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Google colors their ads for Gay Pride week

Google colors their ads for Gay Pride weekAbsolutely SICKENING!homosexuality & lesbianism as well as all forms of pornographry is what has placed this once great God fearing nation right down the toilet. The rainbow was a promise from God unto Noah that he would not destroy the earth by water...

Tags: Google Inc., Gay Pride, Gay Pride week, gay brother, homosexuality, Christ, sin, sister, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Reader: I was denied a $200 iPhone refund- twice

A reader of this blog- whose email orgin URL as a Stanford University alumni strongly implies high intelligence- writes me after being unable to collect what she was told was $200 refund for paying $599 for a $399 iPhone. We report, you decide: Been interesting, this...

Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Refund, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Explaining disconnect between women, video games

Explaining disconnect between women, video gamesNice theory, but wrong I thinkI think the real reason why women don't play video games is that there's something obsessive about playing a game for hours and hours, and women are not obsessive. Men generally are. Take role-playing games such as Morrowind: there's not...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Games, women, game, sister, video game, video

Discussion threads 2006-06-10

Additional Resources

Wikipedia mystery: Who was improving Palin's entry?

Check out the change log on Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page.(The photo on the left is her in 1984, placing No. 2 in the Miss Alaska competition. On the right, as governor.) NPR reported yesterday that an unidentified Wiki user made at least 30 changes to Palin's...

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-30

Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000

Seriously! A copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for just over $16 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars. Bargain! I know I sometimes bitch on about Microsoft as being as evil as an al-Qaeda suggestion box, but this time they've excelled themselves. I got a press-release through a couple of...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?

Welcome to the week that is the Democratic National Convention followed by another one with the Republican National Convention. We'll get coverage out the wazoo with a heavy dose of the technology implications from our sister site and parent, News.com and CBS News, respectively. While the technology policies of Barack...

Tags: VP, Policy, Strategy, Regulations, Management, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond

Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...

Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Get kids to touch type!

Get kids to touch type!Two finger typing works.After years of it, one can attain a good speed. So long as the lights are not turned out. We are now in the interim before speech software is ready to replace the keyboard for many purposes. Though transcribing the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, rtf, computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

How do you get rid of tech junk?

How do you get rid of tech junk?Hehehe:-)dibs on your next future systemyeah!Donate itThere a number of websites if you do a quick Google search on where you can donate your old PC's to various charities and schools. You can also take it to a local Goodwill or Salvation...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, auction

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows

It's an unlikely pairing: security officials and underground hackers. Every year, they make peace and share information at Defcon, Black Hat's sister conference. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 16th annual event that begins in Las Vegas this weekend. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Video, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows

It's an unlikely pairing: security officials and underground hackers. Every year, they make peace and share information at Defcon, Black Hat's sister conference. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 16th annual event that begins in Las Vegas this weekend.

Tags: hacker, hacking, security

Videos 2008-08-11

The cleantech bubble--true or false?

There is a serious cleantech investment bubble in the making. That's the view of an opinionator on our sister site, CNET. Steve Tobak warns, they're blowing smoke, and smoke gets in your eyes. A counter view--from an involved cleantech VC--is that there is much more to be done,...

Tags: clean technology, steve tobak, harry fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-07

FCC's Comcast ruling: Not unreasonable

FCC's Comcast ruling: Not unreasonableSome bandwidth management neededAlthough totally blocking content is wrong, even though some of it is probably illegal content. The IP is not trying to police content but rather provide a equal experience for all of its customers with a limited amount of bandwidth. Maybe, broadband providers...

Tags: Federal government, Comcast Corp., FCC

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUs

PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUsError?That just happens to favor the marketshare leader? The same marketshare leader that is up on antitrust violations in several places across the globe?Doesn't seem likely. But perhaps I'm too cynical.RE: PCMark 2005 memory benchmark favors Intel CPUsIt is a mistake to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Chipsets, Processors, Microsoft Windows XP, PCMark 2005 memory benchmark, PCMark 2005, memory benchmark, Intel CPUS, Intel Corp., BAPCo, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

The magic commoditizing virtual machine manager

I recently noticed VMware's second free hypervisor, a commentary by Gordon Haff of CNET (one of ZDnet's sister companies). He offered an interesting analysis of VMware's recent move to make it's embedded ESX Server available at no charge starting on July 28. I'd like to add a few thoughts of...

Tags: Revenue, Xen, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-28

COPA is unconstitutional

COPA is unconstitutionalgovernment censorshipNow that Andrew Cuomo AG NY has had most of the ISP's Eliminate ALT* Bineries newsgroups. Does this action, which is like finding a book in the library and burning down the complete facility . Eliminate Cuomo's actions and allow the ISP's to again carry ALT Bineries...

Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista

Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Got diabetes? Connect!

Got diabetes? Connect!Took a look around...Lots of 404 errors when clicking on story links.Maybe I'll try back later. IF I remember...TuDiabetes.com: the first social network for people touched by diabetesI wanted to encourage readers of this article to also consider joining TuDiabetes.com, a social network for people touched by...

Tags: Social networking, TuDiabetes.com

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Web 3.0 - the future of social networking

Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...

Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-08

The Steve Jobs Premium

This is a sidebar to The Steve Jobs Standard. It was about the simplest shopping list one could imagine: an audio cable to connect my iPod to the Bose stereo in the family room. My search on the online Apple Store yielded only...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-30