The RNC (Republican National Committee) has elected a new leader today in Michael Steele, the first black man to hold the position. One might wonder if Steele had won this position had Obama not won the presidency, but personally I think this is a good thing. I became a fan of Steele when he ran [...]
Archive for January, 2009
New RNC Chair
Posted in Politics, tagged conservatism, Michael Steele, rnc on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Epic (Games) Fail
Posted in Technology, Video Games, tagged drm, epic games, gears of war, piracy on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In what may be the single most failure for DRM (digital rights management) of all time, gamers playing the PC version of Gears of War have found their game doesn’t run as of yesterday. That’s right, the certificate to run the game expired.
Epic Games is aware of the problem and will likely issue a patch [...]
Boba Fett Hoodie
Posted in Geek Stuff, tagged boba fett on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
God bless you Marc Ecko.
Videogame Classics
Posted in Video Games on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Awesome. This guy’s work is great. He has created some book design covers for a handful of video games and they look amazing. If you’ve never played them, you probably won’t understand them. He has done 4 so far and is planning 9. Can’t wait to see the rest. I wonder if he has considered [...]
Cold Boot RAM Grab Update
Posted in Geek Stuff, Technology, tagged information security on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some attention was garnered by a blog this weekend:
http://frozencache.blogspot.com
Which describes itself as: “A blog about the development of a general-purpose solution for mitigating cold-boot attacks on Full-Disk-Encryption solutions.”
Shortly thereafter Hack-a-day responded with:
http://hackaday.com/2009/01/18/use-the-cpu-cache-to-prevent-cold-boot-no/
The important part of this is:
“We asked cold boot team member [Jacob Appelbaum] what he thought of the
approach. He pointed out that initial [...]
An Open Letter From ‘Watchmen’ Producers
Posted in Movies, tagged the watchmen on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Very interesting letter about the history of getting the Watchmen movie made and the ongoing legal battle between Warner Bros and Fox.
Maybe it was known before, but new to me, is that it sounds like they filmed the entire raft comic book and it will be a part of the dvd. Awesome!
