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AP - Staff Sgt. Jeff Ebert’s entire body flinches as a roadside bomb explodes near his vehicle. Smoke obscures his view. Gunfire rattles around him.

Source: ROBERT LEVINE

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Filed under: Gaming

While US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are remaining tight-lipped about what exactly they have seized thus far, a certain modder has come forward to depict his story and explain the experience of getting raided by the fuzz. After agents woke up his grandmother and perused her domicile with a warrant in hand, they confiscated a number of consoles and spare parts around the house before heading out to find the man behind FallsInc. Once locating him at his girlfriend’s dwelling, they persuaded him to hand over everything even remotely related to modding, and he was left with “nothing of worth” outside of a computer monitor and his vehicle. Unsurprisingly, the culprit (or victim, depending on perspective) feels that his “life was taken away by a ludicrous interpretation of the DCMA” as the “little guy” was taken down while mass piraters remain at large. To read his whole account, be sure and tag the read link.

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Source: Darren Murph

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Who cares about impeaching Bush - we have much bigger problems in this world. Let’s start a petition to end the speech bubble logo.

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They probably aren’t something you immediately think of when thinking of beautiful colors in nature… but from poison arrows to woodland dwellers, the world of frogs and toads is loaded with color. Here are 18 Colorful Frogs, Toads & Amphibian Fun Facts.

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W32.Deletemusic does exactly what the name implies: it hunts down MP3 files on unsuspecting music collectors’ computers and nukes them from orbit. While you may not lose your personal data with this worm, you’ll certainly lose those long hours spent on ripping, labeling, and organizing your music collection.

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According to a recent report by some Reddit users, it’s not possible to vote reciprocally when you are on the same network as the other user. One user points out that he can vote on a link but after he refreshes the page, the vote is gone.

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The iPhone isn’t the only handset whose software innards are getting lovingly torn apart in the name of science this week. It turns out some intrepid users of the Helio Ocean (a device occasionally compared to the iPhone, coincidentally) have been slaving away on a method for adding extra applications outside of the carrier’s walled garden. Their first success is a doozy, too: Opera Mini 3, one of the most prized jewels in the world of mobile software. The developers aren’t claiming it’s bug-free — landscape mode and the QWERTY keyboard don’t work, for example — but it’s a huge step in the right direction and they’re continuing to work out the kinks. More custom apps are said to be on the way, and don’t worry, Drift and Heat users — support’s said to be on the way for you guys, too.

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Source: Chris Ziegler

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More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.

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