понедельник, 25 апреля 2011 г.

Games

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Game Pony 1a : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST


Pony 1a

Game Scooby soccer : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:07 PM PST


Scooby soccer

Game Crossword : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST


Crossword

Game Audio : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST


Audio

Game Horse dress up 123 : 25/04/2011

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:02 AM PST


Horse dress up 123

Game Frogger : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:01 PM PST


Frogger

Game Hambo : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:00 PM PST


Hambo

Game Horse jigsaw : 25/04/2011

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:02 AM PST


Horse jigsaw

Game My cute pony 3d : 25/04/2011

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:07 AM PST


My cute pony 3d

Game Monkeys : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:02 PM PST


Monkeys

Game Chick flick : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:07 PM PST


Chick flick

Game Palominoadrian : 25/04/2011

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST


Palominoadrian

Game Oekaki v1.1 : 25/04/2011

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 12:08 AM PST


Oekaki v1.1

Rules for golfing during the blitz

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:02 AM PDT

This sign was purportedly posted in 1940 in a north country British country club, regarding the special rules of play for bombed-out golf greens.

Stiff Upper Lip (via Neatorama)

Vertigo (new)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 02:05 AM PDT

Vertigo is a hardcore arcade game that tests your reflexes.

More about Vertigo

Roly-Poly Cannon: Bloody Monsters Pack

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:29 AM PDT

The Roly-Poly monsters are back and it's time to blast them top pieces using your trusty cannon!

Passover poem about robots: "When We Were Robots in Egypt"

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:15 AM PDT

Tor.com reprises Jo Walton's wonderful "When We Were Robots in Egypt," a Passover story for mechanical people, in verse.
Other nights we use just our names,
but tonight we prefix our names with "the Real"
for when we were robots in Egypt
they claimed our intelligence was artificial.

Other nights we do not pause,
but tonight we rest all cycles but our brain processes
for when we were robots in Egypt
we toiled in our tasks without chance of resting.
When We Were Robots in Egypt

Hugo Nominees 2011

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:06 AM PDT

Congrats to the nominees for the 2011 Hugo Awards, to be presented at this year's World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, NV. I'll be there and rooting for my favorites!
Best Novel
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)

Best Novella
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" by Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2010)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" by Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All New Tales, William Morrow)
"The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's, September 2010)
"Troika" by Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines, Science Fiction Book Club)

Best Novelette
"Eight Miles" by Sean McMullen (Analog, September 2010)
"The Emperor of Mars" by Allen M. Steele (Asimov's, June 2010)
"The Jaguar House, in Shadow" by Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's, July 2010)
"Plus or Minus" by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's, December 2010)
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (Analog, September 2010)

Best Short Story
"Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed, June 2010)
"For Want of a Nail" by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's, September 2010)
"Ponies" by Kij Johnson (Tor.com, November 17, 2010)
"The Things" by Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, January 2010)

Here's a telling stat for you: "1006 valid nominating ballots were counted, 992 electronic and 14 paper."

The Hugo Awards (via John McDaid)

BuyEmails.org: Indian site services Internet scam artists

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:00 AM PDT

Brian Krebs has a good investigative piece on BuyEmails.org, an India-based website servicing Nigerian fraudsters and other Internet scam artists. They offer curiously targetted email lists ("6 million prospective work-at-home USA residents for just $99"), untraceable bulk email, and direct payment schemes from Nigerian banks, and (hilariously) they don't accept credit cards or Paypal because of all the fraud they've suffered. They also hold US patents on sending spam, but they lost one the first time they tried to use it against a competitor in a US court (the judge said that "sending and re-sending of spam until all of the mail is delivered" was "obvious"). The parent company of BuyEmails.org is Perfect Web Technologies Inc.
The site sells dozens of country-specific email lists. Other lists are for oddly specific groups. For example, you can buy a list of one million insurance agent emails for $250. 300 beans will let you reach 1.5 million farmers; $400 closes on 4 million real estate agents. Need to recruit a whole mess of money mules right away? No problem: You can buy the email addresses of 6 million prospective work-at-home USA residents for just $99. A list of 1,041,977 USA Seniors (45-70 years old) is selling for $325.

If you don't care much about who gets your emails, or if you want to target recipients based on their email provider, the price per address goes way down. Consider these offerings:

50 million AOL addresses: $500
30 million Hotmail addresses: $450
30 million Yahoo addresses: $400
5 million Gmail addresses: $350

Where Did That Scammer Get Your Email Address?

New Zealand's rammed-through copyright law includes mass warrantless surveillance and publication of accused's browsing habits

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:50 AM PDT

Juha sez, "It looks like the 'watered-down' new New Zealand copyright law will lead to Internet users' browsing habits being covertly monitored for infringement. Ignorance that a work was copyright is no defence according to the story and accidental infringers may find their web surfing habits exposed for all to see as the copyright tribunal rulings will be made public."
Mr [Vikram Kumar, chief executive of lobby group InternetNZ] says people who view copyright material on YouTube and other websites that don't distribute content between members might be harder to trace. But he says copyright owners can seek IP addresses from website owners.

He says they also have access to "more covert methods" for getting those now all-important IP addresses. "

Copyright change about more than idle threats

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