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vidiviciveni··on Hackers Claim to Have 2.2 mil PlayStation Users’ Card Data
If anyone is interested in some of the background of what happened:

"The Sony PS3 console was hacked, or more appropriately "jailbroken", by iPhone hacker, Geohot. He managed to reverse engineer his own PlayStation 3 to run homebrew applications on it. He then later released the method to the public through his site, geohot.com. Sony responded with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube,[citation needed] to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages and videos.

PayPal has granted Sony access to Geohot's PayPal account,[citation needed] and the judge of the case granted Sony permission to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz#Sony_lawsuit

vidiviciveni··on Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed With Valley Names
"Bornstein", how am I not surprised? This guy will get nothing because of his greed.
vidiviciveni··on South Korea, Europe start iPhone location tracking investigations
Apple: We 'must have' user location data. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137432/20110423/apple-we-mus...

This feels like one giant leap towards big brother watching you. I personally decided against purchasing Apple products because of this. I'm glad to see countries are investigating this clear invasion of privacy.

vidiviciveni··on Google building "Games at Google"?
Is there any market Google isn't trying to encompass?
vidiviciveni··on The Nobel Peace Prize sucks for some.
While we're at it, let's remove the Nobel Prize in Economics. It was not part of Alfred Nobel's original will and is also a dubious category to include with the other sciences.
vidiviciveni··on Multi-drug resistant staph in 1 of 4 supermarket meat samples
Is it just me or is the quality of meat degrading more and more. It seems as if companies keep finding ways to increase profit margins and are able to produce horrendous meat and literally bleach it until it's "clean" to sell.
vidiviciveni··on DC legalized online poker very recently
> There was really no clear law that said we could not do this," Brown said Wednesday.

Well doesn't that just nullify the recent FBI seizures??