I just found two in a box!
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Mark Hamill in Flash “I am your father”
Has Scorpion stung it’self?
I’ve been watching the TV show Scorpion in which a group of nerds save the world and so-forth! The show evolves around Walter O’Brian for which the show is based on and he is played by Elyes Gabel, who’s acting skills are dodgy at times. I don’t know how much O’Brian is involved with the show, the storylines and concepts but a lot of times the character seems big-headed and there is a big tone of self-promotion!
In one episode a character from NCIS: Los Angeles popped up putting it in the same universe as NCIS and Hawaii Five-O programs. But even those shows are better than this one and it didn’t help the cause.
There seems to be a multitude of sins created in every episode, the first being is the heavy use of Windows 8 by one of the best hackers on the planet? (I highly suspect this is to do with an advertising agreement with Microsoft Corp.) I haven’t seen any use of any Linux systems which are far more secure than Windows. Even their programming skills are brought into question. For those who even dabble in coding who have worked with C++ or Basic might be a bit lost in the hacker talk on the show. Did they even ask for help from any expects? And why would you send a hacker with no basic training into the field up against people holding AK47s? The answer is, you wouldn’t, the whole team of Scorpion should of received some form of training before going into the field.
The last episode I watched this morning was “Once Bitten, Twice Die” seemed to stupid to comprehend. How can someone with 197 IQ not make a simple phone call of “We need an antidote for this snake poison!” Gabel’s performance was suspect yet again and the only actor I can give any credit too has to be Katharine McPhee who plays Paige Dineen. I like her because she is very attractive, but also because she has very good on-screen chemistry.
Never-the-less, is this geek TV gone too far?
Kane got his debut goal. (England 4 – 0 Lithuania)
For those that don’t me, I am a Tottenham Hotspur supporter and was looking forward to seeing our top player Harry Kane start. However Roy Hodgson didn’t start with Kane but instead with Rooney and Welbeck up front. I was very disappointed at this, although England started brightly they seemed to peter out and let Lithuania play. In the second half it seemed mediocre although some nice plays and one very good save from the Lithuanian goalkeeper Arlauskis. Then on the 70th minute mark, Kane came on and scored in 80 seconds on his debut.
Now that’s not bad going, can’t wait to see if he starts against Italy now.
Has Viber been comprimised?
If you don’t know what Viber is, it is an application for mobile phones that lets you speak and communicate with your friends without the cost. There are a couple of other applications like this one being WhatsApp, which I do use. But what concerns me is the fact that Viber sent me two text messages today and phoned me twice asking me too activate my account.
I don’t even have an account with them! Why should I activate something I don’t have. I went online to read some of the information about Viber and what I found interesting is that they copy all your contacts information from your mobile straight to their website.
I found this post interesting: http://haydenjames.io/i-refuse-to-sign-up-for-viber-heres-why/
The second thing that came to mind is why, maybe one of my contacts has Viber or maybe their data has been comprimised. If you think that peoples contact information is being transferred to their servers and someone has hacked into the Viber servers thats a fair amount of information and could prove useful in the wrong hands.
There is something not right about Viber at the moment and it concerns me. Maybe it should concern other people too.
premier-league-lives.net is not a safe website to visit.
Some websites have already said they have visited the website and it’s safe. Well I don’t agree, it’s probably very unsafe.
First thing first, read their disclaimer at the bottom and they tell you…
DISCLAIMER : None of the videos are hosted by this site. Streams hosted from sites like veetle,Mips,Veemi are embedded here. This site is not responsible for the legality of the content. For legal issues, please contact appropriate media file owners/hosters.
There for they are allowing content into their website which in turn is not being vetted and they are not taking responsibility. This allows anyone to embed anything they want. It you went there today and try to watch the Tottenham vs West Ham game. You will descover that the match playing, appearing live, but with ads on top the the screen shot. These ads are all malware.
Telling you your software is out of date and needs updating, these are all false. By all means you can listen to the commentry, but I sugest for a website which is going to allow these embedded videos I would move this domain into the blacklist.
Winter has come…
It’s cold and we have snow here in England. And to quote Game of Thrones, winter has come!
I feel like going back home, back to bed and wrapping my self in the duvet.
The Fire and the old guy
Last year the old boy upstairs fell asleep smoking a cigarette, not good! As the horse-hair chair he was sitting in went up in flames. His flat burned and was gutted by the fire. He isn’t directly above me thank god, but there was a girl above me who was pregnant at the time. She was in shock.
I was out in the street opposite my place looking at the flames appear in the window, I got out my phone and started to record the event.
There is talk on the news about cutting the services, that there isn’t enough police, fire fighters, ambulances. But in my road there was three fire engines and one more round the corner. Six police cars and two ambulances. There was even a helicopter that airlifted the old boy to the hospital.
What I didn’t really know about this guy, who’s name is Steve, is that people told me he isn’t a very nice person. He seemed okay to me when I first moved to the area, but here is the story.
He use to work for the church as an organist and from some reports I heard that he is gay. That he was interested in the young boys in the church. And he drank about a pint of gin a day. This guy is in his late 70s and he had boys over who were in their 20s!! One guy, who has been in and out of prison came over regularly to him.
What he did upstairs was his own business, but then I heard this one guy would constantly abuse the old man, beat him up, steal all his money and his pension money.
This led Steve down this dark path, only to loose his memory among other graces and now he sits in a care home not knowing who he is and he still gets visited by this kid. Who most likely has other motives than caring for him.
The couple who lived directly above me said he would leave the gas on, his place was filthy and there was bed bugs! I really wouldn’t want him back here so that never happens again.
This all happened in April last year, in December the young couple now have a baby girl and the guy told me in December they aren’t returning to their flat, soon as all the works are done by the insurance company they will sell the place.
I am sitting here now with one guy working on the front door, which the one of the fire fighters did a fair bit of damage too, even know none of the fire touch my place!
I just hope the old guy doesn’t return and the council use some common sense.
Cyberbully on Channel 4
It’s unusual that i have ever seen a bit of television with just one actress but Maisie Williams was brilliant. This one off show really hit home and is a real thinker.
Maisie’s character is just another teenage girl with her laptop and an internet connection. Using modern trends like Facebook, twitter and instergram, what appears to be innocent starts a chain reaction that starts the cyber bullies.
I felt that the range of emotions and content kept me hooked and you really feel for the character.
Now i will really need to think before i post comments in the future. I really recommend this to watch.
A new river in the garden!!
All the rain has made a mini-river in the garden.
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