Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 27th, 2008
The marriage may not have happened yet, but Microsoft has certainly bought the engagement rings with it's latest effort to do it's part in keeping the little guy squashed. They've actually patented censorship.
Specifically, the patent is for "Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast". Now the guy in ...
Posted in Programming, Software, opinion | No Comments »
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Recently I posted about having entered a video in a contest. However I wasn't alone, my wife also entered. Her video was considerably different from mine.
I went for using some special effects and what I think is a hilarious ending while she had a great song and a ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Are either lying to us or they're totally incompetent. That's the only conclusion that I can draw. Why would I say such a thing? Well, in the course of my reading today I ran across a most fascinating little gem over on the Popular Mechanics site.
There I ...
Posted in Misc, Tech, opinion | 2 Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Having gotten my latest video project done, I'm already thinking about what to do next.
It's not just a question of the subject or story either. While coming up with either can be a problem at times, the good idea eventually comes along. The thing I'm thinking of now ...
Posted in Movies, Software, Video | No Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
EA’s CEO John Riccitiello spoke recently at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference and claimed that 99.8% of gamers don't care about DRM. Judging from the growing dissatisfaction with any form of DRM on the part of a heck of a lot of people of the the last ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I haven't done a whole lot of contest entering in my days, mostly because the odds were so long that winning wasn't even remotely an option that could be considered real. Then again, even I will get a lottery ticket once in a while because while it's true that ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I read that there's this huge group of spammers, a spamming botnet made up of an estimated 35,000 compromised computers and able to send upwards of ten Billion emails a day, being shut down. You'd think that with something that large being shut down that I and many others ...
Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I read recently that YouTube (and their Google puppet-masters) are working on a deal to bring full length television shows to the screens of YouTube viewers everywhere. I have to admit that there's a certain advantage to using the computer to watch ... no HDMI wall plate to install, ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
You may recall the story of the city of Monticello, Minnesota being sued by the Bridgewater Telephone Company because the city had the outlook to see that they needed a fiber optics network and since the boys in the telco's offices didn't seem to think the city needed it, they ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Not long ago Wal-Mart decided to send out an email telling music buying customers that they were going to shut down their DRM servers. This meant that DRM infected music would very likely stop working after that date and the only cure that users had would be to burn ...
Posted in DRM, Entertainment, Movies, Music, opinion | No Comments »
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