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July 2003

160 posts

.79 cent music selling like HotCakes

Amazing what a little price change will make the reduction from .99 to .79 the response has been amazing. Consumers can not resist the .79 cent music deal being offered by Listen.com. I am glad they are making a lot of sales this will help make artist realize consumers are willing to pay for music we choose. [Wired] [Listen.com] I

Wardriving Visiting an Area Near You

The third WarDriving event is underway thru the 5th of July so if you spot a vehicle parked outside your house with some geeks inside running a laptop and a couple of weird antennas on the roof don't be surprised if your WiFi connection has just been mapped. The group has been criticized in the past but there goal is

Sometime I really wonder

The Brain is a weird thing. I wish my Brain and typing Fingers were quasi locked as my old noggin works a heck of a lot faster than my fingers do. Sometimes I look at something I just typed and scratch my head wondering how the thought process I was engaged in ended up coming out like that. The danger

The Universe and it’s Mysteries

The Human mind is capable of a lot but ever get weirded out when you start talking about the Universe. The size is unfathomable yet in the 2-Men In Black movies they wanted us to realize that the size of a Universe is only as large or small as out perceptions. You can twist that reality a lot in show

California Notification Law could be footprint for National Legislations

If you stop and think about the number of companies that have your Social Security Number and a myriad of personal data that could be used by someone to steal your identity it could be a bit nerve racking considering nearly 700,000 people a year are fighting identity theft. The California Law outlined below which states: "The law, which goes

Gateways New Vision

News.com has a great interview with Gateway CEO Ted Waitt about what Gateway has to offer besides new PCs. Very langthy and in detail. "What will that mean in terms of new products? Right now we have plans to launch at least 50 products across at 15 new categories of Gateway-branded products. Such as? We will have a full line

Court: Anonymous P2P no defense

"Operators of peer-to-peer networks cannot escape copyright infringement claims by giving their members the ability to mask the content that changes hands on their networks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Calling the tactic a form of "willful blindness," the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld a lower court's injunction against the Madster file-swapping network that had

US anti-spam laws ‘will legalise spam’

"The legislation Congress is considering would legalise opt-out spamming," Linford argued. "All the US spammers we track support the Bill because it means they wouldn't have to hide any more." "If the US passes an opt-out law, which I believe is likely to happen by the start of next year, the spam problem would explode. Providing they don't use deceptive

Nvidia ships nForce 3 Pro

"Nvidia yesterday announced that its nForce 3 Pro chipset has entered volume production, following AMD's launch of the latest 64-bit Opteron server and workstation processors. The nForce 3 Pro is a single-chip implementation of Nvidia's Athlon XP-oriented nForce 2 product. The Opteron's built-in memory controller has forced Nvidia to dispense with its own controller, allowing it to fold the North

P2P Vendors Vow to hide Users

The P2P File share software vendors are going to do everything they can to shield there users. Not all data will be able to be hid but they are going to do there best. [Wired]

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