Opinion
AP Explains why it won’t take handout photos
The Associated Press (AP) explains why it would not accept a handout photo of the meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama today. It feels that in democratic countries access should be granted to provide an independent view of the situation. They also detailed a few situations in which they would accept a handout [...]
Best (and worst) of the internet
I’ve been thinking about this idea for awhile “The best and worst of the internet” on a weekly basis where I point out what’s funny, what’s new, and what’s terribad on the world-wide-intarwebz. I’ll try to do five things and keep it hillarious:
1. A school is caught using cameras in school-issued laptops to spy on [...]
Facebook to keep profiles of deceased users
Just in time for Halloween- Facebook has decided to not only hold onto everything on their users’ profiles while they’re alive, but to guarantee that they keep it forever even afetr they’re dead, according to an article from the Associated Press. Apparently, all that is needed is an obituary or a news story about the [...]
Dear computer industry…
It’s just bad engineering, the industry is so hell-bent at all times to produce the fastest card the most quickly, that there just isn’t the time to sit down and make it effecient or of a reasonable size. Chips and coolers are slapped on PCB along with as many power connectors as they deem necessary to make it seem “extreme” and off it goes to the consumer, bloated, uneducated and simple.
Mozilla Raindrop to simplify social networking
What if you could Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Gmail, Flickr, and read Blogs all in one feed from one website?
That’s what the makers of Raindrop, from Mozilla Labs- makers of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird free software, aim to accomplish with their new beta software. To take all the social sites in your life and create [...]
Firefox removes Microsoft add-ons from blocklist
According to a Firefox Development blog, Microsoft’s .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation add-ons to Firefox would be removed from the block list. It should be automatically re-enabled for most users. Enterprise users will have to wait for a patch to unblock the Windows Presentation Foundation as well.
The .NET Framework Assistant caused quite a [...]
Anti-Virus creator frustrated by ‘net anonymity
If this were attempted, methinks another, free internet would most likely just crop up and gain in popularity, the same way freeware crops when companies charge too much for software, or regulate software too much. It would also create an entire new generation of underground users, hackers, crackers, and people who simply become outlaws like in the old American west. I daresay that it would cause an open digital revolt that would be the downfall of whatever ruling body was trying to govern it… It would certainly do nothing good whatsoever.
Sticking to my guns, so to speak
Scaling back second amendment gun rights, would just see another weapon rise into prominence, as evidenced in the European Union where the fall of guns saw the rise of swords, which also had to be banned. You would end up scaling back or banning rights on everything down to cinder blocks and rocks, heck, even your toaster is a potentially deadly weapon.
