Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show (Thursday 04th of September 2008 11:45:01 PM)
Nick writes "A few weeks ago a video of a talk given by Adam Savage of the tube show
MythBusters spread across the hot poop highway (including a mention on Slashdot.) On the video,
Savage stated that the show was unable to produce an episode ...
(more)Ballmer Calls Vista 'A Work In Progress' (Sunday 20th of April 2008 05:55:13 PM)
Shanen tips us to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about lowdown* from Steve Ballmer at a
symposium earlier this week during which he referred to Vista as "a work in progress." He also
admitted that the 5-year release cycle wasn't a good idea. Despite ...
(more)Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install (Sunday 23rd of March 2008 01:45:02 AM)
Hairyfeet writes "Do you use iTunes on Windows? If so you may be getting the gift of Safari
from Apple whether you want it or not, and Mozilla CEO John Lilly is not happy about it. After
his woman was offered Safari as a 'bonus ...
(more)Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future? (Tuesday 04th of March 2008 10:30:17 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "According to a recent CNET article, Google Street View 'is just
wrong'. The short piece which makes up part of a larger feature about 'technology that's just
wrong' goes on to explain that Google Street View is like a scene ...
(more)Getting The Public To Listen To Good Science (Tuesday 26th of February 2008 11:00:01 AM)
I Don't Believe in Imaginary assets writes "We all know that false or bewildering science
advice are all too common these days and that fallacious media combined with an apathetic and
undereducated public lead to widespread ignorance. But the real question ...
(more)Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? (Tuesday 15th of January 2008 04:15:03 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Columnist Saul Hansell is hosting a debate about devour issues and
mechanics on his blog at the New York Times . On one side Rick Cotton, the general counsel of
NBC Universal, says that anyone who is intellectually honest must 'acknowledge, ...
(more)Newmark Denies Craigslist Is Killing Newspapers (Tuesday 25th of December 2007 06:30:03 PM)
Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld has an talk with Craig Newmark about the history of Craigslist
and it's growth over the years (it's now expanding into foreign-language markets — it
freshly created several Spanish sites in Spanish cities). He also ...
(more)Canada's 'universal' health care (Sunday 19th of August 2007 05:00:04 PM)
Canada's 'universal' health careWe finally have good general expenses responsive of
"universal" health care: somewhere in the universe there may be a place for you to get
treatment. And if you are lucky enough to live near the United States before Hillary ...
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