Category: ‘Всякая Всячина’
iPod..I’m your father
Advertising Agency: Garcia Robles, Guatemala
Creative Director / Copywriter: Victor Alfredo Robles
Art Director: Oscar Rodríguez
Published: January 2007
В двух словах и по-русски: N.I.N., следуя или не следую примеру Radiohead, предоставили своим фанам возможность выбирать сколько они готовы заплатить за их новый альбом - Ghosts I - IV.
Trent Reznor has followed through on his promise to release the latest Nine Inch Nails album without a record label. Fans can buy the complete album online in a variety of ways or they can download 1/3rd of the songs on the album for free. Considering the complete album packs 36 songs, that means you can pretty much get a full album’s worth of music for free.
Plenty of musicians have been releasing digital music downloads for free or for a small fee for years. But over the past year we’ve seen several high profile acts including Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails try to establish a more direct relationship with their fans. With no middleman, the bands may very well be making more money even though they’re charging less for their music […]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Release Date: 1 May 2009 (USA). Cast: Hugh Jackman 
и хз зачем-то Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder который.. небось опять будет играть эдакого smartass мачо.. 
Сцуки, бл%нах!.. но пикчур все таки нарисовал.. гх.. 
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Spammers, fresh from the success of cracking the Windows Live captcha used by Hotmail, have broken the equivalent system at Gmail.
Internet security firm Websense reports that miscreants have created bots which are capable of signing up and creating random Gmail accounts for spamming purposes, defeating Captcha-based defences in the process. It reckons the same group of spammers are behind both attacks.
Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) challenge-response systems, which are used to prevent accounts being created until a user correctly identifies letters in an image, are designed to ensure requests are made by a human rather than an automated program. The technique has been used to defeat automatic sign-ups to email accounts by services including Yahoo! Mail and Gmail for years, and hackers are increasingly successful in defeating the approach. For example, the HotLan Trojan has created more than 500,000 spam email accounts with Hotmail, Yahoo! and Gmail since its arrival back in July 2007.
Websense reckons the latest Gmail Captcha hack is the most sophisticated it has seen to date. Unlike Live Mail Captcha breaking, which involved just one zombie host doing the entire job, the Gmail breaking process involves two compromised hosts. Each of the two compromised hosts applies a slightly different technique to analysing Captcha, as explained in a posting by Websense.
Even using the two techniques, only one in every five Captcha-breaking requests are successful. It’s a fairly low percentage, but one that’s still more than workable in the case of automated attacks.
It sounds like a lot of effort, but gaining a working Gmail account has a number of advantages for spammers. As well as gaining access to Google’s services in general, spammers gain a address whose domain is highly unlikely to be blacklisted, helping them defeat one aspect of anti-spam defences. Gmail also has the benefit of being free to use.
A wide range of Captcha-breaking services are hosted on a domain located in the US, Websense reports. The page includes a support page and payment advice along with an internal test page.
Бл%.. Нет слов.. 
I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you’ll be able to view and download videos until Thursday.
I know this news will come as a shock and disappointment to many Stage6 users, and I’d like to take a few moments to explain the reasons behind our decision.
We created Stage6 with the mission of empowering content creators and viewers to discover a new kind of video experience. Stage6 began as an experiment, and we always knew there was a chance that it might not succeed.
In many ways, though, the service did succeed, beyond even our own initial expectations. Stage6 became very popular very quickly. We helped gain exposure for some talented filmmakers who brought great videos to the attention of an engaged community. We helped prove that it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet. And we helped broaden the Internet video experience by offering content that is compatible with DVD players, mobile devices and other products beyond the PC.
So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that requires an enormous amount of attention and resources that we are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day it’s really as simple as that.
OVAs > TV Series. Буду ждать english dub 
Hellsing OVA 4 will be released in Japan on February 22, 2008!
U.S. fans should note that the North American release of OVA 4 is more uncertain, since Geneon USA has scaled their business back dramatically.
http://mysite.verizon.net/respsqwo/crossroad/hellsing_ova_4_info.html
Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. has informed ANN that Hellsing Ultimate’s episode 4 will not be ready with an English-language track this month, even though Starz Edge, an American television channel, has scheduled the third and fourth episode for a showing on February 18. Starz Edge has not yet responded to ANN’s request for further comment. Geneon USA’s parent company will release the fourth episode in Japan on February 22. This series is the second anime adaptation of Kouta Hirano’s horror action manga.
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То что я думаю об этом “празднике”
Дубайцы зажрались.. Будут у себя строить..
- It’s one mile long and 670 feet tall.
- It will have 12 lanes for traffic.
- It will cost 817 million dollars.
- The design has Sheikh Mohammed’s official stamp of approval.
- The bridge will carry more than 2,000 vehicles per hour in each direction.
- A metro line will run across the middle.
- Construction begins in March, with a slated completion date of 2012.
