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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Over the years Toyota has become a pretty big player in the automotive world. However there is now solid evidence that they have finally grown so much that they're just too big for their britches.
Desktop Nexus, a popular desktop wallpaper site, has been hit by Toyota's willingness to abuse ...
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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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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Government types would have us believe that the new "E Passports" are perfectly secure and that there's no problem with them at all. They spend a lot of time and money trying to make sure that everyone believes this and goes along with it, blindly assuming that the RFID ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The EFF has announced that the ninth circuit appeals court has ruled in the Hepting v. AT&T case that the case is not to be delayed (this time) and is to be sent back to district court where it's supposed to proceed (though the case could well be old enough ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The polite term for it is "Indentured Servitude". The Ugly truth of it is called "Slavery"
According to an article on PC Authority, Apple employees are putting together a class action lawsuit that's claiming Apple denied technical staffers the overtime pay and meal compensation that's required by state law.
Apparently they've ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I've always believed that the new "E-passports" weren't going to be all they were cracked up to be and now there's a good example of why the people who're so flapping excited about them need to reach for a fresh dose of progesterone and sit back and take a fresh ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I read about this on slashdot recently and then in the last day or so I've gotten a dozen or so emails claiming to be from CNN Alerts. They all had subject lines that read "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert" or "CNN.com Daily Top 10"
I knew right away that ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Good news for Linux users, According to a recent Slashdot article, Sun Microsystems is finally moving on a decision to open-source Java.
Once it's done and released, this will clear the way for Open source linux distributions like Debian to be able to include Sun Java in their distributions.
Apparently Sun has ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Well, it looks like *somebody* has learned a lesson. According to the folks at Microsoft watch, the Justice Department is overseeing the development of "Windows 7", which is the version that's supposed to replace the disaster everybody loves to call veeesta.
This government sanctioned "Technical Committee" is overseeing Windows development ...
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