Over the past year, the FBI has arrested 16 people and carried out 75 raids against Anonymous including 14 indictments made in July over a DOS attack on PayPal last year.  The FBI has issued several warnings of hacking threats made by members of Anonymous this summer.  One threat against Wall Street (a physical protest) was suppoosed to happen today.  Go to the Anonymous Facebook page for more information.

Last month the San Francisco police arrested over 40 protesters during a rally organized by Anonymous.  This protest, which caused the SF police to shut down four of the city’s subway …

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It has been reported that for the past seven years Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh have been working behind the scenes to free the West Memphis 3.  In case you aren’t familiar with these guys, the West Memphis 3 (or WM3) were arrested as teenagers and convicted for the murders of three young boys.  With very little circumstancial evidence, the police and attorneys basically railroaded these guys with no more of a reason than they were emo and listened to heavy metal.  I’m not kidding. So because one of the boys changed his name …

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It’s like a cyber-spaghetti western.  The Anonymous hacker group in a stand-off with Mark Zuckerberg and his army of computer geniuses. But is this thing a hoax or what?  According to Business Insider, some member of Anonymous has tweeted that this is a rogue faction of their group that is going after the social networking site and not Anonymous as a whole.  (But isn’t that how a lot of their hacks have been?)  Apparently, there was an original large-scale plan in the works by Anonymous to hack Facebook but they gave up on the idea.  Maybe some of the members …

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The list is long and includes lesser known awards for things like “Outstanding single camera picture editing for a mini-series or movie” or “Outstanding hair styling for a mini-series or a movie.”  For “Outstanding Reality Program,” Kathy Griffin’s Life on the D-List is going up against shows like Hoarders, Antique Roadshow and Deadliest Catch.

As suspected previously on Nerdsociety, Game of Thrones has multiple nominations including Peter Dinklage for “Best Supporting Drama Actor.” Game of Thrones is also nominated alongside Boardwalk Empire, The Borgias and Stargate Universe for “Outstanding visual effects for a series.” A couple of the nominees …

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Hatsune Miku’s developer Crypton Future Media announced at an Anime Expo panel yesterday that they have launched a social networking site dedicated to the green-haired virtual pop idol.

Here is the description according to Mikubook.com:

About MIKUBOOK

MIKUBOOK makes more fun to discover your next favorites by sharing your like with VOCALOID fans all over the world !

You can browse around things (BETA ver. only shows video) related to VOCALOID such as Hatsune Miku, and recommend new things for the others.

How does MIKUBOOK work?

Once you’ve “fave” a video, MIKUBOOK starts to show new videos you may like …

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A woman in Chicago on Tuesday robbed a bank at gunpoint while wearing a nun’s costume inspired by the Ben Affleck film The Town.  The former employee was trying to obtain funds to pay back money she had embezzled from another previous employer, a Chase branch. Too bad for her the police were able to catch her by tracking recent nun costume purchases online and at local stores.

This actually is not the first time The Town has inspired this sort of behavior.  Back in January, three suspects robbed a Miami bank and went on a televised high speed chase …

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Do you live in California and have items in your Amazon shopping cart right now?  If you do, you better make the purchase before midnight tonight or else you’ll be charged sales tax.  California passed a law, charging sales tax to internet purchases (not just Amazon).  I was saving on taxes before by buying items on Amazon (plus they’re already usually cheaper than retail stores).  With Cali tax closing on 10%, that means it’ll add up.  But whatever, it was good while it lasted.  I knew this day would come, just didn’t know it was going to be this soon.

Update …

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Did you know you could get arrested for traveling with manga on your computer?  That’s what one American found out when he checked his laptop in at the airport in Canada.  A Canadian customs officer found the images on the man’s computer and considered them child pornography.  The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) announced Friday that it is standing by the twenty-something computer programmer saying that the images are just manga style comics and not pornography.

The man is being charged with possessing and importing child pornography.  The importation charge is more severe, which could garner him jail time of …

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Bill Clinton seems to think the show is great.  According to a press release, the former US president said “What an amazing and historic night on Broadway. New York has never seen anything like Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark and I am very proud of them for not giving up, it was fabulous.”

Bono and Edge of U2, who wrote songs for the show, were there for the opening night festivities.  Bono had to say this about the show: “Wow, what a sense of achievement tonight. Some people won’t like it. Some people want to kill us. ”  Wait, some people …

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Police in Madrid, Spain have arrested three members of the  “Anonymous” group of activist/hackers.  They range in ages from 30 – 33 and are said to be leaders of the Spanish branch of the cyber-gang.  They reportedly attacked two major Spanish banks, an Italian energy company and the governments of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand.  The three “hacktivists” have also been charged with targeting Sony’s PlayStation Network.

Although “Anonymous” had hacked Sony in the past, they denied any participation in the latest attack on Sony, which caused the Playstation Network to shut down for almost a month. …

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