LIVEdigitally

While the USA is on it’s trek to bring porn to mobile phones, Saudi Arabia is not only talking about fining 100,000 riyal, up to 12 years in prison, and to top it off… up to 1,000 lashes. Lashes? I’m assuming that we’re talking about the -shirt off, tie your hands, and whip you in the back a thousand times- type of lashes.

Saudi’s don’t approve of women being uncovered in public: heads, torso’s, legs, elbows, (I suppose hands are ok). Since this rule is in place, the capturing and distribution of such vulgar obscenities will not be tolerated. Mobile phones with video and photo capabilities make the transfer of such material much harder to

I wonder if it would be possible to send porno shots to your enemy and then turn him in for having illegal images on his handset!

So I’m assuming this Israeli person, now hopefully at rest, really liked his or her cell phone. I hope so, cause it looks like they will be spending eternity under the image of one.

As my fellow blogger said below, “Where’s the humanity?”

It does make for a great photo though. Sad, but great.

Computer Aided Hunting (CAH) as I like to refer to it, has been outlawed. Anyone who carries a concealed laptop or mouse with them without proper permits will be given the death sentence!

Maybe I have over exaggerated a bit. “Virtual Hunters” who remotely control guns via the internet may become extinct sooner than later. HR 1558 is the bill that, if passed, will outlaw this real life version of Duck Hunt.

I have questions here that don’t have answers. Why are the computers hooked up to real guns that shoot real animals? If you’re at home on the internet, is the difference if you really killed a deer or if you hit an image of a deer in a game that looks realistic? Does someone go out and gut, then hang, the carcass in preparation to send it FedEx to your residence?

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is a known Mac user. Well at least now he is since part of the promotion for their next album (due May 3rd) is an early release of a song that is a GarageBand file. This means you (yes you) can remix it. You can download the song from their website and mix as you wish. Reznor is reported as saying

“What I’m giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for ‘the hand that feeds’ in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.”

It sounds like some Creative Commons stuff, but avoiding the middle man and just going straight to the Internet. The 70 MB will let anyone jam with NIN.

iPods let you escape from the world. Panhandlers and street preachers beware; iPods make it easy to ignore you all. While some iPod users love the iconic white headphones, other go out of their way to make sure they get some other style. I can’t blame them either. The hanging white chords scream “MUG ME!” at the top of their lungs.
But getting new headphones for your pod doesn’t mean the quality of your music should suffer. For those with the cash Forbes recomends the Shure EC3. While the sound is excellent and the fit is ever so natural, the cost is on the luxurious side. We are talking $180 which is enough to by another mid-range iPod really. But, can you really put a price on comfort?

..In your browser window I should say. A friend of mine just bought a dog online. Enough said.

Where’s the “humanity?”