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This a great great article and hits the spirit of Aviation and the men and women who strap on a plane and live out on the edge. I as many made a comment to the post and wanted to include the comment I made on this essay. [www.ejectejecteject.com] My Coment: "Great write up I have been flying for 20 years
Internet Service providers have figured out ways to lower the bandwidth cost. My hope would be that techies in small communities that lack high speed access would wise up and use some of the same ideas to bring high speed connectivity to people within there own neighborhoods. [Internet News]
Bulletin Board System worldwide celebrated a 25 year anniversary of the hobby. My personal BBS did not come on the scene until 1988 and by then the the scene had exploded. But to honor the 25th year of BBS'ing I want to honor the 2 that created a hobby that I have enjoyed from the first time I logged into
In what I consider a pretty wild idea Seattle-based company HighLift Systems is investigating the possibility of building an Space Elevator down in Australia. They think the technology is available but the funding isn't. Time will tell if they get this idea of the ground. [The West Australian]
In a recent study scientist suggest if a extinction level event is upon us that it would be best not to tell the public. I think the rationalization of this is wrong and I am unsure how they could keep it a secret. Geez they know were gonna die and decide we should not be told this is wrong. [Independent
I take a couple of days off and some of the biggest news in the world of blogging hits the streets. Seems Google has made the purchase of the year purchased Pyra Labs the people behind Blogger. I am happy for the company. Blogger was the #1 reason we started Geek News Central. Even though we do not run this
It may seem weird but like Radio talk show host once in a while you have to impose a mandatory break. Over the past 2 days I have cut myself off from all news and happenings to re-charge my batteries. Currently I have a very heavy workload at the job that keeps food on my families table so that has
Can you imagine if we all had that type of bandwidth readily available today. Well some technicians and scientist accomplished the above feat in a data transfer test from California to Amsterdam last Nov and set a world record in the process using Internet 2 technology. If this is what we have to look forward to I can't wait. If
Listen.com has reduced the cost of music it is selling to .49 cents a song. They are selling the music cheaper than they can buy it in a hope to drive customers to their site. I have never utilized there service and would like some feedback on how the music comes packaged and if you can utilize the tunes on
Kazaa has released a new version of it's popular file sharing program. [www.kazaa.com]
In a multi-level information campaign, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) are sending letters to Fortune 1000 companies warning them that there companies can be held liable for copyright infringement. [News.com]
A federal grand jury indicted 17 people who allegedly sold or distributed free software and hardware to allow people to steal satellite cable services. The MPAA claims they loose millions per year to individuals who use hardware and bypass the subscription systems. This is a test case and will test copyright laws. For any of you that use any of
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