Score 1 for the little guy

Our court system sided on our side for once. P2P is not illegal!> "The judge says that keeping a file in a p2p system is no different than installing a photocopy machine in a library." --Chris Hoofnagle, Assoc. Director of EPIC PDF of the decision can be

Battletech Simplified

Ages ago (Grade 9?) Paul, and myself took the core rules of FASA's tabletop game Battletech and simplified it to the point where almost anyone with little to no gaming experience can pick it up and play. After some digging and some work we managed to put those

US government was thrown a 'Curveball'

So it seems that the US government thought it was good idea to trust an informant that they never met who was talking to the US via the German government (If I recall the German's didn't think the war was a good idea) The informant went

Jersey Girl

Shannon and I went to see Jersey Girl and I have to say it was a great movie. Kevin Smith both wrote and directed this movie, which is easy to tell from the overall style and is uncanny ability to make you think about life and what it all means.

Bush's most wanted man

csmonitor.com [http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0326/p09s02-cods.html] posted a story regarding how much Bush really wanted to get Saddam at all costs even before 9-11> "Clarke wrote that the day after Sept. 11, 2001, the president pulled him and a small group of aides into

Comcast Buys TechTV

According to Wired News [http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62801,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2]> Comcast will fold TechTV into its own failing games channel, G4. It was not immediately known what the sale means for TechTV employees. Joe Gillespie, the company's chief

The Taxonomy of Dog Vomit

I was looking up dog vomit on google groups, because the past couple of days Tanner didn't appear to be feeling well. BethF posted a message [http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=ucb5m92lbavs6f%40corp.

Symbiot Security

Symbiot Security [http://www.symbiot.com/] talks about changing the rules of engagement for information warfare. Great, this is a system we really need, something that attacks back at innocent people who were duped into run a zombie client that performs DDOS attacks. I hope I'm missing something

Scroll Lock of Doom

Make your Scroll Lock key have great power over your XP Machine. What am I talking about? By adding in a registry value [http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2066], you can make it so your PC will crash every time you hold down CTRL and press the Scroll

Watson's Log

Hello, My name is Watson! [Formally known as 'Bud'] I'm so excited to be here!  Gosh, it was close!  This nice lady came to the shelter where I was and felt so sorry for me cause they said I was "next" and she took