It doesn’t take much to bring out the true nature of the Republican party anymore. Many of them feel that because the President has not been able to fix 8 years of a descent into hell in less than 1 year, he must be an ineffectual snore. (If only their perceptions had not been so [...]
Did I just say that? I certainly hope i doesn’t come true. I do wonder it though.
Today, Palin’s book begins to be sold while already being considered at number one. Though the mainstream “gotcha” media, as she would put it, always tries to marginalize her ability to rally people to her cause, I see an [...]
In an amazing turn of events, the MPAA has managed to shut down the municipal wi-fi network in a small city in Ohio. In what might be called the most outrageous event in that state since Kent State in 1970, another egregious miscarriage of justice has occurred.
The slashdot article references another article in boingboing -
“The [...]
They certainly don’t at Microsoft, or at the U.S Patent Office.
Over at slashdot a story tells about the Microsoft move to patent a command, SUDO, that has been running on computer hardware since 1980, and was originally run on a VAX minicomputer.
The people at the US Patent Office apparently have no clue about software, which [...]
I make absolutely no excuses for voting for the current President. I believe that if John McCain had become the top executive, we would be further embroiled in an inexcusable, unwinnable war.
The President is a learned man, which is why I thought we could trust him to correctly interpret what has occurred in Afghanistan over [...]
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 [...]
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