Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Links For 6-17-2008

Stan Winston passes away. This guy was legendary. His effects work has been seen in more stuff than I can count.

How to block cellphone spam. I just got a spam text the other day. I usually just delete them, although it annoys me that it cost me the dime or whatever it is text cost to receive on T-Mobile. (Especially since when I first signed up incoming texts were free, only outgoings cost money.)

Pensioner destroys flats to kill ants. I hate ants, but this guy took it to a new extreme.

Police: Officer kills man who beat child to death. Good. I've got zero sympathy for this walking turd.

GTA IV turns you into a pedophile. Anti-video game zealots are so whacky. Speaking of which...

Massacre Chaser's meltdown continues. It's not just disbarment. There's a "conspiracy" against him now. Oooooooh. Even law enforcement doesn't want to listen to this nutter anymore.

Sony announced when THE SHIELD season 6 is coming out on DVD in the US. August 26th is the date, and the MSRP on it is $59.95. $59.95 for ten episodes? Are they out of their minds? That's the going rate for shows that are 22 episodes. It's bad enough that US fans of the show have to wait until August while season six has been out on DVD over in the UK for months now, but it even costs less to import it. (Granted, I doubt it'll sell for the full MSRP here, but you have to figure it'll go for around $39.95-44.95 easily.)

Tyler Durden(s) sing about male "packages". I don't know why this wasn't one of the extras on the FIGHT CLUB DVD.

alt.blocked: Verizon blocks access to whole USENET hierarchy. I haven't had them for an ISP for a few years now, but Verizon used to have really good usenet service.

Survey shows huge demand for legal P2P. In fact, the figure is 80% want legal P2P. That's pretty high. Of course the music industry won't like that and will try to delay it any way they can. For two examples...

Recording industry now making up facts to support having ISPs police file sharing. Nothing new there.

RIAA goes judge shopping after one judge actually pushes back. Legal loopholes. Exploit one now kids!

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