Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

Zeno Clash bought

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

19 some days till this game is released. I purchased it back on March 18th or 19th when it went on sale for day one at 50% off. Check out these pictures. Might help reveal some on the storyline. More info at http://www.zenoclash.com/. For $10, it’s like I just stole this marvel of an indi game.

The only company that can compete with Microsoft

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

This company is making too much money because people are stupidly willing to spend it: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/11/blizzard-offers-15-wow-character-facelift-sex-change/

The name? Blizzard.

Winter has come early

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Someone tell me why it’s already started snowing! It’s still not snow-time weather, but I guess no one told that to Gaia right? Way too early for snow I say. I didn’t even consider how sucky it’ll be going to work from now on. Great…

The fate of the entire world rests in our hands

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

This election could change the fate of the world. WWIII? Who knows. But the world is watching America. This election needs each and every person who can vote to do so. All Americans need to get up and vote in this election. If you truly don’t care, don’t vote, but the world rests in your hands. Each and every vote counts. That’s why people will pay big money for them.

This has to be one of the most critical elections in US history because of how much it will affect the world around us. Let’s hope everyone at least votes and votes for whoever they want. At least then, if people think we’re bad, they can say how much of the country caused WWIII or how much of the country caused America to fall. You can even say who caused the country to prosper or who caused the entire world to rev up again economically. I’m being impartial here. As Americans, we are a unit. We are all Americans. So while you might think differently, if you’re not doing your part by voting, you’re still one of those Americans and by not voting, you might literally have no right to complain.

Wow,
– Kevin Ghadyani

Flexible Love, story of a chair

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

So I was watching a video on YouTube from Joystiq and found this other video about a chair. It looked interesting so I gave it a click. To my surprise, this thing is surreal! It could be better I’d say, but Flexible Love looks pretty neat either way. It was just strange to see something so small become something so big and still support a person’s weight. I already have my own ideas on the make of it, but I doubt it’s awfully comfortable. I’d say it’s very much designed for those who don’t have much space for things. Heck, that’d be perfect for me when I have a bunch of guest over.

A Chronology of Data Breaches

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

This is just sad. Look closely; you’ll see a pattern. Lots of Georgia. Seriously, increase the freakin’ security! lol. I am thankful of my area now. And Bank of America ALL over the place. Yeah, I already know BoA is bad, but seriously, THAT bad? I knew their security was crappy for online banking, but even THIS far. :(

I found a Kansas one, and not only was it not as many people compared to the others, but it was also recovered data. :P !

July 18, 2006 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
(Wellington, KS)
Laptop computer and printout
containing names, addresses and SSNs of 350 employees was stolen from
an employee’s car and later recovered.
350

Here’s some I found of the greater Kansas City Metro.

Jan. 19, 2007 U.S. Internal Revenue Service
via City of Kansas City
(Kansas City, MO)
26 IRS computer tapes containing
taxpayer information were reported missing after they were delivered
to City Hall. They potentially contain taxpayers’ names, SSNs, bank
account numbers, or employer information. The 26 tapes were the entire
shipment received by the City last August. The disappearance was noticed
late December 2006.
Unknown
Sept. 19, 2007 Kansas University
(Lawrence, KS)
A number of documents containing
Kansas University student, faculty and staff personal information
were recovered from the recycling and trash in the Mathematics Department
at Kansas University. The information included student exams, student
change of grade forms, class rosters, copies of health insurance cards,
copies of immigration forms as well as a copy of a Social Security
card.
Unknown

There’s other stuff, but that’s what I could find. Nothing from my univ. or the community college.

Seriously, LOTS of stolen laptops. TruCrypt those suckers! Why put sensetive data on them? What about Perfect Paper Passwords or other forms of multifactor authentication? If a laptop is carrying SSNs, then not encrypting the data or leaving it in something that can be taken is stupid. The bag AND laptop should be handcuffed to the person on two limbs so that it would be harder to pry off. Also, there should be some form of elaborate hat at which to store a self-destructing bomb so that even if you were to get the laptop, the passwords inside of the person’s head would explode as well as the laptop itself as once it leaves that person, it explodes too. Then you lose everything! Think about it.

You know what’s worse? There’s a crapload of hacked systems where no one knows anyone did anything to it. That’s the scary part. If this is what’s known, then what’s unknown is probably a ton more by a factor of 5.

Fast food in Japan seems very appealing

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

To compliment my last post which ended up being a rant, I’m going to show you all something amazing. Did you know the Japanese actually know how to market something? This is all minus the company Sony which can’t market anything if the fate of their business was at stake (which it is). Go to here and be surprised.

This does not imply that I find their method of advertising appearling, only that I’d rather have that then what we seem to be having in America.

Pole Dancing

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Can someone please explain to me why there is a:

World Poledance Championship

???

Kevin out
-_-

For anyone who reads this

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Merry Christmas all. I don’t favor wishing people Happy Holidays as that assumes I don’t know which one they celebrate, but I do know that Christmas is an American holiday no matter how you look at it–no work, feels like Thanksgiving only colder, you usually get something no matter your religion on this day. So Merry American Christmas today.

Kevin out
:P

I saw something really funny just now

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

If you go here, then you’ll see this funny thingamabober thing and it’s– Just have fun w/ it. I was going around looking at news about the console wars going on this week and I found this page that was about the newest things in company advertising and how game websites should follow suit. I don’t quite believe that, but I do thing that if that’s a website, that’s a simple website, then we’ve seriously gotta step it up with games. Cel-shading was last generation, and high quality graphics have been around and are getting better with real actors doing the character movements, but there’s some big things missing.

About 10 years ago, companies would use real human actors and somehow integrate them into a game. If we did that now, I think it would almost be like watching a movie, and I’d assume that there would be more in the line of lawsuits by the anti-gamers than actually good games using that method, but I think it would be nice to have or to see which company could actually pull it off now that consoles are 10 years older and far more mature than those of old.

News

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060607034609990026

Can somebody knock some sense into these guys now?

“‘We’re not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected’,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. It sounds like he doesn’t even know what gay marriage is. If he did, he’d know that gays getting married means either two guys or two girls getting married. Am I crazy or does that NOT have anything to do with a male and female getting married? What, do they think allowing gay marriage means? They have to go out and have sex with other guys or something? I don’t understand what the problem is. Protecting what? The fact that you want to have someone to discriminate against? Somebody knock sense into our congressmen/women, and tell them to shove it! I would hope that the next election brings less incompetent people up to the stand. I wouldn’t mind having a talk with these guys at all. In fact, I would call them up if my word had any meaning whatsoever to them, but of course, they only represent us, they don’t care about what we think. Their thought process is as such: let’s redo the constitution to make Christianity (their sect of the religion of course) the ONLY way to live in this country… Yeah, they can eat my fecal matter! This is probably the angriest you’ll see me since this DOESN’T MATTER!

Congressmen are just little kids I suppose. I hope tomorrow they wake up and realize that there’s a world out there that includes poor people, people that have to work to pay for their tuition because their parents can’t afford it, gays/lesbians, and well, things that don’t matter and things that do matter. I would hope that our tax money goes to a better cause like say, lowing the price of gas, rather than pay for these guys who certainly need to compensate for something else run wild working on things that don’t matter when there are clearly more things at stake.