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Dan Danner: ObamaCare vs. Small Business - WSJ.com

2010-05-27T10:43:00.000-04:00

Dan Danner: ObamaCare vs. Small Business - WSJ.com

Supporters say the law will significantly help small businesses, focusing on the much-talked about small business tax credit. But the reality is that the tax credit is complex and very limited because firms qualify based on number of employees and average wages. The credit, which is only available for a maximum of six years, puts small business owners through a series of complicated "tests" to determine if they qualify and how much they will receive. Fewer than one-third of small businesses even pass the first three (of four) tests to qualify: have 25 employees or less, provide health insurance, and pay 50% of the cost of that insurance. More importantly, the credit is temporary, but health-care cost increases are permanent. When the credit ends, small businesses will be left paying full price. They'll also be forced to deal with all sorts of new taxes, fees and mandates buried in this 2,000-page law. One of these new taxes is a so-called health insurance fee. It's a massive $8 billion tax (that escalates to $14.3 billion by 2018) on insurance companies based on their market share. This tax will be paid almost exclusively by small businesses and individuals because the law specifically excludes self-insured plans, the plans that most big businesses and labor unions offer, from having to pay the tax.

Lessons From a Torpedo - WSJ.com

2010-05-22T13:56:00.000-04:00

"South Korea formally announced Thursday that one of its warships was sunk, and 46 of its sailors murdered, by a North Korean torpedo on March 26. The news itself comes as no surprise. What would be a surprise—a welcome one—is if the U.S. and its allies drew the appropriate conclusions about how to deal with Pyongyang going forward."

John Fund: Tea Parties vs. Unions in November - WSJ.com

2010-05-21T10:24:00.000-04:00

John Fund: Tea Parties vs. Unions in November - WSJ.com

In contrast to the tea party, there has been far too little scrutiny of the SEIU, whose membership of government and health-care workers is the fastest-growing of any union in the country. Andy Stern, the just retired head of the SEIU, was found to be the most frequent guest at the Obama White House last year, stopping by 22 times between January and September, more than all congressional leaders and cabinet members. The SEIU's close ties to the discredited group Acorn have largely been ignored. The same is true for the violence perpetrated by some of its members.

2008-03-04T21:42:00.000-05:00

Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push

"I've also heard that people may be 'stunned' about the extent to which Microsoft will embrace open-source software and interoperability in its plan. We shall see."

The only thing that will "stun" people is if they populate these data centers with Linux servers.

I don't think it beyond the realm of possibility either. Consider the alternative. Last time I worked with Microsoft servers it was still a royal pain in the backside to configure them remotely. Microsoft was just getting around to vending a tool (name of which I've forgotten) to allow for such things, but it worked poorly. No doubt it has improved, but my guess is that it takes more flunkies per gigahertz to run a Windows server farm than any other variety, and that doesn't count all the flunkies that have to go around repairing and re-installing software on end-user's desks. All well and good when it is an invisibly small part of your product line. But imagine all the companies that will line up to get rid of their own computer rooms and have Microsoft provide that service to them. These companies, some of which may remember that they actually spent less when they were dependent on the big bad mainframe, won't mind paying a premium to get themselves out of the computer maintenance business again.

Timesharing2.0 here we come!

But when it gets rolling, it will no longer matter to Microsoft that they set an example, "eating their own dog food" so to speak with Windows server, which has eaten (no pun intended) about as far into the Unix and Mainframe server markets as it is going to. Microsoft is going to be focused on saving Kilowatts, efficient and transparent virtualization, and most of all, centers that can run with almost no personnel on hand, be administered from Redmond, or India, or anywhere, including a web page at the customer site. They may, in the long run, even see some advantages in vending cheap thin clients to their customers, because, after all, they will be responsible for keeping these machines up to date and virus free and we all know that's almost impossible with Windows. Deals they have with Novell and Citrix may well grease the skids for this thing being an almost totally transparent switch from the hokey mostly client paradigm we suffer under now to something that resembles the true client/server model we talked about in the 90s.

