Bad News: The ACTA Treaty Hates You

We can't take our government anywhere 'nowadays'. About a week ago, in Seoul Korea, the U.S. Government decided to sign an ACTA [Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement]treaty with several powerful nations [South Korea and Canada notably]. This treaty encapsulated a fair amount of free-trade of intellectual agreements and most importantly, an Internet Chapter. Fellow nerds, we've done it. We have the government making chapters and policy outlines specifically to protect our best interest, via the internet. Unfortunately, there appears to be a reason why this treaty was signed in a great deal of secrecy. Below are the issues at hand.

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PS3 Yellow Lights Of Death: "Something To Keep An Eye On"

In this hustle and bustle age of worky work...I like to relax. Several forms of entertainment, from poker on riverboats, the occasional shootout at various Western re-inactment locales, but when asked; I relax with the occasional video game.

Seeing as I am a new owner of the PS3 [60 gig - back compat model] thanks to the mighty ebay, I still cannot help to be skeptical. I have had a Dell for about four or five years without any motherboard malfunctions...and even with the occasional harddrive crapping out...never had the need to replace my entire computer. How is it possible, that the more sophisiticated our hardware becomes, the higher chance of hardware failure occurs?

After the jump, I'll link a story to an unfortunate Playstation 3 user, Guesty 81, who had his PS3 die on him by simply updating his machine.  What an age we live in indeed.

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The 5 Hardest Games

Arrrrrggghhhhhh! = FlaiL

One of the things I hate most is when a game is overly complicated or too complex for the message it is trying to convey *cough* MGS series!*cough*. The wonderful people of Make Us Of.com have compiled a list of the hardest games and I can [un]happily tell you that these game are awesome at killing your time as well as your soul.

More delights after the jump.

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Video: Teaching Abstinence with Machetes

So if Byron "Buster" Bluth were a real person this is what he'd grow up to be huh?

Parkour's Star Wars Kid

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Damn dude...I mean...I liked Mirror's too, but not enough to Rocky my elbow.

Wii Music Commercials = Catastrophic Fail

Why?

This is the thirteenth commercial and they still can't get it right? I'll call it right now. Wii Music is dead in the water [waits for Christmas for Wii Music to sell 3 billion copies]

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