Archive for May, 2008
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That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Movies, Music, Networking, Opinion | Comments Off
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Blizzard, the company behind Word Of Warcraft, currently has a lawsuit against MDY Industries over a bot program called Glider. Blizzard is pushing this thing to new limits now, arguing that a software creator retains complete control over how a program is used, meaning that anyone who uses it in [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Opinion, Programming, games, software | Comments Off
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I just saw something on ComputerWorld that caught my eye. Seems that HP is saying that because of the increasing demand for storage, they expect to ship … get this .. a “Yottabyte” of storage per year sometime soon.
How much is a “Yottabyte”? Good question. I’ve never heard [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc, Programming, Tech, software | Comments Off
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goldwasserrealestate.com is the site of a realtor in Austin Texas. The site features the usual ability to search for properties as well as a “map search” function that allows you to search a particular geographic area.
There is also a library of articles for both the home buyer as well as for [...]
May 16th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Misc, Website Review, Websites | Comments Off
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There was a time not too awfully long ago (a couple of years I guess.) that I was guilty of the “Overstuffed Inbox” syndrome. When I started my email program it would actually take longer to get going because I had over 3,000 messages in my inbox folder!
Oh, I didn’t [...]
May 16th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc, Opinion | 1 Comment
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EZUnsecured.com is a business finance Consulting Firm that specializes in unsecured Small Business Loans and Lines of Credit for Small Business Owners. Their service is to help prepare an application package and then send it on to the lenders that their experience shows will be most likely to approve the [...]
May 16th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc, Websites | Comments Off
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I recently saw one of those lists of computer tips that people are prone to write once in a while and one of them bugged the snot out of me.
The writer suggested that it would be an extra neato nifty idea to scan all of one’s paper documents and render them [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Misc, Opinion, software | Comments Off
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The price of crude oil and therefore gasoline are continuing their monstrous rate of increase and Congress is busy arguing their various pet plans for what to do about it. Thing is, While both the Democrats and the Republicans have several options in mind, they’re apparently not getting the severity [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Energy, Financial, Opinion, Tech, news | Comments Off
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Here’s something that looks like it fell right out of a James Bond movie. It’s a “Secret Agent Pen Camcorder”. That’s right. A pen that contains a video and an audio pickup. It records Mpeg4 video and sound in an .avi container on 1GB of flash memory [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Electronics, Fun Stuph, Hardware, Misc, Opinion, Privacy, Tech, surveillance | Comments Off
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In today’s age of all too frequently justified paranoia there’s an issue that is coming up more and more often. There are a lot more publicly accessible computers these days. They’re in Internet Cafe’s and all I’ve even seen one in a hospital lobby that allowed people to surf [...]
May 7th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc, Networking, Opinion, Privacy, surveillance | 2 Comments