This site’s URL is spot on and the torrents themselves are fairly oddball. Angry College Kid looks like it’s got some pretty interesting media floating on it.

Highlights? “The Monopoly Men” on the subject of the extremely wealthy and world power. “The End of Suburbia” How the Amercan dream is destroying the world. No kidding!

What could make a better Christmas gift than the rights to one of Acclaim’s titles? Not much. So while they’re still available you can purchase the rights to one of Acclaim’s titles.

I’ve got to admit that I wouldn’t mind owning a video game lock/stock/barrel for 5k.

If you’ve ever had the need to encrypt your laptop’s data you probably realize what a pain it can be. Techworld is running a story on Laptop encryption for Windows. It looks like PGP and Pointsec were the only contenders with Pointsec being the only proven enterprise solution.

My only fear of doing full hard drive encryption is data recovery. One MBR corruption later and all the data recovery techniques in the world aren’t going to do a thing for you.

Apparently “restricting” violent video games from minors violates free speech rights. While I’m all for not selling NC 17 equivelent games to kids over the counter, their parents seem to do most fo the buying. And to truly get an idea of what these restrictions entail, you’d have to take a look at the law itself. “Restricting” is pretty vague, when you get down to it.

I really question who these laws are aimed at protecting. Is it the 16 year old gamer buying GTA3? Somehow, I think that it’s a little late. If the purchaser is too young, their parents should have a fairly good handle on their gaming.. and restrict it if necessary.

It seems that video game “violence” is the next political football to get tossed around.

In what I’d consider an act of sensationalistic journalist Ars has blown a Sony story wee bit out of proportion. Unless they’d like to contest a shop owners right to have his wall painted with grafitti.

While I was right there with them at first.. the little snippit hidden at the bottom stating that Sony was actually paying the building owners to have the logo painted on the side made me wonder why there’s even an article.

Novell just might be getting back on track with it’s Linux initiative and reorg finally paying off. They’re reporting 61$M in Linux related revenue and doubled Linux subscriptions for the current quarter and are expecting profits of 2 or 3 cents a share next quarter.

This comes on the recent losses involved in the reorginization and re-alignment of their business. Novell’s been on a bit of a slide lately, so hopefully this signals a return to profitability and a payoff from their switch to Linux.

The boys (and girls?) over at Engadget have spotted what Widow’s Sting is touting as the worlds first dual core laptop. No SLI on this puppy, but it does have the impressive Nvidia 7800 GTX onboard.

Weighing in at 11.3 pounds it certainly goes in the luggable category.. and I don’t even want to speculate on what the battery life is like.

Digital photography always eats up the storage space. On the ever expanding data storage front Pretec has released a 2GB miniSD card that offers the largest storage capacity yet (that’s a press release). All on something the size of my pinky finger. Amazing.

Over on ABC News they’re running a story about “Glide Effortless” which looks to be a suite of web apps. It even comes with a “clever answer to Windows folders.

Not to be judgemental.. but I’ve already got software that views e-mails, pictures, files, media, communicates via video, etc. It’s an operating system and it runs pretty much every application I could want. Somehow I don’t think this is what people were thinking with “the browser becomes the OS”. We’ll see.

The English of this article is a bit wonky. I’m assuming that it means the French .gov is being lobbied to out and out ban free software. While I’m unsure of the details this seems absurd even by American standards. Our IP and copyright law gets a bit out of hand at times but I’ve never heard of anyone in these parts proposing a ban on open source software.

Porn won’t be getting it’s own domain anytime soon. Vint Cerf has delayed the release of the .xxx domain once more, this time citing the need to release a report no one really cares about. It seems that the only the US .gov currently opposes it’s release.

Why the US would oppose the ghetto-izing of porn on the internet is baffeling. With the current administration’s stance on anything deemed to be a threat to America’s Joan Cleaver like existence you’d think they would welcome the chance to relegate anything deemed offensive to it’s own ghetto then restrict access.

It’s almost as if the US .gov is pulling strings with ICANN over the Internet.. but they promised not to, so we know that can’t be it.

It seems that the folks over at Akihabara just can’t resist showing off the latest gadgets to all of us outside Japan. This laptop features a 1.2Ghz Intel part and is just a little bit deeper than the CDRom tray. It weighs in at about 3 pounds. Plus it’s got a shwanky new case.

You can get this wonder from an importer for a cool 2k, so it migth be worth finding a more local counterpart. Sony VAIO anyone?

Redmonds favorite son has finally done it. They’re selling a service to protect your system from flaws in their software.

How long before they start charging for patches to fatal flaws is anyones guess. Once you’ve got a monopoly it’s like minting money.

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for your mother, wife, or other loved one this holiday why not go with christmas flowers. They’re more practical than another useless papwerweight but not thoughtless like.. say.. a houshold appliance. Show you care this holiday season.

NEC has discovered a way to make a Windows XP laptop just a little more secure. Remove the hard drive does the trick, and in their “PC Parafield” system they’ve done just that.

Internal flash media takes the place of a drive for the OS and the storage of baseline software. I don’t know how trusting I’d be with the high I/O volume Windows tends to create completely running off of flash on my laptop, but NEC seems to think it’s a good idea, so who knows?