Well, since we do like technology around here, lets have a look at something that is good. Apple has announced its iOS 5. Its due out this fall, and if you like the feel of your iPhone now, just wait till this hits it.

As you might have guessed. We here at All That’s Evil like to point out to you our readers when things are unfair, unjust or just plain suck. As you probably know by now this post happens to be on the evils of Dell Computers.

This is to let you all know that we, as Americans, are extremely disappointed in your work performance, at this time.

We know that it’s hard to work with people who hold different core beliefs, but we HIRED you to run our country, with the understanding that each of you understood the difficulties the job would include.

We are hanging out at PhreakNIC 14 this weekend. Having a fun weekend. Come find the All That’s Evil gang we will be here all weekend, photos to follow

The Associated Press is reporting that a gamer living in West Virginia was locked out of his XBox Live account for several days, for a purported Terms of Service (TOS) violation.

It seems the gamer in question claimed he lived in Fort Gay, West Virginia.  You would think a BIG company like Microsoft would have the tools, and processes in place, to verify such things, rather than just reacting with a knee jerk response, which in my head, sounds straight out of ‘Beavis & Butthead’,   “<snerk>… hehe hehe hehe… He said _GAY_! hehe hehe hehe…”.

With Philadelphia’s recent decision to charge bloggers a $300 business privilege tax, battle lines are being drawn on Blogging as a First Amendment Free Press activity.    There is no attempt to determine which blogs are “businesses” and which are simply the hobby of local writers.   Instead, Philadelphia’s government has declared that ALL bloggers in the city to be businesses, whether they are hobbyists who have never made a cent blogging, or are professional bloggers working for Public Relations firms.

Philadelphia’s Mayor’s press secretary commented that “Philadelphia has always had a business privilege tax, and anyone who makes money has to pay”.  The flaw with this thinking is that not all bloggers make (or even attempt to make) money.  In fact, of 20 Million Bloggers in the United States, only 8.5% (1.7 million) make any money at all blogging, and only 2.25% (452,000) make enough to call blogging their career. (Numbers from the Wall Street Journal)  Extrapolating from these national numbers, it looks like the city of Philadelphia wants to shake down over 90% of the bloggers in the “City of Brotherly Love” who make no money at all.  For hobby bloggers who may pay a few hundred dollars a year for hosting, domain names, and such, and make no attempt to earn any money from their blogs, adding an additional $300 Business Privilege Tax may well force them to silence themselves.

Recently, I have been accessing a sharing forum which some posters use MegaUpload as a host. Well with my internet connection being limited I was satisfied downloading one at a time at 167Kbytes/sec… well with fiber coming to my area soon I decided to use a faster network to try out MegaUpload Premium for 9.99 a month (Via paypal) Your speed limit is removed and you can download more than one file at a time. You also get an MegaVideo Premium access along with it removing the 72minute restriction. Is it worth the money? … Yes it is worth the money if your download speed is high.

Lately as I have been surfing the internet I have noticed certain areas getting slower and slower. This is to be expected as more and more people use the internet. What I am saying is, maybe these increased latencies are due to certain viruses that are starting to spread rampant? I base this theory on a case study I am performing on the computers I work on for people. About 79% of the computers I have worked on have had the same identical virus. This virus installs itself as a system level service and starts sending spam to people, all while crippling the antivirus (atacks multiple varieties of antiviral solutions).

My suspicion is with more and more people using social network mediums, the more viruses that will attack through those sites. The internet has become a dangerous place for the novice PC user. Most people who surf the internet should be using a firewall with at minimum an updated antivirus.

Good security practices:

• Practice Safe Hex: Keep your antivirus up to date. If your subscription on your current antivirus has expired and you need one you can find one at http://free.avg.com
• Keep your data backed up: When you get done editing a document put it on a flashdrive, then put the flashdrive up for safe keeping.
• Be suspicious of every link on the internet and in your email: Just because you receive an email from someone claiming to be from your bank, do not send them any information or click any link on the page, just print the email and bring it to your local branch and make an inquiry about the message, or open your webbrowser and type the address to your bank in by yourself.
  • Your bank will never ask for information over email.
• Be careful of those links on sites like myspace and facebook, if anything tries to make you install a toolbar or an addon other than Macromedia Flash Player or Macromedia Shockwave player, treat it with skepticism.
• Keep your operating system up to date.
• If something on the internet does not look legit don’t click it. This includes those “You Have Won!!!! XXXXXX” banners.

Other than those just don’t put too much information on the internet. Post your GeoTagged photos when you get home, but dont geotag the ones taken at your home, because anyone who has access to that picture can see exactly where you live thanks to gps.