The Phoenix Mars Lander, NASA’s latest robotic research station, has safely landed on Mars yesterday, sending detailed pictures of the planet’s surface and horizon. The robot will spend the next three months digging into Mars’s soil, searching for signs of life. The following video shows how the station apparently landed on the red planet.
By Mark O’Neill
Seeing these bedroom walls on Boing Boing momentarily made me speechless. It kind of makes my walls with my Star Wars and Star Trek posters seem a bit lame by comparison!
How about you? Do you have Megaman-type bedroom walls? What do you see when you wake up every morning? Does Super Mario say good morning to you?
It’s official, Robert Muraine is the best “pop and lock” dancer I’ve ever seen in my life. This guy is totally amazing! Take a few minutes of your time to watch him do his thing, I can assure you that you won’t regret it!
Edit 3: The Issue has been fixed on Saterday night. Thanks to everyone who helped! For those who want to know, we were not responsible. The redirect came from an external ad script.
Edit 2: Removed additional scripts.. is it still doing it?
Edit: I think we got the culprit. I only need to know if some people are still getting the redirect. If you do, please leave a comment. Thanks.
Hey folks,
We’re currently experiencing a small problem…
When hitting the front page, or any specific URL on the blog, it seems that some visitors are getting redirected to a site that tries to convince them to install a fake anti-spyware application. The redirect only happens once or twice on reloads, and then it stops completely, and the blog loads normally.
I’m working on resolving the issue.. All script that are loaded comes from reliable sources.. the PHP code of the blog doesn’t seem to have changed, so I’m a bit stucked right now. If anyone can help or know what the problem is, please send me an email at geekpub [AT] gmail [DOT] com.
I’ve also looked at my wordpress plugins, but since the problem doesn’t occur for me anymore, I have no idea if my changes actually do something.
Thanks!
K.
By Mark O’Neill
If Tobey Maguire ever decides to stop playing Spiderman and Sam Raimi is looking for a replacement, maybe he should give this guy a call? He looks very fetching in the costume and he even plays cards!
I’m not sure though about his ability to climb up walls….
And just when you thought you’d seen everything, the jet-powered lawn mower comes along to prove your wrong. Too bad the video doesn’t show it in a race against a F1 or something, it might have made the show a little bit more interesting.
By Mark O’Neill
A remarkable legal battle is brewing over whether someone is entitled or not to resell used software. The case could bring about a whole new interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
This case involves an eBay seller called Timothy Vernor and his repeated run-ins with a company called Autodesk who produces a software program called AutoCAD. Vernor has repeatedly put legal used copies of the software program on eBay, copies that he has found at places such as garage sales.
But everytime Vernor has put AutoCAD auctions on eBay, Autodesk has issued DMCA takedown notices to eBay demanding that they be taken down for copyright violation reasons. These takedown notices ultimately failed, but eBay, seeing so many takedown notices coming their way, decided that something didn’t smell right and ultimately banned Vernor’s seller account. For that, Vernor then sued Autodesk.
Now, wait a sec. Vernor sued Autodesk? Wouldn’t the right thing to do would be to take the complaint to eBay? I mean, they’re the ones that shut the account down. Vernor was successfully winning the fight against Autodesk but it was eBay who was the bully on the block at the end of the day. So where is eBay in this complaint?
The complaint basically boils down to this – Autodesk claims that Vernor does not have the right to resell the used software because when you buy the software, you don’t actually buy the actual software, you’re only buying a license to use the software (nice wording eh?). Therefore the seller has no right of first sale. But the federal judge in the case said in a ruling that this wasn’t necessarily true. He cited the right of first sale and ruled the case can proceed.
If the case goes to trial and Vernor wins, expect some very interesting legal precedents to come out of this.
Here at [GAS], we think that steampunk devices are among the sexiest gadgets you can own. I mean, just check out this awesome steampunk USB drive, it looks amazing, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, this thing has been hand-crafted, so there’s no way you’ll be able to put your hands on one… unless you have the skills to make one yourself.
[via technabob]