Topics on my particular interests.
This article interests me. Not for the prurient aspects — sorry, I’m just not all that interested in dolls, even life-sized and anatomically-correct ones — but for what happens when artificial intelligence can make them a lot more real? When you can easily believe that a robotic woman is the real thing, except that she’s …
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Chris Linfoot had a couple of really snarky anti-Microsoft posts recently. Hello, Microsoft! Sit up and pay attention, you’re losing customers daily — and you’re not too big to care, no matter what you think!
ZDNet has an interesting series, profiling the major Presidential candidates and their stated technology views. So far they’ve got Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, John McCain, John Edwards, and Chris Dodd; I don’t know if they plan to cover anyone else. Of course, you have to take what they say they support with a …
After all the government kerfuffle over the last couple years about moving to an open format for office documents (because proprietary formats could be discontinued by the vendor at any time, rendering documents stored in them unreadable), I’m shocked to read that after the latest Office 2003 update, Office can no longer access older format …
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You were a good year, and an interesting one in several fields (especially technology-related ones), but it’s time to bid you farewell. Not much of an entry, buy hey, it’s New Year’s Eve. GoddessJ and I have more important things to attend to. 😉
As reported on the LifeHacker site: an XSS flaw might have compromised your account, regardless of the OS or browser you’re running. The flaw has since been patched, but if your account was subverted prior to the fix, it will still have the malicious filters in it. Follow the links from that page to find …
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As a fan of science-fiction, I’ve often paused to wonder just why an alien race might, in real life, be interested in Earth and/or humans. The plots in SF books, movies, and games are, for the most part, simply laughable — they want humans as food or because we’re a good place to lay their …
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Oooh… power! I’m eagerly waiting for these puppies to show up in consumer laptops.
For those who strongly dislike Microsoft’s latest offering and how it’s being crammed down everyone’s throats, I offer this article. The last few paragraphs say it all: What would it be like if a single piece of software were simultaneously afflicted with all the maladies listed above? It would surely be a gloomy prospect. To …
As a software developer, I have occasionally been tempted to put… um, “colorful” language… in my source code and comments, especially about whatever vagaries of the OS API that I’ve just spent several days locating and working around. I generally manage to suppress the urge, because it’s rather embarrassing when you go to share or …