According to this article, me may some day need "printing rooms" to avoid the dangers this vice poses for us non-printing citizens:

"An investigation of dozens of laser printers revealed that almost 30 per cent emit potentially dangerous levels of particles into the air.

These ultra-fine particles were capable of infiltrating the lungs and causing lasting damage on the scale of inhaled cigarette smoke, said researcher Professor Lidia Morawska of the Queensland University of Technology."

And yes, they mention cancer, too. It's curious how some investigations take so long to come into effect. The relationship between brain tumors and cell phones was investigated ages ago, and both them and laser printers have been popular for more or less the same amount of time.

 

Sexual aid Jessica Alba says that she loves playing with super hero Sue Storm on the Wii, and loves playing as Sue Storm on film, and as soon as she gets the hang of quantum physics, she'll enjoy playing opposite Sue Storm in the theater production of Sense and Sensibility.

We all know the web is a fast way to communicate and get the latest news, but this is too much:

"[...] professional wrestler Chris Benoit [...] his wife, Nancy, and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their Atlanta home on Monday afternoon.

[...] But in a bizarre twist, reports surfaced yesterday that Benoit's Wikipedia page had been altered by users in the US and Australia to include details about his wife's death up to 14 hours before police found the bodies."

The poster says it all was "A HUGE COINCIDENCE", "a 1-in-10,000 chance of happening". I've heard better defenses.

"Dubbed 'Total HD' or 'THD' [...], the discs had been scheduled to arrive in the second half of this year but with Q2 just a few days away the Hollywood giant has been forced to admit it won't make this timeframe. Instead Warner is now quoting an 'early 2008' release date and maintains there is a role for a format which may only service to further confuse an already befuddled public.

Given that you haven't asked for it, here's my opinion: there's no need for Total HD. It works by making users flip the disc onto the right side for their player format (like old school vinyl records) and is likely to cause chaos as technophobes try buying and flipping opposing formats and doing all sorts of damage. It also means there is no 'safe side' to put the disc down..."

THD discs measure the same as other DVDs and are formed simply by two 0.6 mm discs bonded together. Each THD disc can contain both single layer and dual layers: 15 or 30 GB on the HD DVD side, and 25 or 50 GB on the Blu Ray side.

Does Warner only want to save money on the manufacturing process? Probably. Does this system have it's cons? Sure. Do the pros outweight those premises? You decide. But if the price is the same, I will always prefer a disc that works in two readers rather than on one alone. Compatible Blu Ray / HD DVD ROMs will become standar, so I see THD as having a back-up on the other sice of the disc.

Link: TrustedReviews.

Somebody managed to validate a Linux installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows in order to download Windows Defender, on Xubuntu. He did the Genuine Advantage test trough the alternate authentication method and he got it verified! Now, what kind of "advantage" are true Microsoft customers getting here?

This story comes from the Ubuntu forums. The only source for checking it's veracity is a recording of the process you can find at rapidshare or YouTube.

"Hot bodied" "actress" Megan Fox heats up the new Transformers movie -- powering the film solely with her raw sexuality. Read more, in this completely serious and not-at-all-satirical news story.

June 12th, 2007 at the WWDC, Apple releases Safari for Windows.

If Firefox and Opera (anybody still using Netscape out there?) were not enough competition for Microsoft, now there's another browser for the Windows OS.

Do you want to try it out? Okay, here's the link. Just keep in mind is still in beta developement and it might cause some problems. Bookmarks, installation, fonts... you name it. Sometimes, it's because of a conflict with settings stablished by Internet Explorer. Just don't uninstall your current program.

Once those quirks are worked out, what's there to catch your interest? The list of goodies is rather long if you ask them:

   1. Blazing Performance - yeah sure.
   2. Elegant User Interface - that's a matter of taste.
   3. Easy Bookmarks - right now they're anything but easy.
   4. Pop-up Blocking - quite the standar nowadays.
   5. Inline Find - you mean, like in the Google search?
   6. Tabbed Browsing - even IE has it now.
   7. SnapBack - instantly snap back to search results or the top level of a website.
   8. Forms AutoFill - zzzzz.
   9. RSSBuilt-in RSS - RSS tells you when new content is added to your favorite sites.
  10. Resizable Text Fields - might be useful.
  11. Private Browsing - finally, something interesting (for the ones who surf at work).
  12. Security - we'll see about that one.

The download is only eight megabytes in size, if you don't like it, at least you won't have lost a lot of time.
 

Oo arr mateys, come with us as we walk the plank with MaxitMag satirist Eric Sandstrom as he cooks up the funnies on Pirates of the Caribbean producer, Jerry Bruckheimer. He'll delve into why he's the quintessential producer, why he seems to be competent, and why he finds the need to exhaustively describe what the crew member jobs are. Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Eight.

 

 

Jessica Simpson was recently snapped dining with Ken Paves (hair fluffer and lover) at the weekend before the two caught a show together at The Dresden. As you can see, Jessica is looking her very breast again.

 

She even looks to have lost some weight and looks remarkably better than she did two weeks ago. But who's looking at her face with those gazongas on display.  Makes you want to get both hands and squeeze your monitor together.

And before you ask, yes we are sad enough to get kicks pretending to feel a pair of gigantic boobies by squeezing our Apple Mac LCD. What's that? You do the same thing too? It's okay, you're secrets safe with us.

The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them. Some fear this data could be used to identify the owner of the tracks if they turn up on file-sharing sites.

The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them. Some fear this data could be used to identify the owner of the tracks if they turn up on file-sharing sites. The tracks from record company EMI cost more and are of a better quality than standard iTunes songs.

Apple has yet to comment on what it plans to do with the information embedded in the music files. The tracks without the digital locks, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, officially went on sale on 30 May under the iTunes Plus banner. The downloads cost $1.29 (99p) rather than $0.99 (79p). Apple uses a technology known as Fairplay to limit what people can do with downloads. Fairplay can be circumvented by burning tracks to a CD and then converting them to another format.

News site Ars Technica was among the first to discover that downloaded tracks free of Fairplay have embedded within them the full name and account information, including e-mail address, of who bought them. It suggested that this information could be an anti-piracy measure as it could help work out who was putting downloads on file-sharing sites. But it also added that the user information was found on all the tracks that people buy on iTunes whether free of DRM or not.

Two words for Apple: this sucks. Did they really think nobody will notice this?