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Archive for December, 2009
The Power Geeks #30
by DarthMolen on Dec.25, 2009, under The Latest Shows
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John took our advice literally and went on a buying spree for ST Online
-ive now bought stonline from amazon, gamestop, direct2drive, Atari and walmart. Only one to go (store.steampowered.com)
Intro
- Christmas quiz
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- $300 video Lands $30 Million Dollar Deal (SM)
- Guy produced a clip that showed giant robots attacking and destroying montevideo (capital of uruguay)
- Some very nice shots, decent graphics, great pacing 2.49 mins, secs
- Sam Raimi (Spiderman and evil dead) is sponsoring him creating an original movie based upon the reel on youtube
- Will be a whole new story
- What does the author want us to know, “If he could do it, anyone can”
- Predators (unmanned aerial drones) Didn’t use Encryption (JP)
- Reasons? This was a commercial product before it was military
- The downlink was un-encrypted
- Known vulnerability since the Bosnia campaign in the 90′s
- Pundits figured that adversary wouldn’t figure out this open communication channel
- Found hours of visual data on laptops and a $45 piece of software
- The military is furiously trying to retrofit all their in-theater UAV’s with downlink encryption
- Chinese looking for Internet without Porn (SM)
- Going forward with a plan to whitelist their DNS servers
- What is White listing? (vetting something explicitly)
- Doing this under auspice of “For the Children”
- All e-commerce sites that want to do business in china will first have to be vetted by the gov’t
- M$ ordered to stop selling Office by Jan 11th 2010 or alter the code (JP)
- US Court of appeals has upheld an earlier ruling that M$ is guilty of Patent violation
- Options? Write a big fat check, stop selling office? or appeal to a higher court?
- Ford Cars to Be rolling Wi-Fi Spots (SM)
- Sync to be expanded to hook up to a current cell phone and allow wireless access to the car
- Sync currently is an in-car computer that does voice recognition to manage music, maps, and navigation
- Unreal 3 Engine running on iPod Touch and iPhone (JP)
- Video at the link, and it’s sweet. only working on newest Gen of iPod touches and iPhone 3gs not the others… but very cool for the future of mobile gaming…
Deal of the Week
Intarweb Goldmine
- Teen found guilty for flashing cars after one of them hit her…
- A New Zealand teen who was flashing her breasts at passing cars has been found guilty of disorderly behavior for the prank, which ended with her in a hospital after a distracted driver ran into her. Cherelle May Dudfield, 18, pleaded guilty to the charge when she appeared in Invercargill District Court
- Overdue book returned to library after 99 years…
- Yup… that’s right… the guys mom was supposed to return the book in May of 1910…
- “Facts I Ought to Know about the Government of My Country” was the title
- The overdue book fine was a penny a day in 1910. That would have added up to a total fine of $361.35, but Dudek wasn’t asked to pay it.
- The library plans to display the old book in its special collection.
Doghouse Systems
- New System – Under $1000 – Still handcrafted with care
DoghouseSystems VS
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-Performance in WoW is still great: 40 Frames / sec @ 1920 x 1280
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
Jinx
- Lifestyle apparel for your inner-geek
- Men’s, Women’s, all sizes
- Specific Collections? They got them,
- World of Warcraft – Home is where the hearthstone is, Baby-T = “My other stroller is [Epic]“, Tanks, Your Welcome
- They even have hats – Quest-giver hat
- Stickers, Patches, Pins
- Go online jinx.com or call them @ 1-888-JINX-COM - 888.546.9266
