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Warranty expired? If you're a modder, you don't care

Warranty expired? If you're a modder, you don't careVery Cool, But...If I may add my $0.02, there are companies out there who don't like this, and don't think that you should have the ability to modify something you bought, and will use technology and the law (e.g. DMCA) to prevent...

Tags: modder

Discussion threads 2005-12-04

Sharman professes innocence as trial winds down

Sharman professes innocence as trial winds downHang the scum by their BALLS !ALL P2P facilitators of theft should be hung by their balls with barbed wire. These scumbags will do anything for money.So we shouldlet the scumbags who are actually copying the stuff off the hook? They are the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), GPL, P2P, modder, open source, file-sharing, eMule, Sharman Networks Ltd.

Discussion threads 2005-03-23

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Creative backs down on modded Vista drivers

Creative backs down on modded Vista driversHe was doing them a service..the problem thoughWas that he was asking for donations and claimed that the more in donations the more he would work at creating better versions etc. He tried to capitalize off his work, which I don't see any...

Tags: BIOS, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware, donation, hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

The all-in-one dual-core VESA Stand PC mod

The all-in-one dual-core VESA Stand PC modThis was a lot of work mostly because I'm a noob with woodThis was a lot of work mostly because I'm a noob with wood. I figure it would be 3 hours labor if I got good at it. It's basically a...

Tags: Keyboards, VESA Stand PC, keyboard, PC, dual-core

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

Wallop: Seeding a social network

“Get into Wallop, make it yours!” is the tag line and exhortation of the Wallop social networking site, launched in beta in September. It is not necessarily easy to “get into Wallop,” however, and that is by design.Wallop proudly touts that it is “the exclusive social experience” that attracts “select...

Tags: Wallop, Social Media, Social Networking, Facebook, Amateur Content, Social Web, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Culture, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Revisiting Wallop

rBack in September I received an invite to Wallop and gushed about the service. I was impressed partly because of the novel use of Flash and also partly because I think Wallop enhances the user experience of social networks. One of the things MySpace got right was allowing people to...

Tags: Wallop, Micropayments, Flash, Experience, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Microsoft "bricked" 360s with "Live" update

Microsoft "bricked" 360s with "Live" updateI'll be interested in seeing how they fix this one ...... can't see how they can fix a bricked Xbox onver the net.It all depends on howquickly MS fixes the problem, and what attitude they take while doing it.Lets face facts here. Many people...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, console, chip

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me A film

Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me A filmRead the second page of the wired articleThe creator is quoted in the Wired article as wanting at least some control.[i]Molyneux won't allow any machinima to appear on The Movies Online that might be perceived as obscene. "If somebody tries to remake Star Wars and...

Tags: statute, CPPA, sexual activity, depiction

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

Your weekend modder project: getting your rotary phone to work with Vonage

That's the D-122 KXT-41 Tone Dialer. It costs less than $6.Why am I devoting service space to this product? Read on...On the independently-owned and run Vonage Forum, I've run across a fascinating thread in which a user named Cozzman is trying to figure out if there's a way to use...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., telephone

Blog posts 2006-01-13

Warranty expired? If you're a modder, you don't care

I've just read a fascinating piece on Salon.com by BoingBoing co-editor David Peskovitz.The final piece in a three-part Salon series called "The Big Idea," David's piece examines what Salon's editors call "important and mind-blowing developments in the world of technology."David cites six of these developments. One of these, entitled...

Tags: Salon

Blog posts 2005-12-02

Video game pirate headed to slammer

Video game pirate headed to slammerOutstanding!!!True, it's only four months but that should be plenty of time for Bubba to romance him....Will he remove the parrot before or after foreplay.Excellent. Now he can meet other people's parrots at the state bed & breakfast. Maybe they will pass him around like...

Tags: Games, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Viruses and worms, Cable, SECURITY, Network technology, Hitesh Patel, video game, Hell OJ, X-Box, pirated game, Bubba, O.J. Simpson, game, SQL Slammer, video

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

Nvidia graphics chip to debut at game bash

Nvidia graphics chip to debut at game bashAbout time new chipsets are released!I was beginning to wonder... Now hopefully the 6800 will come down in price... (as I use Linux and never liked ATi's bug-ridden slop drivers in Windows, I went Nvidia a long time ago and never...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, game, NVidia Corp., GPU, graphics, ATi, mainboard, RAM, memory, chip

Discussion threads 2005-06-15

Apple hints at colorful computer plans

Apple hints at colorful computer plansOoh man, the colors....Yes sir, real innovation there...I guess we knowwhat the new imac will look like. I never really liked the candy colors imacs. I much prefered the desk lamp style one. I really hope Jobes isn't going back to that cheesy...

Tags: Patent Law, computer, patent, Apple Inc., IM GONNA, PC

Discussion threads 2004-08-16