More than many would think it appears. Both places have an arid climate, are relatively sparsely populated, and have legislators stupid enough to believe that pornography can be stopped by filtration at the ISP level.
Do these people need sanity checks?
While most would agree that keeping young eyes away from bad things is a concern [...]
It only takes a few moments to look at any of the recent, and now current, legislation attempts at changing the cell phone industry to see that none of them are well thought out, and perhaps the legislators, in Washington, D.C., should take a few more vacation days, a la ‘W’.
Efforts have been made, supposedly [...]
The widely felt, though less than widely reported, outage of Microsoft’s Hotmail and Live services shows up a flaw that has been looming for the past year. The service is bumping up against its capacity almost daily, yet no one from Microsoft has said anything, and the users seem strangely quiet.
For most of yesterday, a [...]
One thing can be said about the end of HD DVD, everyone has a strong opinion. From those who seem devastated by its passing, to those who thumb their noses and say that the people who bought players and discs should have known better, or at least waited, and all those in between - each [...]
I am not usually a fan of organized protest, I prefer to do it individually. However, in the case of HD DVD (which I never purchased, and have waited on the sidelines watching), I think an organized form of protest is what is called for.
Whoops, they did it again!
The turnaround this whole story [...]
Apparently, when things get tough, the tough start talking…on their cell phones, that is.
With the downturned economy, perhaps the wireless telecommunications carriers aren’t registering a reticence of the average consumer to part with more money. The announcement of unlimited calling plans, both for single lines and family plans seems to indicate that there is no [...]
Announced today, a new division of the Mozilla Group, Mozilla Messaging, will re-start the development of the e-mail client, Thunderbird. This is great news for the faithful, as several missteps and balks by Mozilla made many wonder if Thunderbird was going the way of the dodo, or the HD DVD(!)
new life again, just like [...]
It seems there is no end to the number of bad decisions that the Federal Communications Commission can make. First, there is the whole digital television power and money grab, with newly re-opened frequency allocation up to the highest bidder. Now, leaving common radio alone proves to be something that was just too much of [...]
Just a few minutes ago, I was watching this week’s installment of Bill Moyer’s Journal on the local PBS station. One of his guests was Susan Jacoby, a woman that has done much research on the state of intelligence, ignorance, and the state of intelligent discourse in these United States.
While discussing the research for her [...]
Reported today on Ars Technica, AT&T and Verizon will be shutting down their analog cell sites in the next week, with smaller providers like Alltel, U.S. Cellular, and several mom&pop operations to continue this trend throughout the year.
This is all part of the extreme stupidity that is taking over the country, as the idiots [...]
With all the speculation about the Microsoft buyout of Yahoo, the unrelated purchase of Danger, and the less than spectacular update of Vista, it is almost mandatory to ask if the company is spreading the time and manpower too thin.
The buyout of Yahoo seems, for many, to be just a matter of time, so time [...]
As I was thinking about what has happened in the last four months in technology, I realized that the HD DVD format has been pushed hard, heralded as the best choice for a high definition format for discs, and pronounced dead - all in that same 4 months.
here and gone in such a short [...]
Just announced, the completion of the acquisition of Ageia will allow nVidia to incorporate the functionality of the physics processor into the very next series of graphics cards. This is great news for all who are suffering from slot-envy, with all the many things to possibly add to a motherboard’s busses, yet many boards come [...]
If you do, you just might be able to get some help for the shortcomings of it. A class action lawsuit has been filed, as the problems found when advanced features and DRM were added were significant.
Apparently, the consumers who are filing have been upset by the reports of those Blu-ray representatives at the [...]
Although I’m sure that many will believe the reference above is to that three letter acronym FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt), it is in fact, the five-letter word, MONEY, to which I was referring.
As many who follow these things know, Microsoft has always been a company less inclined to innovation, and much more inclined to acquisition. It began [...]
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