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- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- How to read your FBI file
- As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...
- Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension
- Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension$10 million dollars? Really?I'm in the wrong freakin business. A Firefox plugin that creates a document is worth $10 million dollars. Sheesh. Give them the injunction, but the money is a bit excessive. Now if you excuse me, I...
- Tags: EndNote Styles, open-source citation extension, Thomson Reuters Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Every little bit counts in green tech: Some data about notebook battery habits
- Every little bit counts in green tech: Some data about notebook battery habitsEdit, please.Please check the second sentence of the article. It took a while to figure out, but I think you meant, "...computer users would be willing..."
- Tags: notebook battery habit, notebook battery, green technology, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Defense-in-depth in practice
- A long portion of my career in information security was spent as a security consultant. I would come into an engagement and either analyze data or an architecture and provide recommendations to the client on improvements they could make in their security posture. Maybe 9 times out of...
- Tags: Layer, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- iPhone 3G experiences
- iPhone 3G experiencesUSER ERROR?[i]Sounds like USER ERROR to me.[/i]What happened to intuitive? What happened to USER EXPERIENCE? Why is it that whenever anyone fails to use an Apple product properly, it is USER ERROR but whenever anyone fails to use a competitor product properly, it is because the product isn't...
- Tags: Keyboards, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple iPhone, USER Error
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Can Google out-cool Apple?
- Can Google out-cool Apple?It will be interesting to see......what happens when the phone is physically in stores. I think all of this geek talk will go out the window. It doesn't take a geek to pick up the phone, play around with it for a minute and see that its...
- Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, OPEN SOURCE, COOLNESS, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Google Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Tags: pink slip, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with Google
- T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with GoogleMore detailsIs it 3G? Does it support TMobile @Home service?Turn an average article into something differentby by simply attaching the often used, albeit over-used nomenclature: [i]iPhone Killer[/i]RE: T-Mobile announces iPhone killer: G1 with GoogleThe link gives a page not found???Do you know if...
- Tags: 3G, Telecom & Utilities, WIRELESS, T-Mobile, Apple iPhone, iPhone Killer, Google Inc., phone, @Home
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Talk a Lot Spoken English Course Elementary Book 2 (zip)
- Talk a Lot is a great new way to learn spoken English, and quite a departure from the standard ELT course book. Instead of spending hours reading and writing, students have the opportunity to engage in challenging and fun speaking and listening activities with their friends. On this course students...
- Tags: Student, English Banana, Course Objective
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotype
- Microsoft: I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotypeOf course you don't get itYou're not the target audience.Carl RapsonI wouldn't expect you to get itYou're a Mac user... You have to have an IQ at least this high GEDDIT!It's actually quite nice to see MS taking the high...
- Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture"Ate wheatiness..." is obscureHow long since the ad campaign about Breakfast of Champions(?), with the cereal having the effect of spinach on Popeye. (And how many younger people know of Popeye?)The use in connection with "serialization" is clever, but seems a stretch in...
- Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., hardware, System 38, microcode, IBM AS/400, database
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- What Microsoft gives you for free
- It's not often you can put "Microsoft" and "free" in the same sentence, but they do do no jokes surprisingly a lot which is free. Students have been able to use DreamSpark for a while now, but it's still not very well publicised. I wrote about DreamSpark back at the...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Your capacity will vary
- Your capacity will varyA "wordo"I dictated the first draft of the article, and while the software is pretty good about not misspelling words, if it gets the wrong word it can be hard to spot. Like "desk" for "disk". Thanks for noting it.Robinhours of ten?Should it be "powers of ten"?If...
- Tags: Storage, RAID
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...
- Tags: INTERNET, RIM BlackBerry, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Windows 7 hits Milestone 3
- Windows 7 hits Milestone 3Careful with the generalizations there, kid, you'll put your eye out - NTNTNowHe is starting to sound like Mike Cox :) More euforic and less incorrect facts.God save us allstability, scalability, reliability, security, and robustness? How can you use any of those words in the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Milestone 3, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Apex DT250
- The analog-to-digital transition is coming February 17, which means owners of analog TVs will need to pony up for a DTV converter box if they want to continue getting their free over-the-air TV. Luckily, the box shouldn't cost too much, as anyone affected can apply for a $40 DTV converter...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, power button, Apex DT250, Apex, digital television, converter box, TV
- Product reviews 2008-09-11
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Tags: Web servers, Servers, Web service, server, Web server, Murph, Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
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