Oh Football season…
This is what happens when I try experimenting with mock fantasy football drafts. =)
StarCraft II: It’s about time
Twelve years later, and over a decade in the making, it is finally here. StarCraft II (Wings of Liberty) releases tonight. I was excited about this game coming out 2-3 years ago, but that slowly faded as I “found other things to do”, and now I sadly cannot fathom purchasing this game and not having time to play it at home.
I remember racing home from school, running into my room, loading up the infamous Dial-Up internet, and connecting to the Battle.Net servers to play some StarCraft online with friends. I had a massive account, thousands of wins, and was a member of one of the top StarCraft websites (Shafe.com – now extinct) at the time. As such, this franchise holds a special place in my heart.
I had a chance to play the beta for awhile when visiting my sister and her boyfriend a few months back; it was fun, not as complicated as I figured it would have been, but I still had the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) skill, for sure! View the cinematic trailer here:
United States court legalizes iPhone ‘jailbreaking’ among others
in Politics, Technology
as court decision, iPhone, jailbreak
Owners of the iPhone will be able to break electronic locks on their devices in order to download applications that have not been approved by Apple. The government is making that legal under new rules announced today.
The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a federal law that prohibits the circumvention of technical measures that control access to copyrighted works. Another exemption will allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.
In addition to jailbreaking, other exemptions announced Monday would:
- allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers
- allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws
- allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos
- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced
