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- Photos: Russian air show aims high
- The MAKS 2007 event has lofty aspirations, but is it ready yet to surpass the Paris Air Show? For hard-core aviation fans, it may not matter.The distance between France and Russia is more than just half a continent. You can see it in everything from drink (wine vs. vodka) to...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Food & Beverage, photograph, MAKS 2007 event, MAKS 2007, Paris Air Show, aircraft, Russia, theorist, aerospace company, Salon, magnet, pride, resort, aspiration, defense contractor, jet, toilet, blockbuster, spectator, wine, continent, staff writer, aerospa
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
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- Health conspiracies usually aren't
- Health conspiracies usually aren'tExonerated?Don't you mean implicated? If not, please explain.How old was Woody Allen in Sleeper?Remember the scene in "Sleeper" where Woody's character, a health food nut, is surrounded by doctors smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis?Don't think tobacco will be rehabilitatedThe health problems associated with tobacco usage over...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, statin, Health conspiracy, health care, Statins
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Should we even bother asking teachers?
- Should we even bother asking teachers?No -- K-12 is about preparing kids for the future.Given that only 30%, if that, of children will go on to college, the computers in schools should represent what is being used in the workplace.The choice of PC vs. Mac is simple. What will...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- A thought about Utility Computing
- A thought about Utility ComputingThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Data Center.Nicholas Carr is Earth's answer to Oolon Colluphid. Everywhere he looks, IT is dying. I expect him to release his new book, "Well, That About Wraps It Up For IT" any day now.Of course, centralized processing is not the entire...
- Tags: Hitchhiker, IT IS, utility computing, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the worldYou know, I was thingking the same thing. The OLPC would be great forschools right here in the good old US of A. I would think they should hire somebody to sell the idea to schools HERE. If we get a critical mass...
- Tags: Behar, notebook, Design Continuum, One Laptop Per Child project, Third World, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- The One Laptop Per Child OLPC is the best-designed notebook computer in the world. It just isn't designed for you. Get over it. Criticism of the OLPC centers on the fact that it isn't like the notebooks adults use. As the ASUS Eee shows a low-cost conventional...
- Tags: Notebook, Connectivity, Expression, Industrial Design, Activity, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Microsoft's Ballmer calls out Red Hat with more patent threats
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is back on the "Linux violates our patents" kick. But this time, he's calling out Red Hat, specifically, for allegedly infringing on Microsoft IP. At the UK launch of Microsoft's Startup Accelerator Programme last week, Ballmer said it's only a matter of time...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Police agencies push for drone sky patrols
- Police agencies push for drone sky patrolsThey want to rush it, until......someone gets killed. When will they realize that a drone is not a model plane with a range of a few hundred feet. Will be all happy until a drone wanders away, crashes into an airliner and...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Drone, sky patrol, Police Agencies
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Laptop thief may go to prison for life
- Laptop thief may go to prison for lifeRoutine crime. Nothing special.This kind of stuff happens every day all across the country. It's not limited to on-line. The same happens to people who meet in bars, etc.There's also nothing unusual about the "three strikes" law. Most, probably all, states have them....
- Tags: laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Google already winner in Clinton presidential bid
- Google already winner in Clinton presidential bidGo Ron Paul! Go Ron PAul!GO RON PAUL! GO RON PAUL! GOD BLESS RON PAUL! RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008!Ron Paul in CNN debate on June 5, 2007!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJKGfAWQUo"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannotsurvive treason from within. An...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Free trade, Google Inc., murderer, Ron, Ron Paul
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Cameras everywhere, even in online maps
- Cameras everywhere, even in online mapsExactlyIt's a different approach to developing applications. Google puts out the technology and it's not clear what the use-case is..."It's a novelty that imposes on people's privacy. What's the point of this? Yeah, great, you can look at the area for real estate...
- Tags: camera, Google Inc., public place
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- Google adding search privacy protections
- Google adding search privacy protectionsDo know evil.I imagine the intelligence organisations have already carried out covert data mining on the populations search habits. Including personally identifiable data. People do just not realise that everything they type into the google search box is being recorded and can identify them...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Google Inc., search privacy
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Microsoft planning security bulletins by the dozen
- Microsoft planning security bulletins by the dozenMicrosoft planning security bulletins by the dozenNo big deal as long as Microsoft continues to acknowledge, investigate, and issue the patches like they have been. Its funny how these hackers keep making exploits knowing they will be stopped immediately between users not having...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, Vista Upgrade, Microshaft, Nothing, Tinker,Then, patch management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., security, Buy Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, software
- Discussion threads 2007-02-08
- Linux Foundation: Strength in numbers
- Linux Foundation: Strength in numbersGood moveI really believe this move makes sense. A good balance of the concepts of business and true freedom.Excelent!Excelent move.This was only due to the personal agenda push from Richard Stalman and followers.They really pushed the envelope to hard.Freedom is Not Against business or any other...
- Tags: Richard Stalman, Linux Foundation, open source, Richard, software, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Desperately seeking: Internet File transfer acceleration technology
- Desperately seeking: Internet File transfer acceleration technologyThat's my pointWith the camera you're using now, you're gonna have to convert it to a 2 mbps DV MPEG-2 lowend DVD quality stream. That's STILL WAY faster than waiting 16 hours for the file to transfer.With certain camera on the market, they produce...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Internet, video, lossy compression, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
- Robert Cringely shows blatant ignorance of networking
- Normally I don't get too worked up when someone makes a complete fool out of themselves on networking issues but when a well known pundit like Robert Cringely of PBS writes an article that's filled with errors from beginning to finish about IPv6, I have to ...
- Tags: Security, Infrastructure, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Vista, Desktop, Linux, IPv6
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Poll of the Day - Bypassing copy protection
- Poll of the Day - Bypassing copy protectionA very sad statement of our times.Currently the poll says 86% of the people asked have stolen something. How very sad. I guess it just shows that stronger laws with harsher penalties are needed.If it means being able to actually USE...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Backing Up, copy protection, CD, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- Google 'safe harbor': 'Nice' way to do business?
- “Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?”Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, takes exception with “part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban”:When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they'd also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- U.S. urges countries to turn down heat on Apple
- U.S. urges countries to turn down heat on AppleHow is removing stupid DRM....How is removing DRM from iTunes bad? :P DRM in nature is bad for the consumer because they are STUCK with only playing their mp3s on their iPOD unless they use 3rd party software to actually let...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Vertical industries, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., government, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Verizon treads into the realm of The Prince
- A reader, la'ikoa, was kind enough to point out a change in Verizon's customer service agreement that may have serious consequences for groups of customers with a complaint against the company. Here's the background: A group of Verizon Last...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
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