I promise not to be stunned.

WSJ.com - The Real Gas Gougers

2006-05-11T09:26:00.000-04:00

"Mark this 'gouging' law down as the first step back toward the oil and gas price controls of the 1970s. We know that chapter of history ended poorly for American consumers -- with supply disruptions, gas lines, and increased dependence on foreign oil. Under Congress's new brainchild, the next time there is a gasoline supply disruption, service station owners may well hold prices artificially low to avoid jail sentences. As night follows day, that will lead to shortages, lines and stranded motorists. So if Congress thinks that voters are in a foul mood now, wait until their price-control scheme offers them no gas at 'non-gouging' prices." test

Cafe Sole - Where It's Always a Sunny Day!

2005-12-26T15:42:00.000-05:00

Computer Security, Encryption, Legal Help - Axsmith.net

2005-12-04T15:34:00.000-05:00

Former co-worker doing well.

Business Opportunities Weblog | How Much Is My Blog Worth

2005-10-31T14:30:00.000-05:00

My blog is worth $1,129.08.
How much is your blog worth?

Well, I guess this has to do with it being my first Blogspot thingy, even though I'm not using it so much these days. I wonder what my home based blog would be worth? Might be hard to measure as I've taken it down. All, moot of course as nobody would actually PAY anything for them.

WEES Radio 107.9 FM

2005-10-17T19:04:00.000-04:00

WEES Radio 107.9 FM

Dan's 20th Century Abandonware - Home Page

2005-10-13T03:35:00.000-04:00

Heh.

TEXTKIT - Greek and Latin Learning Tools

2005-09-27T09:26:00.000-04:00

Ooooo, neato.

Debcon 5 Videos

2005-09-19T03:19:00.000-04:00

Comparing BibleTranslations: Textual Criticism and Interpretation

2005-09-19T02:55:00.000-04:00

Los Lunas: Small Town Lifestyle, Big City Convenience

2005-09-16T17:48:00.000-04:00

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2005-09-12T09:33:00.000-04:00

VDH's Private Papers::The Forbidden History: "One has only to read the historical record, read the words of the Koran and the hadiths (sayings attributed to the Prophet), and read the centuries of interpretations in Muslim theology and jurisprudence, to know that today?s jihadists have not ?highjacked? or ?distorted? Islam but are simply traditionalists, squarely in line with Islam?s historical identity."

2005-09-04T23:43:00.000-04:00

My Big Fat American Summer

2005-09-02T23:34:00.000-04:00

The Myths of Open Source - Open Source - CIO Magazine Mar 1,2004 (oldie, but goodie)

2005-09-02T13:52:00.000-04:00

1999 Budgeting for flood control: "Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity (hurricane protection), Louisiana- The Committee recommendation concurs with the House allowance of $11,848,000 for the Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity (hurricane protection), Louisiana project. In addition, in light of recent devastating flooding, the Corps is directed to evaluate the feasibility of expediting the remaining features of the project in the vicinity of St. Charles Parish, and to provide the Committee with an accelerated construction schedule and funding profile through project completion, along with the feasibility and impacts of incorporating four additional pumping stations, and other needed structures, in the New Orleans west unit, St. Charles Parish levee part of the project. Lake Pontchartrain storm water discharge, Louisiana- The Committee has included $850,000 to continue the development of this project. Further, the facility owners shall receive credit for design and construction, compatible with project requirements, accomplished by the facility owner prior to execution of the necessary agreements with the non-Federal sponsor. Ouachita River levees, Louisiana- The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,300,000 for the Corps of Engineers to complete the rehabilitation or replacement of deteriorated drainage structures in the Ouachita River levee system in Louisiana."

2005-08-31T19:49:00.000-04:00

Example of MSN Spaces Sucking: "Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the 'Refresh' button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the application event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur."

