For the first time ever, a federal judge has ordered the first reimbursement of expenses to a defendant in the music industry’s “war on piracy”. Capitol Records has been ordered to pay nearly $70,000 to Deborah Foster to cover attorney fees and litigation costs she incurred when she was wrongfully sued for illegally downloading [...]
Archive for July, 2007
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Apparently we aren’t the only ones in the world upset with horrible cellular coverage. A man in Sydney Australia got his hands on an Armored Personel Carrier (APC) and went on a rampage, taking out 6 cell phone towers, and was apprehended on his way to a seventh.
“He continued to destroy mobile tower communications sheds [...]
Technorati Tags: apc, cellular coverage, cell phone towers, hero, malicious damage, mobile tower, mt druitt police, personel carrier, police chief, rampage, sydney australia
CCP has offered a free 5 day reactivation of your Eve account for people who used to play Eve Online that wanted to check out the latest Revelations II patch. I decided it would be a good idea to log back in and check it out, since it seems as if Eve has become even [...]
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I grew up watching Mr. Rogers when I was a kid. Fox News just managed to insult my entire childhood, and told me that I’m a rotten person because he told us we were “Special”. Good Job Fox News. Just when I think you can’t get any worse, you do.
Fred Rogers was a great man. [...]
As I’ve mentioned previously here, I’m a huge LOST fan. In my travels on the internets today, I came across an article posted in the New York Times by Damon Lindelof, co-creator of LOST.
Most of you don’t also know that I, a 29 year old male, am also a big Harry Potter nut. [...]
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In what’s sure to be called some sort of god-given miracle by creationists, scientists have discovered that a group of butterflies in Samoa who were on the verge of extinction mutated to preserve their species.
In 2001, male Hypolimnas bolina butterflies on the Samoan islands of Savaii and Upolu comprised a mere 1 percent of the [...]
Technorati Tags: bacteria, butterflies, creationists, evolution, extinction, mutation, mutations, natural selection, parasite, religion, samoan islands, wolbachia
A couple weeks ago I wrote about iPhones selling for thousands of dollars on eBay. And a couple days later I posted a video about a lady who had dreams of making $100,000 by selling all the iPhones she could buy there. Apparently today iPhones are selling for very little profit, and sometimes even [...]
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Google Earth has been known for turning up some strange and funny images in the past, but this one might just be a bit unnerving and could be downright scary.
Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), found this image of a new nuclear submarine at the [...]
Technorati Tags: ballistic missile submarine, china, federation of american scientists, google earth, missile launch, nuclear submarine, oh god oh god were all going to die, quickbird satellite
Microsoft’s gaming chief Robbie Bach in a conference with financial analysts said that every single one of the XBox 360s produced in the last 19 months suffer from a fatal design flaw that could cause the gaming console to fail. “In the past couple of months we started to see significant increases in repair [...]
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Well, the server move is complete, at least for this site. I still have yet to move Serverwiki to the new machine, but both this site (if you’re reading this) and War Ensemble are live on the new box.
I’m getting the hang of Debian, and I quite like it so far. What’s really impressed me [...]
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