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Entries from August 2, 2009 - August 8, 2009
GI Joe : the Rise of Cobra Video review
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In this Episode:
Brandon Discovers how awesome GI Joe is
I never knew, Yes, even when I was a kid, how awesome GI Joe and the GI Joe crew were. Yeah I had the action figures, when i was 4! To a 4 year old, there just hunks of plastic you can smashtogetherand make them stomp around the floor like giant soldiers before bed.
Once i was older, I was more into Batman, Spiderman, Superman and other Gemeral "Super Heroes". I really think I missed out on the whole GI Joeawesomeness and the fun I could have had a Halloween!
Once I saw this movie, this was all clear. It is a true, epic adventure that tells a story for the GI Joe fans, but more importantly, reaches out to a new generation. Since in the podcast I mentioned this is a family movie, I think this is a great way to introduce younger brothers and sisters to GI Joe.
Following the point that it is a family movie, this takes all the latest superhero movies, and takes a classic approach of "hey: here is a great idea! Lets make aKidscartoon and make a movie for thewhole family!" I'm not saying i didn't like movies like the Dark Knight, but they really are taking from the kids on the previous hero movies. They took a kids cartoon, Batman, and turned it in to averyadult movie with a hugely modified overlook on the franchise. They turned it into a dark, twisted and evil plotted series, which is in NO WAY appropriate for kids! Its like taking a kids favorite toy, taking a lighter to it, maybe a bit of blood, and give it back to them and say, "Here ya go!"
I am not saying that new hero movies are bad, in fact Dark Knight was the best hero movie I have seen, Its just no one under 14 will like it, and the whole concept of Batman was, hey, FOR THEM!
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modding your consoles - it's illegal, just in Case you Didn't know
Ever mod your gaming console? Wanted to play imports, backups, or give it custom firmware? In this day in age if you own a PSP it's hard to think of not utilizing all the tools available for your system. But watch out, and hacker beware! Even if you're not making money off of your modding projects, and it's just for personal use you may be surprised to hear that you are already on the wrong side of the law.
I'm sure you've gone on Craigslist before and have seen ads here and there about people willing to mod your 360 or PSP, whether it be for custom firmware or for it to play backups via some hardware mod. Well, those guys are the ones who are 99% more likely to get a 'suit thrown at them. And there's a California college student by the name of Matthew Lloyd Crippen who now is having a few regrets over all those consoles he charged for to mod. You see, Matt is a liberal arts major at Cal state Fullerton, near Anaheim, Cali and I'm sure as a normal college student, he never thought he'd find himself being frisked away by the Immigration and Customs division of Homeland Security last Monday. And now he faces up to 10 years in prison for the two charges pitted against him. Talk about harsh, man.
It's sad to think that a fairly innocent man will be going to prison, that scary place where they put murderers and rapists away, all because he wanted to make a few bucks off of friends who needed their systems worked on. The ESA isn't kidding around about this sorta stuff either. They want everyone to know that if you mod your consoles for any reason whatsoever, no matter what the intent, you are breaking the law and are the worst kind of individual - so bad, you need to be locked up for it. They are quoted as saying this on the siubject from the ArsTechnica article:
The technological measures that video game companies use to control or manage access to their works and to prevent unauthorized copying are essential to ensuring the viability of a vibrant video game marketplace. These technological measures protect the intellectual property rights on which video game companies depend to create and publish new games. Circumventing these protections is never 'harmless fun,' as it erodes the foundation on which video game industry depends for its success.
- Ken Doroshow, ESA General Counsel & Senior Vice President
[via ArsTechnica]
Spotify - Everything you'll ever NEED in a Music App
Lifehacker has come up with a very detailed and insightful look into the application known as Spotify - aka the itunes killer. If you haven't heard of it yet then shame on you, because it's all that you'll ever need when it comes to your digital music needs. Spotify - What is it? It looks a bit like iTunes but without all the mess. It takes Pandora's idea but gives you all the options you want and need. It has Last.FM's library feature but helps you give that playlist you love so much to your friends with just a simple link - postable on Facebook and other Social Net's. If you're starting to see a trend, then you're catching on. Spotify is the instant solution to everything you've ever wanted or needed, all by taking what you love from the usual suspects and puttig it all into one simple, streamlined application meant for streaming. Oh, and did I mention it's free. That being said, the free part, there's going be an ad here or there in between songs, but you can pay them to go away if they bother you that much.
At the moment it's only available in a select number of countries in Europe: Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain to be exact, but believe you me, Spotify is working dilgently with music labels to get their app. given the A-ok in the US and other territories of the world. It's a music listener's fantasy, but don't mistake it for something other than its not. It doesn't allow direct downloads of all your songs to your computer to be synced up to an MP3 player - I don't think musicians, and more importantly, their wallets would like that. But if you have access to Wi-Fi then you can connect at anytime to the cloud, and listen to your favorite songs on the go - que the Spotify IPhone app denial.
Windows and Mac compatible, Linux on the way.
[Via LifeHacker]
Ricardo Trejo
Found a video on how to get an account with Spotify without being in one of the participating countries. Follow the instructions on the video and description to get it working just right. Wasn't sure if I wanted to publish the link, but the more people who want this the more we can hope Spotify makes its way over to those who are begging for it.
I'm loving it, and I'll be one of the first to get an American account on release. It's quick and slick, doesn't use much resources no crappy load times like "accessing iTunes store" on iTunes. What do you think about it? Leave a comment.
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Twitter being used to start and feed Ddos attacks
As news trickles in about the events in Iran, where apparently students are protesting the results of the elections and the government is cracking down on media outlets and journalists, there are DDoS instructions being posted to Twitter. The targets of the packages include:
http://www.leader.ir/
http://president.ir/
http://www.irib.ir/
http://www.iribnews.ir/
Here is one of the posts to Twitter:
Pagereload.com is evidently a way to get your browser to hit a site. The service is owned by someone in Karachi, Pakistan. LOIC is Low Orbit Ion Cannon, another Denial of Service tool. Another tool being linked to is BWRAEP, a GET flood tool, with a list of image files to grab from the above sites, causing the web servers to fail.
Meanwhile the brilliant folks at Renesys have posted a chart of network outages in Iran that are probably feeble attempts by the government to restrict Internet access.
While Twitter is not contributing to the action in the street (it is blocked in Iran by most reports) it Is being used to spread this type of cyber crowd sourced attacked.
A couple of good Twitter IDs to follow for updates on the situation in Iran:TehranBureauandpersiankiwi
Update June 15. A Google Doc has been published and spread via Twitter with many more target sites and links built for pagereboot.com
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