2005-08-31T16:14:00.000-04:00

WSJ.com - Case of the Vanishing X-rays: "When Judge Jack brought this troubling fact up again in last week's hearing, Mr. Laminack shocked everyone by explaining that he doubts his clients ever had asbestosis. Put another way, so eager was Mr. Laminack to support the credibility of his silicosis claims that he admitted in federal court that he believed his clients had previously filed fraudulent asbestos claims. His admission is all the more notable because Mr. Laminack was indicting some of the lions of the asbestos bar -- Dickie Scruggs, for instance -- who (according to defense attorneys) were among those filing 'Alexander' asbestos claims."

2005-08-31T15:54:00.000-04:00

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Katrina and the Waves): "Louisiana isn't a major U.S. supplier of coffee in the sense that beans for the popular beverage are grown there, but New Orleans is a major port of entry for coffee (about a sixth of the coffee imported into the U.S. is stored there), and supplies of the product warehoused in New Oreleans may have been damaged by Hurricane Katrina. (The Chicago Board of Trade has said there were almost 733,000 bags of coffee, each weighing 132 or 150 pounds, in storage in New Orleans on the day Katrina moved ashore.) However, rumors about coffee price increases remain largely speculative until coffee-storing New Orleans warehouses are inventoried and assessed for damage." Truely disturbing news.

2005-08-31T11:30:00.000-04:00

Creation Magazine Archive

2005-08-30T10:39:00.000-04:00

AMD ahead of Intel on low power | CNET News.com

2005-08-30T10:30:00.000-04:00

The reinvention of Texas Instruments | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

2005-08-29T23:24:00.000-04:00

Andyco.com: "PowerHouse: Breaking the cycle of PowerPoint addiction."

2005-08-29T17:33:00.000-04:00

WSJ.com - What Women Want: "When it comes to single-parent families, Everybody's Doing It. That, it seems, is the received wisdom -- but it's not true. As Charles Murray noticed decades ago and demographers have known for some time, the structure of families has diverged drastically by social class. The out-of-wedlock birth rate among women with no more than a high-school education has skyrocketed since the 1960s but remains very low among college graduates. Divorce has declined among the well-off but is climbing among the unskilled. Although almost all college graduates still marry eventually, marriage rates are dropping steadily among those without a high-school degree."

2005-08-26T09:43:00.000-04:00

DRUDGE REPORT from the Wayback Machine

2005-08-26T08:42:00.000-04:00

The Ergosphere

2005-08-26T08:36:00.000-04:00

Winds of Change.NET

2005-08-25T23:08:00.000-04:00

Frames of Reference Interesting Biblical reference.

2005-08-25T12:42:00.000-04:00

"Law is whatever is RIGHT, not what lawyers say. Business is that stuff that gets in the way of doing what is RIGHT. Economics is what interferes with doing the RIGHT thing, which is giving everything away." Anonymous Slashdot post. I think this sums up left wing politics.

2005-08-23T19:46:00.000-04:00

WorldNetDaily: Hannity electrifies 'Marketing of Evil'

2005-08-23T15:08:00.000-04:00

Sneaking Suspicions Home Page Interesting Delaware blog.

2005-08-23T12:42:00.000-04:00

Legal disassembly | The Register

2005-08-23T00:37:00.000-04:00

Ocean City Hotels, Golf, Travel, Maryland - New OC Restaurants Open Doors to Beachgoers on OceanCity.com

2005-08-21T11:54:00.000-04:00

Blogger BuzzBlog about blogging from blogger, errr

2005-08-20T01:11:00.000-04:00

Gas price increases spur interest in telecommuting - Computerworld Finally 1975 has arrived!

