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The Power Geeks #79
by DarthMolen on Dec.08, 2010, under The Latest Shows
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We are LIVE on Ustream . Tonight we talk WoW: Catacalysm, China conspiracies, Barbie is the devil, and a quarter of a million Single Sign On pirated software and much..
Intro Jeremy (30 years ago, John Lennon died – listen to your favorite Beatles song for remembrance)
Intro Natali
Items of Interest
- Prison Break 2438- A Novel & An Awesome New Kickstarter Project (udg)
- I’m a huge fan of Kickstarter and love supporting people in our community. So, when one of my tweoples announced this, I had to go take a peek and I think it looks pretty awesome.
- What’s it about? This Post-apocalyptic Political Thriller is a book “about a man who lives in southern California in 2438 AD. His friend from way back gets taken to the world’s worst prison as a political prisoner. It’s his job to save his friend before he gets executed.”
- Who’s involved? It’s an amazing collaboration between two brothers that started back in 2009 when one started chapter one, emailed it to the other and they went back and forth until the first rough draft was completed. They have been on a journey to complete a finalized draft since then. Oh and I should probably mention- who is illustrating this awesomeness? That would be Dark Horse and DC Comics veteran Brian Ewing.
- I got the chance to read an excerpt from the first chapter and I gotta admit, I’m hooked.
- Stop by, show some love, tweet, share- post the link above, join the FB page here. Let’s help see this book become a reality.
- I’m a huge fan of Kickstarter and love supporting people in our community. So, when one of my tweoples announced this, I had to go take a peek and I think it looks pretty awesome.
- Portable North Pole (SM)
- Princess Bride + Lightsabers!!!!
- Princess Bride + LIghtsabers 2
- Twilight Spoof with Joker!
- SteamPunk Organ Desk!!! holy F’n Awesomenessnessest thing ever!
Gold Sponsors:
UberDorkCafe
- Will be THE place for Geeks to hang out
- What is UberDorkCafe? It is the brain child and DREAM of Natali, aka @UberDorkGirlie from twitter, and it blends art + science = geek
- Place to hang, eat, have awesome kid parties (if thats your thing), or to get your gaming on
- Woookie Coookies – a piece of UDC before there is even a physical cafe
- THE AUCTIONS ARE HERE!!
- Black Friday Launch of Gift Baskets!
- Today in Geek History
- JebsApps (owned by our own Jeremy Puent) released their latest app, Today in Geek History
- Gives you factoids based upon date, spanning all sorts of geekiness
- For example, did you know on 12/1/1959 Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Starship Troopers is published in hardcover.
- This app is available for Android in a Lite version for free or a paid version, all on the Marketplace
- Check out the lite version, but the paid version for .99
- Also, Golden Pic and Golden Pic Lite for Android devices
- Golden Pic has some huge updates released this past Sunday Bookmarking locations, mapping to those locations (driving or walking)
- The Lite version gained the ability to change location via two methods as well.
- Plus we put it on sale again for the holidays!!! only $1.79 USD through new Years! Get it now!
Deals of the Week / New Releases
- Silent fright- Zombie Therapy for When the Holidays Get too Jolly (udg)
- Run! Horrifying mobs are wandering the streets, mindlessly consuming mass quantities…the holiday season has begun.
- How does one counter-balance all this holly jolly hubub? For once, it’s zombies…to the rescue.
- Anytime you start to feel a little too shiny/happy this yuletide, pop in and listen to We’re Alive, a tale of the zombie apocalypse that unfolds as a radio drama. Yup, just like the old timey days.
- It follows a group of soldiers and civilians trying to survive in a zombie-besieged Los Angeles. And in true radio-drama form, there are sound effects galore: the creak of door hinges, the crack of gunfire and, of course, the hungry, hollow moans of the walking dead.
- The audio-only medium is perfect for all those times when your ears want to listen to zombies, but your eyes are supposed to be doing more important things. Like frosting cookies. More than 12 hours of corpsified action have already been recorded, and a new 20-minute episode becomes available via free podcasts almost every Monday. That makes We’re Alive a perfect way to keep yourself grounded this holiday season. After all, as anyone being chased by zombies will tell you, the best gift you can ever get is just being alive.
- Snag an iPhone 4 for $25 at Radio Shack?? (udg)
- Back in April of last year, Radio Shack started a new trade-in program that would allow people to turn in their old electronics into credit toward new store purchases. It has since allowed people to turn in their old mobile phone equipment to subset the cost of a new mobile phone purchase. But, there is now a scenario that could have you walking off with a brand new shiny iPhone 4 for a mere $25.
