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more things to do with money

more things to do with money

Google Now Offering Up To $20,000 For Exposed Bugs

by Eric Limer | 7:50 pm, April 23rd

Google doesn’t like vulnerabilities in its projects, and has discovered that one of the best ways to make them go away is to pay people scads of cash for finding them. Last Februrary at their Pwnium contest, Google offered up to $1 million in prizes to hackers who could uncover dangerous vulnerabilites in the Windows 7 version of Chrome. That wasn’t just a one time deal; Google also has ongoing awards for people who can find vulnerabilities in anything of theirs, and they just upped the ante from around $3,000 to $20,000.

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“Send Them Your Money” Campaign Suggests You Pay the MPAA and RIAA for Piracy Losses with Copied Currency

by Eric Limer | 2:47 pm, March 13th

When it comes to battling piracy, there’s a pretty huge semantic problem that is getting in the way of dealing with the real issue. Organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA tend to treat pirated copies of software as stolen copies of software when they’re calculating their (inaccurate) annual losses to piracy. In actuality, piracy — while illegal — is not theft; it’s piracy. That’s why it’s called piracy, not theft. In a bid to drive this point home, a little project called Send Them Your Money has suggested an elegantly flippant way to “appease” the MPAA and RIAA: Send them full compensation for their losses in the form of copied dollar bills.

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Beta Raspberry Pi PCs Going for as Much as $2,714 on eBay

by Eric Limer | 12:43 pm, January 2nd

The Raspberry Pi, everybody’s favorite $25 PC, has finally gone into beta, and some of those beta boards are up for auction by the company on eBay. It is a $25 PC though, that’s the selling point; how much could it possibly go for? Oh, I don’t know, how about $2,714 (£1,750), and that’s with 5 days remaining. For all of you who are screaming “That is missing the point!” right now, there are a couple of mitigating factors that make this all make a little more sense. First of all, these are limited edition, man. Haven’t you ever taken a class in Economics? Also, 100% of the purchase price is going to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, devoted to promoting the study of computer science, so it’s for a good cause.

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This Phone is $50,000, Has a Keypad and No Touchscreen

by Eric Limer | 2:00 pm, December 21st

When it comes to buying over-the-top, extremely expensive devices and accessories, you’re basically throwing money away and everybody knows it. That being the case, a lot of these higher end devices seem to revel in their lack of features to further de-justify their already ludicrous price point. Look at the new Grand Premier, from Gresso for instance. A $50,000 dollar phone that has buttons. Buttons? I thought we were past this, people.

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Pop Culture Presidents Put On Artsy Bills

by Eric Limer | 5:26 pm, June 21st

James Charles sure has a lot of people he thinks should have been president. At a recent show at the San Francisco Shooting Gallery, he put all of their alternate history five dollar bills on display. Every portrait is actually a genuine, but modified, bill, so Lincoln, Hamilton and friends are hiding under there somewhere, but you must have x-ray vision if you’re able to spot them. More after the jump.

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