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Feds lift ban on IBM

From the AP: The government has lifted a week-old ban that prevented I.B.M. from getting new federal contracts in exchange for an agreement from the company to drop its protest of an $84 million Environmental Protection Agency contract it lost last year. ...

Tags: Protest, Ban, IBM Corp., Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-06

Students, staff rebel at universities' ban on Skype

In a dispute over network security, students and staff at two California universities are challenging administrators' bans on Skype, the eBay-owned VoIP phone service, reports The Mercury News. San Jose State University has delayed an outright ban on Skype due to an outcry from its students and staff. Restrictions...

Tags: ban, Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-09-25

You, Mr. Bank Customer! Halt! Very slowly, drop that cell phone

Bruce Schneier makes a really good point about banks that are apparently instituting bans on cell phones in the name of security: This is just plain dumb. It's easy to get around the ban: a Bluetooth earpiece is inconspicuous enough. Or a couple of earbuds that look like...

Tags: bank, ban, cell phone, telephone

Blog posts 2006-08-04

Additional Resources

Auto Clear Cookies 2.1.2.6 (Windows)

Auto Clear Cookies is a powerful cookies cleaner which enables you to wipe cookies from a single website or domain name, or purge all browser cookies from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. If you are tired of deleting all your cookies when you want to clear the cookies of just...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Clear, Cookie, Super MP3 Download, Auto Clear Cookies

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers

Maybe "law" can become a GDP driverNow that America has seen virtually every domestic industry go down the toilet, maybe it can provide law services to the rest of the world.If this self-righteous lawsuit is any indication, the is no need to fear the loss of American innovation and savvy;...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, EULA, Microsoft Corp., cheater, contractual obligation, terms of service, law firm, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?

If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...

Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Windows NT, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Politician wants Twitter banned from use by....wait for it -- politicians!

I'd rather see them ban lobbyists...If there is anything that affects the quality of their service to the public, it's not Twitter. It's lobbyists. I say let them use Twitter all the time and ban lobbyists instead.Twitter abuseNot trying to put politicians and football players in the same category, but...

Tags: Social networking, James 3, Twitter Inc., Twitter Banned

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Real Clear Cookies 3.1.1.2 (Windows)

Real Clear Cookies, a powerful cookies cleaner, allows you to clear all browser cookies from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, or wipe cookies from a single website or domain name, all with the click of a button. Real Clear Cookies is much helpful if a website or forum has banned...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Clear, Cookie, EasyMP3Downloader

Software downloads 2009-11-18

CrushFTP 5.0.4 (Mac)

CrushFTP handles FTP, SFTP SSH FTP, FTPS FTP over SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, and WebDAV SSL. WebDAV allows you to use the OS X Finder to connect to the server and work on it as if it were another hard drive on your machine. Read, write, rename. all with WebDAV....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, WebDAV, Ben Spink, Web Site Development, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-18

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license

Tar and feather them nt ;-)ntYeah - they made good on GPL2 - tar them anyway!It's Microsoft - hurt them even when they do admit their errors and make good on them!Seriously Dude, see a shrink!A tad serious?Lighten up a bit - a shrink? I will put my mental health...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, tool, Microsoft Windows 7, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Eric Schmidt on whether Google is getting evil

I Am A Victim of EvilHere is evil to me.I cannot stop Google from spamming me...or at least one of their Google Groups.A while back I bought an Ubuntu mini 9 from Dell.It was great.I loved it.It got stolen by some druggos while I was using it at Westlake plaza...

Tags: E-mail, Spam, Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., Evil, Google Groups, motto

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live

Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...

Tags: Game players, Linux, Games, EULA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, hardware functionality, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Apple bans bobble head Congress app

There are few people in this country more desserving of ridicule......than politicians.A couple of observations from Rasmussen:"Only four percent (4%) of voters say most politicians keep their campaign promises. Forty-five percent (45%) believe they deliberately make false promises to get elected.""Voters by more than two-to-one think high congressional reelection rates...

Tags: Smart phones, U.S. Congress, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iDont

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Apple bans bobble head Congress app

Apple has banned an app from the App Store that depicts our members of congress as bobble head caricatures. Not because the app put them in compromising positions or contained foul language, violence (or god help us, nudity) but because it "ridicules" them. Really? ...

Tags: U.S. Congress, Apple Inc., App, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-10

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Mama don't let your babies grow up to use Windows.Make 'em use Macitosh, Linux and such.RE: It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)Awww she is cute! Congratulations Chris!bring her to real sportsCongratulations Chris. Now please trash that Wiifit and make her do real sports. Babies can start with...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Leadership, Strategy, Penelope

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

EPA takes next step toward regulating greenhouse gases in U.S.

CO2 a Pollutant?G'day,The EPA claims CO2 is detrimental to human health. What a lot of bovine excrement! Without CO2, we all die, full stop! There is quantified evidence that if the concentration of CO2 was doubled, it would lead to a temperature increase of 0.5 to 0.75% max.CO2 currently...

Tags: greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05