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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The UN, the NSA, and others are talking about a change to Internet Protocols that would implement "IP Traceback" which would make it difficult, if not impossible, to be anonymous online.
The big noise they're making to justify it is how anonymity is often abused and used for criminal purposes. ...
Posted in Freedom of speech, Internet, Misc, Privacy, opinion | Comments Off
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Recently I've decided that I was going to be changing the way I do the occasional website review. I decided that instead of settling with just writing about a site that I would also do a video review in which I could point out the positive and negative points ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Something that's been bugging me something fierce since my wife got a Vista machine is the fact that it, like most other versions of Windoze defaults to hiding file extensions for known file types. My recent post about viewing hidden files and folders included fixing that in the XP ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Something that I've never cared for is the fact that by default, Windows hides certain files and folders from view. I understand that the reason is to keep the curious but uninformed from accidentally deleting or otherwise changing important system files.
Personally I prefer to be able to see them ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
After a whole load of claims, counterclaims and assorted legal wrangling, the FCC has finally issued an order on the matter of Comcast interfering with p2p applications. On 8/20/08 they ordered (pdf) that among other things:
Comcast within 30 days to disclose the details of their unreasonable network management
practices, submit ...
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