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When Tommy Jordan came across a Facebook post written by his teenage daughter complaining about how she had to do chores, he decided to film his response and upload it to YouTube:
This dramatic situation started when Jordan discovered a Facebook post from Hannah, complaining about her daily life at home. The note, which Jordan read and analyzed in his sit-down chat with the camera, takes issue with the slew of chores she’s forced to do each day. “To my parents: I’m not your damn slave,” the note begins. The teenage angst bleeds from the note, as Hannah proposes that her parents pay her for the chores that she does. This point, in particular, sets off Jordan, an IT worker from Albemarle, N.C., who proceeds to delineate how entitled Hannah sounds in the note. But that wasn’t the only punishment he planned for his daughter’s supposedly “hard” life.
“That right there is your laptop,” he explains, filming the newly-upgraded computer perched vulnerably in the grass. “This right here is my .45.” A quick cock of the gun, and Hannah’s laptop takes a shot through the screen. In the next 30 seconds, he proceeds to empty his gun, and the bullets shatter the computer’s plastic shell.
What do you think Neatoramanauts? A justified or over-the-top reaction? Link | The YouTube video clip
Gabor used a nonfunctional laptop to prop up a working laptop with broken hinges! Link
Going
on a little vacay but can't seem to untether yourself from your gadgetry?
Well, Marriott's Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel may just have the kick in
the pants you need to unplug and disconnect.
The hotel will require guests that buy the "detox" package to surrender their gadgets at the door:
This is chance to revive yourself from an over stimulated world. [...]
Your laptop, cell phone, and all other digital devices must be surrendered upon check-in, and will be held for you until your departure. Prior to your arrival, the television, phone, and ihome dock station will be removed from your guest room and replaced by literary classics.
Link - via The Next Web
If you have a handful of thousand-dollar bills and a penchant for all things clockwork, this might just be the best day of your life. Richard “Datamancer” Nagy is taking pre-orders for the Victorian Laptop for the first time. I’m not super interested in steampunk, but I do think Nagy’s handiwork is rather beautiful. There are lots of pictures on the website, with styles ranging from hardcore industrial to streamlined deco. Link
via Dvice | Image: Richard Nagy
A computer security expert has recently reported finding keyloggers on two new Samsung laptop computers.
Mohamed Hassan wrote in Mich Kabay’s Security Strategies newsletter that as soon as he received his Samsung R525 laptop, he ran a full system scan and found a commercial keylogger called StarLogger. StarLogger claims it records every keystroke made on the computer, even on password-protected boxes, starting up whenever the computer starts up. The software emails results at intervals to a specified email address and will even include screen captures.
Hassan ended up buying a second Samsung laptop, a model R540, and found the same keylogger installed on that one “The fact that on both models the same files were found in the same location supported the suspicion that the hardware manufacturer, Samsung, must know about this software on its brand-new laptops,” he writes.
According to CrunchGear, a supervisor at Samsung admitted that the keylogger was installed by the manufacturer: “He confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, “monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used.”
They advise that if you have a Samsung laptop, you should look in C:\Windows for a \SL directory.
Link.
Update: An anonymous commenter at the NetworkWorld link above said “what this Network Security Expert found was a legitimate language file installed by Window’s live…the software installed
was in fact Vipre, not the commerical keylogger called StarLogger. The confusion arose because Microsoft’s Live Application multi-language support folder, “SL” folder, was mistaken for StarLogger.” A commenter at Crunchgear offered a link to a ZDNet post offering the same rebuttal.
What is this? It’s like a holographic Rube Goldberg machine! Just creative use of an iPod, a TV, 2 computer monitors and precision timing. They say there were no special effects used, which must mean there was no cheating in the making of the video, because the overall effect is special.
From the Upcoming 
ueue, submitted by Bopple.
Pictured on the left is the 1st iPod ever made, it was released in 2001, it boasted an impressive 5GB storage and as you can see the design still looks good to this day.
See it along with other original gadget designs including the 1st ever general MP3 player, the 1st ever laptop and more at Blogbits.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Eavesy.
