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- Why Real ID is a flawed idea
- Why Real ID is a flawed ideaIDs and privacyI'm not up on the tecnical aspects, but why couldn't a "smart" card either allow access to only part of a data base or one of separate data bases, e.g. allow access to driver's license info, but not social security info, etc?They...
- Tags: Identity theft, Government, Operational accounting, federal government, flawed idea, REAL ID, Social Security
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
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- Chrome OS: More questions than answers?
- Chrome OS, while a brilliant idea, could be horrendously flawed. There seem to be more questions than answers at this stage. Why? by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Question, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- The emergency room myth busted
- ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- My new daughter is a lot like Linux
- Windoze is a boys smelly diaper, Linux is a girls one, that's the messageI guess some people will never be mature enough to get it.Handling the learning curve...is not very hard. Particularly when you let them use the simple Gnome user interface which the standard Ubuntu has.Maybe this website of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, diaper
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona
- Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal
- Opera"Browser rivals to register official complaints about Microsoft's ballot screen proposal". . . and by "browser rivals" you really mean Opera, who has been whimpering and whining the whole time. A browser that barely appears on anybody's charts, but still retains a cult following.I think Microsoft is improving with IE7...
- Tags: Web browsers, ballot screen, Web browser, Opera Software ASA, ballot screen proposal, Microsoft Corp., official complaint
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Washington: lots of talk about global warming
- Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Was Windows 7 totally your idea?
- W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...
- Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Technology is great, it's us that's flawed!
- Can you put the window up after the ignition is turned off?Just a guess - my vehicle has a feature that allows me to raise or lower the windows after the ignition is turned off unless I open a door. It's convenient because I don't have to turn the...
- Tags: Construction, window, black box
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Will Wikipedia ever be legitimate?
- Probably not.As long as any twit can put their "two cents" in on a subject...it will never be legit.It's legitimate in that it's a good place to startWikipedia works best when being used for "non-legitimate" uses, meaning someone wants to find out something in general but don't want to research...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Google vs. Bing: The global battle
- Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Microsoft Word patent-infringement case: Playing chicken
- They will patchand then will try vigorously to render the offending patent invalid.i4i will become the next Eolas: irrelevant but with a lot of money from MS.If you don't infringe, then why do you care to provethe patent is invalid?Because a court does think you infringeDo you know what is...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, patent, I4i, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Microsoft to replace Entourage with Outlook. Nice idea but kind of too late
- exactly!Entourage is a really bad program compared to Apple Mail; Microsoft shot itself in the foot by forcing me to use Entourage and my response will be "see ya later!" when Snow Leopard comes out.In general, I think Office is essentially a dead program since people consumers buy it...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Groupware, Entourage, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Apple's not-so-secret tablet: Flawed from the start
- Apple's not-so-secret tablet: Flawed from the startMisconceived?I think your basic assumptions are wrong. The Tablet is likely to be a large format iPhone/iPod Touch rather than a small flat Mac.The two devices would be very different beasts!It might help if you knew something about what you were writing about.... Apple...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., not-so-secret tablet
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Apple/Microsoft sued over iPod/Zune controls
- Apple/Microsoft sued over iPod/Zune controlsWe know it's BS, but...finding 13 morons (12 jururs + 1 judge) to dupe isn't too tough. See Eolas.Apple and MS might set asidesome differences for a while and work together on this one.That would be ome big defense to contend with.Win, and get court costsThis...
- Tags: Digital music, Strategy, Microsoft Sued, Apple Inc., Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- We don't know what we don't know
- We don't know what we don't knowShock! I thought the debate was over...You mean we really don't know everything? You mean we have no idea why more and more reliable scientific studies show that we are currently in a global cooling trend? You mean we don't know why there has...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- Is Amazon really thinking of placing ads in Kindle e-books?
- Is Amazon really thinking of placing ads in Kindle e-books?patents???The fact that one can get patents for such things is absolutely sick. Say what?"The MediaPost blog entry implies that customers who buy a hard copy of the book would receive an ad-supported electronic version..."Isn't the whole reason behind buying a...
- Tags: E-books, e-book, advertisement, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Is Amazon really thinking of placing ads in Kindle e-books?
- The thing to remember about Amazon's Kindle DX is that it will set you back nearly $500 just to get your hands on one. With that said, there is a report this morning on MediaPost that Amazon may be considering advertisements in the e-books you read on...
- Tags: Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., MediaPost Blog Entry, E-books, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- iPhone executes SMS binary code as root
- iPhone executes SMS binary code as rootNo, iPhone is NOT UNIX basedWe all know that OS X [b]is[/b] UNIX certified.We also know that iPhone OS [b]is[/b] OS X.Therefore, iPhone OS isn't just UNIX based, it [b]is[/b] UNIX.Therefore, it is immune to all malware.At least I think that is how the...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Smart phones, Operating systems, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Unix, SMS, binary code, iPhone OS, Miller
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Why Windows 7 should be free
- Why Windows 7 should be freeAm I the only one who had zero problems with Vista?This issue has been debated thoroughly across zdnet, so I have no desire to rehash it. But I am still not convinced that Vista's problems are systemic...and I think they are more a PR issue....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
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