Apparently NeoGAF’ers were some of the first to notice the leak when hackers (modders from the GameTuts community) circumvented the press access-wall that Microsoft had setup on Xbox.com for them [...]
Leo Laporte is Done With Social Media
Leo Laporte recently wrote on his blog about how a technical hickup with Google Buzz not reposting his info to Twitter for a month and no one noticing made him realize that this torrent of “social” apps that we are buried in are a complete waste of time.
I should have been posting it here all [...]
How to Become Mayor for Any Place in Foursquare in 9 Perl Statements
Foursquare is getting beat down today; hot on the heals of the breaking news that Foursquare is sending your passwords in plaintext (something they are fixing very soon) Mayank Lahiri has decided to figure out how exactly one could game Foursquare checkins to become the mayor of almost anywhere in no more than 9 Perl [...]
Foursquare and Gowalla iPhone Apps Sending Passwords in Plaintext
Martin Kou did some Wireshark’ing this morning on the Foursquare iPhone application and found out it is logging you in to Foursquare by sending your password in plaintext over the wire.
Foursquare replied and said they are rolling out an HTTPS authentication-based login today which is good news, but seriously, 1 million users later and how [...]
Amazing HTML5 Canvas / JavaScript Animation Examples
Hakim El Hattab has put together a series of HTML5 Canvas animation examples on his website, hakim.se that are fantastic showcases of how animation-friendly HTML5 is on it’s own without Flash.
Right now the use of Canvas is still relatively new and raw, but as the years tick on and more and more HTML5-capable browsers are [...]
Peter Leon – Cinematic Genius
Okay, so here’s the deal. Peter Leon is absolutely on FIRE, and I don’t mean with gonorrhea. He is the bomb-diggity when it comes to filmmaking, and here is the trailer – hot off the presses – for his newest movie. See if you recognize anyone in the trailer…look for the guy with the UNO [...]
GemStone IV – Great Old School MUD RPG
I was a huge AD&D player when I was in my teens. I loved all the intracacies of combat and roleplaying. And the best part was playing with other people. These were the building blocks of my life. It’s also why I am now a people person, for the most part.
Well, I’ve always been a [...]
Piranha 3D Movie Review
When you hear the title Piranha 3D, even if you didn’t know about the 1978 original, chances are you think of a ridiculous horror movie with a ridiculous story and a lot of exploitative sex, nudity and violence all put together with writing so questionable it may as well have been scrawled on a napkin [...]
Ultraviolet Light Uncovers Original Colors of Greek Sculptures
Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann and his wife Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, with the assistance of high-intensity ultraviolet raking light and Infrared Spectroscopy, claim that they have uncovered the original coloring of Greek sculptures.
What we so typically associate in our minds with the words “Greek sculpture” is typically a smoothed marble creation in stark-white that exudes an understated level of [...]
AJAX Base 64 Decode/Encoder & MD5 Generator Utilities
I would like to announce the launch of a couple new AJAX-enabled online utilities that software developers might find handy:
Base64 Encoder/Decoder
MD5 Generator
For those interested the utilities are written using the Play! Framework (Java) and JQuery/JQuery UI and the Base64 and MD5 generation is backed by the Commons Codec project.
These utilities are free to use, enjoy!
Opposition To The Proposition…
You know, I would really like to know where in fresh hell all the GODDAMNED Proposition 100 money has gone.
Something IS rotten in Denmark.
You see, now there is another proposition being introduced in November that is asking voters to approve a half-cent tax increase for public safety. Isn’t that part of what Prop 100 was [...]
OMG, I Want a Slow Loris!!!
I wonder how well the cats would take to a Slow Loris? Of course, I’d have to name mine Dolores.
Editor’s Note:
So that video was super-adorable and I just had to know more about these Slow Lori-us-sus:
The slow loris is a primate, native to the rainforests of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, north- eastern India, southernChina and Thailand. [...]
Denon’s AKDL1 Link Cables Will Re-grow Your Lost Arms
If you are in desperate need of what I think amount to $2,600 Ethernet cables with the “Denon” brand on them and enjoy a good Amazon review-bomb just like the rest of us, check out Amazon’s listing for the Denon AKDL1 link cables.
You’ll enjoy some very applicable user reviews like this one from John L.
This connection isn’t [...]
What’s In A Name?
One of the most important aspects of creating a paranormal investigation team is selecting a proper name. The name must denote competence, ability, compassion, integrity, etc. A team’s name can either boost them to superstardom, or be the nail in their coffin. The name is often the first thing the general public will see, and [...]
380 Million Eggs Recalled in 17 States due to Salmonella Scare
380 million eggs from Iowa are being recalled after a Salmonella sickens hundreds of people across 17 states.
Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, now says the potentially tainted eggs were distributed to wholesalers, distribution centers and food service companies in California, Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Illinois, Utah, Nebraska, Arkansas, [...]
Book of Blood Movie Mini-Review
Introduction
Book of Blood is not a classic Clive Barker horror movie in the “insane creatures and rampant gore” sense, but it is an interesting story told in a very creative way.
Review
Unfortunately for me, I rented Book of Blood at the drop of a hat after I came across the screen cap from the movie above, [...]
Mafia II Release Party Planning
Mafia 2 is coming out August 24th, that’s in 6 days. We will explain why you should care…
Almost 8 years ago to the day, the original Mafia was released for the PC. It was, in our opinion, the best game of 2002 and a sleeper hit that garner none of the attention it deserved. I [...]
$135 Billion Worth of Oil “Found”, Again, in Afghanistan
We reported about a month ago that $1.4 trillion worth of natural mineral deposits had been “found” in Afghanistan.
We had our own definition of what “found” meant.
Flash-forward exactly 1 month and you have NewsDaily reporting that Afghanistan has found 1.8 billion barrels worth of oil ($135 billion based on today’s price of oil) under the [...]
Animations of Most Common Gears
What you see rotating above is called a “constant velocity joint“; it is used in front-wheel drive vehicles.
If you enjoy diagrams of complex gearing mechanisms or just knowing more about how our world works, chances are you are an engineer or having an engineering background and would love to check out this link from Marc [...]
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