Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Australian government is proposing seriously expanded search powers that would allow police to do more than just search the computers found on the premeses named in a warrant. This would also allow them to search other computers networked to those, regardless of where they are.
Frankly, I can see ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
All those handy new gadgets coming out these days that so conveniently connect to your computer's USB port are proving to be a source of trouble that many didn't expect.
That's because lots of them are showing up in stores with viruses pre-installed on the device. Intended to run when ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Here's something that I have to wonder why anyone bothered to do. It's called "Project Fred". The site itself describes it as:
an entirely pointless program which counts the number of keys you press and the number of times you click your mouse, and uploads these totals to the ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Asus recently unveiled a new device, The MS71 storage mouse, which is doomed to fail before they even sell the first one.
This device is actually ingenious. It combines a flash drive with a wireless mouse. It's a great idea that has a lot of potential. The problem ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The response by Comcast's to recent inquiries by the FCC have apparently gotten some people in Washington to wake up a bit and at least open the way to some new talk about the subject of Net Neutrality.
Rep. Ed Markey, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
I've read a lot of ideas about how we might expand our space program to include Mars but I think that this one is probably the topper. It's a idea proposed by Jim McLane, who worked at NASA until 2007 that I read on Universe Today about a "One ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The various messes with the RIAA continue getting worse. In one case for example Oklahoma State University ended up having to bow to an order to respond to an RIAA subpoena demanding a list of students names. Attorneys for the school emailed the list of names to the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I can tell you that I didn't like this one right out of the gate and the more I think of it the less I like the idea. I'm talking about a new plan that Microsoft is apparently toying with where they would use a "friendly worm" to spread ...
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