In the last 60 days I’ve used 2600 kW.h. Is that normal, around 1300 or so per month? I thought I was being pretty frugal with the juice, but I bumped up into a new billing teir (and was probably reported to the RCMP).

The Pirate Bay rotates bits of their façade. Here’s the new logo-comic:

Copyright’s a hard target though: I want to get paid for Samhain stuff…

“Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis”

Via CNN.

We are second class entities, less important than our children, the Corporations. Eventually they’ll eat us.

Like all casino games blackjack is vulnerable to real-time modeling and analysis. It’s arguably the biggest chink in the casino’s armor of expected value — it’s already been solved and it turns out that a mushy old human brain is computer enough to give the thinking player edge over the house.

The corporate fascists at the big casino companies call correct play, card counting, cheating. “You’re too smart — no fair!”

What those fascist babies fail to realize is technology democratizes intelligence. When I saw this story about Nevada, at the behest of the casinos, declaring a little +/- stealth iPhone App called “Hi Lo” illegal I realized: Blackjack is on the way out, and a bunch of other casino games may soon follow.

As computers fade into ubiquity the house can no longer rely on the idiocy of the masses. Eventually we’ll all see the virtual light and anti-logic laws will either become impossible to enforce or far more draconian.

Therefore I predict the death of blackjack. It’ll eventually become impossible to play: Either the house will lose too much money from it or they’ll require access to the computer augmenting your vision, which should terrify people away from the game. Some idiots will still give permission, but once they recover from ad-spam blindness they’ll see the writing on the wall: Too few players, too small margins.

Blackjack is dying, slowly, of the cancer of technological obsolescence.

Three admins and the financier of The Pirate Bay plead innocent today in a Swedish court case that directly effects everyone FutureTech saavy. They’re also being sued for DKK 120 million (~= USD $14 million) for infringement.

Good luck, me hearties. Here’s how we, some of their 22 million users worldwide, can help.