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		<title>SOPA Blackout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bravo, Internet Bravo. Today, January 18th, marks a web-wide protest of the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) bills that are attempting to pass through the United State&#8217;s Congress. Anyone who knows anything about these bills knows that they will break the internet. What do these bills allow? Simply, it allows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=351&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MOBA Players</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a continued series from last week, MOBA has essentially exploded from the small mod with a few players, to a large genre with many developers trying to replicate the original success. &#160; As the video describes there are 5 specific &#8220;requirements&#8221; for a MOBA style game, all dealing with the mechanics of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=345&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Ultimate Frisbee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new found sports love is Ultimate Frisbee. I started playing competitive ultimate frisbee this year at college and absolutely love it. The sport is still growing and is about to take a new step, thanks to Brodie Smith. Brodie is a very popular and successful ultimate player from Florida. Here is a video on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=341&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intro to Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Code Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you how have not yet figured out, I am a Computer Science Major. I love programming and the challenges that go along with it. That being said, I never really took a formal education on how to code. I one day decided to take my curiosity into a skill set, and began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=338&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Billion People, 5.9 Billion on the phone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Telecommunications Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. When I saw this, I honestly was a bit shocked. Not too long ago, we crossed the population threshold of nearly 7 Billion people worldwide. This  number is staggering, but what is impressive, is how fast we got to this point and what it means for urbanization. In 1700, the world&#8217;s population was roughly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=334&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plain-Text Passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another example of large corporations completely missing the idea of &#8220;corporate level security.&#8221; As we have seen in 2011, many companies have completely dropped the ball in falling victim to large hacking attacks performed by Black Hats across the net. The most famous of these examples is Sony, who lost nearly their entirely customer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=327&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MOBA Origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new game type has been quickly gaining popularity among PC gamers, without major support from big budget game studios. This game type, which originated by a mod, is most commonly referred to as Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, or MOBA. In these games, players take control of a single hero or champion, aided by computer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=322&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year! I hope your first hours of 2012 have been enjoyable, I know mine have. I spent the night with a bunch of friends and we had a great time. Due to very icy conditions, most spent the night, and in fact, we spent a lot of our time playing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=306&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Start of Something New</title>
		<link>http://stupidgeek314.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/the-start-of-something-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Welcome to Max&#8217;s Rants. This has been my long time blog that I had tucked away for most of 2011. I have found that I really enjoy talking about things I find interesting and sharing my opinions with those who choose to listen. If you are reading this, you have made that choice. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=301&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Data &#8220;Unlimited&#8221; if Throttled?</title>
		<link>http://stupidgeek314.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/is-data-unlimited-if-throttled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Renke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are data plans from wireless carriers or ISPs &#8220;unlimited&#8221; if they throttle bandwidth? This seems like a simple question with a simple answer, but it is not. By definition, unlimited means without limits. Some wireless carriers (such as AT&#38;T and T-Mobile) throttle, or slow, the bandwidth down for the users using the most data. AT&#38;T [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stupidgeek314.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5677125&amp;post=235&amp;subd=stupidgeek314&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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