Archive for December, 2006

RIAA sues Allofmp3 for more than Russia’s GDP

December 28, 2006

The Recording Industry Ass. of America – defender of money grabbing luddite record labels and molester of talented artists* – has decided that allofmp3.com must pay for its terrible crime of abiding by Russian copyright law.They’re suing for every song downloaded from the Russian mp3 website by US citizens over a five month period this [...]

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Violent Video Games? No just Wii

December 11, 2006

If you thought all those TVs getting damaged by errant Wiimotes were bad, take a look at the woman above. Here’s how it happened. A guy comes home drunk and sees his girlfriend fighting a Zelda boss. He grabs the controllers to help her out, but when she approached from a 4 o’clock vector, he [...]

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XNA Game Studio Express Released

December 11, 2006

Microsoft’s been talking this one up for some time now, but XNA Game Studio Express, the so-called “YouTube for games,” has finally hit the big 1.0 and is now available for would-be game designers everywhere to get their hands dirty with. The software is a trimmed down version of the company’s full-fledged XNA game devleopment [...]

Tags: C#, Gaming, Microsoft, PC, studio, Xbox, XNA
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Vote for the best case mod 2006

December 11, 2006

Cast your vote for the best case mod for 2006. Below is my entry. It’s looking a little old now but don’t worry readers I have some big plans for 2007 and my wallet is already bracing itself!

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Tags: case, mod, PC
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Hackers Release Permanent Spoof Vista Activation Server

December 11, 2006

Hackers have found a way around Microsoft Vista’s activation system. Unlike Windows XP and Volume Activation 1.0 Wndows Vista doesn’t have any corporate keys which will permanently activate it.
Volume Activation 2.0 requires a corporate user to either do a onetime activation through Microsoft servers (MAK) or companies can host a local activation server which does [...]

Tags: Microsoft, Security
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