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Why SOPA and Protect-IP is bad

Amir Sahib — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:38:40 +0000

Congressional bill introducing “RoboCalls” aka Spam bots calling your phones

Amir Sahib — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:42:00 +0000

Someone needs to make a spam filter app for phones now.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2393-Bill-Introduced-to-Allow-Robocalls-to-Cell-Phones

DVD Software Illegal in the U.S.?

Amir Sahib — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Wat the heck?

American software company RealNetworks has been banned from selling a program that lets people make copies of their DVDs, in a US court decision that could have far-reaching implications.

After a year-long case over the legality of the company’s RealDVD software, a district court in San Francisco ruled that Real had violated America’s copyright laws and granted a preliminary injunction against Real to prevent it selling the program.

The ruling stops Real from selling RealDVD, a piece of software that allows to make back-up copies of their movie discs and save them to their computer. Although free DVD ripping software is readily available online, Real raised the hackles of Hollywood executives in 2008 because it paid for a license to the DVD Copy Control Association, believing that it could be interpreted to allow the services they wanted to provide.

Even the Pistons’ couldn’t make Detroit a happier city

Amir Sahib — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:01:43 +0000

I feel sorry for the people of Detroit. They are the ranked number one as the most dangerous city in America (as of 2009). Their economy is a mess with the “big three” having financial issues.

On top of that the Detroit Pistons are the first team to be eliminated from the 2009 NBA Playoffs. Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers took care of them today winning four games to zero in the first round series.

I think Kobe and Lebron will meet in the finals and that will be an amazing seven-game series.

Be Careful When Using ATMs

Amir Sahib — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:45:33 +0000

Some guy found an ATM card skimmer attached to an ATM machine. Read all about it here with pictures.

Homemade food is always better than eating out (Update: Dominos Responsd)

Amir Sahib — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:51:00 +0000

Disgusting and annoying people.

Update: Dominos Pizza has responded

First Lady Michelle Obama copied my Blog Theme!

Amir Sahib — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:19:58 +0000

SHout out to Farooq for showing me this, but it appears that the designers/developers decided to mimic my current blog theme on Michelle Obama’s blog.

Well they probably didn’t really copy, they probably just found the same theme as myself and edited it of course.

Family Guy on Asian Families

Amir Sahib — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Haha.

Change has come to the White House

Amir Sahib — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:44:04 +0000

The Real Unemploymnet Rate is 14.8%

Amir Sahib — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:45:16 +0000

The official one is currently 8.1%, but the real one is much greater than that. You can find the details here.