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Hopefully legislatures are starting to wake up and smell the roses on these invasive State DMCA Bills. In a surprise move the CEA "Consumer Electronics Association" is urging lawmakers to kill these MPAA driven bills. [Design Technica]
Several Software vendors have technology that can be built into PC's that will cause the PC to call home even if the hard-drive is formatted. This may lower the appeal of stealing computers and I am surprised has not already become mainstream. [ZDNet]
Before WiFi no one gave much thought to sharing with ones neighbor. But with broadband becoming more popular and more powerful broadband companies are worried that subscribers are going to get together with there neighbors and have one connection shared amongst people in close proximity to one another. Cox Communications is not real happy with routers that now allow one
You may have never knowingly been affected by a Hacker War but chances you were and did not know it. Only a fool would want to piss these groups off. Many are truly gifted and kick some serious butt. A great article on the insights of Hacker Wars and what we can expect in the future. [Online Security]
Spammers are under so much fire now that they must know that people are plain sick of it and there is a major push to kill there activities. Computers and filtering is getting better but it is a constant chess game. Interesting article in using Bayesian Filtering to kill 99.9% of all spam. Bayesian Filtering is widely written about but
Today being Memorial Day made me reflect while watching the ceremony in Washington DC. For reasons I will not go into there are a couple of guys that made the ultimate sacrifice who's life was cut short by the ravages of War. There families and many others have been ever changed by the events that happened that night. The events
Kazaa has become the top download ever. Needless to say the RIAA is not to pleased. [Silicon Valley]
Well everyone, sorry for my absence, but I'm back and that's all that matters. "A software maker that specializes in tools for measuring performance of PC components has accused graphics chip giant Nvidia of manipulating test results for its latest graphics chip. Saratoga, Calif.-based Futuremark on Friday said in a statement that Nvidia tweaked software needed to run its new
I am sure that Microsoft is uncomfortable with Apple having as much success as they have had with Itunes. I hope that whatever they come up with that they get competitive and have a price war with Itunes. [Cnet]
In what could be one of the most revolutionary discoveries in many years researchers have found ways to manipulate light in new ways. [New Scientist]
I am currently on travel in Texas and staying in the Waco area. I would love to hookup with readers in the greater Dallas, Ft Worth, Austin Waco area. GeekNews
It takes a lot for a website to be added to my daily reads but AlwaysOn has just been added to my daily read list. Lots of provoking content. [www.alwayson-network.com]
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