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- Flight attendants call for ban of WiFi porn in the skies.
- I kind of laughed out loud when I heard this morning that flight attendants, concerned about the arrival of in-flight WiFi, are calling for a ban on passengers watching pornography in the skies. Why laugh? Because I've never been an HBO subscriber, I had never seen The Sopranos - so,...
- Tags: Flight, Drunk, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Murphy's law, or why WinTel wins
- My former co-blogger here, Paul Murphy, has a very nice piece out today comparing the costs of running Windows and Linux in corporate computing. (Here's a book on that you can buy.) The bottom line is you're paying roughly a 50% tax (you spend 64% of what...
- Tags: Wintel, Paul Murphy, SUV, Murphy, Drunk, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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- 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
- Open source be not proud
- microsoft over java???hardly.Ellison should use GPL v3 for mysqland commit 1 billion dollars to it.This deal will sail through and everyone will be happy.It is a pyramid schemeFor a long time open source companies were only "profitable" because their perceived value.MySQL is a very good example of this. They sold...
- Tags: Databases, open source, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Health reform now in Senate hands
- RE: Health reform now in Senate handsThis bill mandates individuals to purchase health care. If they refuse, they get fined or go to jail. Blatantly unconstitutional... when will America say "enough is enough" with these idiots in Washington defecating all over the Constitution? The problem with...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Abortion, cAO, Obamacare, health care, Health Reform, U.S. Senate, abortion
- 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
- Kidneys do not like those chip and diet soda lunches
- yessss i dont drink soda beer is good for kidney :) yes.... now must find a replacement for the chips ....shrimp in cocktail sauce BBq meat with chipotle sauce sourdough bread with topingbagel chip yes bagel chip they are not fried they are oven cook ... i...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Fast-Food, beverage, soda, chip, wine
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- WSJ challenges NFL's ridiculous policy by live-blogging game
- NFL is Not AloneThe SEC sent out a similar message banning twitter, blogging, cellphone videos etc from football games. Good luck enforcing that in a stadium filled with 90,000 mostly drunk Florida and Georgia fans. Won't be a problem in Arkansas though. :)link http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/sec-new-media-policy/Sorry but you've got...
- Tags: Games, NFL, game
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless
- Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...
- Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Altec Lansing Mix iMT800
- Back in the 1980s, when portable audio was synonymous with "cassette tapes," boom boxes were a mainstay of music culture. While luggable, battery-powered speaker systems still exist today, they tend to be somewhat dainty iPod speakers. Altec Lansing's $300 Mix iMT800, meanwhile, aims to mix and match the best of...
- Tags: Engineering, Digital music, Digital media, Altec Lansing, battery, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone
- Product reviews 2009-09-18
- Virtual Strip Poker 4.0 (Windows)
- Zoom, cheat and more in this unique strip poker game featuring numerous popular internet models. Players can also mark the deck, get their opponent drunk and perform "Super Cheats" to ensure a win. Additional opponents may be downloaded from the website: www.vsp-poker.com Customers can also make their own opponent modules...
- Tags: Opponent, VSP Interactive, Internet, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-08-25
- Email paranoia and the out-of-office subculture
- I think the issue with email is that people dont know when to stop.They send me one email about one subject, then forward me an email about another, then another about something else. If they just sent me one email with questions about all three, i would have alot...
- Tags: e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Back to school goes cheap: Here comes another round of Mac vs PC
- RDF AlertMaybe it's time to start living within the past 5 years."So instead, I opted to pay the premium price for a machine that doesn?t crash, doesn?t come to a crawl with multiple programs open and doesn?t just randomly disconnect from the WiFi network."Nor does any PC that I've had...
- Tags: Desktops, Wi-Fi, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., FUD, PC, Back-to-School, Here Come
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Stars are aligning to ban U.S. drivers from text messaging
- Stars are aligning to ban U.S. drivers from text messagingStars should keep their mouths shut.They're a bad example to all of us anyway. What do they show really? That marriage means nothing? That it's ok to be idolized for not having achieved zip? fff.I'm burned out on stars giving me...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Sarkozy, text messaging, car
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?
- FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?Regulation is not micromanagement"At some point, the FCC meddles in free markets. It will micromanage."Clearly you think more about business than you do about government. Or maybe you're just conservative, politically, and ideological to a fault.This is about the public's interest...
- Tags: Federal government, FCC, proactive stance
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Texting while driving increases collision risk 23 times, don't do it
- Common sense lets us know that texting while driving is dangerous and many states and countries have outlawed this activity to help those with little common sense. We have seen one study recently where texting was found to be more dangerous than drunk driving and now the New York Times...
- Tags: Collision, Strategy, Security, Management, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Drunk Dial 1.0 (Mobile)
- Give a quick flick for a random drink or browse through it for a specific one, and tap the star to add it to the favorites. Check off the available spirits and mixers to find suggestions for those ingredients or use the ingredient list while at the liquor store to...
- Tags: Mobile, Beverage, Genetic Mistakes, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2009-07-21
- The coffee cure for memory loss
- The coffee cure for memory lossUnfortunately, these things tend to by cyclictoday's panacea is tomorrows thing to be avoided at all costs. Over my lifetime, I have seen at least 3 such reversals about coffee, and the caffeine that it contains.I also have evidence, though for you it might be...
- Tags: memory loss
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- California not politically bankrupt
- California not politically bankruptInterstate CommerceActions like this really blow my mind. The Federal Government abuses the Commerce Clause to uniformly regulate nearly all products that 'can' or 'may' be sold across state lines. Why do they now decide to not enforce uniformity?To me this is just another example...
- Tags: Quality, car, standards, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Microsoft wants students for Office 2010 test
- Microsoft wants students for Office 2010 testLook who is talking about getting something right...What "facts" are you going to fabricate while drunk next, Zack?My suggestion to you is to not blog about anything MS related. Didn't [b]this[/b] teach you a lesson...?http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=1832To be honest with you I am surprised that...
- Tags: Office 2010, Microsoft WANTS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
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