2005-08-18T19:28:00.000-04:00

Ariz. High School Trades Books for Laptops: "'Because most schools are not starting from scratch ... most districts are using a blended approach now and will phase out their printed textbooks,' he said. For example, in the Henrico County school system near Richmond, Va., students in 23 middle and high schools will be using laptops for the fifth straight year, though teachers still use textbooks, said spokesman Mychael Dickerson. Many publishers of traditional textbooks are offering digital formats to address the growing use of computers, and that provided some of the material for Empire High's curriculum. Teachers also used subscription services and free Web resources. Students get the materials over the school's wireless Internet network. The school has a central filtering system that limits what can be downloaded on campus. The system also controls chat room visits and instant messaging that might otherwise distract wired students. Students can turn in homework online. A Web program checks against Internet sources for plagiarized material and against the work of other students, Baker said. 'If you copy from your buddy, it's going to get caught,' he said."

2005-08-17T15:58:00.000-04:00

USATODAY.com - 'I'd leave here broke': "In a letter to the homeowners' lawyer a year ago, the development corporation justified its behavior by saying, 'We know that your clients did not expect to live in city-owned property for free.' Well, they might have expected not to be bullied for exercising their right to be heard in court."

2005-08-17T15:35:00.000-04:00

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Bombs explode across Bangladesh

2005-08-17T03:51:00.000-04:00

New worms hit U.S. media outlets, companies

2005-08-17T00:53:00.000-04:00

Pardon for 'sex slave' executed for killing her abusive captor: "The trial of Ms Baker was set for 14 August 1944. On that day, an all-white, all-male jury was picked, the trial was held, a verdict of murder was reached, and the judge pronounced the death sentence. No forensic evidence was presented, Ms Baker's state appointed lawyer called no outside witnesses in her defence, and hearsay evidence against her was allowed."

2005-08-17T00:42:00.000-04:00

Bill Clinton's Post-Presidency - A Plan for World Domination: "Clinton is still a man of huge public-service aspirations. He?s still adored abroad. And he?s still considered president by the nation?s estranged, bluer half. Yet he?s also still deeply wounded, burdened by a sense of both underappreciation and unrealized promise. Much more than his successor, Clinton understood exactly which direction the world was headed when he twice took the oath of office, yet he didn?t, for reasons both circumstantial and of his own unlovely making, deliver some of the things he valued most: universal health care, a shored-up system of social security, energy independence, security at home and in the Middle East. He can?t rest on his laurels. So what does a man do with all this feral hunger?to do more, to set the record straight?and all this hurt, God, so much hurt, which steams off him with such intensity it practically blurs the air?"

2005-08-17T00:16:00.000-04:00

Taking on record companies: "Santangelo was sued by several record companies in U.S. District Court in White Plains in February. The record companies said Santangelo's home computer and Internet account were used to illegally trade copyrighted song files. The record companies say people like Santangelo are destroying the multibillion-dollar industry." Where is my violin?

2005-08-16T23:47:00.000-04:00

The story of Mel, a Real Programmer from FOLDOC

2005-08-16T17:42:00.000-04:00

TimesDispatch.com | PHOTOS: iBook sale frenzy HAHA! Got this from:News.com

2005-08-16T15:02:00.000-04:00

The Southwest Florida GNU/Linux Users Group - Seagate warranty -- not recommended for professional use: "As I write this now (Sunday afternoon or more affectionately known as day 5), I'm still waiting for a replacement drive from Seagate. I'm not holding my breath, as I wrote earlier, I've already arranged for a replacement from my vendor. I just cannot believe that this is how Seagate responds to warranty claims for their higher end products. This is not a run-of-the-mill IDE drive that came with my ordinary workstation. This is a server quality hot swappable SCSI 320 hard drive. This is the kind of hardware you'd regularly find in a server running someone's business."

2005-08-16T14:50:00.000-04:00

Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden: "'I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole,' Clinton tells New York magazine this week. 'Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early.'" Yeah. Pull the other one.

2005-08-15T21:51:00.000-04:00

vb developers embrace linux... say what???

2005-08-15T16:18:00.000-04:00

Mac Rumors: Apple and Google Partnership? Yawn.

