Topics on my particular interests.
I’ve dealt a lot with software piracy issues, primarily with Project Badger (detecting and preventing piracy is one of its primary purposes). And I didn’t have to learn the hard way that you have to be very careful before calling any user a pirate, or allowing your software to do so — paying customers don’t …
One of the repeating items on my to-do list is cleaning off my office desk. It’s something I committed to recently, to try to keep my working area tidy; so long as I keep on top of it every few days, it only takes a few minutes each time. But I’d found myself putting it …
Want proof? Read this. Every time the US government reacts in fear, doing a little more damage to the Constitutional rights of the people, the terrorists have won another battle. If they manage to get another Bush Jr into office, the erosion will pick up its pace again. Destination: Fascist America. And if you think …
I try to keep an open mind on most subjects, but I’ve been skeptical of “electrosensitives” ever since I heard of them. While it’s possible that some people can sense some forms of electromagnetic radiation that most of us can’t, the only way I can see that such an ability could cause the problems that …
An interesting idea for getting cargo into space. Oddly enough, it’s not something that I’ve heard about in science fiction, so maybe it’s not as obvious as it looks in hindsight.
I don’t often delve into politics here, partly because I find them distasteful and partly because I know that, realistically, any amount of good I could do would be minuscule. But I have to make an exception today. The government of the United States is broken. Just about everyone agrees with that. And just about …
Tired of having to remember to charge your cell phone every night, or of running out of juice in the middle of a call? Scientists may have come up with a solution for you: just go for a walk. Oddly enough, I’ve never seen this kind of thing mentioned in science fiction. It seems obvious …
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It’s a very long article, so I’ve only skimmed the answers that their chosen experts gave, but it’s very odd to me that the answers were so varied. Market share was brought up several times, as an argument for a Mac (or Linux, though that was barely mentioned), but others said that market share matters …
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Or, to translate from the very British terminology: companies using Windows are planning to upgrade to Windows 7 before the first service pack. Of course, that’s hardly news to us in the hard-core tech-geek community, because we see Windows 7 as nothing more than a large (and very much needed) service pack for Windows Vista …
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Google is taking over the ‘net — in more ways than one. Apparently advertising pays a lot more than we thought.