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Telecommunications provider, Madison River Communications, was chastised by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week and required to unblock network ports that were closed to prevent connections from customers using Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone connections.
Parvin Dhaliwal (18), a student at the University of Arizona (UA), is the first person in country to be convicted of a crime under state law for downloading music and movies. Dhaliwal pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies of intellectual property, and was sentenced to a three-month deferred jail sentence, three years of probation, 200 hours of community service and a $5,400 fine. Dhaliwal must also take a copyright class at UA and stop using file-sharing applications. What makes this conviction notable is that copyright protection is normally a federal matter.
Microsoft announced last year that there were four major parts of Longhorn that will make it worth the upgrade, since Longhorn will not be released for at another year or two, Microsoft thought it better make as many of these available to WinXP system users as possible. WinFS is the latest Longhorn feature to be ported to WinXP. Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of product management for SQL Server said Microsoft is busily back-porting the WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP. The question is now, will there be any reason to upgrade to Longhorn when, or if, it ever sees the light of day?
We all know that day after day use of a mouse can cause repetitive strain injuries such as carpal tunnel and even tennis elbow. Now research has confirmed that neck and back injuries can develop from prolonged use of a traditional mouse. Many designs have been introduced over the years to relieve this strain but none have really worked. Enter the “Horse”;
Seems technology has been the cause of being sleep deprived for 20 years. It started in 1985 when I was heavy into the BBS scene, I could not learn enough, and spent hours surfing the boards. Then I did the stupid thing and opened one up. Not only that I did it in a big way having a multi-line system.
We all know that the most evil concept in FCC history is attempting to be shoved down our throats, the broadcast flag. It will, in reality, stop the recording of TV shows by individuals on their PVR's or DVD's by placing a digital flag on the show when it's broadcast that tells the recorder it cannot copy this program. If you take all the rotten, dirt tricks that the MPAA or the RIAA has been doing to us over the last few years and place them in one big pile, the pile of the broadcast flag would be much bigger. (You can imagine what the pile is with no help from me). The SF Guardian News has a great story of a group of folks that said we are not going to take it any longer. They are building their own TV which no broadcast flag can touch.
Panasonic has released a new Oxyride battery that doubles the performance and doubles their life for the same price. These are disposables and we all know how expensive it is to keep those digital cameras and portable gaming devices in batteries.