So tell me, how is the government not broken, when they go ahead and pass legislation even after they fail to protect the people that voted them into office?
"The Senate also approved the measure, with privacy protections cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Thrown away were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the government's authority to spy on Americans and seize their records."

5 Futuristic Applications that Are Here NOW : Innovation :: American Express OPEN Forum

5 Futuristic Applications that Are Here NOW : Innovation :: American Express OPEN Forum

Click here to find out more! OS X share up 29% in past year, slowly chipping away at Microsoft

Numbers don't seem to add up though?
Apple’s relative share has grown by 29.4% in the past year...

Believe it or not: Avatar takes 1 petabyte of storage space, equivalent to a 32 YEAR long MP3.

Pretty cool!
The entire rendering of Avatar reportedly requires over 1 Petabyte of storage space according to BBC’s Clickbits, which is the equivalent of 500 harddrives of 2TB each. That’s equal to a 32 year long MP3 file(!).

Learn More about Yourself

Pretty cool stuff:
Want to learn more about yourself? Here are several simplified versions of some of our psychology-based tests, based on our latest research.

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Also, check out the "Live Happy" app.

Digital Divide alive and well

What do you know I thought it wasn't long ago that the Digital Divide was something like global warming i.e. either it's a major problem and we need to fix it or it doesn't exist at all and just a figment of a pessimist mind.
Anyways, here's the latest study showing that the Digital Divide does seem to be alive and growing!

New data: 40 percent in US lack home broadband
Looks like the gap between the haves and have-nots continues to grow.

Quote of the day

"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn." -- Seagate CEO Bill Watkins

windows crash when the system is operating under heavy load conditions

hmm sounds a bit like the irfanview crash I blogged about?

You have a 32-bit application that uses the GetCursorPos() function. When you run the application in a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, the application may crash when the system is operating under heavy load conditions.

ATI Radeon HD 5770 vs 4850 vs HD 5750 vs GTX 275

Looks like I need to get a ATI 5850 at least to replace my current Nvidia 275.
Think I'll just wait for the Nvidia DX11 parts coming out in a couple of months.

TPM chip worthless for security

I guess that's why you rarely find any motherboards that even used it in the first place.

Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked

In Defense of Microsoft

I know, I know. You hate Microsoft for its bloated, buggy software, its slowness to innovate, and its government-certified, monopolistic bullying. I won't argue with any of those points, or those made last week in the NY Times by former Microsoft VP Dick Brass, who called his former employer "a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator."

Talk about FAIL!
Only reason Microsoft is ubiquitous is that it is in fact a convicted Monopoly! And like all monopolies, it kept prices artificially high for it's software.
Instead of costing less year after year a new version of Windows will cost you the same if not more!

Author also forgets that for years Microsoft made it difficult if not impossible to install alternate operating systems on a PC.
"And all of those businesses can exchange content because their hardware and software is compatible." Sure tell that to a person trying to open a office 2007 document in an older version of office LOL!
Wonder how much Microsoft paid him for this article?
Ironic that Microsoft killed 2 of the thing on the top 10 list of things they liked about Microsoft linked in that article namely:
Flight Simulator
Basic

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

US House passes cybersecurity R&D bill

The NSF would also get $108.7 million over five years for a cybersecurity scholarship program, in which recipients would be required to serve as a cybersecurity professional in the U.S. government after graduating from college. Bachelor's and master's degree students could get up to two years of scholarship money, and doctoral students could get three years, but students would have to serve in the federal government for the same number of years they received scholarships.

In their words: Experts weigh in on Mac vs. PC security

Current state of PC and Mac security according to the experts.
They asked 32 of them the following question:
Which is more secure for consumers--Mac or PC, and why?
Personally, I roll with Mac because like Lamothe's game programming law #1:
virus writers write viruses for the most popular platform which is Windows

Another look at the hardware behind the iPad

What's Inside the iPad's Chip?

Drobo

Hmm just came across this Drobo thing.
Seems promising will have to check it out some more:
Drobo Best Practices: Crafting a Digital Asset Management Strategy

Steve Jobs Presentation Secrets

It's all about the adjectives apparently LOL:
Steve Jobs’s stage presence and speech delivery are second to none. So what’s his secret? Adjectives!

Capitalism in a nutshell

Tell me it ain't so joe.
Sounds no different than a pyramid scheme to me!
Paulson says he was scared and clueless during Lehman collapse
So basically these people that get astronomical compensation have no clue what the hell they are doing!
Every taxpayer should be outraged since you all paid for the bailout!

Steve Jobs Is Not Happy With Google, Adobe

I agree with him on the Flash thing. It will eventually go the way of the Java applets or Microsoft ActiveX. Anyone even use those or remember them anymore?
Only problem is it will take some time for that to happen but it's gonna happen and Adobe has already accepted defeat as they will include the ability to convert your Flash stuff to a format that will run on an iPhone in CS5.
"Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 will include a Packager for iPhone that will let you publish ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications for iPhone. These applications can be delivered to iPhone users through the Apple App Store.*"
So might as well start learning about HTML5 since the world is moving to HTML5.