Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This ought to be interesting. Some law students in Maine is taking on the RIAA. The University of Maine School of Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic have decided to defend fellow students against another one of the RIAA's efforts to squash any semblance of freedom when it comes ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I just saw another story about the record number of data breaches in 2007 and while some of this is because of the activity of evil hackers (as opposed to True Hackers.. dedicated to curiosity, learning and making things work better).
It looks to me like most of it ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
I guess that subject line has to qualify as one of the most obvious statements made in 2007. Of course Google's applications aren't gaining ground as fast as they want.
Probably because of things like the fact that they're getting too big for their britches and have too much of ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
If like me you are a fan of certain 70's and 80's tv shows, you'll definitely be interested in this article about the new version of K.I.T.T. that's going to star in the made for tv movie.
One upgrade is the initials for the new one shows the upgrade: Knight ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
With all the attention being focused lately on the changeover from Analog to Digital television signals, I just ran across a reminder that Television is not the only thing changing from analog to digital.
Specifically, lots of Onstar users are going to find themselves without service after February 18, 2008. ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Anybody who has ever spent a fortune trying to keep their HP printer supplied with ink will be interested in this. Apparently a Boston man filed a lawsuit against HP and Staples saying that HP has paid staples $100 million to make certain not to stock inexpensive third party ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
I keep reading more and more about vista users getting to the point where they decide to "Upgrade" to XP. What with all that I've seen about the various annoyances, DRM and security flaws I can't for the life of me imagine why anybody would want it in the ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Dual_EC_DRBG is the name of a relatively new random number generator, the use of which has apparently been pushed by the NSA. However According to a recent article by By Bruce Schneier, it's beginning to be obvious why the NSA would want to push the inclusion of this random ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I just read a slashdot item that reports Startrek.com is shutting down. It even quotes from what is apparently the "last" posting:
Goodbye from the STARTREK.COM Team. Sadly, we must report that CBS
Interactive organization is being restructured, and the production team
that brings you the STARTREK.COM site has been eliminated. Effective
immediately. ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
A company called "Holosonics" has come up with a form of advertising that's probably going to go down as the single most obnoxious idea that anybody has ever come up with. Their technology allows them to beam a focused sound channel directly into the heads of passers-by.
This means that ...
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