- Radio Shack has a sale going now which takes $50 off of all current iPhone models now through December 11th. So, you could get a 16GB or 32GB iPhone 4 for only $150 and $250. Where does the extra $125 discount come from? Well, bring in a working iPhone 3GS without a cracked screen to trade-ing. If it’s in good shape- there’s your $125 credit. Cough up the $25 and there ya go. Want the 32GB? That’ll cost ya $125.
- Only have a 3G? That’ll still get ya a $75 credit. And if you’re only looking to upgrade to the 3GS then that’ll not only get it for free, you’ll walk off with a $25 gift card.
- Super good deal. Just make sure you keep in mind taxes and activation fees. And you should probably make sure you qualify for upgrade pricing with AT&T just in case.
- New Release movies / Blu-Ray
- Shrek: The Whole Story (includes donkey’s christmas spectacular) / Shrek Forever After
- Alice in Wonderland 2D/3D
- Inception
- Cataclysm is here! (udg)
- Since October WoW fans have been chomping at the bit for the release of the epic expansion and yesterday it hit stores and online for download.
- Monday night marked the launch of Cataclysm, the third expansion for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Cataclysm includes: two new races, both of which have their own starting zones; five new high-level zones that span the new 80-85 leveling content; seven new five-man dungeons (plus two heroic versions of classic dungeons); three end-game raids; a new profession; two new PvP battlegrounds; and one world PvP zone. In addition, Cataclysm features a revamp of Azeroth, the portion of the game world that went live when WoW originally launched in 2004, providing a much improved leveling experience for new players and alts. MMO-Champion posted a comprehensive collection of information about the new content. Of course, Cataclysm’s launch has brought the video game addiction debate back to the fore.
- The MMORPG subscription-based game is on sale in stores throughout North America, Europe, Argentina, Chile, Russia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and will be available beginning December 9 in Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The expansion pack for Windows (all modern versions) and Mac comes in at an SRP of $39.99. However there is a special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items for a SRP of $79.99. As mentioned above, you can get hold of a digital download version of the game which is available through their Battle.net account management system, it’s not any cheaper this way ($39.99), but get the game a little quicker depending on your broadband speed.
- According to Mike Morhaime, CEO and co founder of Blizzard Entertainment:
- Cataclysm adds an incredible amount of new content for players to explore, revitalizing the game world and building on everything we’ve learned since World of Warcraft launched over six years ago. We thank all of our beta testers for helping make this our best expansion yet, and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone in the new Azeroth.
- I am looking forward to trying this out eventually, but I’ll be waiting on it cuz it’s just not in my budget. What is going to be interesting is that when I log back in with my highest level lil noob blood elf, the place I rested at when I logged no longer exists.
- How Fast Was Level 85 Reached?
- Cataclysm went live in North America at 3AM Eastern Tues morning, roughly two hours after European protection Paladin Forscience hit level 85.
- European players got their hands on he Cataclysm expansion at 12:01AM Central European Time, nine hours ahead of the official North American release time of 12:01AM Pacific. Notorious power player Athene made good use of the head start, reaching the new level cap on his Paladin with the aid of friends in a ridiculously short amount of time. According to a YouTube recording of his guild’s Vent, the feat was completed in approximately six hours.
- The character page on the World of Warcraft Armory (as of this writing) shows Forscience hitting level 85 11 hours ago, which would be set the time approximately two to three hours before the expansion launched in North America.
- How Fast Was Level 85 Reached?
Geek Speak
- TSA wants your social feed
- Don’t like body scans, how about them scanning your social feeds?
- “Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative,”
- Wikileaks update (udg)
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- Barbie is the Devil (SM)
- New barbie has a camera built into her chest
- Takes stills or video, battery in leg, a real functioning barbie
- It sounds like a neat deal, until you realize what could go wrong…
- FBI however, has added it to the list of possible child pornography tools and opened an investigation
- Let just say that a person who plies in that trade, can use toys to acquire their targets
- Sherriffs have added it to their list of paraphernalia to look for at crime scenes
- (I’ve never liked that bitch. -udg)
- China’s Hoping That WikiLeaks Won’t Affect US Ties-Yeah I bet you are!!! (udg)
- Among the leaked cables is one in which an unidentified Chinese contact alleged that the hacking of Google Inc, that led the Internet company briefly to pull out of China, was orchestrated by two members of China’s Politburo, the nation’s top ruling body.
- “It is ridiculous and not worth mentioning,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular news conference. “We hope they will not affect bilateral ties with the United States.”
- Citing the cables, the New York Times said China made repeated and often successful hacking attacks on the U.S. government, private enterprises and Western allies as far back as 2002.
- Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president for engineering, declined to comment on the reports, when asked about it on Tuesday at a Google forum in Beijing.
- “We have no first-hand knowledge of any of the information contained in any of those cables. I have nothing to add,” he said.
