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I am a very proud and loyal American. I support the principles of this country and would never do something that would put me under Uncle Sam's scrutiny. As a citizen I pay taxes to Uncle Sam so that my children and I sleep well at night knowing that the government is watching our backs and doing the things that
The race to get as much science as possible out of the Hubble telescope is on. As the agenda for the few years Hubble has left astronomers agonizing on what the priorities should be. [Silicon Valley]
Imagine having a van that had 13 cameras and took a picture every 15 feet. The applications are unlimited I would love to have them drive thru my grandfathers property this would give me a visual record of what state the property is in. Do this every few years and you would have one heck of a record. BUt think
Seems Japanese TV Viewers are complaining about DRM restrictions. Being they are not used to having to deal with such harsh copy / copyright restrictions they have every right to complain they pay for their programming as most of us do. I think the backlash will be the loudest in the United States when the heavy hand of the MPAA
MAC OS X users continue to be unprotected by latest fix. Their isn't much a uproar as their would be if Microsoft didn't fully fix a security issue. [Silicon Valley]
Geek News Central has been included in a Beta test being done by ZDNet at a site they are calling Technology.Updates.Com they are aggregating this site and a number of others, pulling our headlines and some of our content. It will be very interesting to see what content they pull. [technology.updates.com/blog.html] [technology.updates.com]
Mojave Airport to become the first licensed private Spaceport. We all know that the 2 leading competitors to the X-Prize competition work out of Mojave. In the late 80's I lived in California and flew around the state in a King Air quite a bit and may have toured the Scaled Composites plant. If I remember it wasn't much of
Seems NASA has contracted a company to investigate the possibility of designing a robot that will be used to alter an asteroids course. [Engadget]
Seems the RIAA has to make payroll as they have sued another 493 people for copyright infringement with the total coming to nearly 3000. They have become one of the most hated organizations in the United States by users of File Sharing when will the madness end. [DesignTechnica]
Do you remember when you where a kid and you did not have enough money to buy music and you taped music directly off the radio onto your cassette tape. I am sure some of you are going to say are you kidding who would do that. Well I did as my allowance each week definitely was not spent on
Do you work for an organization which has such tight controls on what you can do with your PC that you almost have to ask permission to stick a disk into the machine. Some companies go overboard in locking down computers to completely the opposite where you can configure your system without restraint. What happens when Windows refuses to run
Lindows has won a major decision in the battle for the company to keep it's name and fight of Microsoft and fight of their claim that Lindows infringes on their monopoly of the term Windows. Attorney Michael Graham stated: "This ruling is vital to Lindows'/Linspire's case because if a term is generic, or once it becomes generic, trademark law holds
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