Archive for March, 2009

My mother-in-law had one heck of a run-in with the sales staff at Best Buy.

They refused to exchange the camera. They informed my father-in-law that the camera was damaged, that it appeared it had been dropped, therefore they could not exchange it. They also tried to convince him that the photos we deleted were nothing but “demo” photos placed on the camera. If those were “demo” photos, I shutter to think what the “real” photos would have included. It was clear those photos were a demonstration of a twenty-something black woman’s body, not a camera’s ability to take photos.

Head on over to my main site, 101 Dead Armadillos, to read the rest.

Doesn’t it warm your cockles to know that major government contractors are using BitTorrent to transfer files to our enemies. Well, maybe not intentionally, but the end result is the same.

A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama’s helicopter, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported Saturday.

Employees of Tiversa, a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.

I wouldn’t feel comfortable getting on that helicopter now, that’s for sure.