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(Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome)

(Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome)It's absurd to refer to 'The Brains Behind Chrome'Google Chrome, at this point in time, adds very little to the WebKit rendering engine. It's clearly a very early release, and currently does nothing clever. It will be interesting to watch it develop.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gp

Tags: Google Chrome, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Gangsta cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power of Google and Microsoft/Yahoo

Gangsta cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power of Google and Microsoft/YahooYes, this is shaping up to be the next major battlefield!!! And, MS isbuying Yahoo because they don't think that they can win it alone. This really is an exciting time . . . . .tyranny is nigh1)...

Tags: Network technology, Gangsta, Yahoo! Inc., business interest, IP, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., tyranny

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

The tyranny of the majority

The tyranny of the majorityHi Paul, too true.What OS you use should be driven by the requirements specification matched to the particular strengths and weaknesses of each potential solution... not dogma.All operating systems have differing capabilities, and until someone produces something akin to HAL-9000 or Star Trek's LCARS no one...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, tyranny

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Sat images show village burning, relocation in Burma

Sat images show village burning, relocation in BurmaThey're going to put me in the movies...Satellite images do make it harder for police states to maintain plausible deniability. We'll see what the Burmese government has to say about all of this in the near future, I'm sure.

Tags: Burma, relocation

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Audit reveals extent of FBI abuse of national security letters

Audit reveals extent of FBI abuse of national security lettersMistakes?I really get tired of this. The FBI, the NSA, the Bush administration, et al, get caught out again, violating the law, abusing their authority, trashing the Constitution. As with the events leading up to the 911 attacks, I think it...

Tags: Federal government, Tyranny, NSL, FBI, audit

Discussion threads 2007-06-15

Tyranny 1.0 (Mobile)

Tyranny is a fast paced arcade game for the Palm Computing Platform in which you are a dictator defending your 4 cities from invasion. You must protect your cities by 'catching' the incoming missiles in the explosions of your own missiles. As you progress through the levels, the game gets...

Tags: Mobile, Missile, Mike Bromley, Tyranny, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2000-09-04

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Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Google makes Chrome OS open source today

I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Aveyond: Lord of Twilight 1.0 (Windows)

In fulfillment of prophecy, the evil sorcerer, Mordred Darkthrop, initiated a series of actions that would eventually see him rule the world. Darkthrop's reign of tyranny and his lineage ended abruptly, when he and his only son died moments before his goal was realized. The prophecy, however, lingered on. Two...

Tags: Fulfillment, Amaranth Games, Darkthrop, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-19

I'm in a nanny state state of mind

Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...

Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, Free trade, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, TFB, agony, smoker, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

U.K. minister wants enhanced monitoring of Internet usage

Novo OrdoWelcome to the BRAVE NEW WORLD. This is one in which freedom of independent thought, space, direction, action no longer exist. There will be no more class system just those who are more free of this tyranny and the rest which cannot escape it. Political class, environmentalist, fundamentalists, medicals...

Tags: Internet usage, Novo, class system, monitoring, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

humm, I don't think we have all the facts.humm, okay.I'm gonna say that there's probably a lot of details involved, and the EPA probably didn't wake up one day, grow a green heart, and take action just because they turned green one day.And don't look now, but the Democrats aren't...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, energy battle, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Head cracking time on health care reform

"And I can get back to writing about tech."NO - get to writing about TECH now - and stop using this site for your liberal soapboxing!the only head that will crack wil be Obama'sReal Americans are concerned about deficit, death panels and the slippery slope to socialism.This 'reform' will fail...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, soapboxing, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Microsoft targets cities, government agencies with carbon emissions accounting tool

Do we really want more nanny-state activities??There is something fundamentally wrong with this phrase in your post: [i]"...will help government agencies and businesses identify behavior that can be adjusted"[/i]I don't WANT government "identifying" any of my behaviors in attempts to "adjust" them. That is NOT the role of the imperial...

Tags: Vertical industries, accounting, Microsoft Corp., government, federal government, carbon emission

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Now the fun starts on health reform

Tyranny wrapped up in compassionand you're a willing advocate. News flash for you. You won't get to be one of the rulers. Your life will wind up sucking just as badly as everyone else under the new system.A move to Canada is looking better and better every day. nt:-(Health Care...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, province, federal government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

The democratization of IT

Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...

Tags: Quality, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Would you march for Internet privacy?

We've seen it alreadyRemember the recent outcry from the right about "President Obama trying to take control of the internet"? With, I might add, assurances from the left that it's not so. No different really than the left's alarmism at President Bush trying to "personally eavesdrop on every telephone conversation...

Tags: Internet privacy, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Never mindI was going to put something here, but I felt that I would simply be attacked for pointing out that Bush and Obama are more alike than they are dissimilar with regards to personal freedoms.It might just be possible...... that after Obama was sworn in he was shown classified...

Tags: Obama, Bush, new safeguard, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-28