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US Ban on Internet Gambling Looks Like Losing Bet, $100 Billion at Stake
2007-10-13 00:00:00 [ Comments: 0 ] - In the United States, gambling tends to be legislated state by state, because of that nifty 10th amendment to the US constitution. and there are, we admit some crazy rules. In some states you can have bingo, but not poker or horse racing, or pari-mutuel betting. In some states, the state themselv... More About: Internet , Gambling , Billion , Looks
Environmentally Sound Nuclear Power
2007-10-12 00:00:00 [ Comments: 0 ] - I'm about to say some things that will annoy a lot of people in the environmental clique. But, Hillary Clinton is starting to say some of these same things, so perhaps a sea change of attitudes towards nuclear power are in order. First, Solar, Wind, and Water power are not going to produce enough... More About: Power , Nuclear , Sound , Nuclear power , Ally
Oversimplifying Environmentalism
2007-10-10 00:00:00 [ Comments: 0 ] - To many people, the entire universe of environmentalism, and saving the planet boils down to one chemical, carbon. Unfortunately, that really doesn't begin to encompass the complexity of our environment. Our environment is affected by a large number of parameters, ranging from insolation (sunlig... More About: Environmentalism , Envi , Mentalism
The iPhone is all that? Try the OpenMoko!
2007-10-09 00:00:00 [ Comments: 1 ] - Looking at a universe where Apple and the Deathstar (AT&T) work together to put out the sexiest, hottest piece of technology, things look pretty good. Until you realize you paid a serious premium for that iPhone, and that you're guaranteed to pay a $20/mo premium over the same service on ANY other... More About: Iphone , OpenMoko , The O
Don't Let This Happen to You!
2007-10-07 00:00:00 [ Comments: 1 ] - Dateline: Chicago, IL, USA Headline: Woman finds Boyfriend's Po...
A Small Proposal to Save the Earth
2007-10-07 00:00:00 [ Comments: 2 ] - Consider the lowly receipt. 3-5 inches of paper, a little bit of ink (or worse yet, a coating of a thermal imaging substance, that responds to heat) all with the aim of 2 things. First, a receipt gives you a record of your purchase, for your records. Second, a receipt acts as a flag, indi... More About: Earth , Proposal , Small , Save , Prop
It's the Economy, Stupid
2007-10-07 00:00:00 [ Comments: 0 ] - A few months ago, I was at a get together with friends, and I pointed out that the economy, for all it's perceived "strength", was really dancing on the edge of recession, or possibly worse. When I mentioned this, I was asked what made me think this was the case. I pointed out that Car Dealership... More About: Economy , Stupid
NEW RSS Feed!
2007-10-03 00:00:00 [ Comments: 1 ] - We here at All That's Evil are always striving to provide the best service for our readers, because of this we have changed our RSS Feed ; It is now dynamically compiled when its hit, meaning that it is always up to date! Because of this, it has a new location. you can find it here at: ...
Death Star Communications Company Works to Silence Free Speech
2007-10-03 00:00:00 [ Comments: 0 ] - In a move that should surprise no-one who's familiar with their spiffy Death Star logo, AT&T's new Terms of Service (TOS) gives AT&T the right to terminate service for those users whom AT&T believes "tends to damage the name or re... More About: Company , Free , Free Speech
If Not US, who? If not NOW, when?
2007-09-30 00:00:00 We here at All That's Evil believe that there is nothing so bad, that we can't make it worse (for who is the usual question, here). We are starting a bit of a Hacktivism project, called BurmaSave to raise awareness about wh...
Bus Driver of Doom Hits Cyclist, Cyclist Barely Avoids Arrest
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Our story takes us to that capital of American Greenness, Hollywood, California. Seems that a cyclist (bicycle-rider) was minding his own business, in the duly appointed lane of Hollywood Blvd, when a Metro City Bus driver decides that the cyclist is apparently infringing on "her" place in the univ... More About: Arrest , Driver , Hits , Doom , Barely
Ahmadinejad visits Columbia - Experiences Free Speech
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Should President Ahmadinejad from Iran have been invited to speak at Columbia University? I asked this question of several dozen people, in the past 24 hours, and the best, most outstanding, most American answer I got was "Of course. It's his first chance to experience Free Speech". Maybe he'll... More About: Experiences , Free Speech
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours.... More About: Shut , Cria
IPhone
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Well, I didn't think I would ever have to write this article. I like Apple, I have a mac, its all the power of linux with a GUI thats easier and nicer than windows, but unfortunately even Apple has succumbed to the dark side. Now, as we all know, the iPhone is Apples answer to the problem of a ce... More About: Iphone
Burmese Bloggers fight Censorship
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Burma born blogger Ko Htike is one of a handful of people fighting to present the real story, as it happens, from Burma. He's working out of London, posting reports, videos, and pictures of what's rea... More About: Censorship , Fight , Bloggers
Tipping Points Achieved - Amazon to provide DRM free Music
2007-09-28 00:00:00 The Street is reporting that Amazon .com is taking aim at Apple's iTunes Music store, by betting that selling music unemcumbered by DRM at a better price point ($0.89... More About: Free Music , Free , Points
Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?