2005-08-15T16:13:00.000-04:00

Vista Gives the Linux Desktop a Chance: "Microsoft isn't saying how it ended up with corrupted files on the Microsoft Download Center. That sure doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy about Microsoft's protection today or tomorrow. Come on, Linux desktop guys. There's a golden opportunity to take the wind out of Microsoft's sales sails here. All you need do is to keep making the Linux desktop better. Microsoft is already doing its part to make itself an also-ran."

2005-08-15T05:20:00.000-04:00

Video Without Boundaries, Inc. MediaREADY? 5000 Advanced Digital Media Center

2005-08-15T04:53:00.000-04:00

A Sense of Deja Boom - Yahoo! News: "Yet listen closely, and there's a forlorn quiver in her voice--indeed in the voices of many of this state's half-million hard-boiled residents. Dating back to the 1920s, there's never been an energy boom in Wyoming without a bust trailing behind it."

2005-08-11T17:50:00.000-04:00

PBS | I, Cringely . August 11, 2005 - The Gloves Come Off: "This is why the cable TV companies are all ramping-up their Internet bandwidth. For the moment, they still have an advantage, but in another year or two that will be lost, so they are trying to bulk-up now, hoping customers will later be too lazy to switch."

2005-08-11T15:33:00.000-04:00

The Future Of Radio

2005-08-11T14:48:00.000-04:00

GrayLady.com: NY Times explodes wall between print, Web

2005-08-10T23:12:00.000-04:00

DavidByrne.com - home page

2005-08-10T16:19:00.000-04:00

Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Paul Feyerabend examined the history of science with a more critical eye, and ultimately rejected any prescriptive methodology at all. He went beyond Lakatos? argument for ad hoc hypothesis, to say that science would not have progressed without making use of any and all available methods to support new theories. He rejected any reliance on a scientific method, along with any special authority for science that might derive from such a method. Rather, he claimed, ironically, that if one is keen to have a universally valid methodological rule, anything goes would be the only candidate. For Feyerabend, any special status that science might have derives from the social and physical value of the results of science rather than its method. Following from Feyerabend, the whole 'Popper project' to define science around one particular methodology?which accepts nothing except itself?is a perverse example of what he supposedly decried: a closed circle argument. Moreover, it makes Popper effectively a philosophical nominalist, which has nothing to do with empirical sciences at all. Although Popper's claim of the singular characteristic of falsifiability does provide a way to replace invalid inductive thinking (empiricism) with deductive, falsifiable reasoning, it appeared to Feyerabend that doing so is neither necessary for, nor conducive to, scientific progress."

2005-08-10T16:16:00.000-04:00

Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2005-08-10T02:08:00.000-04:00

SupInfoCom - Arles

2005-08-09T11:38:00.000-04:00

Discovery Lands Safely in California: "Discovery swooped through the predawn darkness and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert at 5:11 a.m. PDT, concluding the conclusion of the first shuttle re-entry since Columbia's tragic return." I'm glad it has concluded,

2005-08-08T20:16:00.000-04:00

MS nixes Google hire | The Register: "'Lee is not a search expert,' they state, pretty baldly. 'throughout his career ... Lee was an executive who managed groups developing technologies in the area of speech engines and enhancing the user interface.' All his triumphs were someone else's work, they insist. And Lee didn't know anything about the commercial sphere, either. Hey, welcome to Google, you phoney. In fact the whole lawsuit reads like a work of fiction, and deserves to be forgetten fairly quickly. Two questions can't be, though - why did Microsoft push back now, with Lee? And how significant is this hiring spree? Is Google trophy hunting or are these make-or-break hires? The latter is a very good question, and it's worth looking at how much value media-visible rocket scientists have contributed. Recent evidence suggests not."

2005-08-08T18:00:00.000-04:00

Acer Ferrari 4000 notebook | The Register: "When it came to raw power under SYSmark 2002 I expected the Acer to trail the Samsung slightly. After all, the Samsung had a 2GHz Pentium M chip compared to the 1.8GHz Turion in the Acer. However, I was proved wrong, with the Ferrari 4000 edging ahead of the X50 with a score of 252 compared to 241. The X50 did seem to have the edge when it came to PCMark 05 though, turning in an overall score of 2791, while the Ferrari 4000 could only manage 2661."

