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September 2005

121 posts

Club ID Scanner!

Imagine you arrive at your favorite club or bar and when they ask for your ID they run it thru a scanner that is linked to a database. I have nothing to hide but that kind of personal intrusion gives me the creeps and would be very prone to abuse. The company that is making it says it can be

Anti Skype software evil!

Like Forest said "Thats all I'm gonna say about that!" [theinquirer.net]

Canadian set to save the world!

What would you do if you could buy a device that increased you gas mileage 10-40% and cut the emissions on your personal vehicle by 100%. It seems a Canadian may have found the answer. [Canada.com]

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Simple Path to Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies now has a hard drive upgrade alternative for notebook computers that is so simple, most users will be able to increase their notebook hard disk capacity and restore their operating system, applications, and data. The upgrade includes a replacement internal hard drive, a case to convert allow the existing hard drive to be used as an external USB drive, cables, tools, and step-by-step instructions.

Sprechen Sie Google?

A new worm, named P2Load.A, is in the wild. Once infected, users of Google's search engine are redirected to a spoofed site in Germany that looks just like the powerhouse search engine's main page. Spoofed search results include new, top-of-list links to advertisers who are not a member of Google's desired advertiser list.

The RIAA trying to reduce the quality of future Radio Reception

CALL TO ACTION The RIAA has decided that the makers of next generation of Digital Radio Receivers need to legislated so that you will not copy music that is being broadcast over the digital airways. They are asking congress to build restrictions into these digital players so that they cannot have material copied out of them and also to reduce

Trackback Hell!

I have had trackbacks turned off for over 2 months and last night as a social experiment I put the CGI file back up on the server. After 6 hours of being back online here are the preliminary results. First Spam Trackback Ping: 9 seconds after upload Maximum Number of pings per 60 Seconds: 328 Sustained Average Spam ping Rate

Google That Blog

Google, Inc., the search engine (and everything else) company has released a beta version of a blog search site that offers similar features to its most-popular web search engine. The new search engine scans blogs, the popular online journals that offer both professional journalists and citizen pundits simple access to online publication. Google Blog Search should give a bit of much-wanted visibility and authority to the burgeoning blogosphere.

I ask why is this allowed in the Podcast Directory on Apple iTunes

Apple I want to know when you are going to put a stop to this kind of abuse in the iTunes Podcasting directory in the Technology, News section. Why this particular website can not play fair like everyone else and has to use "-|-" naming tactics to get listed first is beyond me. Second many of those multiple categories have

Engadget calls Apple to the carpet on iPodcast Trademark Application!

So the question is why did Apple go down this road. Is it so that when the iPodcast trademark is issued that the can go after the guy that owns the iPodcast website. Probably will be worth a few dollars to him. Or will it be a way for them to go after anyone that has a website with the

Google Blog Search the First 12 Hours!

I am sure this morning as Technorati, Pubsub and Feedster staff came to work their was a sense of, oh man why did this billion pound cement block just get dropped on my shoulders. If they did not realize it before they better now, their is competition out their and they better focus on their base services and make sure

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