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- Net neutrality fans lose on Capitol Hill
- Net neutrality fans lose on Capitol HillNuthin's ever neutralIt's the haves and the have mores..The rest of you are in a dumpster. :-)Not their networksThese companies were given millions in grants to build out these networks for everyone. I'm sick of companies like verizon complaining about internet sites using their...
- Tags: Corporate communications, INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, BellSouth Corp., Nuthin, Google Inc., telecommunications company, special pipe, Net Neutrality, network, video
- Discussion threads 2006-03-27
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- Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loom
- Flash 9 is already availableThe web browser is called SkyFire and Flash on it works very nicely.RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomI'll try not to do my banking on my cell phone.Problem solved!RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomWhat...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Flash 9, Apple iPhone, Flash Lite, smart phone, security headach, monoculture, Adobe Systems Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Linux as Wintel parasite
- You have some questionable ideas.If Microsoft hadn't happened, there still would have been the PC, there still would have been GUIs perhaps a more expensive IBM monopoly one, and there still would have been the opportunity for anyone such as Linus to write a free alternative.I think to even use...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Wintel, Linux, interrupt, parasite, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., hardware, Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2009-09-26
- Windows 7 customers still paying for Microsoft's Ultimate mistakes
- RE: Windows 7 customers still paying for Microsoft's Ultimate mistakesI'll stick with XP until they stop supporting it, or until I need a new pc, in which case I'll probably get Home basic or Premium.With what Ultimate cost meI'm not switching. Gouge me once, shame on you. Gouge me twice...Thats...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Win 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Rail--even more controversial than nuclear?
- Rail--even more controversial than nuclear?Sorry HarryYou're in the wrong place if you expect reasonable discussion based on facts. The majority of responders here start from ideology, not facts.Nuclear fission, of course, is still the same ideology that got us here in the first place. Use a scarce, incredibly...
- Tags: ideology, car, bus system
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Ed Tech in a recession
- Ed Tech in a recessionPlease explain?"Schools in my area cannot be part of the Library system as they are part of the County Government services."And the people who pay for this you and the other taxpayers are OK that this is how it is? Or is your library system...
- Tags: Ed Tech, recession, bandwidth
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?
- Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?UPGRADE YOUR NETWORK!You are certainly paid enough money to provide the services you are SUPPOSED to provide.If you can't, leave the business and let someone else step in. Please...RE: Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?Nope. Its still unreasonable. They are still taking an antiquated...
- Tags: INTERNET, Comcast Corp., Robb, QoS, Internet Engineering Task Force
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Can sites violate net neutrality?
- Can sites violate net neutrality?I would say .."not exactly"This isnt the same case of outright blocking as we all know and have come to love Comcast for doing...however this is adding a perceived "added-value" to an overpriced pipe. IF the ISP decided to tier this and add in a method...
- Tags: NETWORKING, ESPN360, network neutrality, network, Comcast Corp., Net Neutrality, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
- Update 07/16/2008: Apparently I neglected to mention that this has been patched already. Reading over it again and a heads up from a reader pointed out the error to me. As always, great job by Window Snyder and the Mozilla Security Team for getting this patched quickly. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, URI, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Attack, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...
- Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?
- Over the weekend I was sitting down looking at my DVD collection when had one of those "weekend ideas"Â - Would it be feasible to rip my entire DVD collection to hard disk? Like most "weekend ideas" it sounded like a good idea at the time. No more...
- Tags: Job, Disc, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-ray
- What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-rayRE: What format war? Just convert your HD DVDs to Blu-rayWhy convert? if you have the DVDs then you have the player right? just keep using itNo rush...Assuming one already owns an HD-DVD drive for their PC, there is no reason...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Blu-ray, HD-DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Crazy Beamz 1.04 (Windows)
- Crazy Beamz is an unique, highly addictive arcade/puzzle game using brilliant graphics and pulsating music. The game is even easy for kids to learn, but requires enough strategy to keep you hooked for hours. Blocks containing different numbers of vertical or horizontal pipes fall from the top of the screen....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Romucon, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-01-24
- Why DIDN'T the MacBook Air get the new 45nm CPU?
- Why DIDN'T the MacBook Air get the new 45nm CPU?George Ou thank you for once, for not bashing APPLE. Top 10 thing wrong with MacBook Air[url=http://apcmag.com/7839/macbook_air_top_10_things_wrong_with_it]FYI[/url]Reason #11: It's a dongle.Design Time must have been a killer.The advantage to many PCs are that they work well with Top Down design. ...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, CPU, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Robots to control oil drilling platforms
- In 2015, and if everything goes well, oil drilling platforms located offshore Norway will be controlled by robots. Even today, these platforms don't use many people. But the idea behind the new platform concept is to install large modular process sections in unmanned areas to allow access by one or...
- Tags: Platform, Robot, SINTEF, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-25
- Why would I pay Google for extra storage?
- Why would I pay Google for extra storage?It is an added benefitOnly if you use Google services GMail as your primary account and conduct a lot of "business" with them. Sounds pretty fair actually, long as the backups go right.Strange StratedgyI am not sure why Google is going this route,...
- Tags: Google Inc., storage
- Discussion threads 2007-08-10
- Apple iPhone development secrets revealed
- As I mentioned before my long vacation at the beach ahhhh, the iPhone can only be 'programmed' by writing web pages that can be viewed on the device. For the most part this involves making sure your web apps work with the resolution of the screen and with the idiosyncrasies...
- Tags: Web Browsers, Scripting, Programming, Java, General, Apple, AJAX
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Latest AACS Processing Key released
- Latest AACS Processing Key releasedThe hackers have the upper hand[i]"The battle between the hackers and the AACS LA could go on for years or it could be over in months"[/i]It costs the AACS a lot of money and even more in credibility every time this happens. It merely costs the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, Hacking, Digital media, DVD, Consumer electronics, SECURITY, digital-rights management, BD-ROM Mark, BluRay, hacker, device manufacturer, HD-DVD, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- TextDraw 5.9 (Windows)
- TextDraw is an ASCII art editor that you can use to create simple or elaborate text drawings. As a text editor you can cut, copy, paste, stretch, drag and drop, align left or right, align special (pipe delimited, comma separated, or use a selected character). Drawings can be exported as...
- Tags: HTML, Pixio, TextDraw, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-05-29
- Pipe any RSS mashup via your webpage
- I have two further items of good news to report about Yahoo! Pipes for anyone intrigued by the RSS mashup tutorial I posted earlier this week. First of all, the Pipes team a few hours ago introduced a workaround to the date normalization problem that had been preventing...
- Tags: Yahoo, Mashups, Development
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
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