It’s more than a slogan for a salt company. It’s an old saw that means when bad things happen, they tend to come in droves.
That could be the forecast for Intel, as we have news that the Federal Trade Commission might jump on the dogpile that is forming on Intel. The suit expected to come [...]
It is truly amazing when you find that someone who has been on the wrong side of every court case they bring to the fore, finally gets one right. I suppose you could say it’s all in the odds, but the attorney general of New York has been on a tear, being on the wrong [...]
The MPAA and RIAA are one note wonders. Whenever something goes wrong, the customer is the one to blame. It could never be their ridiculous practices, the poor excuse for quality content, or their own gross stupidity.
Or could it?
This time, it’s actually worse. Not only does paramount Studios want to blame the customers, they want [...]
announced not two weeks ago, and not to be released until around Black Friday, the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader has already found itself being attacked as a derivative work, which gives no credit for its feature set.
A story in PC Magazine indicates the challenge to Nook comes from a California based company, that stands [...]
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making quite an after-politics career of going around on the speaking circuit, giving his opinions on why his administration was so great, and why the current one is doomed to failure and disgrace.
Now he seems to have that infamous political selective memory, only recalling the feel of how it [...]
During the time I have been involved with computers, there have been several would-be competitors to Apple, but none has held on as long as Florida company Psystar.
In the early days, the cloning revolved around building a similar motherboard, and then actually physically copying the ROMs of the Apple machine. Though I never was interested [...]
As someone who was never really political until recently, I now get letters and notices of intent from Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein every so often, advising me of such things as the water shortage in California.
Because I know it is not true, as well as being a stickler for precision, I have written back [...]
I have generally believed, and expressed here, that government help is needed for this nation to become a leader once again in the area of information access and transfer. I happen to subscribe to the theory that there are certain things too large for the individual to undertake, and that the nation sometimes needs the [...]
I don’t usually get worked up about many things. I tend to believe that most things will take care of themselves, and individuals cannot do much to change things in a short time.
That might seem like fatalism, but it really isn’t – it is simply realism, I believe.
I have been reading so many things about [...]
The one we have seems to be butting up against the limits imposed by the large carriers that refuse to put out the dollars needed to expand as needed. A blurb in slashdot asks why it should be that the large carriers (telcos and cable companies) have the power to shape the internet, instead of [...]
It is truly astounding how things happen in our country today. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, chances are you won’t have a consistent opinion about government intervention in the lives of people.
(Before you think that this is the start of a tome on liberty versus government, it is not. It is [...]
The important business of the day seems to get swept under the rug when something comes up that is so inane that everyone can agree upon the fact that it really doesn’t need to be adopted – except for the Congress.
A new law, concerning P2P file operations, is coming up in the House, and might [...]
In another one of those times when change occurs, and some of us are not willing to go along, I must admit that I don’t think that ICANN becoming an entity of the world, instead of a subsidiary of the Commerce Department, is a good idea.
I also have to say, I really did not think [...]
It’s out now. We can see the unvarnished truth. The entire story of how the nation that invented the internet (no matter who you give the greatest credit to) became the land of low speed, and lower penetration by population, than other countries, once considered backwards.
from Betanews
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better [...]
No, this is not suddenly a sports column, but sometimes sports metaphors, or analogies, make for easy explanations, and a brevity not otherwise possible.
After having a discussion with someone I know (they would call it an argument, but I simply call it a discussion, because i never raised the level of my voice, and was [...]
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