2005-08-08T14:16:00.000-04:00

WSJ.com - The Theology of Global Warming: "First, the 'consensus' is ostensibly based upon the several Assessment Reports of the IPCC. One must bear in mind that the summary reports are political documents put together by government policy makers, who, to put it mildly, treat rather cavalierly the expressed uncertainties and caveats in the underlying scientific reports. Moreover, the IPCC was created to support a specific political goal. It is directed to support the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. In turn, the Convention calls for an effective international response to deal with 'the common concern of all mankind' -- in short, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. Statements by the leaders of the IPCC have been uninhibitedly political. Second, science is not a matter of consensus, as the histories of Galileo, Copernicus, Pasteur, Einstein and others will attest. Science depends not on speculation but on conclusions verified through experiment. Verification is more than computer simulations -- whose conclusions mirror the assumptions built in the model. Irrespective of the repeated assertions regarding a 'scientific consensus,' there is neither a consensus nor is consensus science."

2005-08-08T14:03:00.000-04:00

WSJ.com - The Novak Exception, Again: "As long ago as February 2004 ('The Novak Exception'), we warned that the media would regret their demand for a special counsel to discover Mr. Novak's sources, since that same counsel would eventually turn on them. And so the special counsel has, sending Judith Miller of the New York Times to jail for contempt. The members of the liberal press pack owe Mr. Novak an apology, not vice versa."

2005-08-05T22:30:00.000-04:00

Commerce Dept. Signs up For Red Hat

2005-08-05T19:28:00.000-04:00

Microsoft Shops at Wal-Mart for an Operating Chief - New York Times Gees. Isn't this headline about 3-days old? NYT needs to go back to making up the news so they can get out ahead of everyone else.

2005-08-05T16:38:00.000-04:00

Worm risk over Win2K flaw | The Register: "'Whilst news of this latest Microsoft flaw is presently fairly opaque to the industry, we cannot expect that it is, or will remain secret from the so-called 'black hats'. One can expect one or more worms to exploit this flaw as an attack vector very shortly,' said Tom Newton, product development manager of firewall developer SmoothWall."

2005-08-05T15:55:00.000-04:00

Fireplaces by Heat & Glo: Gas Fireplaces, Wood Fireplaces, Electric Fireplaces Too bad this website is running Windows on an old 486. Might be easier to go there on a real road as opposed to the "information superhighway".

2005-08-05T13:07:00.000-04:00

Developing alien technology? MS can help | The Register: "We're not quite sure what the difference is between 'redaction' and 'deleting' here, but presumably if we could work it out an MS black ops team would storm the building and erase our memories with an MIB-style device. Still, it's better to be safe than sorry, even if Microsoft does add the following caveat: **We recommend that you carefully review any documents redacted using this tool to confirm that all the information that you intended to redact was successfully redacted**. Yes, then eat the original, set fire to the building and kill yourself using the 'Redmond Blue Pill' as supplied with your end user licence. Thank you. Bootnote: *In our dictionary, 'redaction' is simply preparing for publication, or editing. Mind you, it is an 1873 edition - printed long before Microsoft redefined the English language paradigm with its magnificent Encarta offering."

2005-08-05T13:05:00.000-04:00

Download details: Office 2003 Add-in: Word Redaction: "The Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in makes it easy for you to mark sections of a document for redaction. You can then redact the document so that the sections you specified are blacked out. You can either print the redacted document or use it electronically." Or you can simply redact Word from your computer and be done with it.

2005-08-05T12:28:00.000-04:00

U.S., U.K. Airlift Robots to Help Russian Submariners: "The situation is atypical,'' Alexander Kosolapov head of the Pacific Fleet's press service, told Rossiya Television after the accident was first announced this morning. "But it's not worth dramatizing.'' What is it with these Russians? They are so "I can handle it, I can handle it!" and then so "Ooops, I can't handle it!"

