Anonymous Planning to Take Down Root DNS Servers
In protest of SOPA, Wall Street, irresponsible government leaders and bankers, Anonymous plans to take down the 13 DNS root servers on March 31st. These are the main servers responsible for knowing what domain goes to what IP address all the time. Read the rest of this article…
I Am An Adult Fan Of LEGO (AFOL) And I Love It.
I didn’t realize until I started paying attention to Tested more that maybe, just maybe, grown-ass men seeking out LEGO sets seems pretty man-childish. Wandering around a LEGO Store and picking out individual 50-piece sets might just seem a little weird to some. But why? I love LEGOs, you should, too!
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What Does BioWare Need To Do To Fix SWTOR?
Some people would say Star Wars: The Old Republic is fine as it is. Many would disagree. If you look in the forums you’ll see a lot of unreasonable requests, foolish demands and crazy ideas. You’ll also see some which are inspired, make perfect sense and cause you to wonder why these things weren’t implemented in the first place.
Since it’s hard to dig through all of the madness, I’ve compiled a little list.
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Valentine’s Day: Candy, Cakes, Loneliness
It takes some effort to have neutral feelings on Valentine’s Day. You’re either in the ‘in-crowd’ or you’re outside living in a box with little more than your self-esteem. And candy. Lots and lots of candy. I suppose in that regard, V-Day is a victory for everyone. But in the way it actually matters, the love part, it’s also a defeat. A big one.
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BioWare Drops The Ball, YET AGAIN, With Their Latest Weekly Patch
Star Wars: The Old Republic ( SWTOR ) received another patch this morning, as is the norm for Tuesdays and this patch, like just about every patch before, is wreaking havoc on the game.
At some point, BioWare is going to have to figure this situation out or I fear they’re going to have more to worry about than bug fixes.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1.3 Being Prepped For Deployment
BioWare now has patch 1.1.3 live on their public test servers and should be patching SWTOR in the wee hours of tomorrow morning, with an update which contains bug fixes and updates to combat, companions, crafting, PVP on Ilum and more.
Check it out!
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Safe House Review: Here are the Keys. Deal With Him.
Neither bold and fresh nor offensively incompetent, Safe House serves as another example of a by-the-numbers spy thriller swimming in the wake of the colossal Bourne franchise. Director Daniel Espinosa creates a polished Bourne clone featuring solid performances from Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, but ultimately hindered by a cliché riddled screenplay.
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Apple: We Are Drunk On Power. Also: We’re Suing You.
The ghost of John Sculley haunts the halls of Cupertino. As Apple descended from greatness during his reign in the late 80s and early 90s against the rising tide of IBM-compatible personal computers, one of his clarion calls (borrowed from Jobs) was that Microsoft had stolen the look and feel of the first commercially available graphical user interface (GUI) from them. Developed for Lisa, an expensive disaster, and Macintosh, Steve Jobs’ pet project in the mid-80s, Apple believed that a mouse-driven interface – rather than a text-driven one – was their gift to humanity. In court, they fought that their GUI and its broad ‘look and feel’ was a good enough defense to fend off Microsoft’s increasingly-popular Windows operating system and extract hundreds of millions of dollars in victory dollars, if not more.
After six years, Apple lost that war, but they’ve learned enough to become litigious jerkheads as they’re now on top of the world.
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On The Verge – 2.10.2012
As a New York City native I get the opportunity to attend events and shows around the area. One that I try to make every month was the The Engadget Show. I was a fan of the main editors at Engadget and their personalities worked great together to provide an entertaining hour of just talking about tech and interviewing big names in the industry. When the great “Engadget Exodus” of 2011 occurred I was concerned about the future of the show but luckily, Joshua Topolsky and company decided to continue their monthly show on their new website The Verge. Yesterday they had their second episode and it was a special one at that. Jimmy Fallon was the guest and with that came comedy.
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Path. I Don’t Get It.
Wow, has it been that long already? Silicon Valley is falling in love with all these new social networking toys for this reason or that. In the case of Path, one of its founding backers is Napster creator Shawn Fanning. It seems that the service is trying to straddle the line between full-blown service, a la Facebook, and a simpler photo upload solution, like Instagram, with the intent of keeping your friends list to a smaller group of fifty. I understand how Path works; what I don’t understand is if there’s some middle space for this kind of network.
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