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Recently I got an email asking me to fax something or other to somebody and while the thing itself was some vile spam thing that I don’t normally give the time of day, the part about faxing caught my interest just a bit.
Frankly I haven’t seen an actual fax machine in [...]
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There’s an article on the Washington Post site that takes a look at the potential of a world with RFID chips embedded in just about anything you can name.
A world in which reader devices, most of which would be connected to the Internet, all over the place. These readers would [...]
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No doubt you’ve noticed that I’ve changed the title to include “(old version)”. The reason for this is that I’m going to be migrating from a subdomain to a full domain name. Over the next few months I’ll be phasing out this subdomain version in favor of the one [...]
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I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. Now that cell phones are practically everywhere somebody has come up with the idea of using a network of cell phones with radiation detectors to spot radiation. Since the things are practically everywhere it’d be possible to cover a huge [...]
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There’s a new scare headline up… “Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth“. Just by reading that you’d think that somebody expected it to land in Times Square or downtown LA and honestly, it’s ridiculous because 75% of the Earth’s surface is water. Most of that is ocean. All by [...]
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That’s right. Micro$oft has put out a “report(PDF)” that pronounces vista to have the fewest flaws and vulnerabilities of all OS’s.
The problem that I see with this is simple. It’s got to be fiction or wishful thinking. Since before Vista even hit the store shelves I’ve been seeing [...]
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This is hilarious. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), an organization that has become infamous for suing grandmothers and seven year old kids in their insane quest to control all music downloads and file sharing, was attacked Sunday by hackers that took advantage of an SQL vulnerability and apparently [...]
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I’m going to talk for a bit about Gamefly.com. A lot of gamers already know what they are but for those who don’t, Gamefly.com is to video game rentals what certain other companies are to videos. For $22 a month you can check out two games a month and [...]
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That’s right. In the case of Sierra Corporate Design, Inc., v. David Ritz, a judge found that it was illegal to issue a “Host -l” command. Anyone with a bit of networking knowledge knows (or can find out quickly) that this command initiates a “zone transfer“. That [...]
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If you’re at all interested in movies and home theater then Stargate Cinema is worth taking a look at. The pages are all busy looking but I think that’s mostly because of the really large variety of stuff they’ve got. Everything you’d ever even think about from home theater [...]
