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Actor James Franco was scheduled to deliver the commencement address at UCLA's graduation ceremony last month, but he pulled out a few days before the event, reportedly to work on a movie. Or at least that's what his publicist said. The real story, according to this Funny or Die video, is that UCLA found out what the 2008 alumnus planned to say in his speech and rescinded the invitation...
...freelance hackers happens to be South Korea. Hackers in Seoul have been known to attack U.S. and international networks. Several U.S. servers were hit after the disqualification of a South Korean skater at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics allowed Apollo Ono to win the 1,500-m speedskating event. (See pictures of South Korean video gamers...
...From July 9 through July 12, the Macau Poker Cup, a bimonthly tournament sponsored by PokerStars Macau, will see more than 100 players competing for a minimum of $129,000 in the main event. The event pales in comparison with the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, which draws in 7,000 players for a grand prize of $8.5 million at its main event, but the Macau tournament's organizers have high hopes for the game's potential in Asia. "The gold standard is the World Series of Poker," says Fred Leung, marketing manager for poker company...
...Nevertheless, protests do go hand-in-hand with the event as activists often allege that it's the G-8 members themselves who are responsible for creating the crises they're trying to solve (poverty and global warming, for example). There have been some major demonstrations this decade, ranging from the relatively peaceful (225,000 people taking to the streets of Edinburgh in July 2005 as part of the Make Poverty History campaign) to the undeniably violent (the Genoa G-8 protests of July 2001, which drew an estimated 200,000 demonstrators with hundreds injured - and even some deaths - following...
...muted, and there was a long silence of nine seconds.] I had been in command for almost a year ... We had just finished a joint readiness training, where you build up a team. What we had done, we had a year of team-building in preparation for that event. Very quickly after that, we had the accident, which was completely unexpected. Not only did we lose so many killed, but a tremendous number who were badly injured, and so even those who died, didn't do it that minute but over time - one almost a year [later]. Most of them...