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10 Things I Hate About You 200 Cigarettes 27 Dresses 28 Days 28 Days Later 28 Weeks Later 30 Days of Night 300 50 First Dates A Bronx Tale A Christmas Story A History of Violence A Man Apart A … Continue reading →

How To Avoid Handing Your Tot A Blank Check Made Out To Apple I keep catching stories about how unwitting parents hand over one of their (fill in the blank) electronic devices which are capable of making In App Purchases (for … Continue reading →

eBay’s VIN System Error Costs Me $1,000, They Don’t Particularly Care So apparently Ebay Motors has a feature that lets you punch in the VIN of a vehicle you are selling, and it looks up the information in order to … Continue reading →

Community Raises $80,000 In Attempt To Save Local Toy Store While on the surface this appears to be a heartwarming story of locals rallying to support a failing business, there is an underlying problem here which despite the effort to help … Continue reading →

What a freaking calamity that was. I already had a generator which back-feeds into my home via the garage, plus bread, milk, juice, eggs, chocolate, ice cream, etc…  I remember on Saturday thinking ‘it is way too calm out right … Continue reading →

One of my favorite Sci-Fi/Action franchises is the Terminator series.  From the movies, to the comics, to the various games… From the day I first saw Terminator 2 back in the early 90’s, I was hooked.  Terminator 4 – in … Continue reading →

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/feds-go-overboard-in-prosecuting-information-activist/ So apparently this bright yet misguided ‘information activist’ decided to download as many academic documents as he could from JSTOR with a plan to upload them to a P2P network.  The catch here is that JSTOR provides free access … Continue reading →

NYPD officer canned for ticketing dead people says he was doing it to meet ‘quotas’ Now generally speaking, I don’t have a problem with law enforcement.  I’ve had my own run ins, pretty much all traffic related… Some ended in … Continue reading →

There’s a big push lately for everyone to utilize VPN’s. For quite some time, VPN’s have been used to connect individual computers or networks to another networks across the Internet securely. In the most basic of explanations – a VPN … Continue reading →

Samsung didn’t copy iPhone design, court in South Korea rules I’ve been following the whole Apple V Samsung fiasco since the beginning.  Cliffs notes version: Apple created the iPhone.  Numerous manufacturers created other smartphones to compete.  Samsung’s products, while nearly … Continue reading →