Saturday, June 12, 2004
Built by a fan for fans, Metal Gear Online celebrates their first year of service by reflecting on the past year and looking towards the future.
"If you build it, they will come." From the time those words from Field of Dreams echoed throughout theaters nationwide, they have inspired many to live out their dreams in whatever they envisioned. Such is the case for one fan site that sprang up from the murky depths of Geocites and became a thriving place for news, media and fan interaction.
Metal Gear Online (http://www.metalgearonline.org) began one year ago because of one mans vision, brought forth through the coaxing from fellow members at Gamewinners, and became a haven for casual and hardcore fans to visit, discuss and read about the upcoming games in the series. Now celebrating its one year anniversary, Metal Gear Online has successfully eclipsed the 100,000 visitor mark and continues to grow a fan base worldwide. Hosting a vast library of videos, a message forum and with fan hungry visitors from the United States to Japan; and from the United Kingdom to Australia, Hideo Kojima's game series has not only inspired the ingenuity of sites like this, they have also captured the hearts and minds of people all over.
As part of the one year anniversary, Metal Gear Online is proud to launch (for a limited time) their former site Metal Gear Universe (http://www.metalgearuniverse.com) as a way to show visitors how the current site got started and to display the transition between domains. Metal Gear Universe originally came into existence by way of a free site located on Geocities. The aim and original theme consisted of utilizing a web based service to construct a detailed profile for active members from Gamewinners and Ignitegaming for the online clan "FOXHOUND". After the eventual dissolving of "FOXHOUND", the focus shifted from clan orientated identification to a news and media based outlet with the theme "Your one stop source for all things Metal Gear."
Metal Gear Online was founded by Otacon, a member of the Metal Gear Solid Series forum and Moderator at Gamewinners. Special thanks goes to MGM and Kyvek, former members of Gamewinners and current administrators of Forever Gaming for their efforts and support in the creation of the original site, as well as all the members and visitors past and present for their continued support.
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Thursday, June 03, 2004
A recent study claims that dust on computers and other electronics contain a chemical residue that can possibly pose a long-term health threat.
From CNET, "In a report published by Clean Production Action and the Computer TakeBack Campaign, two groups studying environmental and health issues related to computers, researchers contend that potentially dangerous elements of brominated fire retardants are turning up in dust samples swiped from computers. The research indicates that the most commonly found example of these substances, widely used fire prevention compounds known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, have been found to cause health problems in lab animals."
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Friday, May 21, 2004
Hackers rush to exploit the first serious hole discovered in the Apple Computer's Mac OS X.
From WIRED, "First discovered in February by a German Web designer, but not reported publicly until Tuesday, a vulnerability in OS X opens systems to potential hijackings when users simply visit a website.
Because of the way OS X handles certain protocols, a machine can be commanded through a Web link to run applications, scripts or Unix commands.
Though no victims have stepped forward yet, nefarious uses of the exploit are potentially unlimited. Experts warn machines could easily be hijacked to erase hard drives, spread viruses and spam, and report bank account numbers and passwords.
Apple said it is aware of the exploit and is investigating. 'We take security very seriously at Apple and we are actively investigating this potential security issue,' the company said in a statement.
The security hole first gained attention Tuesday after Secunia, a Danish security company, issued a security advisory. By Wednesday, Secunia upgraded its advisory to its highest rating because of an outburst of scripts and applications designed to exploit the hole."
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Afer being given the task from her professor, a Dubin City University student decrypted 2 declassified US miliatary documents.
From The Register, "An Irish graduate student has uncovered words blacked-out of declassified US military documents using nothing more than a dictionary and text analysis software.
Claire Whelan, a computer science student at Dublin City University was given the problems by her PhD supervisor as a diversion. David Naccache, a cryptographer with Gemplus, challenged her to discover the words missing from two documents: one was a memo to George Bush, and another concerned military modifications to civilian helicopters.
The process is quite straightforward, and according to Naccache, Whelan's success proves that merely blotting words out of declassified documents will not keep the contents secret."
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Saturday, May 08, 2004
Legal experts warn that more lawsuits against fast food chains could be on the horizon. Meanwhile, movie goers will be able to see the effects of dieting on fast food on the big screen.
From Yahoo! News - (USA TODAY), "A controversial obesity lawsuit against McDonald's may have been thrown out of court. But it inspired the movie Super Size Me, which opens Friday and promises to raise the volume in the debate over fast food and obesity.
In September, a federal judge in New York rejected a claim by two obese teenage girls that eating McDonald's made them fat. Morgan Spurlock, the movie's director decided to test that conclusion. His film documents a 30-day immersion into McDonald's-only cuisine in which he gained 24 1/2 pounds and his liver accumulated fat so quickly that it turned, in the words of his doctor, into "pt." He has since regained his health.
Spurlock wants his movie to launch a national conversation over fast food and nutrition, not prompt more litigation. But it may be too late. Now that obesity is recognized by the federal government as a looming public health crisis - on its way to surpassing smoking as the nation's No. 1 killer - the battle lines are drawn."
"Although no fast food lawsuits have been filed since the McDonald's case was dismissed, legal experts say they expect suits to be filed this year. The most promising legal avenue is to invoke state consumer protection laws to accuse companies of misleading consumers about calories or nutritional value, or to accuse companies of marketing fast food to children."
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