Before going any further, I want you guys to listen to the following video.
I personally think that we should not let young kids play these games, and that’s exactly why there is an age rating on them. But once someone is old enough to make the difference between “right” and “wrong” and that their sense of morality has properly matured, I don’t think a video game could really have an influence on the way they act in society. what do YOU think? Let us know in the comments section below.
Anti-virus products from large corporations are becoming so bloated. With features like backup solutions, password managers, anti-phishing, anti-spam, and application scanning firewalls, products that were intended to protect your system only tends to bog down it down. Even as a security professional, I would prefer to not run an Anti-Virus product that is all-encompassing like that on my personal system because of the performance degradation it causes. Of course, this is highly a risky behavior and is not recommended in today’s threat environment of buffer overflows and drive-by malware downloads.
But F-Secure has had a long history of being a slimmed-down, fast product with excellent detection and protection capabilities. And unlike other companies like McAfee and Symantec, corporate giants who gobble up other companies, and then inject new products into a protection suite whether you want it or not, F-Secure has remained dedicated to honing their AV solution.
If you want to give the product a test drive or if you are tired of the usual bloated AV products, click here to signup for the beta.
By Lyle Bateman
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
On May 1st, 1964, in the early morning, the world’s first BASIC compiler began to run. The “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” was designed to sit on the opposite end of the programming spectrum from the more complex, scientifically based languages of the time, such as Fortran. It really was the first effective programming language designed for simplicity, and was easier to understand.
Tags: Apple, BASIC, computers, geek, programming
By Mark O’Neill
Not content with torturing us with Tom Cruise bouncing up and down on Oprah’s couch and also lecturing us on what manic depression is REALLY about (thanks Tom for giving me the “truth” about my illness), the Church of Scientology has apparently decided it now needs a bigger platform and so it has set up shop on YouTube. Oh dear God.
And so starting from now, if you want your daily dose of brainwashing, you can just head on over to the Scientology YouTube Channel. So far, no sign of Tom, but he’s probably just hiding in the closet.
But it seems that the Scientologists don’t tolerate free speech because they have disabled commenting on ALL their YouTube videos. They also don’t seem to want their content to be spread around the net because they have also disabled the “embed” feature for most of their videos. A damn shame. I wonder what they’re afraid of? People’s real opinions of them perhaps?
Tags: scientology, youtube
The Neocube is an interesting little device that can keep your mind busy for hours of non-thinking fun. It is composed of 216 individual high-energy neodymium magnets, which can be formed into BILLIONS of shapes and patterns. Check it out in the following video.
[Via TechEBlog]
Just a few days before the official Iron Man movie release date: here’s a clip that will show you how Tony Stark gets his Mark III suit on. Enjoy!
By Mark O’Neill
No, the title of this article is not the way it sounds. I’m not advocating anything illegal. I’m not offering any fake passports or dodgy driving licenses. But instead, when you’re filling in another one of those endless web forms asking for your contact information, instead of giving them your actual details, how about giving them some fake information instead?
It just occurred to me the other night when filling out another web registration form, that there is too much information about me floating out there in cyberspace. With all the social networks that I take part in, people can easily (with a bit of legwork) find out everything there is to know about me to steal my identity. So I started to take down all my compromising information. I started removing things like photographs, names, dates, places and my date of birth for example. Lots of people put their date of birth into online registration forms (probably without thinking about it too much) but your date of birth is one of the first things used to verify your identity in places like a bank!
So why not start using the Fake Name Generator from now on? Just drag it up into your Bookmarks Toolbar and next time a website wants you to register yourself, hit that Fake Name Generator button and use a fake identity to register. The FNG gives you a fake name, address, email (which can be used to temporarily receive emails), maiden name, birth date, phone number, even a fake credit card number for when you’re downloading a free piece of software but the software company wants your credit card details anyway (hmmm…..)
You can even specify what country and nationality you want your details to be from. Fancy being French? Oh Monsieur! Or German? Kein Problem Mein Frau!
I would never ever condone the site being used for anything illegal, but for protecting your identity against online ID thieves, it’s absolutely perfect. On Saturday I was Doris, on Sunday I was Lipot and yesterday I was Harald. Who will I be today?
Tags: generator, identity, registration
Festo Didactic, a company that is known for producing robotic masterpieces, has unveiled many cool robots in the past year. A few months ago they gave us the Air Ray, and now they’ve developed 2 new ones: The Aquajelly and the Airjelly. Both robots have been designed with the biologic structure of a jellyfish in mind and are apparently fully autonomous. Videos after the jump.
Have you ever heard about Daniel Lyons? No? What if I tell you that the guy also goes under the name of “Fake Steve Jobs”? Yeah, I thought that this would ring some bells. Daniel Lyons took the world by storm last year when he started an anonymous blog, impersonating an alternative version of Steve Jobs. The blog became very popular in a very short time, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors in its first few months of existence.
In the following 25-minute video, an undeniably nervous, but very funny Daniel Lyons tells the true story behind “Fake Steve Jobs”. Enjoy the show!
By Mark O’Neill
OK, I’m going to go all teenage hormonal for a minute (so please excuse me) but as far as sexy computer geeks go, actress Kirsten Vangsness is seriously HOT.
In case you have no idea who Kirsten is, she plays FBI computer analyst Penelope Garcia in the CBS television series Criminal Minds and everytime she comes on-screen, I instantly lose the power of speech and start salivating all over the floor. Which is pretty bad if you’re on the phone to your mother at the time.
So when the FBI team is scrambling about in despair looking for the serial killer and they don’t know what to do, I’m shouting “get Kirsten! she’ll know what to do!” and sure enough, the answer is ALWAYS tucked away in the maniac’s computer.
So is there anyone else out there who is a rival for Kirsten’s affections other than me? (meet me at dawn with pistols drawn you scoundrel!). Or is there another sexy computer geek on television that gets you all hot and bothered instead? Come on, tell us who over-heats your hard drive….
Tags: computer, FBI, geek, television, vangsness