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Solar cycles, weather and climate

Solar cycles, weather and climateThere we go...That's all I really wanted to see... some alternatives to the hyped/politicized CO2 warming theory. Solar output has never been studied in the long-term, and only as a earth-warming possibility in the last 10-20 years. There really is no known measurement for...

Tags: policy implication, carbon dioxide, radiation

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Additional Resources

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac

Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacWell, Linux just works too. McCains campain was like going to Win3.1NT.RE: Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacHmmm. Linux "just works" if you're a Linux head. thanks for reading,David MorgensternLinuxWell we can call Cynthia Green a Suse, Ralph Nader...

Tags: Desktops, OK Windows, Obama, Apple Macintosh, Clinton Campaign, Newsweek, PC

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

So about that election

So about that electionwhat are you talking about?While the elitists and the teenagers are 'voting online' and blogging about marxist ideeas, we the real Americans are voting and taking this country in right direction.Tonight, I'll be watching TV and enjoy how Mac comes back and grabs the election from that...

Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UACEd, You RockExcellent article; thanks a bunch.RE: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UACFinally! A journalist that spends time telling us how to make our vista experience better instead of endlessly trashing it.So many journalists think they are providing some "value" by telling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UAC, Taming UAC, Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Money, Politics and Energy: Menage That Screws the American Consumer

I don't think anybody is naive enough these days to think that the future of green tech or alternative energy is based on fair competition in some imaginery free marketplace. Don't we all know that economic competition in America, and elsewhere, is heavily weighted in favor of those with...

Tags: Green Technology, Dollar, NREL, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Standards, antitrust and Microsoft

Standards, antitrust and MicrosoftMS Documentation has been poor or incomplete"Microsoft provides all the information necessary for outside developers(! developers!! developers!!!) to make their products."Simply not true. Significant portions have not been documented, including APIs used by MS for some of their software products. Actually spawned a "Undocumented Win32" industry.Even when...

Tags: Quality, Corporate law, HTML, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., API, antitrust, MS Documentation

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Attracting high-skilled immigrants

Attracting high-skilled immigrantsfunnyWhen u say "We need to be prepared to be an active competitor in a global marketplace" about USA, it is more funny from Europe.I agreeBut I'm actually in favor of abolishing H1-B outright and instead making it easier to get a green card.CorrectionsYou wrote:H1-B visas are pegged...

Tags: H-1B visa, H-1B, immigrant

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

Revealed: Comcast Digital Voice's policy for customer records requests from law enforcement

An internal Comcast document entitled Comcast's Handbook for Law Enforcement reveals the manner in which the cable and broadband giant keeps phone records of its Comcast Digital Voice customers. Not only does a look at this document reveal those matters, but it also...

Tags: Phone, Comcast Corp., Voice, NeuStar Inc., Handbook, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Open source is apolitical

Open source is apoliticalIs it?I suppose one can imagine anything, but the idea of a government at this point trying to outlaw the GPL seems incredible.After all, the GPL works in every country I'm aware of. Wouldn't that country risk an awful lot?Open Source is not a political entityAnyone can...

Tags: operating system, open source, Open Source IS

Discussion threads 2007-08-24

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me.Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today.Dan Farber: Now you’ve spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley. What made you decide to go into...

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Blog posts 2007-06-19

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you’ve spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Network, Student, Computer Science, Institution, Technology, Computer, Campus, Berkeley, Productivity, Networking, Wireless, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-06-19

'Vote Different' maker steps forward, loses job

Ariana Huffington was about to out Philip de Vellis - a designer with the firm that created Barack Obamas website - as the creator of the infamous Vote Different YouTube video, which mashes up Apples 1984 ad with Hillary Clintons own campaign imagery to create a compelling...

Tags: job, advertisement, Vellis

Blog posts 2007-03-23

Microsoft wins in second Alcatel-Lucent patent suit

Microsoft wins in second Alcatel-Lucent patent suitMicrosoft wins in second Alcatel-Lucent patent suitGreat victory for Microsoft and everyone else that uses the mp3 format! This ruling plus the one that will be overturned in the appeals court means everyone can listen to mp3s safely. You all should be...

Tags: Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft WINS, MP3, patent office, patent suit, Unisys Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-02

Gmail information added to personalization engine?

Gmail information added to personalization engine?see the privacy policy:[i]Gmail stores, processes and maintains your messages, contact lists and other data related to your account in order to provide the service to you. When you use Gmail, Google's servers automatically record certain information about your use of Gmail. Similar to other...

Tags: E-mail providers, search technology, Google Gmail, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

On "PattyMail" disclosure, ZDNet to lead by example

As cliche as it sounds, my father always impressed upon me that actions speak louder than words. So, this is a blog post about the transparent action that ZDNet is willing to take in the name of both Internet and privacy advancement. Last Friday, I posted two blogs regarding the...

Tags: e-mail, HTML, PattyMail

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Study: Vista could create 50,000 jobs in Europe

Study: Vista could create 50,000 jobs in EuropeThis money doesn't come from nowhere...I note that this report ignores the financial drain on companies that will be buying all of this new software and hardware that is supposed to be creating those 50,000 jobs. Now if the companies were to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft stock, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., job

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

NSA wiretapping unconstitutional

NSA wiretapping unconstitutionalNSA and UnconstitutionalityIts good to know that the American judicial system is, even if ever so gradually, waking up to its traditional role as custodian and interpreter of the nation's constitution. Its about time judges got commited to the responsibility of their appiontments and abandon political sycophancy...

Tags: SECURITY, NSA, attack, American Civil Liberties Union

Discussion threads 2006-08-17

Apple thwarted in bid to unmask leaker

Apple thwarted in bid to unmask leakerOUTSTANDING!!! Unless you are Steve Jobs;-)Apple still suing its supporters?... at least it is consistent. Anyway, congratulations AppleInsider!Small Jobs with big Stalin's paranoia – "Enemies everywhere". No cure. NTNTApple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo etcApple is just one of many tech companies that pretend to...

Tags: Apple Inc., Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2006-05-26

National ID - meeting the agenda through other means

As I said yesterday, the data and processes needed for a token based replacement for a national ID card system are in place. What's needed is the token technology itself and the political will to implement it - both of which should evolve over the next few years. Meanwhile billions...

Tags: Network technology, American Web

Blog posts 2005-12-14

Wait on Vista? That depends...

Wait on Vista? That depends...Blindly "up"gradingJust because something new comes out is no reason to jump in with both feet. I agree with you about old version of Windoze - they were seriously broken and you just needed to "get the hell out of there". But if you ask some...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2005-11-16