2005-08-05T00:52:00.000-04:00

First potential virus risk for Windows Vista found | CNET News.com: "A virus writer has published the first examples of malicious code that targets Microsoft's upcoming command-line shell, code-named Monad, according to Finnish antivirus maker F-Secure. If the technology is included in Windows Vista, these could be one of the first viruses to target the new operating system formerly known as Longhorn, F-Secure said Thursday." The thing isn't even out yet and there are viruses for it? Way to go Microsoft!

2005-08-04T17:09:00.000-04:00

Microsoft develops new 'Super' language | The Register: "Describing the importance of indexed search and retrieval in Windows at last month's partner conference in Minnesota, Ballmer went one further, by describing the capability as not just 'super' important or even 'super, super' important, but, he ruminated: 'Super, super important, super important.' Watch out for next year's analysts? summit."

2005-08-04T16:51:00.000-04:00

The INQUIRER guide to roadmaps Very handy reference.

2005-08-04T14:32:00.000-04:00

Darknet: "Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation is a new book that offers first-person accounts of how the personal media revolution will impact movies, music, computing, television and games. Released May 2005."

2005-08-03T23:57:00.000-04:00

Gore gored on new TV network | News.blog | CNET News.com: "It's not Blogma's intention to make routinely sarcastic comments about politicians who claim to be Web-savvy. (Honest.) Yet we couldn't help but notice the less-than-flattering blogger reviews of Al Gore's latest 'invention.'"

2005-08-03T20:19:00.000-04:00

MercuryNews.com | 08/03/2005 | VCs party like it's 1999 with Brilliant Shopper deal: "Because it's hot, and VCs are the lemmings. Google and Yahoo started making money hand over fist, because of all the advertisers wanting to pay big bucks to list ads beside search results. And now a whole industry of others are trying to replicate that success -- either with an advertising model, or seeking another way to get a cut."

2005-08-03T16:31:00.000-04:00

Microsoft Vista means you need new monitors: "The missing technology is Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management and while it is a de facto standard for display copy-protection in televisions, so far it has not made much of an impact in the computer display market. Amongst those that will not have it are the people who spent shedloads impressing their friends with their new Dell UltraSharp super sexy 2405FPW widescreen display." I can hardly wait. Oh... I can wait. I don't use Winderz. I'm still thinking about getting one of those Penguin AMD-64 workstations with Red Hat pre-inwstalled that I saw when I went to check on the blade servers (below).

2005-08-03T16:26:00.000-04:00

LINUXWORLD SF: Penguin adds new 64-bit BladeRunners - Computerworld: "AUGUST 03, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Linux hardware and clustering company Penguin Computing Inc. is releasing two new blade servers in its BladeRunner family, the 4130 and the 4140, based on 64-bit chips from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., respectively. Penguin will be showing off the blades at the LinuxWorld show taking place in San Francisco from Monday to Thursday." Hmmm. I thought Bladerunner went out of business. maybe they just got baught or something.

2005-08-03T16:04:00.000-04:00

Comic Strip Blog: NASA dumps space shuttle design and goes back to primitive rockets I remember having arguments about this back in the 80s. Sometimes an idea just has to be tried and seen to fail before people will accept that it was a bad idea. There are a lot of notions that come to my mind that fit this mold. So why are people always so unwilling to try new ideas? And once they ARE dragged along why are both proponents and oponents often so reluctant to simply record the results and move on?

2005-08-03T14:06:00.000-04:00

The Final Theory: Interesting.

2005-08-03T13:03:00.000-04:00

Science that Backs Up Faith - Christianity Today Magazine

2005-08-02T20:36:00.000-04:00

A Convert With a Crush on His Mac - Computerworld: "One of the main reasons for my initial interest in the Mac was security. Having spent countless hours repairing my family's, friends' and co-workers' computers after the ravages of malware, it occurred to me that there must be a better alternative. With its Unix core, the Mac OS X operating system was very appealing to me."

