Dumb: Stealing a 360; Dumber: Telling Microsoft
February 12th, 2007
So, there’s this 14-year old kid in Mt. Victoria, New Zealand, right? Kid breaks into a house and steals someones Xbox 360 and all their games. Takes the games, disappears.
Until he decides to personally call Microsoft and complain because the legitimate owner’s already registered the 360 and now the thief can’t get online to play almol his stolen games. Oh, and he ordered a spare power cable to be delivered to his house ’cause… you know… he forgot to steal one.
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February 12th, 2007
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Messenger service statistics
February 11th, 2007
Some new statistics have come from Microsoft - only one piece of data, but since 4th February 2007, there were 249,852,209 users of the Messenger service (including MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Messenger).
Tish and Piffle - Week 2
February 11th, 2007
Another week goes by, but not without noticing a few things here and there. Here’s another weekly dosage of tish and piffle, courtesty of liveandbeyond.com.
An end to all these Viagra spam emails?
February 11th, 2007
From BBC News:
The anti-impotence drug Viagra will be available on the High Street without a prescription from Valentine’s Day. Boots the chemist is introducing a trial scheme at three of its branches in Manchester. Men aged between 30 and 65 will be able to buy four pills for £50 after a consultation with the pharmacist.
So now that Viagra is out on the market in the UK, does this mean that the end of the Viagra orientated spam emails? We don’t need to buy them over the Internet any more (not like we actually did anyway) so can we stop with the Viagra spam emails please? 
Halo 3 Alpha Screen shots
February 11th, 2007
Here are the first decent pictures of Halo 3. Halo 3 is slated for a 2007 Q4 release.
Looking at the pictures, you can see that they have got the MA5B Assult rifle back, it was discontinued on Halo 2 with the SMG and Battle rifle being the common weapons. MA5B, you were truly missed! Welcome back…
Source: Flickr - Dean
Update:
Here is a screenshot of the Halo 3 start menu:
Source : 360 HQ
MyToons - YouTube for Cartoons
February 11th, 2007
MyToons, which is currently in private beta, is an impressive new video and image-sharing site for cartoons. You can upload your own videos and artwork, and find the most viewed, top rated, most discussed and most recent media in these sections.
MySpace Makes $25 Million a Month in Ads
February 10th, 2007
As is often the case, the media is trying to extract the “interesting bits” from Rupert Murdoch’s keynote interview at the McGraw-Hill Digital Media Summit in New York yesterday. The best tidbit seems to be that MySpace is pulling in nearly $25 million per month in ad revenue, with a growth rate of 30% per quarter.
The messiest datacenter in existance!
February 10th, 2007
Tor - The Onion Router
February 9th, 2007
“Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router — is a freely available, open-source program developed by the U.S. Navy about a decade ago. A browser plug-in, it thwarts online traffic analysis and related forms of Internet surveillance by sending your data packets through different routers around the world. As each packet moves from one router to the next, it is encoded with encrypted routing information, and the previous layer of such information is peeled away — hence the “onion” in the name.” - PAUL CESARINI
There are many reasons Tor can be used for; Preventing Amazon from learning your preferences and dynamically charging you by learning your buying habits, journalist in oppressed states where there is no free speech can use it to access news from the outside and so on..
Tor [website]
