LA Firetruck Falls Into Sinkhole

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MagicJack not that Magic

Tons of posts are appearing on complaintsboard.com suggesting that MagicJack is indeed a scam.

Link is here.

Iranian May Have Been Assassinated For Leaking The Real Election Results

I have seen a flurry of activity on the internet about this, and more so on the news about the Iranian who worked for the Interior Ministry to secure the IT network and may have been assassinated because he leaked results that showed the government used software to manipulate the election results.  Those who have seen his information report that Ahmadinejad actually came in third and that Moussavi received 19 million votes; thus making him president.

News like this must be kept alive and reported on, democracy is at stake.

R.I.P Traditional Analog

Say goodbye to analog tv everyone. The digital revolution starts today (in the US atleast, europe’s had it for a couple years now)!

Originally scheduled for Feb 17, 2009 but pushed back to many delays from analog-converter-box coupons and busy/retarded customers who wait til last second despite this being announced for the past 2 years – the time has finally come to put away the rabbit ears (or atleast connect them to your converter box if your still using that instead of cable/satelite).

The only thing i shall miss i think is that fact that if you get a bad signal you get a static-ky image with sound as opposed to a new garbled satellite-stuck-in-the-rain feeling of the new airborn digital frequency when low. Hopefully now that were going fully digital the stations will give us some better signal strength without so much old school (i dont wanna say “garbage” but thats what it is now) in the way interfering. They’ll invest in “Tv Translators” (according to the dtv2009 site) to help extend the signal farther to get a better signal for everyone.

Now everyone can enjoy 3-4 different subchannels of channel 6 and 4-5 subchannels of channel 7 as well as a local doplar channel for weather information. what i mean by subchannels is you’ll find for example: 06-1, 06-2, 07-1, 07-2, 07-3. Each with different stuff going on most of the time.

Hope everyone’s ready! With some luck we’ll end the day without opening any portals into any other dimensions. we’ll see

goto https://www.dtv2009.gov/ for more info

New Afghan Law Legalizes Rape

The article found here reports on a new bill that has been signed into law, and which was reportedly never fully debated in parliament.

Not only is this a great example of a government attempting to regulate the lives of its citizens in the privacy of their home, but it is also an example of the steps politicians are willing to go to ensure re-election. Truly disgusting.

Reinterpretation of the Fourth Amendment

To summarize the article, a Yale scholar suggests that the current interpretation of the Fourth Amendment is not correct.  Currently it is interpreted as protecting one’s right to privacy, and forces courts to determine whether it outweighs security.

The Yale scholar believes that the Fourth Amendment does the opposite; namely that it specificly protects the security of our personal lives.

It also states that a “shift to a focus on security allows us to bypass the question of when, exactly, a target’s privacy is violated, and deal with the seemingly more tractable question of how these practices would affect our sense of security if they were known to be in broad use”.

In other words, if adopted, this interpretation would serve to protect our rights better (as in many cases it encompases the standard privacy interpretation), but it also means that governments could spy on their citizens as long as that fact is always kept secret and never revealed.

Sony releases New Stupid Piece of Shit that Doesn’t Fucking Work

Actually this is the real name of the video and its hilarious .:D

Although i like Sony XD but this is extremely funny

Icemelt Could Shift Earth’s Rotation, Moving Water Northward

“Long-term sea level increases that could have a devastating effect on southern Florida and highly populated coastal areas may be even larger than once thought, a report suggests.

Some studies have suggested that melting of ice in Antarctica and other areas could raise sea levels by 16 feet to 17 feet over the long run, a potential threat to coastal areas such as Washington, D.C., New York City and California.”

Icemelt Could Shift Earth’s Rotation, Moving Water Northward

Like felix once said time to buy inland property for the future beach front.  But even if the global warming is man-made or not, we should really pay attention to what is happening to the earth.

Faster & Easier -> Jump Lists

Windows 7 Beta – > Faster & Easier -> Jump Lists

“With Windows 7, we focused on keeping the things you use most right in front of you. One example: The new Jump List feature. It’s a handy way to quickly reach the files you’ve been working with. To see the files you’ve used recently, just right click on the icon on your taskbar. So right-clicking on the Word icon will show your most recent Word documents. Plus, if there are other files you want to keep handy, you can just pin them to the Jump List.”

Basicly you know how the Vista taskbar menu does that cool little thing where it opens your list of programs right there instead of
in a GIANT LIST that takes you an hour to scroll through after you install all the programs you use? And this time theyre opening it
to the side (where MyDocs and MyComputer are) instead of right there. Whats the best news about this feature..? Well now theyre doing
that for EVERYTHING!!! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!! Internet Explorer favorites & bookmarks listed automaticly, Microsoft Word recent documents &
quick access to file options, hell even MsPaint has a few menu options there! Just makes things quicker to access which sounds rather trivial
but makes things considerably quicker.

Windows 7 Beta – (Part 1 of ???)

:: Windows 7 Beta ::

*[insert sound of trumpets]*

It has finally come. The beta edition of the next windows operating system has been released for testing. Along with the beta release of Windows Cloud (the server version of Windows 7) soon underway (gee I wonder where they got the idea to call it that? oh yeah -  from APPLE!)

Microsoft Vista was released January 30, 2007, Each new operating system is released every 4 years. This is nothing new, theyre just starting early like always. Nothing new. Honestly I’ve grown quite fond of Vista despite the majority of the population’s constant slander of it.. Yes it is abit of a memory hog, every edition of Microsoft has always taken up a considerable more amount of RAM than it’s predisessors (just never this big of a jump but change is necessary for advancement). I won’t argue that Windows XP is still one of the most stable of all the Windows editions and probably one of the bests ever created from the Windows timeline, but quite frankly Vista’s NOT bad at all. Its not perfect but the only programs that dont work are more in the custom department. Even with the rest theres a secret feature many people arnt away of where if you right-click a program you can run it on Vista using
the WindowsXP settings/parameters as well as certain previous versions. Anyways thats not what this post is about – This is about Windows7.

Apparently they listened to what the users had to say. Windows 7 is being built around our feedback (oh wow theyre finally listening now..? Wonder what made them do that?), so you’ll see a lot of things you’ve asked for. Theyre trying to make everyday tasks faster and easier, make the PC work the way we want it to, and making “new things possible”.

I’ll be posting new features from the 3 Categories of features the new Windows7 is marketing - Faster & Easier, Work your Way, and New Possibilities.

Starting today:

Faster & Easier -> Improved taskbar and full-screen previews

“The taskbar at the bottom of your screen is what you use to switch between the applications you’ve got open. In Windows 7 you can set the order in which the icons appear and they’ll stay put. They’re easier to see, too. Click once on the new large icons or bigger preview thumbnails and you’re ready to go. You can even see a full screen preview before switching to the window.”

One again Microsoft copys Apple! (One again? Wait what are you talking about “once again”?!?). Basicly the dock has been revamped and edited just enough for Windows to claim it as it’s own – atleast the basic idea but atleast this time they took it one or two steps up.