“From pen to keyboard”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Eric Gordon Corley (a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein) BORN: December 16, 1959 WHERE: Suffolk County, New York OCCUPATION: Writer, Editor, Publisher, Talk Show host Corley’s pseudonym, Emmanuel Goldstein, is taken from the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four. In which, Emmanuel Goldstein is the mysterious and questionably existent leader of the opposition to Big Brother […]
The man who found-out the “computer outlaw”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Tsutomu Shimomura BORN: October 23, 1964 WHERE: Nagoya, Japan OCCUPATION: Physicist and Programmer Tsutomu shimomura was the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton New Jersey and there he attended at Princeton High School. At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. […]
US Governments Sites, Taken Down by Anonymous
Anonymous have struck again. Once again taking down government websites as a form of protests. They always have a reason for these “attacks”. They have said that they would always have a reason to protest against the government. They don’t take down websites for no reason at all. The hacker group has been very active […]
PCOS Tests satisfied Comelec’s Expectations
The Precinct Count Optical Scan or PCOS machines have been used by the Comelec to automate the counting of votes during elections. The first time it was used was at last year’s election. It drew a lot of controversies being that it would be a huge leap for the Philippines since it came from having a manual votes […]
Gangnam Style: It’s More Fun in Baguio!
Yet another video using Gangnam Style as the background music. Getting old? Maybe, but this video is rather special, especially to the students of Saint Louis University in Baguio and to the residents in Baguio City. The reason being is, the backdrop of the music video made was set in Baguio and the main person who was […]
The stage is set for GOOGLE PHILIPPINES
After long years of waiting, Google is now setting its fifth stage on Southeast Asian region in the Philippines, following consecutive establishment of bases in Malaysia, Thailand, and most recently Indonesia over the past several years, aside from its regional Singapore office. Google launched the opening of Google Philippines Wednesday, January 23, 2013 in Taguig […]
Sony: Ditching the Dual Shock Design?
Sony has been well known for creating home entertainment devices. One of the most popular devices that they have created is the Playstation (PS 1) gaming console. This was first introduced on December 3, 1994. It sold at around 100 million units after 9 years and 6 months from its initial release. On January 31, […]
Minecraft: “Don’t Knock it till You Try it!”
Minecraft is originally a stand-alone java platform game created by Notch and his team called Mojang. Now, it is in the Android, iOS and Xbox platform. It is essentially a sandbox kind of game. Sandbox games mean that you are the one creating the story, anything goes with the game. Some sandbox games still have […]
Hacktivists Made an Impression Before the Hearing
On January 14, 2013, the “Hacktivists” group Anonymous Philippines defaced the website of the National Food Authority (NFA) in order to draw attention to the CyberCrime Law. This is not the first website that the group have defaced. A number of activists or petitioners have pointed out that this law would make it easier for the government […]
DotA: From a Mod to a World Wide Phenomenon!
Defense of the Ancients or DotA as most gamers would know it. It started off as a mere custom map or a mod for the very successful game of Blizzard Entertainment, Warcraft III : Frozen Throne. Now it is one of the most popular games in the international gaming scene. It generated games that are […]
