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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...
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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...
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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"....
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British Judge Believes Everyone Must be Added to UK DNA database
2007-09-15 00:00:00
Once again, England comes up with an idea that is so frightening, and evil, that we fear we can't do it justice, here. Lord Justice Sedley believes that everyone, innocent or guilty, should be a...
More About: Judge , British , Database , Base

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....
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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. ...
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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
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

Comcast's Packet Forging
2007-09-15 00:00:00
Well, well, well. This just in. It seems that Comcast's throttling of bittorrent connections by forging tcp reset packets in and out of customers connections violates several laws across many states, most of which are cri...
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Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls - It Tolls for SCO
2007-09-15 00:00:00
The headline says The SCO Group Files Chapter 11 to Protect Assets as It Addresses Potential Financial and Legal Challenges. SCO has filed for Bankruptcy protection, and this is one of the moments that's been predic...
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