Comic-Con: Stan Lee’s World of Heroes Gets New Series

Who doesn’t love Stan Lee? He’s brought us some of the most memorable characters over the years. Over at his Youtube channel Stan Lee’s World of Heros, where he has some great shows like Cocktails with Stan Lee, Geek DIY, and my personal Favorite Stan’s Rant’s, he’s unveiling some new content. Each show has it’s own style and will bring something new and entertaining to the channels … Continue reading Comic-Con: Stan Lee’s World of Heroes Gets New Series

Noisestash: Kerning. Do You Have What It Takes?

Kerning is an important element of all designs including any form of typography. For the uninitiated kerning is how you space letters. As the always relevant XKCD points out bad kerning can be quite irksome. This little web based game from Method Of Action will let you test your chops at how good or bad you are at determining what is good kerning. I am … Continue reading Noisestash: Kerning. Do You Have What It Takes?

Reddit To Turn The Lights Out For SOPA Awareness

The whole SOPA/PIPA debate has been making its rounds on the internet for a while now. But still a lot of people aren’t exactly sure what it is, or they don’t know how far it reaches. To bring awareness to this the popular community reddit is planning to go “dark” from 8am-8pm EST on January 18, 2012. According to their offical blog they will display … Continue reading Reddit To Turn The Lights Out For SOPA Awareness

Call All Your Friends, Your Phone Won’t Give You Brain Cancer

There’s always been talking saying that having a cell phone will give you cancer and brain tumors, but now a study has been completed that has showed there is no such link. A new study has come out, showing that over a 15 year period, an entire population of people has shown now greater increase of cancer of those who use cellphones compared to those … Continue reading Call All Your Friends, Your Phone Won’t Give You Brain Cancer

Warner Brothers Sets Sights High With New Facebook Show

Warner Brothers Digital Distribution announced today that they’re going to release an action comedy series called Aim High though Facebook. It will be produced by Warner Premier and Dolphin Entertainment. They’re calling it “the first-ever social series from a Hollywood Studio.” Facebook will allow you to add your profile information by installing the Facebook app on the show’s page. This will enable you to get … Continue reading Warner Brothers Sets Sights High With New Facebook Show

14 Anonymous Suspects Arrested

The Federal Bureau of Investigations confirmed that they executed more than 30 search warrants today across the country targeting hackers related to Anonymous which led to 14 arrests.

The 14 were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio. The suspects were indicted by a federal grand jury in San Jose, California. Five more were arrested overseas, in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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New Mac Defender Variant Doesn’t Need Admin Password

There has been lots of news floating around the interwebs recently about a Mac targeted malware attack called Mac Defender. At first Apple refused to recognize it existed, then say it will be patched in an update. The severity of it was debatable, but one thing was known, it was relatively low risk because you had to enter the administrator password to install it. That … Continue reading New Mac Defender Variant Doesn’t Need Admin Password

Internet Fad Of Planking Blamed In Death

A 20-year-old Australian has fallen to his death while joining on the internet fad of “planking” and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is calling for a ban of the on the extreme aspects of the activity. Really? A ban on something that is usually harmless, but this dumbass decided he wanted to plank on a 7th floor balcony on a two inch railing. What did … Continue reading Internet Fad Of Planking Blamed In Death

Sony Announces PSN And Qrirocity Limited Return And ‘Welcome Back’ Program

Sony boss Kaz Hirai held a press conference yesterday in Japan, or last night here in the states, to address the PlayStation Network and Qrirocity outage than happened because 77 million people had their personal date compromised in an attack last week. He outlined some of Sony’s plans to relaunch their online services.

He stated it would be a “phased restoration by region” The first features you can count on being restored first are online gaming for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, account management and password reset features and unexpired movie rentals. The most important of which is the password reset and account management features. I found it pretty disturbing when Sony said I needed to change my password, but was unable to access it.
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Google Will Now Send Youtube Copyright Violators Back To School

Google has come under fire recently for allowing users to upload copyrighted material to the popular video sharing site Youtube. In 2007 Viacom engaged in a billion dollar lawsuit with Google. In that lawsuit the claimed Google had allowed “massive copyright infringement” by hosting users copyrighted content. Google was even criticized last week by a congressional subcommittee for failing to adequately crackdown on copyright violations.

Google has now decided to step up to the plate. In the past Google has been warning users that if they post copyrighted material that their account may be revoked. Now you will be forced to watch a 4-and-a-half minute animated video titled “Youtube Copyright School” and after watching they’ll have to pass a test.
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House Republicans Vote To Block FCC’s Net Neutrality Regulations

The House of Representatives recently voted 241-178 to adopt a one page resolution that says that the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality regulations will have no affect. According to Representative Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), “Congress did not authorize the FCC to regulate in this area. We must reject any rules that it promulgates in this area… It is Congress’ responsibility to delegate that authority.”

Fewer than ten Democrats supported this resolution, which leads many to believe that if the resolution is passed it will in fact be vetoed by President Obama. Especially since the White House released a statement saying, “”If the president is presented with a Resolution of Disapproval that would not safeguard the free and open Internet, his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the Resolution.”

When the FCC’s originally gave it’s Net Neutrality regulations neither side was happy with the results. People for Net Neutrality didn’t feel the regulations did enough, calling it Net Neutrality Lite, and those against it felt that they were still too strict.
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It Appears Motorola Is Pricing Itself Out Of The Market With The Xoom And The Atrix

The Motorola Xoom and the Atrix are some pretty solid Android mobile devices, but with such high price points it seems consumers are shying away.

Official sales numbers for the Xoom haven’t been released yet, but according to a Dow Jones Wire report analysts from Deutsche Bank are estimating the sales of the Xoom at 100,000 units sold within the tablet’s first month and a half of availability. That is substantially less than the 300,000 the iPad’s first day on sale.
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The Internet Is Dead: How To Survive The Onslaught Of Trolls

This is the final and shortest survival guide. The Internet as we know it has gone down. No more Facebook, no more Reddit, and NO MORE NOISECAST! Earth’s citizens are panicking at the thought of instantly being put in the proverbial stone-age.

You’ve tried power cycling the routers, and nothing is working. You can’t search Google for possible solutions, your cellphone doesn’t even have access. Your first thoughts might be, no more WoW, how will I get to sleep with out Netflix streaming? Then an internet savvy friend of yours asks, “What will become of the trolls?!?” This isn’t something you’ve given much thought to. On the internet if you went to a website infested by trolls you could simply go to a different site. Without the internet what will happen? Continue reading “The Internet Is Dead: How To Survive The Onslaught Of Trolls”

Amazon Thinks Its Cloud Storage Doesn’t Need A License, Labels Say They Do

Amazon launched the Amazon Cloud Player earlier this week and Steven thought it was pretty good way to listen to French House Music. With this service, you can listen to uploaded music on your Android device, or through the Amazon Cloud Web Player. And music labels feel that Amazon should have to pay a license to allow that kind of streaming. Amazon is under the … Continue reading Amazon Thinks Its Cloud Storage Doesn’t Need A License, Labels Say They Do

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