Sunday, April 19, 2009

Links For 4-19-2009

Here's what a card skimmer looks like on an ATM. This might be useful to know if you don't want to get ripped off.

Cheap Blu-ray players will hit U.S. store shelves. Hopefully, like cheap DVD players, these cheaper Blu-Ray players will have region hacks so you can watch import Blu-Rays. (Granted, quite a few Blu-Rays are already all-region, but it sucks when one you want is region locked.)

Windows 7 RC to be released publicly on May 5. Closer to final. I'm waiting for final. I'm definitely not one of these people downloading each version, reformatting, and reinstalling on what seems to be a daily basis.

Swedes demonstrate against Pirate Bay verdict. Personally, it's nice to see a mass of people complaining about the bullying tactics of the huge corporations. Pay attention big media companies, it's time to invent a new business model. The public doesn't want the old one anymore.

Swedish ISP undermines IPRED. Not keeping logs is a pretty smart way around a dumb law. Of course, you have to imagine that they'll change the law and force ISPs to keep logs to use against the ISPs' customers.

Is Google the next Pirate Bay? In a word, no. The arguement that the Pirate Bay is simply a search engine, just like Google, and that you can find torrents just as easily on Google did lead some people to worry what would happen if the TPB guys were found guilty.

Learn more about BIOSHOCK 2 — safely. Some info on the game with a minimum of spoilers.

Violence debate still fixated on knee-jerk issues. The people on both sides of the debate will never agree. Then something new will come along, and that'll get blamed and everybody will forget all about this.

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