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Saturday Open Thread

I feel like I haven’t been writing much lately. I’ve been active in other things, just not here like I usually am. Yesterday was my 2nd day off (my 1st one being on Tuesday), so I feel like I’ve been a bit all over the place. Not because of work, just because of a lot of stuff. Animating/gaming/new forum banner for Slackers. The list goes on.

I will say that it’s cool to finally see some of my fellow mates checking out TF2. We’re starting to look like quite the motley crew. 😆

I think when I get home tonight I’ll be doing some eating, some SFM and some TF2.

Are you fucking serious?

XBox gives you American citizenship!

Did your green card expire? If you have an XBox live account that’s more than proof!

Muñoz had an Xbox Live account and, with it, had downloaded demos and games and communicated with other Xbox users. “He sent me the proof of this that had his address, his account information and proof of all the games he had downloaded or purchased since 2007. It worked perfectly to establish that he’s been here continuously,” Odrcic said.
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Social networking at it’s finest.

Facebook makes people do the strangest things. :roll:

Police identified the intruder as an 18-year-old University of Georgia student because she left her Facebook page on the computer’s screen in her haste to leave the home.

The 33-year-old resident was upset over the intrusion, but even more distraught because the unwanted visitor urinated on her couch, police said.

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This is just creepy.

Big brother is watching you…

Sure, the GPS on your phone or dedicated device can get you from Point A to Point B on the interstate, frustrating “Calibrating … calibrating …” moments aside.

But a new move in mobile tech is seeing startups who want to help you find the store you’re looking for in the mall, turn around when you’re getting farther from your terminal at the airport or figure out where your friends are in an expansive convention hall.

Are you fucking serious?

Bill Gates wants YOU to make a next gen condom.

Coming soon: The SexBox 360

Now, with a $100,00 grant offered through the Grand Challenges in Global Health Program, the Gateses are hoping to find “anyone — students, scientists or entrepreneurs” to reinvent the condom. It’s your time to shine, Ballmer.

Hopefully these new condoms won’t have the same security holes Microsoft is well known for. :P

Are you fucking serious?

When a dongle joke goes too far.

Some people don’t have a sense of humor anymore.

At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led to some very public firings, a virulent debate about women in technology, another virulent debate about public shaming, and now, a DDOS attack.

In the short of it, someone made a sexual joke about dongles and forking repos. She took offense to it and publicly shamed them. If it were me I probably would have just said “Giggity”. Of course she has the right to feel the way she does about it.

Of course quite a few companies today that have a policy that makes it easy for people to get fired for saying something off duty that a customer doesn’t like. My company is one of those. I can understand if someone got fired for being say…. racist? Murdering someone maybe? But a fucking dongle joke? Who hasn’t made one of those?

Welcome to the United Corporations of America.