2005-08-02T17:06:00.000-04:00

Understanding the TCP/IP protocol, Part 1 - Computerworld

2005-08-02T15:40:00.000-04:00

Linux vendors cozy up to Debian to push into enterprise - Computerworld

2005-08-01T21:02:00.000-04:00

Muslim-American Scholars Issue Fatwa Condemning Terrorism- U.S. Department Of State

2005-08-01T19:54:00.000-04:00

? Respecting licenses goes both ways | Open Source | ZDNet.com

2005-08-01T19:29:00.000-04:00

Funds of a Bronx Youth Group Allegedly Lent to Air America - August 1, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper: "The top executive at a Bronx youth organization said yesterday that the former director of Air America Radio received more than $800,000 in loans for himself and the radio network from the nonprofit organization while serving as its development director." Looks like a nice place to work. I wonder if they have dental.

2005-08-01T18:33:00.000-04:00

Hacker forced new planet discovery out of the closet: "It transpired that Brown and his friends had been sitting on the information since 2003 when they snapped it with a 122cm telescope at the Palomar Observatory. However they couldn?t confirm much about it until it was analysed again last January. So in the time honoured tradition of boffins everywhere they decided to keep the data from the common people until they knew a bit more. Brown said that data is still being processed and it will take at least six months before astronomers can determine the planet?s exact size. The planet seems to be about 1.5 times the size of Pluto, which is usually dubbed a planetoid because it is so small." That's allright, the hackers probably have faster computers and aren't running Windows. Maybe they can release the info on the planet's size sooner.

2005-08-01T03:31:00.000-04:00

corante.com : "The world?s first blog media company, Corante is a trusted, unbiased source on technology, science and business that?s authored by highly respected thinkers, commentators and journalists; read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders and followers; and is helping to lead the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary"

2005-08-01T03:28:00.000-04:00

EFF: DeepLinks - Microsoft Sells Out the Public on CGMS-A

2005-07-31T16:54:00.000-04:00

Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents - New York Times: "I have not seen the software in use. But if I were in a position to make a ruling, and even if I accepted the originality claim on its face, I would process these swiftly: Rejected. Microsoft's other pending applications - 3,368 at last count - should receive the same treatment. And while tidying up, let's also toss out the 3,955 patents that Microsoft has already been issued."

2005-07-29T23:10:00.000-04:00

Patent examiners battle stress

2005-07-29T08:48:00.000-04:00

Steve Gillmor's Inforouter | ZDNet.com: "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria. WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY post_date ASC LIMIT 0,1' at line 1] SELECT ID,post_title FROM gillmor_posts WHERE post_date > '' AND post_date_gmt < '2005-07-29 12:43:41' AND post_status = 'publish' AND ID != ORDER BY post_date ASC LIMIT 0,1" Well, here is a little clue about how ZDNet operates. Oh for the days when programers checked return codes (and subprograms provided them).

2005-07-27T02:12:00.000-04:00

Mini-Microsoft: Great! Amazing! Innovate! Huge!: "I can only guess that this is laying the stage for the Financial Analysts Meeting coming up at Microsoft this Thursday. Oh, if I could only get there in time to put up all sorts of questions these analysts need to be drilling Microsoft about. But I'm hoping that crowd is bringing both hip waders and BS detectors and won't be shy to call BS."

2005-07-26T23:00:00.000-04:00

The Wilson-Plame-Novak-Rove Blame Game - FactCheck.org Nice timeline for the forgetful.

2005-07-26T22:51:00.000-04:00

The Counterterrorism Blog: "The first multi-expert blog dedicated solely to counterterrorism issues, serving as a gateway to the community for policymakers and serious researchers. Designed to provide realtime information about cases and policy developments."

2005-07-26T22:44:00.000-04:00

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table) VERY handy list.

2005-07-26T22:36:00.000-04:00

Martin Doors - New Vista Windows!: " # Easy to change design # Easy to clean # Easy removal" Looking forward to being able to easily remove the new Windows!