2007-09-28 00:00:00 "An editorial written by Don Reisinger over at CNet's News.com takes Microsoft to task for the outright failure of Vista . He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of the company as, despite years in development, Vista was delivered to market too early. His suggestion? Support those who are running... More About: Abandon
Talk Show Co-Host doesn't Know or Care if World is Flat!
2007-09-21 00:00:00 Narrow-minded Fundamental views are not just the property of "the Religious Right" as the new co-host for "The View" Sheri Shepherd proves. She declared that she doesn't believe in evolution, and has never thought about whether or not the world is FLAT. Wait.. Didnt' we disprove the Flat Earth th... More About: World , Show , Care , Talk , Talk Show
Big Oil, The War in Iraq, and The Real Numbers
2007-09-21 00:00:00 Let's have a little fun. Oil prices before we invaded Iraq (under the various pretexts of (1) Fighting Terrorism, (2) Taking care of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDS), (3) Getting rid of an evil nasty kills his own people Dictator (4) Spin Du Jour, were at roughly $32 per barrel of crude oil. We'... More About: War in Iraq , Numbers , Real , Number
Strange things on the Internet
2007-09-21 00:00:00 When traversing the Internet , occasionally you come across something that, for reasons totally beyond explanation, becomes a hit with a cross section of the Internet population. Most of you have probably at least heard of the "LOLCATS", over at ... More About: Strange , Things , The Internet , Tran
Apple Shows Evil Side, with Locked iPod database
2007-09-18 00:00:00 When the ever stylish, always hip Apple decides to be Evil , they excel at it. Once again, Apple has tweaked the code that handles updating the database in the iPod. They've changed the code that computes the checksums on files on the iPod, to use a new encryption key, once again locking third part... More About: Ipod , Locked , Database
Update: Comcast and Bandwidth Limits
2007-09-18 00:00:00 GameDay.biz is reporting that they got clarification on what Comcast considers "extreme use" (ie, what they'll consider enough to chuck you off the system). According to Charlie Douglas (a spokesman for Comcast Corporatio... More About: Update , Limits , Bandwidth
Welcome, to all our new Visitors
2007-09-16 00:00:00 Make yourselves at home. To comment on any of our posts, create yourself an account (no information is shared with anyone) and you're welcome to comment. If you have an idea for something you'd like to see here, let us know, either in a comment, or via the form on "Contact Us".... More About: Visitors
iTunes introduces pay for ringtones
2007-09-15 00:00:00 After all the attacks, you?d think that we, as technically savvy individuals, would realize that ?fair use? as we have known it for so long, is under attack. For me, I needed another warning sign ? or ? a ruler to measure how far we?ve slid from the truth. In a recent Apple release, ... More About: Itunes , Ringtones , Tone
AMD Loves Open Source
2007-09-15 00:00:00 Well folks, today is a great day for the computer world, dually so for those running Linux or OSx86. Today (actually its something like midnight when Im writing this so now its technically yesterday) AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) released all ... (yeah you heard me right), the specifications and doc... More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source
The Truth about Multimedia and Linux
2007-09-15 00:00:00 You've heard me mention the Thinkpad of All Evil. It's a circa 2000 IBM Thinkpad, built like a tank, recently upgraded with an 80GB hard drive. In its original incarnation, it ran Windows 98, and didn't have what it took to play back AVI video. So, as a preliminary to actually upgrading the hard... More About: Linux , Truth , Multimedia , Ruth , The Truth
Thanks to the Good Folks at NearlyFreeSpeech, We're BACK!
2007-09-15 00:00:00 Even though their expected downtime for moving to a new datacenter ran longer than expected, They've done a marvelous job of getting us back online. If we haven't said it before, We've found that NearlyFreeSpeech.net provides top quality web hosting, at the best price we've been able to find.... More About: Back , Good , The Good , Earl , Rees
Hosting Provider Site Maintenance Today
2007-09-15 00:00:00 If you find we're unreachable this afternoon/evening, don't panic, it's not the conspiracy police. Our hosting provider is moving some equipment to a new datacenter. There may be limited access to this and other sites hosted by Nearly Free Speech.net. ... More About: Hosting , Site , Today , Maintenance , Provider
Energy Drinks
2007-09-15 00:00:00 How many out there have been in your local gas station or supermarket and seen the energy drink section? If your like a lot of Americans out there, you've probably tried/had several of them. It has come to the point that something that used to be rare is now as easily accessible as bottled water. En... More About: Drinks , Energy , Energy Drink
CompUSA - or 55 Minutes to buy a Laptop Hard Drive
More articles from this author:2007-09-15 00:00:00 So I dash to CompUSA to pick up a replacement hard drive for the ThinkPad of All Evil(tm) over my lunch hour today. Have already price-checked comparable drives on a host of websites, but have decided that getting it into my greedy little hands today is worth the difference in price. Ok, first p... More About: Laptop , Drive , Hard , Hard Drive , Minutes 1, 2 |
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