7 tips for a successful LAN party

I’ve just spent the weekend in the company of 6 friends and 7 computers, playing games and shooting the shit (and each other). The weekend went off without a hitch and from it I have gleaned the following tips for a successful LAN party:

Digg Digging Their Own Grave

After the HD-DVD key debacle you’d have thought that the people at Digg would have learned. In case you don’t know (where the hell have you been for the last few weeks?) Someone cracked the encryption on HD-DVD’s and published the key on their website, which was then dugg. The offending article was removed by […]

John Reid, Someone Please Slap Him

Comment is free: Security is on the cards
How stupid does this man think we are? I mean, really, its insulting. Replaying the same old broken record trying to convince us that we need an ID card/database. All the arguments he uses in this article have been refuted over and over again. Maybe he thinks that […]

The World’s Voice

This is a response to the many calls for regulation to be imposed upon the blogosphere, from government and  from shameless self-publicists.
I am the voice of the internet.
I speak of many things.
I speak of the highest ideals, and the lowest depravities.
I talk for the just, the rich,the poor, and to the lost.
The man who […]

09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0

I’ve been seeing this plastered all over the net for a couple of days, mainly in spam. It seems someone has decided to use spam to stick it to ‘the man’ because this sequence of hexidecimal numbers is apparently the key to the encryption on the majority of HD-DVD released to date. I’m wondering what […]