Politics
One of the underpinning tenants of the Internet is the concept of self-healing, world wide access. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, as long as you're connected to the 'Net, you're connected to everything else. The Internet knows no borders, political boundaries, or frontiers. Once you are plugged in, the world is at your fingertips. Unless you live in China. Or the United States--what?
One of the things I find goofy about content producers is the idea of U.S. only content. You can go to Hulu, MySpace Music, and Pandora to listen to free, ad supported movies, TV...
Christmas is almost here, but with last nights election I have a nice little technology wish list for the next administration.
Net Neutrality
The concept of Net neutrality spans the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should give traffic neutral passage regardless of protocol and source/destination. ...
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. Numbers are still yet to come in, but this election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years. Early results are also showing that the Democratic party has accrued...
C|Net News has an interesting blog post highlighting Spore from EA Games. This game has been in the works for a couple of years now and its unique gameplay and concept have stoked the fires of anticipation for some time. However, one of the biggest things to come out with its release has not been its intriguing gameplay, but the strategies used to curb piracy. Spore uses a anti-copy protection scheme called SecuROM, which is considered by some to be much more than just an anti-copy protection scheme, but system subversive malware.
The controversy seems to seems to revolve around EA's...
In a move sure to brazen other states into enacting laws to collect sales tax on out of state purchases, Amazon.com has stated that it "will begin collecting sales tax on items shipped to destinations within the State of New York". Lame. One of the main staples of Internet commerce is the fact that items purchased 'there' are not subject to sales tax, if the company has no presence in your home state. New York has a long history on overreaching its bounds on taxation issues, but this one seems to strike at the heart of ecommerce.
To be fair though,...
Today I shook hands with the (possibly) next President of the United States. John McCain came and visited my place of employment to share his message with us. Not only did I get to shake his hand, but I got his autograph and he fielded a question of mine.
I went and got a seat an hour early which was positioned towards the front and in the aisle. I figured that if he came off the stage to shake hands, I could definitely get the chance. He gave his spiel, which wasn't all that different from the sound-bytes that you can...
I was watching the news tonight and they spotlighted a fun little thing to do over at JibJab. I haven't heard from these guys since the last presidential election, so it's nice to see that they're up to no good again. ;)
For all those curious about the execution of Saddam Hussein, below is a link to a video taken by a cell phone camera.
Please be aware that the content is very graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers.
If you are having trouble viewing the clip above, you can view it here as well.
For those of you who don't live with their heads in the sand, President Bush announced during a press conference today that he is "inclined to believe that we need to increase in — the permanent size of both the United States Army and the United States Marines."
With troops already stretched thin by several tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, what other solutions are out there to increase the size of the military other than through conscription? President Bush has already voiced opposition to the idea of reinstating the draft, but resources seem to be scarce in a...