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Teen arrested bootleggin Spider-man 2′

A 16-year-old was arrested early Wednesday in a theater showing ‘Spider-man 2’ after a projectionist using night vision goggles saw him using a camcorder to make an illegal copy of the superhero sequel. Pretty amazing to think that NVGs are so inexpensive that even movie theatres can give them out now. I wonder how long ...

Homegrown PVC flamethrower

Like any red-blooded, masculine man of the male gender, I love PVC weaponry. You should too. If the concept of heading on down to the local Home Depot and transforming $100 worth of random pipe bits into a killing machine doesn’t appeal to you, you’re a goddamn pansy. Also, you’re probably sane and will live ...

More Open, Scriptable NSPlugins

RELEASE: Mozilla Foundation Announces More Open, Scriptable Plugins Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems join in push to modernize plugins and create a richer web experience This sounds like it would be a great step forward in terms of building rich clients in the browser. Looking at the raft of companies involved, I wonder ...

Gartner: Outsourcing drives IT services’ growth

‘Through 2004, outsourcing will continue to drive the growth in the worldwide IT services market, with IT management and process management growing faster than consulting services and development and integration services,’ Hale said in a statement. Interesting to see something so many IT workers have been afraid of described as driving growth in the sector. ...

Beastie Boys CD installs virus

assuming that the unconfirmed reports are accurate, we have here a media company infecting users’ machines silently with a file that affects a computer’s functionality, without first obtaining informed consent: a likely violation of pretty much every jurisdiction’s anti-hacking laws. It’s possible to foresee criminal charges being brought at some point: after all, having a ...