Torrey Meeks

E-Mail: torrey.meeks@gmail.com

Web Page: http://www.torreymeeks.com/

Profile: Torrey Meeks is a Blast Magazine staff writer and part of the original 01/01/07 launch crew

Posts by Torrey Meeks:

April 1st, 2008

Martin Schubert is going to change the way you see the world [...]

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March 6th, 2008

They’ll rot your brain. They’ll make you lazy. They’ll demagnetize your moral compass and turn you into a sociopathic monster. They’ll sabotage your ability to function in the real world.
Sound familiar, gamers?
In the 1950s and 1960s, critics claimed a new form of mainstream entertainment, comic books, were going to do just that. However, many comic [...]

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February 22nd, 2008

Take a seven dollar can of compressed air from any office supply store. Flip it over, and spray its liquid nitrogen on a computer’s DRAM, or digital random access memory. Reboot the computer, or even extract the DRAM chip and clone it, then run a few relatively simple programs. Nothing that would defeat an intermediate [...]

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January 9th, 2008

What appeared to be a legitimate iPhone application, “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep,” turned out to be a piece of malicious software intended to ruin functionality on affected phones.
The programmer of this dangerous piece of code was an eleven-year-old boy.
Using the installer.app feature on the iPhone, users can access the diverse world of third-party applications. The [...]

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January 3rd, 2008

On Thursday, some good news hit the battered lungs of a billion junk email filters like pure oxygen: Eleven of the world’s most prolific spammers — nine of whom live in the U.S. — were indicted by the Department of Justice.
According to papers unsealed in Detroit, the electronic highwaymen, facing a 41-count indictment, are a [...]

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November 1st, 2007

After a series of late starts, Microsoft’s recent riposte may be the savviest it’s made in ages. Digging deep after losing out to Google for exclusive advertising rights on the Internet’s number one social networking site, MySpace, Microsoft settled for a $240 million, 1.6% stake in number two, Facebook.
The deal follows close on the heels [...]

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April 1st, 2007

In the last five years, video games have risen to prominence as the whipping boy of choice in the culture wars.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was Hollywood. At that time, the movie industry was under increasing scrutiny due to violence on the big screen. Concerned politicians, at the behest of clamoring constituents, [...]

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March 1st, 2007

You’re cruising down a state highway in west Texas flipping through radio stations, but the reception is horrible. A couple of small-town AM warriors are keeping the waves breathing with old standards and second-tier conservative talk shows. Satellite radio would sure pay off right now.

The problem is, however, which provider do you choose? XM, known [...]

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February 1st, 2007

Mogopop rocks. You’re thinking, is this some kind of new popsicle I can yank out of a frozen food bin at the supermarket? Absolutely not. But if you go to Mogopop, you might be able to find, say, a complete list of supermarkets in your area with a bin-by-bin description of each type of frozen [...]

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February 1st, 2007

Malicious coders and hackers are constantly finding new ways to circumvent security precautions, and this isn’t likely to change in 2007. While a solid anti-virus program is a good bet, the best way to avoid costly mistakes is to stay tapped into the latest developments in the fast changing computer world, said David Marcus, Senior [...]

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