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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.…

But, here's the thing: as many of us have been saying for quite some time, the "best ideas" have nothing to do with legislation, because legislation is tackling the wrong problem. No amount of legislation or enforcement stops piracy. That's been shown over and over again. What does help deal with infringement is offering a better service that gives consumers more of what they want in a reasonable and convenient manner. And thus, I can't recommend enough Nat Torkington's brilliant response to "the President's challenge" above by likening it to this old joke:Heavy rains start and a neighbour pulls up in his truck. "Hey Bob, I'm leaving for high ground. Want a lift?" Bob say…

The latest news in the rumor mill has Take Two Interactive registering what appears to be several different domain names for the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto series. According to video game blog Ripten, Take Two has registered CashForDeadDreams.com, SixFigureTemps.com, StopPayingYourMortgage.net, HammersteinFaust.com, and LifeInvader.com between January 26th and January 7th showing signs that Rockstar and Take Two will be continuing the tradition of viral advertising like they did with GTA IV that included the “Wanted” posters that were put up in different cities in New York. That is if this rumor proves to be true. via Ripten Tweet This Post View the f…

How is everyone doing? Long time no see, had to drop in and say high. Out of the Army now, married with a dog and soon to be living in Florida with my beautiful wife and starting college to be a producer and DJing on the side. Had to drop by and see everyone again thought. I missed you guys! I don't have access to my consoles right now, but I'm still very much active in gaming too. Living the dream now, college life and beach life for me.

I have a TOTAL guilty pleasure that lately has found me wanting more... I love reading the XBOX Live forum especially the Account Suspension and Console Bans. I can not stand cheaters and people that think the Live community is their place to be vulgar, rude and disrespectful. I play for fun and recently put the privacy setting on my live so only FRIENDS can communicate with me. (other then Friend Requests) I let my son play with his friends and we share a live account. The last thing I want to hear myself is the current trend of being extremely rude, much alone my son being exposed to it. Is it wrong to be extremely happy when I see someone else whine about being ban…

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center. In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium. The number of gun…

H1Z1 has just released on Steam, and a recent change/addition from the developers is causing some serious outcries of anger from the playerbase. Originally the developers claimed that they truly wanted to avoid the game becoming "pay to win". Players could supposedly spend real money in the game to purchase wearable items and cosmetic things, but being able to spend money on immediate weapons/ammo/food was absolutely out of the question. See the following screenshot where they claimed the "whole game would suck" if people were able to immediate purchase such things. And with the release of the game now apparently they've taken a complete turnaround of this minds…

So, you are men. The manliest of men. Men so manly that even other men are boys. Oh yes, I need some suggestions for gift. I need input on shaving shit. Like after shave, lotions or whatever the fuck it is you men use to keep your faces baby butt smooth

Duke Nukem Forever releases on May 3rd in the US and May 9th Internationally. The trailer below is pretty much all you need to see, so now get out there and pre-order! There is box art and a few screens below in the slideshow. No word yet on if there will be a collector’s edition or any pre-order goodies. Stay tuned for more as new comes out. Be sure to view the main article for box art and screenshots.

So what is everyone gonna be!? My daughter decided on Batgirl haha. Every year it is my tradition to match her in some way. So I thought about the Batman universe and decided it is time for me to be.............. The Joker! It has been good fun. I went out and have been piecing it together. I went straight to Goodwill first and found this purple long coat that I think will go really well with this. My wife is gonna help me make some of the other stuff. It's more fun to piece it together than to buy those costumes in a bag. I will have to posts some pics when Halloween comes!

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via Eurogamer Eurogamer is reporting that the Channel 4 News Team recently caught a glimpse of what appears to be an unannounced Halo 5 game along with an icon for Project Gotham Racing during a recent demonstration by Microsoft’s Jonathon Cluts of hidden Kinect technology. During the demo, Cluts is showing how he can change walls in a futuristic house. He passes by icons and chooses Grandma’s Room. Clearly on either side are icons for “Project Gotham Racing” and “Inside Halo 5″. This all could have been a marketing scheme cooked up by Microsoft or maybe there actually is a Halo Kinect title in the works. via Eurogamer View the full article

Fans of Master Chief prepare to get your pants wet with sheer excitement. A remake of the game that put Halo on the path to taking over the world is officially being remade for the Xbox 360 and will be releasing on November 15, 2011 which happens to be exactly ten years since the release of the original. Saber Interactive who is responsible for Time Shift, is taking over the reigns of the remake. Halo CE will be getting a full visual overhaul supporting 1080p and 3D televisions as well as new art assets will be added. It has also been announced that Halo CE will not be a product of the Reach engine. No other major details have been released since the announcement. via…

Halo: Reach’s new map pack will be delivered to you sometime this March for 800 Microsoft points. The “Defiant Map Pack” will feature 3 new maps and an added 150 gamerscore points. Condemned can hold 6-12 players and is in a space station above Reach. Unearthed is firefight map on a mine and refinery on Reach. Highlands takes place on a wooded training preserve on Reach. 8-16 players can take on Highlands. via Major Nelson View the full article

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Sorry we missed this yesterday, Irish. Happy Birthday, man! I wouldn't had even known if it weren't for Aiirantou. =]

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MS-DOS lol. It's 30 today! Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally thrown together in just two months for a 0.1 release in 1980. Meanwhile, IBM had planned on powering its upcoming Personal Computer with CP/M-86, which had been the standard OS for Intel 8086 and 8080 architectures at the time, but a deal could not be struck with CP/M’s developer, Digital Research. IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few years of experience un…

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Saw you around earlier mysteriously. Happy birthday to you! Hope you're having a great day!

I'm almost too late, but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. Hope you had a great day!

Happy birthday