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The auction has ended. Who’s the lucky winner? A fan of reality shows? Well, it turns out that not even his momma bid. This poor, washed-up reality star put himself up for grabs for a stunningly expensive 400 pounds on eBay. Money raised was to be distributed to a local animal charity (aka his dog), but it seems as if none were too charitable in this embarrassing display.
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In an effort to prevent new terrorist attacksISP are beginning to do their part by maintaining content hosted. Aplus .Net for example, has used crawling technology similar to those in our favorite search engines to find sites with malicious intent, such as pro Al-Qaeda content. This picture is an example of a site (www.mojihedun.com) created in Pakistan - it was classified as a malicious Jihadi web site and was taken down and replaced with patriotic content. These sites violate contractual obligations in the Terms of Service within the theirISP, therefore removing the content is not illegal.
Every Web-site producer that posts content on the Internet via a commercial Internet Service Provider signs an agreement to abide by the terms of service of theISP . Most of these contracts contain provisions that indicate the posting of criminal or terrorist content is prohibited, so removing the content is well within the contractual rights of theISP.
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Hey AOL, what are you thinking? I guess we should have known that when we saw AOL was working on putting some nice features into the next version of its Instant Messenger software, Triton, that it would mean even more annoying advertising in the product. I mean, take a look at the above - the ad is directly in the text chat area. Tabbed chatting isn’t worth this, AOL. This is why you continue to become obsolete on the Internet.
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I thought it would be a good idea to put together a bit guide as how to be a better gamer. I have been playing video games since the days of the Atari 2600 and the Colecovision so this is sort of a community service announcement for the younger generation.
Schedule some time to play a game. Unlike watching TV you can play a game almost anytime you want with the notable exception of Animal Crossing and some MMORPGs but you need to actually say to yourself “I want to play some Gamecube and that is exactly what I am going to do for the next three hours”. You don’t have to tell your friends and family and rub it in their face but just realize the fact that you want to play games and make sure you got the time. If you don’t have a lot of time to play games than a massive RPG really might not be a good idea.
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Crownfast Technology’s MP270: Not A shuffle Clone At All
Posted by Sparky Categories: Portable Audio / Video,
A company out of China called CrownFast Technology has released their latest MP3 player - the MP270. The MP270 of course bears a striking resemblance to the iPod Shuffle, preferring to differentiate itself by adding a small blue LED screen. The MP270 features 7 different backlight colors, MP3 and WMA support, an FM radio + recorder all packed together with a 12 hour battery life. With 64MB on up to 1GB sizes available these things really are aimed at everyone.
While I seriously doubt that this product is ever going to hit the United States without a vicious pack of Apple lawyers to greet it, I must admit that the screen is compelling. How difficult would it be for Apple to make a shuffle Pro with a small screen and touch sensitive strip for scrolling? The FMplayer is a nice touch, but a screen would make the shuffle the ultimate “put in your pocket” MP3 player. You can easily fit a days worth of music on a 1GB player and with enough battery life to keep you rocking all day long and a screen to chose what you want, it’s the solution the cries out “Build me Apple - make me a real product”.
Read More | DAPreview via Gizmodo
The purpose of this article is to give you a window into the lifestyle of an Internet business owner and in particular a home based business entrepreneur. The example below is a typical day in my life. If you are presently considering quitting your day job/after finishing school and starting your own Internet business I suggest you read - Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First!
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Here are some interesting pictures that have emerged on a forum from someone who claims to have a prototype of the Nintendo’s next-gen system. Sorry, no scary kid in the picture playing it. The blurred out controller seems that it would be a dead giveaway to the fact that this is a fake. However, if that isn’t enough proof, you will also note that the disc slot is on the wrong side, and that the box does not have that SD Card shape.
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Every once in a while someone makes a product so simple yet brilliant that you kind of have to wonder why you didn’t think it up and make your fortune with it. Cordster is a simple elevated disc with some uber-velcro (called Dual Lock) attached to it to make it easy to attach the bottom plate to your MP3 player, mobile phone, or CD player, then snap on the Cordster for when you want to wrap up most or all of your cord. The Cordster has a number of notches spread around the outside of the elevated disc thus making securing your cord wrap at any point a cinch. I know that every day I get my headphone cords tangled, knotted, twisted, and caught on all sorts of annoying things swirling around my life - but no longer as our hat’s off to youcordster and problem solved. Cordster is particularly cool at such a great price - under $5 for one, or 5 for under $15!
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Notice to everyone reading this page: Ask your butler to shine your Lamborghini, and take the Porsche to the nearest Hummerdealer because they are giving these babies away with the new H3. You can also buy one for the other Hummers in your garage, if you want one for the H2 for example. But if you are this rich, isn’t the security squad that rolls with you enough? Surely you could hire your own sleuth.
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Why Trustworthy Computing Is A Bad Idea
Posted by Sparky Categories: Corporate News, Features, Mods / Hacks, PC / Laptop,
A number of sites have picked up the story that Intel Developer kits from Apple include TCPA/TPM DRM in the Kernel. TCPA/TPM DRM is a technical term for a Trustworthy Computing solution that limits what fair use consumers can use with the media they own. Basically it lets an application control what other applications or pieces of hardware can access it’s files. For instance a file created in Quicktime could be signed with a quicktime flag meaning no 3rd party applications or other users could view that file. There has been no word on how Apple is going to implement TCPA/TPM DRM yet, but conceivably they could use it to say that no non-DRM’ed pieces of media could be played on a machine making the assumption that if a file does not include DRM then it must be pirated. TCPA/TPM DRM also features the ability to create a secure encrypted channel between a graphics card and a monitor that supports TCPA - this unfortunately not only would help “prevent” piracy by capturing the live stream from the computer to the monitor (something not really done in practice anyway) but would force you to buy a TCPA compliant monitor.
Of course Windows Vista will have TCPA/TPM DRM built in as well - it’s one of Microsoft’s big selling points. I’m not sure how they are spinning it as a benefit to consumers as this does nothing but hurt innocent users wishing to exercise fair use of their content - pirates will always find a method to getting around DRM solutions. TCPA is a technology that only hinders consumers, and benefits no-one but the MPAA, RIAA, and other large greedy organizations that don’t trust their paying customers. With both Apple and Microsoft playing into the media organizations wishes for TCPA to be widely adopted then the consumer loses choice, freedom, and the ability to exercise fair use of the media they both own and enjoy. Check out a possible solution and more information about TCPA after the jump.
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