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POPSFacebook asked to pull Scrabulous game Hrm, this just seems like a stupid way to go about it. Yes, it is a gross infringement of thier rights, however, it is one of the most popular games/apps on Facebook. I know lots of people who play it. My girlfriend decided to add scrabble to her xmas wishlist after playing it on facebook and being reminded of haw good a game it is. She got the deluxe version of the game under the tree :) As I see it, the idiots are missing out. They could make a deal witht he writers gaining the majority (if not all/nearly all) of any profits made from teh game, and use it to link to thier product, re brand it as official and make MONEY through internet sales of the real thing. Morons. Everybody is shoot first, shoot again.. shoot a little more & when everyone is dead, ask a question or two.. Reminds me of the Alberta Preimier - Domain name issue...
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POPSThe Music Industry’s Last Stand Will Be A Music Tax The article (please read it all before you comment), basically states the idea of putting a $5-10 tax on all ISP Monthly bills. This tax would then allow you to download all the music, etc you want, DRM free without the fear of reprisals from the industry. The writer of the article seems to think this is a bad idea, however, IMO its a great idea. I know that not everyone downloads content illegally, but at least here in Canada, we all pay taxes for things we don't use or rarely use. many Canadians never get really sick or visit doctors, etc, yet they still pay taxes. Many Canadians work all their lives and never worry about being un employed, but we still pay "Employment Insurance" taxes. So maybe it would work here in Canada, and not in the US? Well, we will be better for it. Besides, what's $5 on a $80 cable & internet bill? Barely noticeable. (continued...)
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POPSCES: FyreTV Brings the Porn for Ten Bucks a Month This isn't marked mature because it contains nothing (graphically) "mature"... This is an interesting concept. Granted, porn on the net is "free" (youporn, torrents, google image search, etc), but the ability to access thier entire library using keyword/concept searching is rather unique. And in DVD quality too ;)
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POPSTeenagers charged in "Mortal Kombat" tragedy Read the rest of the article, the writer makes some very good points. These kids were old enough to know better, any sane person can't place the blame on video games. the could have gotten the idea form any visual media. Movies, TV, etc. There was alchahol involved. If thye had have been watching a Van-Damm mvowie before hand the same outcome would ahve likely been reached. Stupid people make me mad. They just gave the anti-video game camp a hand of ACES in the media... Here's an idea.. take resposibility for your own fucking actions.. What about the parents here.. obviously these "kids" should not have been left in cahrge of a 7 year old...
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POPSPron company tries to datamine facebook, gets sued Datamining sites like this is nothing new. The new thig is basically that many people (me included) put much of thier life ont ehse sites. We assume the provider is doing everything it can to protect our privacy (in Facebook's case, this seems to be a problem that keeps rearing its ugly head). The info I have on Facebook I'm not worried about. I'm not really paranoid. I'm sure with teh right datamining & analysis tools once could beuild a rather impressive psych profile of me. So what? If I was in the states or Britian, I might be more worried.
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POPS"Angry dad hurt her, says teen Internet flasher" - Moral: Don't buy your kids Webcams! OMFG... Ok, the guy had no right to assault his daughter no matter what she did. He should NOT have bought his daughter a webcam.. I don't know how many parents I've told this to... if you MUST, then put it in a common room, not their bedroom or a room with a door! Also, the father apparently is under investigation for previous incidents of assault involving his daughter. PS: I think technically, under Canadian law, both the girl, her father's girlfriend (owner of the computer), and the boy in PEI could be charged with possession, distribution & production of child pornography. Scary, huh? (the woman because it is her computer) PPS: the father sounds like a real winner.. read the rest of the article...
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POPSVista is power hungry... 
Article outlines what you'll need to run Vista in all it's "Glory"... I think the following is a stupid remark and I'd expect Wired to know better: "which means an external graphics card or processor is almost invariably required." What the hell does that mean? I didn't know there were such things as "external graphics cards or processors".. this is confusing (someone actually emailed me about this asking what an external graphics cards was and if the computer I spec'd for them (with an ATI Radeon X1900) was going to handle vista... why hadn't I told them they would need an "external graphics card").. FYI: for those of you who don't know much about computers, graphics cards are always (at least for the vast majority) internal.. it's whether the graphics card is integrated (meaning built into the motherboard) or an add-on card (plugged into a motherboard's expansion slot, usually a slot specifically for graphics cards.. like AGP or PCI-Express 16). Vista requires the latter.
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