Just installed the latest Ubuntu in a virtual machine and I noticed their new Unity UI. Nice and pretty but my cheese has been moved. So, I go to Google to find a tutorial to figure out how to use and customize it. I get results that are mostly how to uninstall Unity and go… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
In a speech, Obama stressed the importance of defending the rights of intellectual property holders. During this speech, he mentioned ACTA treaty by name. ACTA stands for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. For all practical purposes, ACTA is an attempt to force the provisions of our Digital Millenium Copyright Act on the European Union. However, there are… [Read more…]
December 23, 2009
Verizon might have five times the 3G coverage over AT&T. What good is that coverage if it is slow as snot and (at the time writing this post) inaccessible. Also, let us not forget that nerdy guy does not go into the woods.
December 11, 2009
Should this be of any surprise. FCC line-sharing policy since 2002 has taken the United States off track when it comes to broadband deployment. The agency should reverse course and require AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and the other big ISPs to open their networks to smaller providers of residential broadband service at… [Read more…]
December 5, 2009
Nice phone (Storm), I like it but there are some things that absolutely get under my skin. 1. Crappy support for interactive web pages. There is no support for flash. It does not support streaming content. It does not support AJAX. If the website has interactive elements, forget it. Maybe RIM should stop trying to… [Read more…]
November 27, 2009
Did you know, that smoking isn’t good for your computer, either? It’s true, at least according to Apple. Two readers in different parts of the country claim that their Applecare warranties were voided due to secondhand smoke. Now, in addition to deleting complaints about bugs in their support forums, they are finding excuses for not… [Read more…]
July 14, 2009
Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil,… [Read more…]
May 30, 2009
Yesterday, Obama made another grandiose announcement. This time about cybersecurity. As expected, the conservatives are claiming that Obama is trying to nationalize the computer industry. How can they not pass up a chance to turn it into a partisan issue? However, they are neglecting to point out something rather significant about Obama’s proposals. As this… [Read more…]
April 23, 2009
Apple has pulled an iPhone application where you can shake a baby to death. There are some truly sick freaks out there.
March 9, 2009
Who would have thought there would be some type of deregulation that the republicans would oppose. By that I mean the lifting of the ban for the use of federal funds for stem cell research beyond the already approved lines. I will have to agree with the republicans on one point, Obama is placing us… [Read more…]
March 12, 2012
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