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Human Rights: An Inconvenient Truth

Human Rights: An Inconvenient TruthUS should standardize human rightsand then have everyone sign the document.You can't allow input from too many parties since this might end up with socialist rights like healtcare, education, or even worse 'habeas corpus' that would undermine our economy or the war on terror.I think we...

Tags: Inconvenient Truth, Human Rights

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Gore's crusade to halt global warming

Watch a trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth"The documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" offers a passionate look at one man's efforts to help save the planet from irrevocable change. That man is former Vice President Al Gore. See the trailer for the documentary, which opens in select theaters on June 2.

Tags: Inconvenient Truth

Videos 2006-06-01

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Perot: Making sure "everybody has access to the truth"

He doesn't "do a lot of Internet work." He's not on Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace. He's not an iPhone guy. He prefers to get "instant feedback from the people,'' from face-to-face contact and phone calls. But Ross Perot, now 77, is back and using...

Tags: Nominee, Ross Perot, Truth, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Palm Treo: The reviews are upbeat; Can a device turn Palm around?

Palm may have a hit on its hands with the Treo Pro judging from the recent spate of reviews as NDAs ended on Wednesday. The larger question is whether this pricey device can give the company a boost in the bottom line. To wit: ...

Tags: Device, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Treo Pro, QWERTY Keyboard, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidenceSo they are sueing someone with no money. LOLKnow what my insurance company told me when i was hit by a driver with no insurance, no job and was living with relatives.... "to bad for you" I was lucky, my mother insisted...

Tags: E-mail, Insurance, fool, RIAA

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

The role of media in the Internet age

The role of media in the Internet ageThe problem is simple and will never be correctedPrint media is dying because they are not much more than democrat-party house organs and people are tired of listening to "America sucks" stories that constitute their constant non-stop drivel.They'll never fix the problem because...

Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, stock price, stock, problem-I, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

The role of media in the Internet age

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...

Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practices

Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practicesOh this is going to be goodApple is going to have a tough time wiggling out of this one and MS have a great opportunity, ad-wise, to strongly differentiate themselves, not that they had any difficulty with that in the first place, but keying...

Tags: Printers, Psystar, Apple Inc., printer, Lexmark International Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front

Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing frontMarkets are based onDemand and Availability..Nobody needed a new OS at this stage.Nobody still does.. Ads won't change this.Plus for me.. i don't need fancy GUI tricks i could do 8 years ago under Enlightenment with X11 and Linux.There is no added...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Apple iPhone ad banned

Apple iPhone ad bannedBetter than the alternativesMy iPhone works as promised.My Macs are more reliable than my Windows boxes.In short, there are better options.Why anyone would buy anything from Apple...is beyond me. Especially the iPhone. It doesn't work as promised in sooooo many ways.i guess every iphone user is mad...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, iphone, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., advertisement, cellular company, phone, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2008-08-26

The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and security

The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and securityLovely Satan !It was around 90's when I 1st used Satan, those days were so much fun to me.Social Networks - Know your poisonI'm afraid that social networks won't do too much to fix their code - They want it as open as...

Tags: security, SATAN, social networking, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands

The Democratic convention gets started tonight and in the constant quest for the unconventional technological means of getting out the youth vote, the X-Box is today's "in" device. By itself, this may not be a big deal. There are about 12 million X-Box members around...

Tags: Presidential Election, Phone, Election, Cell Phone, X-Box, Democratic Convention, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-25

The ugly truth: Satan, social networks and security

Here's the simplest way to get arbitrary code execution in the browsers of millions of users -- ask for permission. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Social Networking, Black Hat, Network, App, MySpace, SocNets, SocNet, Security, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-25

5 Photosynths that let you jump into another world

5 Photosynths that let you jump into another worldPhotosynth is great, but..I was hoping to see it implemented in Silverlight. It will be a good promotion for SF plus other platforms will be supported too...But I still love it!Microsoft admitting the truth at last.Microsoft have finally realised their place. ...

Tags: Desktops, Photosynth, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

One-time scheduling of tasks with At

Scheduling services with cron and similar tools is great for repetitive tasks but inconvenient for one-time tasks. Vincent Danen introduces the flexible At command for tasks that only need to be accomplished once.

Tags: Task, Vincent Danen, Productivity

Download resources 2008-08-25

Mophie Juice Pack for iPod Touch

Packed with games, e-mail, Internet, music, and video, Apple's iPod Touch is one of the best portable time-wasting tools ever conceived, but its built-in battery isn't practical to recharge on-the-go. The Mophie Juice Pack ($99) offers power-hungry iPod Touch owners a stylish and practical means of doubling the device's battery...

Tags: Digital music, Engineering, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Mophie Juice Pack, Juice Pack, battery

Product reviews 2008-08-22

Red Hat (belatedly) confirms security breach

Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachthis is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!this is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!RE: Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachLOL!! What have I been saying all along? That linux is NOT secure and is NOT suitable for any purpose....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., security, Linux, security breach, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...

Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-08-22