Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Realnetworks new RealDVD program has been causing quite a stir which has now landed in the courtrooms. Hollywood in general, movie studios (can the MPAA be far away? I doubt it.) are all trying to stop the sale of this software that allows people to copy the contents of ...
Posted in Business, Computers, Entertainment, File Sharing, Misc, Movies, Software, mpaa, opinion | Comments Off
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
There's been some great combinations over the years. Abbot and Costello, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Finicky cats in commercials for cat supplies and their favorite foods, spam cheese & tomato sandwiches, ice cream & chocolate sauce, Shatner & Nimoy, Denny Crane & Alan ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
I read on Slashdot that Wal-Mart is ending support for DRM encumbered music. This is both good and bad news at the same time.
The good news is that with the world's largest retailer moved to DRM Free music last year they gave a LOT of additional momentum to the ...
Posted in Business, DRM, Music, opinion, riaa | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
There's good and bad here. Good is the fact that the state of Nevada passed a law back in 2005 that as of October 1st this year requires that any business in that state must encrypt all communications that contain personally identifiable information. I wish all states would ...
Posted in Business, Computers, Internet, Privacy, opinion | Comments Off
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
If you’re running Windows XP Pro and you've got it set up with a separate Aministrator account and however many user accounts that each require a password for to logon, sooner or later somebody's going to come to you looking really stressed out like they'd had about six too many ...
Posted in Computers, Software, how to | Comments Off
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