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I got to see Freddy vs. Jason today. Overall I liked it. If you want to know my thoughts, check out the forum posting I made HERE (Warning: Spoilers included in post!)
They had a preview for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie coming out October 17th. You can check out a few pictures, get some info and see the trailer on the official site HERE.
I had heard about a collaboration between these two in the past, but was unsure of the nature of it. After reading an interview with John Mellencamp, everything is clear. Here is the question and answer that sum it up:
Q. What will the musical you’re writing with Stephen King be like?
MELLENCAMP: (Laughing) I can tell what it’s not going to be like: It won’t be “Jack and Diane” meets “Cujo.” He’s already written the story — it’s very beautiful, more like “The Green Mile.” It’s an American story about an American family. Some of the characters are 100 years old, some are 15. So that will give me the opportunity to write for each character in a different style. I ain’t writing a bunch of (darn) rock songs.
It’s been explained how the RIAA is tracking whether or not a song has been coded from a legally purchased CD or downloaded. Here’s a clip from the article:
In court papers, the RIAA said it could use the hashes to tell whether a file was recorded from a legitimately-bought CD or whether it was downloaded from the internet.
They can be used to track songs that were downloaded using the Napster service as far back as May 2000, the papers said.
Hashes are also used by the FBI in hacking investigations.
The RIAA has accused Nycfashiongirl of offering more than 900 songs by artists like the Rolling Stones, U2 and Michael Jackson for illegal download.
The songs had been traced back to Napster using the digital investigation techniques, the RIAA said.
Check out the whole BBC news article HERE
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It looks like another version of the Sobig virus may be on its way. Here’s a snip from the article:
Some analysts said the virus appears to have been created by a sort of evil mastermind who is playing a game of cat-and-mouse with law enforcement and computer security experts.
“He’s kind of playing with everyone, he knows how to get around the antivirus products,” said security firm TruSecure’s malicious code expert Bruce Hughes.
“We’re kind of puppets, he has all the tools we have. He’s not just a virus writer, he’s more than that … we know he was using stolen credit cards to post messages. He not only wants to spread a virus, he wants to install a back door” that can allow infected computers to be hijacked.
You can read the full article from Australian IT HERE
The latest version of Symantec’s Norton Antivirus is due out in September and comes with many new features this time around. One of the new features that many will love and has been late coming is Norton will now search for spyware. For more details, check out the CNET article HERE.
If you are into PHP coding and have been waiting patiently for the final version after many Beta releases, then you will be happy to know the final version of 4.3.3 is now out. With dozens of security fixes, it is strongly recommended that you update to this new version.
If you missed a few episodes or missed the beginning of the show and didn’t want to watch it till it came out on DVD, then I have good news for you. Season 2 of 24 will be coming out on September 23rd and has a lot more extras included then Season 1 had. Below are the specs:
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Anamorphic Widescreen
Disks: 7
Audio: English Dolby 2.0 Surround & Spanish Dolby Surround
Video: 1.78:1
FEATURES
- Commentary on Episode ‘11:00 AM’ – ‘12:00 PM’
- Commentary on episode ‘1:00 PM’ – ‘2:00 PM’
- Commentary on episode ‘5:00 PM’ – ‘6:00 PM’
- Commentary on episode ‘10:00 PM’ – ‘11:00 PM’
- Commentary on episode ‘3:00 AM’ – ‘4:00 AM’
- ‘On the Button’: The Destruction of CTU Featurette
- Making of an Episode: Production
- Making of an Episode: Post-Production
- Multi-angle Studies: Scene #1, Scene #2
- 44 Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary
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