Big Brother & The further loss of civil liberties
August 1, 2008
Thinking about taking your laptop across the border for your next trip up north or down south? News hitting the wires today indicates that you might want to re-think that plan, unless you feel like being separated from your precious gadgets. Apparently, border agents have given themselves the right to seize any piece of electronics equipment they feel like, even if they don’t think you’ve done anything wrong, and they can keep your toys for as long as they like.
This rule extends to your cell phone, Kindle, MP3 player, or any other information storing device you’ve taken along for the trip (even paper!). Agents can also make copies of any (or all) of your data to share with any other Federal agency — though they promise to delete it when they’re through. It was just over a month ago that everyone was up in arms about laptop searching at borders, and now this? We certainly hope that this particular infringement of our digital liberties won’t last long for long.
[Via: Switched]
The Cell phone bandit / idiot
April 17, 2008
A 20 - 25 year old male decided that it was a good day to rob a local Alabama bank. The thing is, he didn’t bother to get off his cell phone in the process.
Did he succeed? Why of course he did! We just wonder what in the h*ll was so important that he couldn’t be bothered to get off his phone. Btw, who robs a bank these days?
It’s just too bad that survival of the fittest no longer applies to our technologically savvy world!
HD-DVD receiving the final blow, tomorrow
February 18, 2008
Tuesday February 19th, 2008 is a dark day for HD-DVD early adopters. Toshiba is slated to make a public announcement disclosing the discontinuation of HD-DVD. Hardware sales will cease and the media will meet it’s doom in March. Toshiba will be pulling it’s hardware from store shelves; including personal computer drives. Toshiba will be losing hundreds of millions in the decision but in the end it’s us early adopters that are getting the axe.
Can you get a refund? Not bloody likely. As an early adopter you should already know that it’s usually a lose lose situation once the head-honchos have made a choice such as this.
What will you be doing with your useless and truly disappointing piece of High-Def hardware and media?
Paramount following the likes of Warner
January 8, 2008
Supposedly, Paramount will be following Warner in the move to Blu-Ray. The Financial Times is reporting that Paramount (who is already part of the HD-DVD camp) will be using an “escape” clause to leave HD-DVD behind and jump on with Blu-Ray.
Paramount has been exclusive to HD-DVD for only 4 months. This looks to be paving the way for a fast and painful death of the format. Unlike the slow and drawn out one we were all expecting.
Now this may come as bad news to anyone who has recently picked up a HD-DVD player or the add-on drive for the 360, but in the long run it’s better for all of us if this is true. Let’s end these format wars already and move on to downloadable content! We all know that’s where we’re going anyway.
Mark Zuckerberg
December 21, 2007
Mark Zuckerberg
From Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer, college dropout, Internet entrepreneur and a dick.In 2004, he created the social networking website Facebook, becoming a celebrity to college students nationwide. Since that time, Zuckerberg has been on the fast track toward dickhood, culminating in his achieving full-fledged dick status in late 2007, though many argue that he has actually been a dick the entire time.
Youth
Mark Zuckerberg grew up in Westchester County, New York, with the most hilariously stereotypical name of anyone to have ever grown up there. He spent his formative years learning computers and cultivating a personal look known as “ugly Shia LaBeouf.”
In the grand dick tradition that has been passed on for hundreds of years, Zuckerberg attended both Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, a combination which boasts a 97.5% total-dick graduation rate towards advanced degrees in “General Entitlement” as well as “Being an Asshole.”
Harvard
While at Harvard, Zuckerberg, hoping to boost his dick status, joined a fraternity. It is unclear whether the fact that it was a Jewish fraternity makes this decision more or less dickish. His first web project was called “Coursematch,” which allowed users to stalk other people in their classes. He soon combined his computer knowledge with his newfound frat lifestyle by founding “Facemash,” a Harvard version of the “Hot or Not” photograph rating website. (Outside observers have noted that a more appropriate name for such a Web site at Harvard University would have been simply: “Not.”)
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