Archive for the ‘opinion’ Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Inventor Mitch Altman has done the world a favor, two actually. Not only has he invented a device that can turn off almost any tv in public places ... An extremely cool and useful device for restoring a bit of peace and quiet in public areas that really don't ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I saw an interesting bit on Slashdot recently, it seems that the Air Force, wants to rewrite the rules of how the Internet works.
The first thing I have to say is that I fully get the need for security and the fact that their IT and security people are tired ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
In a way it's interesting to note that while a lot of people have made a lot of noise about government and corporate datamining operations, it doesn't seem like very many people have given a whole lot of thought to how much data Google (and other search engines) has access ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
The OS wars continue. Microsoft thought they had a killer OS in Vista only to find out that tens of thousands (myself included) hate it. Ubuntu has recently released version 8.10, nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex" (no, I don't know what an Ibex is let alone an intrepid one). ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
It's a long established fact that, in spite of whatever "fitness revolution" is going on, most people simply don't like to exercise. Why? Partly because it involves a lot of physical effort that few of us are really all that interested in and partly because, to be blunt, ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Weird Al Yankovic can now join the ranks of the censored. Not over anything political that I've ever heard of but rather over the lyrics to one of his songs.
That's right, MTV has "bleeped" parts of the song 'Don't Download This Song'. Specificaly, the portions bleeped were the names ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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