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Today Techcrunch made a public apology to its readers regarding a writer taking bribes (mac book for a post on techcrunch)
So I thought its time we lay out our policy to all our writers here at techwankers.
We TAKE bribes. We WELCOME bribes.  There is nothing too small we wouldn’t take. In fact, we may be…

To all the geeks out there – can you do the Rubics cube? Didn’t think so. (Nerds – I know you can).
Now they have a lego robot that can solve the cube. Next up – is a lego robot for Facebook connect. Then it will write games. So you geeks better start finding another skill…

We asked 100 people of the TechWankers audience, mostly lonely geeky engineering men who think chivalry is name of alcohol, one of the most important questions of all time:
WHO WOULD YOU RATHER DO?
1) Marissa Mayer (VP, Satan, Inc. Google) vs Minnie Mouse (Queen, Republic of Disneyland)

Winner: Marissay Mayer (65-35)
#1 comment: “Only because sex with mouse…

Don’t do it. It’s bad.  It lowers Facebook pageview count (for about 15-45 seconds, depending on how quick you are). Not to mention the countless trees you’ve killed by using up all them Kleenex boxes.
Let’s face it. Facebook wasn’t meant to be private. If you want privacy, go to web 0.5 IRC chat. Make sure…

The inaptly named source control company “CVSDude” has finally made a longer overdue move and changed their name to Codesion.  This change comes after years of having “CVS” in their name even though 95% of their customers actually use SVN.
But even with the change, what they forget to mention is that CVS and SVN both kind…

Why is the media (especially women journalists) all up on Tiger? For example, a Playboy model who slept with him, Loredana Jolie, said that Tiger
“would engage in sex from 9 p.m. until the sun came up the next morning.”She also says Tiger “likes role-playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a…

Thanks to **ckYou’s generous gift of 32 million unencrypted passwords released to the public, there has been a bonanza in research insights on computer (in)security.  The grateful study report sings praises of **ckYou’s fortuitous actions:
The data provides a unique glimpse into the way that users select passwords and an opportunity to evaluate the true strength of these…

They’re the most evil company known to date. Not because they make a lot of money, but because they control information just like the Nazis did. They even went as far as violating their own terms of service. They say paying for blog posts are bad and prohibited. Guess what? Google paid for blob entries…