Curiosity and Curiositier.

Mars Exploration Rover is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars at 10:31 PM Pacific Time August 5th, 2012. NASA is having a special live broadcast to celebrate the mission.

It seems they are using MacBook Pros; unless those notebook computers are made by Samsung (*zing*).

According to Bad Religion’s Twitter post, “Bad Religion” and each of the guys names are written somewhere on the Curiosity.

SpamCop.net

The evil admin forwarded me a message from a reader just a few minutes ago.

I’m writing to see if you’ve been able to make any headway on the “milkcheesedns.com” spammer that you posted about several times this year. I’ve been receiving a large amount of this junk mail through one of my accounts and it’s practically unbearable. There’s a new domain name every day and my email host isn’t doing anything to improve their filters. The WHOIS records of these offending domains all point back to eNom.com / namecheap.com. I’ve tried contacting eNom, as you did, but my results were the same — their abuse form is broken and they don’t seem very cooperative to begin with. Can you offer any suggestions on how this jerk can be stopped? Besides the registrar and the usual “abuse@___.com” address, which is useless, what else can be done? I appreciate your thoughts.

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Flip4Mac 3.0 public beta

Flip4Mac 3.0 public beta is now available.

Flip4Mac 3.0 public beta
Compatible with:
OS X 10.7 Lion
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
New Flip Player included

For Flip4Mac Player Pro users:

Attention Flip4Mac Player Pro customers: Version 3 is a $9 paid upgrade from previous versions. Read below for details.

Flip4Mac Studio and Studio Pro HD do not have to pay any upgrade fees.

More notes:

System Requirements
Flip4Mac and Flip Player run on Intel, OS X versions 10.7 or later.

New Features in this Release

  • Introduced the new Flip Player application for playing, editing, and transcoding video and audio. Flip Player supports unique features such as dimming the background, cropping video, and creation of iPhone ringtones. It also supports exporting to Apple and Telestream applications, exporting to Apple devices, and Windows Media. Flip Player replaces the WMV Player application.
  • All software is now signed with a digital certificate from Apple to address security and anti-malware requirements in Gatekeeper.
  • Added support for the application/x-ms-wmp mime type.
  • Added 64-bit Core Audio support for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.