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- What's hot, what's not, in energy land
- What's hot? Wind says the MSM and all the ads being sponsored by former oilman T. Boone Pickens. Pickens is going to get lots of play because he can spend lots of money. You may have seen some of his ads. Pickens...
- Tags: U.S., Clean Technology, Natural Gas, Pickens, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballots
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballotsI was unaware my vote was suppost to be secretWhat a great thing if votes were secret. But I was unaware that it was so. I have always assumed that at least the government knew my voting record just as I know the voting record of my...
- Tags: Government, ballot, e-voting, E-voting predicament
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Was HP's traceable "PattyMail" spyware? You decide
- If youve been following the HP privacy scandal at all, then youd know that HP resorted to or considered resorting to several techniques in hopes of smoking out whoever it was that was leaking information from its boardroom to the press. While pretexting -- fraudulently obtaining phone records by means...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., e-mail, spyware, PattyMail
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- HP hearing underway: House reps cover their asses while slamming HP
- The HP hearing is underway right now. You can tune in to the hearing here, but RealPlayer is required (I didnt have it, so I got a late start). Ive turned on my recorder and will podcast what Ive captured later. But to summarize what Im hearing so far...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
- EFF: Obscure bill could turn cache into cash for music biz
- Since earlier this summer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting out the equivalent of a red alert about some language that it says has been snuck into an obscure copyright bill -- language that the EFF says could smash Internet fair use. According to the warning:The entertainment industry has...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Apple patent covers wireless iTunes distribution
- Apple patent covers wireless iTunes distributionpatents out of controlThese days, every time I hear one of these "patents" I laugh. Somehow people seem to feel that in a technical context, any new combination is an invention. I beg to differ.Marking something so you can remember it later has been around...
- Tags: patent, Apple Inc., wireless, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Net neutrality vote: the cost in human terms
- That's the most current list of campaign contributors to U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), chair of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. Right next to that list, is a photo of blogger Britt Bravo, who notes on a BlogHer post that her Mom left...
- Tags: Britt Bravo, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Want net neutrality? Think about who you vote for
- I believe that most of you are in favor of an unfettered Internet, where broadband Internet service providers should not grant greater speeds, impose lesser speeds, or fee-type impediments toward large bandwidth content or service providers who won't sign partnership agreements.While I do agree with you, I question whether...
- Tags: broadband, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Microsoft mobile OS lands biggest-ever deal
- Microsoft mobile OS lands biggest-ever dealAnother HomeRun for MSNow, post your whines and rants below...M$ bribed againIn a real contest Linux beats windoze CE or Symbian hands down.Now just watch for flawed data!Well, I imagine the MS gave the OS away to get the contract.They are desperate to get penetration...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Windows-Everywhere, Microsoft Corp., operating system, phone
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- 'Guilty' plea in largest-ever piracy case
- 'Guilty' plea in largest-ever piracy casefunny[i]"The pair, Ye Teng Wen, 30, and Hao He, 30.."[/i]When are these guys going to finally adopt more American sounding names, like Bob or George?When I attempt to say these dudes' names I feel like I'm attempting to speak while laughing and having a mild...
- Tags: Sales strategy, music industry, largest-ever piracy case, CD, piracy case, real name, plea, music, piracy
- Discussion threads 2006-04-03
- Suffering in silence with data leaks
- Suffering in silence with data leaksIt's all a matter of moneyUntil it costs a business more to fix breaches than it does their security, nothing will happen.The way most businesses look at this is simple: it costs me a little bad PR Public Relations if we have a break-in. I...
- Tags: Sales channel, bad-PR, Capital One Financial Corp., credit card, security breach, security, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2006-03-29
- Mad about DRM techs or the DMCA? Here's the fastest way to let your Congressperson know
- So, are you sick of and tired of C.R.A.P. my own acronym for DRM or digital restrictions management technology? Do you feel like Hollywood, the record industry, and the government have gone too far with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act? Do you want to see broadcast flag legislation...
- Tags: Home Recording Rights Coalition, Home, Home Recording
- Blog posts 2006-03-13
- FTC says federal spam law has worked
- FTC says federal spam law has workedI think USA sc*w*d itselfI got an email from a USA site I'd swapped links with announcing it had a new owner and exciting plans for the future.Then I got an apology email from them, saying that the email list came from a previous...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, e-mail, spam, spammer, FTC
- Discussion threads 2005-12-20
- For Pete's sake, stop the patent madness now! The NTP vs. RIM case MUST wait.
- I'm in the process of writing up my review of an interview with Research in Motion RIM president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. It appears as though RIM, maker of the infamous BlackBerry wireless mobile messaging devices, is near the end of its legal rope in a patent...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, NTP
- Blog posts 2005-12-08
- Tech firms assail proposed broadband rules
- Tech firms assail proposed broadband rulesBuilding a fire under me.You know I just gotta ask, why is Congress listening to tech companies at all? Do us a favor Mr. Congressperson, listen to the people that elected you, not the ones lining your pockets."It is time to legislate."Translation:...
- Tags: broadband rule, broadband
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
- Hate spyware? Of course you do: so why are you a Libertarian?
- A lot of techies I've known have been Libertarians. They would define their ideology as freedom in the boardroom, the boudoir, as well as online.I've always attributed the Libertarian-technologist Nexus to the undeniable fact that the machinations of government work too slow for technologists. Writing code and alpha'ing release 4.08...
- Tags: Libertarian
- Blog posts 2005-05-25
- IBM and Sun: Using the system vs. beating it
- Through Technorati, I was led to a quickly sprouting tree of threads regarding my recent commentary on Sun's 1,600 patent deal, and then my colleague Dana Blankenhorn's follow-up to that. First, I think I was able to follow all of the various branches to their ends and want...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., patent
- Blog posts 2005-02-03
- Rep. Barton to VoIP providers: you shouldn't have to pay into Universal Service fund
- The FCC's $5 billion Universal Service Fund funnels money from traditional phoneservice subscribers, throughstandard phonecompanies, and then to a kitty that subsidizesphone service torural areas and poor households.The program makes social and business sense. The poor are sometimes transient, a fact thatincreases service churn and resulting overhead.With low populationdensity and...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2004-12-04
- Homeland Security--Throwing money at technology (page 2)
- Homeland Security--Throwing money at technology (page 2)The Navy's $436 hammerThis old canard keeps coming back and back and back again.The real story about the hammer and the coffeepot goes back, as all political roads to, to the feet of Congress.From an old accounting text book comes the real story. ...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial accounting, hammer, U.S. Congress, homeland security
- Discussion threads 2004-10-18
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