- Google, the world’s top Internet search engine, closed its China-based search service in March, two months after it had said it would stop censoring search results in response to what it said was a sophisticated cyber attack that it traced to China and increasing limits on freedom of expression.
- The dispute was resolved in July after Google tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search engine.
- WikiLeaks started publishing last weekend what it said were more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, some of them about China.
- According to one cable released this week, the man who is expected to be China’s next head of government, Li Keqiang, told a U.S. diplomat in 2007 China’s GDP figures were “man-made” and therefore unreliable.
- I’m including a link to the full New York Times article detailing all the cables that involve China. So, yeah, someday you’ll all believe me.
- WWNPHD? you say?
- NPH to host Spike’s Video Game Awards (JP)
- Cable network Spike TV announced Monday that actor Neil Patrick Harris will host its 2010 Video Game Awards (VGAs), set to air Dec. 11.
- Casey Patterson, executive producer of the ceremony, said in a press release the “How I Met Your Mother” star is “a big gamer and a brilliant host.”
- Me, Natali, average lil ole dork says he is just freakin’ awesome.
- In 2009, Harris hosted both the 63rd annual Tony Awards and the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Earlier this year, he provided the voice for the titular web-slinger in the video game “Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.”
- Presenters at this year’s VGAs will include comedian Dane Cook, former G4 TV host and “Daily Show” correspondent Olivia Munn, film director Guillermo del Toro and skateboarder Tony Hawk. Rock band My Chemical Romance is set to perform at the Los Angeles event.
- Announcements of major new video games such as “Batman: Arkham City,” the next installment in the “Gears of War” franchise and a game created by del Toro are also planned for the broadcast.
- Will they call the Pope? Single software licence shared 774,651 times (udg)
- A single licence for Avast security software has been used by 774,651 people after it went viral on a file-sharing site, according to the company.
- Avast noticed that a license for its paid-for security software, sold to a 14-user firm in Arizona, was being distributed online. Rather than shut down the piracy, they decided to see how far it would spread.
- A year and a half later it has topped three-quarters of a million active users.
- “We found our licence code at a number of warez sites around the globe,” said Vince Steckler, chief executive of Avast Software. “There is a paradox in computer users looking for ‘free’ antivirus programs at locations with a known reputation for spreading malware.”
- The licence is being used in 200 countries – and has even been installed on two computers in the Vatican City, Avast added.
- “It was quite interesting how fast it went, but at some time the party has to end,” Avast spokesman Lyle Frink told PC Pro.
- The company is turning the piracy into a marketing opportunity, looking to flip users of the pirated version to genuine software by popping up a notice on machines with the illegally-shared edition offering a link to the free or paid-for versions.
- While Frink had no data about exactly how many pirates had chosen to go legitimate, he said there had already been “some conversions”. He added: “It’s going according to plan.”
- Steckler told PC Pro that the Arizona firm has had their license replaced. “We also reminded them to keep their licenses secure.”
- Video Streaming Rumors Swirl (SM)
- Yet another rumor of streaming competition for Netflix
- first the M$ rumor on their XB360
- Now TV maker Vizio and Onlive (the streaming gaming service 10 yrs too early) are rumored to be getting in the market
- Makes sense for onlive, streaming gaming and streaming video are very similar techs
- Can they bridge the partnership gaps that Netflix has been soooo good at.
- Also, how would it compliment Vizio? They already carrry the netflix service on their TV sets
- Users Sue YouPorn For Spying On Them (jp)
- Youporn has been spying!
- Get your porn, and get all your cookie’s tumbled (umm, did that sound right?)
- Apparently they looked for purple links (already visited)
- So, lesson of the day? You get what you pay for. Welcome to invasion of privacy as you invade somebodies intimate privacy (or something like that jeremy)
- Apple and Magazine Big Shots at an Impasse (udg)
- I know this may be hard to hear, Steven, but Apple does actually look out for it’s users.
- Magazine publishers used to be excited over the iPad well now they’re running toward Goggle’s Android tablets instead. And why is that?
- Apple and the publishing industry have not been able to come to terms over magazine app subscriptions. The reason being the publishers want the ability to either sell the subscriptions themselves, meaning not via iTunes or hang on to the subscribers’ personal data. And Steve Jobs won’t let them. The most he’s willing to give them is to offer an opt-in form for subsribers that would ask them for a limited amount of information- name, mailing address and email address.
- This offer has been on the table for a couple of months and the real hang-up is lack of access to credit card data. It’s valuable to them for marketing, and without it they can’t offer print/digital bundles. So, they’re hoping they will get what they want from Google and Android.
- Facebook changes profile page (SM)
- There’s an actual tutorial that walks you through profile setup
- More emphasis on pics
- Interests given much more real estate
- “Featured Friends”
- Thoughts? Like or dislike?
