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Could an emerging Blitzkrieg of recorded mass telemarketing calls already be affecting the Skype system – gobbling up precious and needed bandwidth? Let us pray that this dreaded plethora of telemarketing activity does not translate into one massive ongoing denial of service attack on our beloved Skype network.

Seb’s Random Thoughts » Is It Finally Happening? Will Skype Soon Become What We feared?

Dammit, is there a communication medium that telemarketing has not taken hold of? At least they haven't gotten around to calling people on their mobile phones. But who know what will happen if the calling rates on mobile phones goes down? Nahh, that's never going to happen. Skype should block the IPs of the telemarkerters but finding them could be a challenge.

 

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Thanks to Thanks to UniverseHarryPotter.com for letting us know that Emma and Hermione Bank Notes are on sale! You can purchase these and many other Harry Potter notes at VCoins!

EmmaWatson.Us | Your online Emma Watson source

Why honestly would anyone buy banknotes with Harry Potter characters on them? Why?! Did the designers of these notes think it was stupid? Did the manufactures think they were stupid? Because everyone else probably does!

 

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Tags: harry, notes, potter, stupid
Mood: confused
Music: How You Remind Me - Nickelback

Three years ago, we had just fastened our hands around the behemoth Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the book where Harry gets mean, gets kissed and gets a destiny. And yesterday we got this first look at the Order of the Phoenix film, while we wait for the last look at Hogwarts in book seven. Happy anniversary, Potter peeps.

The Leaky Cauldron: The most trusted name in Potter

Wow, is it three years already? I remember getting up at 4 and waiting for the local Target to open. I didn't eat or sleep for two days reading the book. Can't believe the movie's coming out too. Do you rekon they're going to make all 7 movies? It'll be a real shame and disappointment of they don't. Yeah, it'll be a sad day when book 7 comes out. It will hearld the eventual dying down of the Harry Potter franchise.

I hope JKR takes her time writing the books and make it the best HP book in the series.

 

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Mood: bouncy
Music: Long Live The Weekend - The Living End

Last week startup Singlestat.us closed its doors in response to a MySpace cease and desist letter. The same letter, with a different name and address, is the cause of the shutdown of DatingAnyone.com. The services, which are nearly identical, let you know when someone’s relationship status changes on MySpace.

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » MySpace Feeds the DeadPool, Nukes Another Startup

I think Singlestat should realease the code that enables this automated script program, maybe not publicaly. So other web developers could utilize it. Maybe just on their personal websites or something. The script sounds like it's very innovative and people like it. Myspace can't send thousands of cease and desist letters to every person who make webpages.

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Mood: geeky

Gaia :: Welcome to Gaia Online

Hey, Gaiaonline got a new look. It's basically a forums site. It's too too many members is what I think though. and with the gold system there's alot more spamming and instead of posting to express opinions it becomes posting to get gold for most people. Although the avatar system is pretty nifty.

They give you free items now. The new users are pretty lucky, you used to start with patched up "peasent's" clothes.

technorati tags:gaiaonline, new, look, theme, clothes, avatar, forums

Mood: bored

The transistor achieved a speed of 500 gigahertz, which is more than 100 times speedier than the fastest PC chips sold today, and about 250 times faster than the typical mobile telephone chip, Meyerson said.That speed was hit only when IBM researchers, working with counterparts from the Georgia Institute of Technology, cooled the transistor to near absolute zero, but Meyerson said the device still ran at 300 gigahertz at room temperature.

CNN.com - IBM builds super-fast transistor - Jun 20, 2006

These speed are incredible, but these chips are too expensive and inpractible to manufacture in masses. First, I don't think any software that exists now will fully utilize
such power. The manufacturing cost will spike off the charts because cooling transistors to almost absolute zeros will no doubt cost alot.

But how long untill manufacturing costs becomes cheap enough? How long untill programs are written to take advantage of such power?

technorati tags:ibm, transistor, 500, gigahertz, absolute, zero, Meyerson

Mood: geeky

Penny Arcade! - The Throes Of Data Addiction

Today' penny arcade exxagerates the Live Anywhere idea. Afterall, if you don't want the information don't acess it, does it matter if too much information is avaliable? I think worse is when there's a lack of information avaliable.

technorati tags:penny, arcade, webcomic, comic, live, anywhere, information

More than 30,000 player accounts have been closed in the online game World of Warcraft, for alleged cheating.The game's developers, Blizzard, said that many of the account holders had been using third-party programs to farm gold and other items in the game.Players had been selling the virtual items for profit in the real world.Square-Enix, the makers of Final Fantasy XI, said they have also suspended more than 250 accounts for similar offences.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Warcraft closes down game cheats

A tad slow is all I have to say, using a computer software to farm gold is not so much a problem. There were such programs for Run escape. Simple detections schemes were applied and there's no cheating now. I think the main problem is human gold farmers who get the gold and sell it online, either working by themselves or in a company. I think this is taking advantage of the game to squeez out a living because the gold farmers and too dumb to do anything else. The game isn't meant to be played like that, it also makes it harder for normal players too. Having a server full of gold farmers is not fun to play with. Items' values decrease because gold farmers sell them straight away to get gold, therefore making the normal gamer's time less valuable.

Ofcourse it is as much fault of the gold farmers as it is of the people who buy the gold. technorati tags:world, of, warcraft, gold, farming, cheating, blizzard

Alright, imported all the blog entries from blogger. Had to do it by hand, it took a long time. There really should be clients for importing entries like that.

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