Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police

Senate Inquiry Shows Contractor Signed for Rifles Using 'South Park' Alias
By Spencer Ackerman 2/23/10 9:00 PM

Employees of the CIA-connected private security corporation Blackwater diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee. On at least one occasion, an individual claiming to work for the company evidently signed for a weapons shipment using the name of a “South Park” cartoon character. And Blackwater has yet to return hundreds of the guns to the military.

Source: The Washington Independent via Raw Story via Digg

FBI will investigate school who used laptop webcams to spy on students

By Tom Warren

On Thursday Neowin reported on a shocking case at the Lower Merion High School district in Pennsylvania, U.S. An FBI official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, confirmed they will be opening up a criminal investigation over the matter.

Continue reading...

Source: Neowin.net

Google Voice releases new HowTo (and WhatIs) videos

Seth Weintraub
February 18, 2010 - 3:55 P.M.

Here's one of the videos:



Check out the rest

Source: Computerworld Blogs

Woman Sues Obama, Federal Government for $950 Trillion

By J. David McSwane
Thu., Feb. 18 2010 @ 2:29PM

...

The Denver woman, who identifies herself as "an authentic genius" and shares a host of similar conspiracy theories, including a "water controversy that is religiously based," says the government's true conspiracy lies in shapes, textures, telepathy and even litter. But she's not seeking world destruction. Instead, she's suing President Barack Obama (who's visiting Denver today) and virtually the entire executive branch, past and present, for $950 trillion. And she's not joking.

Read more

Source: Denver Westword via Digg

"Good Time Max" Intro

Good movie... I think the song is great too and seems to be unique to this movie so far. "Caveman" by Scott Thomas

Despite Obama admin’s promise, DEA continues raids on medical marijuana growers

Saturday, February 13th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm

On Thursday, a Denver news station interviewed Chris Bartkowicz about his medical-marijuana operation in the basement of his home. Bartkowicz, confident of his compliance with state laws, boasted of its size and profitability.

"I'm definitely living the dream now," he told 9News.

The following day, the dream was over.

Drug-enforcement agents raided his home, placed him under arrest, and carried off dozens of black bags of marijuana plants and growing lights.

The Obama administration promised in October that the federal government would respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal use, but the Drug Enforcement Agency sent a loud message with the arrest of Bartkowicz.

Continue reading...

Video from 9news.com

Source: Raw Story via Digg

My Reddit Upvotes

Subscribe to RSS headline updates from:
Powered by FeedBurner

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero[AC3 5.1]beta2-GW99

Just decided to release a second beta of my Dolby Digital 5.1 "Year Zero" DVD...

7 tracks so far...

Changelog:
beta2
-fixed wrong version of "Vessel" in beta1
-much better version of "The Beginning of the End"
-updated to include previously unreleased(by me), "God Given"

Download
More info/links

NYC toddler survives 20-foot fall

Associated Press
Fri Nov 23, 12:25 PM ET

NEW YORK - A toddler who crawled out a third-floor window during his family's Thanksgiving festivities and fell onto a store roof not only survived — he didn't even break a bone.

Brandon Priebe said his 14-month-old son, Bradley, tumbled from a bedroom window in his aunt's Brooklyn apartment on Thursday. His relatives said they thought the window was closed.

Bradley fell about 20 feet onto the roof of a music store next door, police said. Priebe told police that his son wasn't seriously injured in the fall. The boy was in stable condition later Thursday at a local hospital, where no update on his condition was available early Friday.

"It's a miracle," said Anna Priebe, the boy's mother.

Source: Yahoo! News

Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero"; My 5.1 Surround Project

Update(3-17-13): While looking for a copy of my own 5.1 project, I found one by Erik Maceto that's actually finished. The 5.1 mixes are sweet and the design of the DVD is quite a bit better than I ever envisioned mine being. I got it from the thepiratebay but you can grab it here: 
NIN - "Year Zero" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!y1xAECxa!W4zZBk8v4PUpkPEgYRSrzw

Update(3-19-13): It gets even better... it turns out Erik also did "The Slip" and "Ghosts I-IV" in 5.1 as well. I haven't been able to get the second part of "Ghosts" yet but there's these awesome links for now :)
NIN - "The Slip" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!e84V1KpC!GrttljrfAGkXLZc0KgGkqQ

NIN - "Ghosts I-II" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!XxgSlDCC!G7R2jR6aZnN5Sz-aFW7OcA

Update(7-12-13): Finally, NIN - "Ghosts III-IV" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo: https://mega.co.nz/#F!btAHyaYb!aJhdGBz1GokDfPzLQkZJyQ

Follow me at twitter.com/WayAtTheEnd and/or facebook.com/WayAtTheEnd for lots more Trent Reznor stuff :)
One example: I recently discovered this, and it's awesome: Peter Gabriel - Growing Up (Trent Reznor remix)

Original Post(modified): At first I was pretty disappointed that "Year Zero" was not released in 5.1 surround sound right away. Now I'm actually pretty glad, as it inspired me to work on a 5.1 version of the album myself, its been fun and a good learning experience. Back then I went through a long process of getting the Macintosh OS X installed on my PC so I could play around with the GarageBand files Trent provides on his site. I have since moved onto Ableton Live within windows which makes the process significantly faster.

I still have finishing touches to do on the ones I have released so far, but I think they are pretty good the way they are too. After my first couple songs I was listening to the official version of "The Downward Spiral" in 5.1 and realized I need to remove the drum beat from the rear speakers altogether for them to sound more official. Aside from fixing that with the first couple songs, theres only a few minor things I know I intend to change.

The individual songs are in Dolby Digital *.ac3 format, and with the right codec they will just play in windows media player through analog or spdif. Of course they wont help much unless you have at least 4.0 surround on your computer or unless you wanted to make a dvd-video yourself. If you are a fan of NIN and you're able to check them out, I don't think you would regret using the bandwidth.

Update(11-26-07): Long overdue beta2 of my DVD released, grab it from megaupload. Features the correct version of "Vessel" that was previously available in a patch for beta1, a much better version of "The Beginning of The End," and previously unreleased "God Given." Total of 7 tracks. I will have the pre-formatted Ableton Live versions of the remaining 9 tracks and looking forward to working on those :)

Update(11-20-09): I guess I lied about getting the rest done real soon, and I no longer have a shit-load of free time, but I am still hoping to have it all done eventually.

Update(3-15-13): Of course these links went extinct when Kim Dotcom got into that legal trouble, now I don't have a copy of it myself. If/when I finally find it, I'll make it available again.

Here's the latest version of each individual *.ac3 file:
Capital G: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VR24NTA8
Me I'm Not: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=19EKAIQO
Survivalism: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4SA0F306
My Violent Heart: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7EHTQ70J
Vessel: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E9Q16L32

Meet Your Master: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AS59CMG8