Giant Croc? Kill it, Kill it Quickly!

The Bunawan township in the Agusan del Sur province captured a saltwater crocodile that has weighed in at over one ton. It took three weeks of “huntng” to capture the impressive beast. According to Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde, the crocodile was witnessed attacking and killing a water buffalo last month, and is also suspected of attacking a fisherman who went missing in July.

This is obviously a case of exaggerated evolution. An example of the earth prepping it’s creatures to extinguish the plague of humanity from it’s surface. If we have any hope of survival as a species, we must rid the world of this behemoth and it’s eventual progeny.

Kill it with fire!

Source:  Geekosystem

From Dust Update: Or, Eff You Ubisoft

From Dust, a new Ubisoft game I posted about a few days/weeks ago, (I’m not sure, nor do I feel like checking. Just trust me…  or just scroll that little wheel between your legs fingers), was recently released on PC as a port from the 360. If you’re a gamer, you know about Ubisoft’s  horrendous reputation with PC Gamers. Well, it now looks like they’re attempting to incite a boycott of their products.

You see, back at the beginning of the month, Ubisoft made the following statement:

Surprise, surprise, upon release of the game, players found out:

It’s impossible to launch From Dust, even from Steam in offline mode, without being online. Launching the game fires up their new Ubisoft Game Launcher, which refuses to work unless it can find a connection,” 

Rock Paper Shotgun reports.

And Ubi’s reply?

Due to the recent confusion over the type of DRM used in From Dust, please find the following explanation of the type of DRM used.

From Dust requires an internet connection when you start the game.

Make sure you are connected to the internet when you attempt to start the game.

After you have signed in and the game is running, you no longer need the internet connection and can disconnect from it if you so wish.

Liars!

 Check with ArsTechnica for more of the story.

Facebook Screwing the Pooch Yet Again

Mark Zuckerburg does not care about your privacy. Not at all. Over and over, Facebook has chosen to change their privacy policies while you’re sleeping and don’t bother to tell you when you wake up. This irks me so much, I don’t even want to write about it.

Here’s what BGR ahs to say:

This may come as a shock considering how seriously Facebook takes your privacy, but if you’re a Facebook user with one of Facebook’s mobile applications installed on your iPhone or one of several other smartphones, you’ve been robbed. Each and every contact stored on your phone is probably now also stored on Facebook’s servers, as was re-re-rediscovered by Facebook users this past week. Whether or not people in your contact list even have Facebook accounts, their names and phone numbers are likely now in Facebook’s possession. 

Hit the link below to find out how to remove the damage.

Source: BGR, Facebook – Link

Panda’s in Egypt Have Excellent Comedic Timing

This series of commercials for Egyot’s Panda Cheese has been making it’s way around the blogsphere recently. I attempted to ignore it, but just couldn’t resist that cute face of his/hers. Little did I know that said cute face would have me laughing so hard, my co-workers would rush into my office to see what was wrong with me.

via: Geekosytem

You’ve Got to be Kidding Me: James Cameron asked to Help With Oil Leak Ideas

The people in charge are so inept that they’ve turned to movies to solve their problems with the BP Oil Leak.

From AP:

“The “Avatar” and “Titanic” director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met Tuesday with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak.

The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. “Avatar” and “Titanic” are the two highest-grossing films of all time.”

They’re saying that because he was able to direct the camera men how to shoot movies underwater he has some mystical knowledge that the scientists don’t? That must be great for the guys who have spent decades studying in their specific fields- “Oh don’t worry Professors, the guy who directed that long boring movie about some old chick throwing a blue rock off a boat is on his way. He’ll know what to do! He can Imagine Good!”.

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that they’re getting a director of Fictional Movies to assist with ideas on how to fix the leak, or the fact that this looks a whole lot like that movie poster up there.

(via CBS news)

update:

I’ve figured out whats worse – That if this is in fact life imitating art, the American public will likely believe it.

update 2:

Reuters:

Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing,” Cameron said at the All Things Digital technology conference.

Well that was quick. Cameron has said that his ideas for handling the spill were “graciously” turned down by BP. Surprise surprise, he got turned down. I wonder if it’s because his ideas sounded something like – Hey, just make a robot to walk down to the bottom and send off a signal to the aliens down there to fix it.

I’m kidding, really.

It probably had more to do with him knowing people who work in extreme depths on a regular basis and not listening to the B.S. about why they can’t fix it. That and/or his proposal had to do with adding cameras and monitoring equipment, enabling the world to get a better view of the catastrophe. They aren’t even letting people take pictures of the beaches the oil has washed up on, what was he thinking?

(via yahoo)