It’s clear that the present leadership in the MPAA is part of the problem. They don’t understand the Internet, they didn’t take the time to understand it, they just rushed out and started trying to legislate it. Not to mention they didn’t even try to develop for it until file sharing was already deeply entrenched. . . . → Read More: The MPAA: Clueless and built to stay that way
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Had trouble getting to your favorite websites yesterday? Seems there was some trouble in AT&T land thanks to an issue here in Michigan: “At about 9:30 a.m. CST on Dec. 28, a power failure impacted an AT&T facility in Bloomfield, MI,” state and AT&T spokesperson. “This situation has resulted in intermittent disruption of mobile services . . . → Read More: I admit it, It’s my fault. Just look at the headline they used for Obama’s victory: Click to embiggen! It’s always amusing to see Internet memes show up in mainstream institutions. Found over at Neatorama where they have images of Obama wins headlines from a bunch of different papers.
. . . → Read More: Someone at the Statesman Journal is an Internet geek. There’s a very good entry over at SEB regular KPatrickGlover’s blog titled We Are Freaks. It’s about how those of us who spend way more time than we probably should on the Internet have all these inside jokes and memes we’ve been exposed to that the vast majority of people in the world haven’t: Try . . . → Read More: KPG says: “We are freaks.” And I concur. The folks over at ArsTechnica.com have a summary of IBM’s latest annual report on the state of security and malware threats which you should read: Annual IBM security report paints worrisome picture for 2008 – ArsTechnica.com IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force has released its annual report (PDF) on malware trends and statistics from last year. . . . → Read More: IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force annual report is out. Several folks sent along links to . . . → Read More: Time Warner Cable in Texas is testing out bandwidth caps on new subscribers. Sony released the latest firmware for the PS3 yesterday which adds, among other things, support for the DivX codec making the PS3 a DivX Certified device. (That means game developers can use it in games unlike the Xbox 360 where only file playback is supported.) I’ve been looking forward to this for awhile because when . . . → Read More: PS3 2.10 firmware adds DivX/XviD playback support. So here I am once again facing a fair amount of downtime at work, but with just enough open tickets that I can’t venture too far from the campus lest I get called back. Fortunately there’s a rather nice public library just across the street that provides free Internet access without any content filters. So . . . → Read More: The magic of Internet access at Public Libraries. AT&T just released a new Terms of Service agreement which has a provision that says they can cancel your service if you say bad things about them: 5.1 Suspension/Termination. Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such condition continues un-remedied for thirty (30) days. In addition, AT&T may . . . → Read More: Fuck you AT&T. It seems the kerfuffle caused by fringe religious fundy Danny Carlton by his Why Firefox is Blocked site which I wrote about a couple of weeks back is still drawing some attention here and there. The New York Times wrote about it as did a couple of other news sites and now the folks at . . . → Read More: There’s some debate on the legality of web ad blocking software. |
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