Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Static Electricity is being cited as a possible cause for a mess in Washington DC primary last September. It seems that 326 people voted at the Reeves Center precinct in September's primary election.
The confusion started when the computer cartridge from the voting machine that captured the voting information was ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
iPhone users will be interested in news about the class action lawsuit that claims Apple and AT&T Mobility's five-year exclusive voice and data service provider agreement for the iPhone is in violation of the anti-monopoly portions of anti-trust laws
The suit also charges Apple with breaking both Federal and California computer ...
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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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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
This is almost funny. It seems that a while back the city of Seattle had a really brilliant idea that involved spending $5 million dollars on some automated toilets. The idea was to take care of the city's need for more public restrooms without having to spend a ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Remember when..
...A ten megabyte hard drive was considered monstrous (and expensive too!)
... "floppy" disks were actually flexible
... Those same "floppy" disks were 5.25 inches and you could only store data on one side of them.
... "640K of ram is enough for anybody"
... The only "color monitor" choices were amber, green ...
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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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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Anybody with even a slight understanding of how a hard drive operates knows that there are some problems that go along with it. Because many of the parts require high precision alignment it's entirely too easy to mess that up. Just ask the guy who bought a new ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I don't know quite what the deal is but lately I've been seeing stories that are trying to push the idea that the mouse as a computer input device is going to die out. The latest I've seen of these stories is an over dramatic Bold type headline on ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I just saw an interesting article about some research GM is doing that is aimed at eventually having cars equipped with a HUD (Head Up Display).
The article goes out of it's way to emphasize the fact that this is intended to benefit older drivers but it's plainly obvious that such ...
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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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