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U.N. goes after tobacco ads on Internet

U.N. goes after tobacco ads on InternetThe true international threat, SUGARfattening the body and shorting the life. Get the truth, the sugar barons will destroy us all with are own lack of personal restraint. Somebody think about the children, the children!actually it's dieting and disciplinePeople do not want...

Tags: tobacco ad, tobacco, advertisement, Drano, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-02-17

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Microsoft opens up Windows 7 to advertisers via downloadable themes

Windows for freeI think a lot of consumers and businesses also would not object to their desktop being used as an advertising space by Microsoft if this would let them use Windows at no charge. I believe Google is going in the same direction with their ChromeOS.Its an operating system!!Windows...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 8, advertisement, advertiser, downloadable theme, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaint

Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaintGood for themIf a crime is committed, by all means Craigslist should cooperate with the authorities as any good business would. But Craigslist is not in the business of crime stopping nor are they obliged to cater to...

Tags: Professional development, Craigslist, South Carolina AG, SC AG

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Denial as a political position

Denial as a political positionI'm a little older than youI remember the global cooling scare in the 1970s. The culprit then was PM10 (Particulate Matter 10 microns), pollutants too small to precipitate out of the atmosphere.PM10 was going to create a sunlight blocking cloud and plunge the world into a...

Tags: PM10, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Baby aspirin and the Vytorin scandal

Baby aspirin and the Vytorin scandalBan Drug TV Commercials?I think it has reached the point where Drug commercials dominate the TV air waves and provide a public disservice many mixed signals.That isn't meant as a blanket indictment of Pharmaceutical companies in general, but it would interesting if you put it...

Tags: TVs, Now IT, TV industry, Vytorin, Vytorin scandal, TV

Discussion threads 2008-01-18

Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?

Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?Everything on God's green earth...Everything on God's green earth produces something harmful to others...!Headline:Warning to all computer users. Excessive reading of ZDNet causes excess spurious emissions of light energy from laptop screens which causes blindness in lab animals.This is...

Tags: Printers, laser, printer, ozone, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

Korea rejects Microsoft appeal

Korea rejects Microsoft appealEnd of MSFor years I have been seeing and hearing people say that this decision or that one was going to be the end of MS, so far none of them have come through. As for the EU and Korea, the matters still have to be decided...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

Playboy, Pornography, and Eclipse

Playboy, Pornography, and EclipsePlayboy should serve eclipse...I do understand that lots of corporate firewall are blocking the playboy site, but... you are not forced to choose that mirror, so if you are on your work, just pick another one.I think playboy should be able to host eclipse software and everyone...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Playboy, Eclipse

Discussion threads 2006-03-07

Big Cellcos: Big tobacco repeating itself?

Over on Anchordesk, my colleague and CNET senior editor Molly Wood has reopened the debate over the dangers of cell phone use by citing some disturbing parallels -- including whistleblowing and attempts to supress relevant evidence -- between the cell phone and tobacco industries. I can't tell you how glad...

Tags: cell phone, David Berlind, matter,Harrill wrote:As Lai, SAR, telephone

Blog posts 2005-03-10

The network is the security

The network is the securityIt's all about monetization, not securitySecurity will be used as the excuse for exploitation and monetization of the global network by a handful of key players. This will be accomplished through a multi-pronged approach of "trusted hardware" which only runs "authorized software" and bespoke legislation criminalizing...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, security, malware, tobacco, network

Discussion threads 2004-07-13