- Natali might have been right on Zuckerburg
- Opera Android getting HTML5/Flash (JP)
- The paid browser for the android OS was written in c++ and so has more freedom than the normal webkit browser
- Their admission? Even though H5 aims to replace it, won’t anytime soon so makes sense to support flash
- (SM) wonders when the IPhone will finally cave?
- Android + Playstation Phone = Official Heaven? (SM)
- Rumors have been around for months
- Finally there was a leak on youtube of a video + Dec. 9 announcement
- Once the leak hit, Sony fessed up and released the news early
- flip phone w/ standard psp controls instead of a keyboard
- Runs the PSP OS as well as “Gingerbread” a flavor of Android OS
- (sm) FINALLY, a real gaming machine and a possible decent phone, sooo getting one
Intarweb Goldmine
- Woman ordered to undergo mental evaluation after biting off husband’s tongue (udg) — (Pretty sure I can handle that evaluation right now… She’s Whacked in the head!)JP (that’s a technical medical term I’m certain I heard somewhere)
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- A Wisconsin woman was arrested after she allegedly bit half of her 79-year-old husband’s tongue off during a kiss, according to reports.
- The Sheboygan Press said the man telephoned police at about 11 p.m. Monday and struggled to tell them what had happened because of his condition.
- Sheboygan Police told WTMJ that the couple had been singing Christmas carols Monday night and then decided to go to bed. The man went to kiss his wife goodnight and then she bit his tongue.
- In a later written statement, he said the incident began when he went into the bathroom while his wife was on the toilet. When he leaned over to kiss her, she went into a “manic state,” grabbing his genitals and biting off his tongue.
- The complaint filed yesterday said Karen Lueders was “still carrying a New Year’s horn in her hand and singing Christmas carols” outside her house as the first police officers arrived on scene. As officers asked what kind of help was needed, she blew the horn in the officer’s ear. She also threw a coffee cup at police.
- The paper said the man had not wanted his wife to be arrested, but police took her into custody.
- She now faces a rarely used felony – related to intentional disfigurement or mutilation – that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison
- Yay Wisconsin! \
- Woman Tries to Cut Her Tattooed Name Off Boyfriend
- a 30 yr old male and 19 yo female get in a fight
- Do they yell at each other? Call each other names?
- Well, the girl tried to take it 1 step further and cut her tattooed name off the guys neck….
- Needless to say, it didn’t happen and there were only minor injuries.\
- Criminals, they ain’t so bright
- Man Accused of Shooting TV over Palin Dance
- Yay, WI Again
- Men Hold Up NY Pizza Makers Flee With Wrong Dough
- Guy holds up pizza shop and flees with a bag full of dough
- The money kind??? NOOO, real pizza dough
- Man Breaks Into House To Rob It And Stops To Watch Porn
- Guy breaks into an occupied house… does he get the goods and scram?
- Nope, he stops at the computer and watches the porn… (priorities man)
- The “noise” woke up the occupant who was then subsequently terrorized before the criminal left the premises.
- Shoulda had Internet filters
- Man Arrested for Feeding Pot to His Ducks
- Farmer in France was arrested and then given $500 Euro fine for feeding his ducks cannabis
- According to him, Its a great dewormer!
- “This is for real, not one (duck) has worms and they’re all in excellent health,” claimed the farmer
- (sm) talk about flying high!
- (JP) I thought the ducks by pods here had huge appetites… can you imagine Ducks with the munchies?!?!?!?
- Holiday Cheer, Intarweb style
- Woman Calls Police Over Snowman Theft
- Lady in UK finds snowman missing and what does she do?
- Calls their 911 to report a missing person
- “I haven’t been out to check on him for 5 hours but I went outside for a (cigarette) and he’s gone,”
- When asked who he was, it was a snowman.. waa waa
- (JP – How often do you need to check on a snowman??)
- Nothing Says Merry Christmas Like A KKK Cloaked Snowman
- Give the gift of Rats- There’s 1,000 up for adoption
- Forget Fruitcakes…Give a rat for a present?
- There’s a 1000 of them rescued from a house featured on the show “Hoarders” on A&E
- How did this come about? 2 rats bought… and math ensued…
- Woman Calls Police Over Snowman Theft
P.S. Dear Walmart, Get A Clue.
(SM) W.T.F.
Extra Links
- Lucas buying rights to dead people
- Italy PM Replaces Penis and Angers Experts
- Man Accuses Police Officer of Swiping Sex Videos
- Man Accused of Indecency During Harry Potter Movie
- Man Trashes Hotel Room to “Free Midget”
- Man Seeks Restraining Order Against Former Gators Quarterback Tim Tebow, President Obama and Jesus Christ
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