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Bing just got served a piece of its own Scroogle pie, after an independent study found that Microsoft’s search engine delivers malware-infested websites in its results at nearly five times the rate of Google. Researchers at the AV-Test security institute in Germany spent 18 months investigating more than 40 million websites delivered as search engine results in order to gauge which search sites include pages infected by malware or phishing attacks. Its findings [PDF] are flattering for Google, but not so much for Bing. According to the study, out of 20 million websites provided by Google and Bing in equal part, 272 Google results contained malware, while Bing delivere…

Internal government documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have revealed that the US Department of Justice is secretly helping AT&T and other service providers evade wiretapping laws so that the US government can conduct surveillance on parts of their networks. The legal immunity comes from authorizations granted by the Justice Department through special "2511" letters that absolve carriers in the event that the surveillance is found to run afoul of federal law. The authorization program began as a narrow cybersecurity effort to monitor government defense contractors, but has been expanded to cover critical infrastructure like energy, financ…

I dunno what's going to happen, but I do remember our whole crossing a "red line" statement that Obama had made. Thoughts?

http://imgur.com/gallery/U8keS Found this on Imgur while trying to upload a picture to share with ya'll. From the ones that loaded for me, they looked pretty sweet. I think there is a thread on reddit about it, that is what the source linked to. [This may need to be moved to photos.]

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1029/homeworld-acquisition-and-plans Looks like current plans are to re-release the games on stuff like steam and origin(no specific platforms are mentioned but I think we can safely assume it will come to the former at the least).

Help Gamercide make its own version of Cards Against Humanity. As soon as we have just a few cards I will create an addon to be used on our server. If we get enough cards in it, I will make it a full deck that can be played by itself. Let's do this! Black Cards: Can be in the form of a question or fill in the blanks. Maximum of 3 blanks White Cards: Pretty much any response. So, I've been notified this will be more amusing if everyone doesn't see the cards first. So, PM away!

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/security-experts-cispa-not-needed-would-do-more-harm-than-good.html Not even going to quote any of it. Want you to go to the link and read it. Also, I'm in favor of Gamercide going black tomorrow for the CISPA blackout. A day without the forums would keep CISPA in my thoughts all day. I lied. Here's a short quip from the article. But most of the web giants like Google and Facebook which opposed SOPA are now supporting CISPA. Why? Probably because SOPA would have held them responsible for their users’ actions, while CISPA won’t make the web giants responsible. In other words, they don’t have skin in the game this time around.…

Oh Look, Rep. Mike Rogers Wife Stands To Benefit Greatly From CISPA Passing... from the no-conflict,-no-interest deptIt would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of interest that calls into serious question the entire bill. It would appear that Rogers' wife stands to benefit quite a lot from the passage of CISPA, and has helped in the push to get the bill passed. It's somewhat amazing that no one has really covered this part of the story, but it highlights, yet again, the kind of activities by folks in Congress that make the public trust Congress less and less. It has seemed quite…

Retired Pakistani army general Pervez Musharraf is on the run after a Pakistani court ordered the cancellation of his bail application and subsequent arrest. Musharrafis fled the scene in a black bullet proof vehicles immediately following Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui’s announcement that his bail would be cancelled. On Tuesday he was banned from standing as a candidate in the Pakistani elections, crushing his ambition to re-enter the country’s public life. DETAILS TO FOLLOW http://rt.com/news/musharraf-arrest-order-flees-046/ What a weird fucking week!

This town is only 15 or so miles away, i was hoping to get better upload speed for my connection but I dont think it will extend this far. "The announcement that Provo will be the third city to get Google Fiber was made at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, after being hyped up on social media with the hashtag #ProvoEpicAnnouncement." "The service is expected to roll out by the end of 2013, and will build on the fiber-optic network iProvo." http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24830289&nid=148&title=provo-announces-google-fiber-partnership&fm=home_page&s_cid=featured-1

http://mashable.com/2013/04/10/alexis-ohanian-cispa/?source=mm802

I wish I could have had my grandfather try this. He would have really enjoyed it.

Hey you! Have a fan-fuckin-tastic day today and a great birthday!

hope you have a great day!!! It must be cool when your b-day falls on a Friday.

So, I'm going to break down and pay full price for a game. Something I haven't done in a long ass time. I've narrowed it down to a few choices and wanted to get your help. Below are the options: Gears of War Judgement God of War Ascension Sly Cooper 4 Injustice: Gods Among Us I'm leaning towards Injustice. I've really dug the comics and the iOS version is getting the hell played out of it. Already have Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored, X-Com...blah blah blah.... Go forth my good Gamercide family and discuss!

Those of you who know me, know I'm not really a person who shares feelings. You will never be able to go back and find a post of me sharing anything personal that is going on in my life. Sure I've had some hard times in my life but I have never shared them on here. I'm a strong person who just keeps marching and never shares how I'm feeling. I am going to talk about something now, and I don't want sympathy, I feel weird when I talk about stuff I'm feeling. Anyways a few months ago my uncle died, it was pretty unexpected and I was the first one notified so I was the bearer of bad news, which is a first for me. I went to the funeral, and I notice I didn't feel anything. I w…

http://groupthink.kinja.com/payback-for-women-who-ve-ever-been-questioned-about-the-472468506 This made me laugh so hard that I had to share.

http://www.inquisitr.com/613702/rehtaeh-parsons-case-solved-by-anonymous-in-two-hours/ Anonymous is growing more mature, methinks. To some degree, anyway. I hope law enforcement picks the fuck up on this. The pastebin, for those interested: http://pastebin.com/Q8VWUy7a

So this is a bit of a humble brag but I am going to be gone next week on a 7 day Caribbean cruise with my wife, not that I post alot any way but I am real excited to go, we just signed up for the cruise last week so its pretty short notice. I will post some pics when we get back

I hope you have a fantastic day today bro! Enjoy it!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

The House of Mouse has officially killed LucasArts and cancelled Star Wars 1313 and all other projects that were in development. I would say this is a sad day, but in all honesty Star Wars Kinect was the last game they developed and released and we all know how that turned out. “After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games," LucasArts parent company LucasFilm said in a statement. "As a result of this change, we’ve had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud …

It's the end of an era. With the release of Don McLeans's "American Pie", Harmonix is ending its weekly DLC releases for Rock Band. I don't know how many of you played or still play the game, but after 271 consecutive weeks, it's finally over. 4000 tracks and 1500 different artists later, this really is a feat that nobody else will match any time soon, if ever.

Happy April Fools!