Perhaps they could offer a small separate sort of "Flash Guard" utility for the blocking function. We consider the possibility of rogue Flash code opening the camera and/or microphone to be a security vulnerability.…
Yesterday they had a brief mention claiming that there was information posted to Wikileaks showing that the U.S. was behind the protesters, but none of their earlier reporting had made any suggestion of a connection.…
Not being for-profit doesn't mean there's a lack of budget concerns. BBC World Service will be cutting around 650 people over the next few years. Let's hope they can still provide high quality service.…
iPads certainly perform well. With hardware acceleration for h.264, the ARM chip may not be seeing the toughest loads it would otherwise. I believe there's an ARM build of VLC. I've been meaning to check it out to see…
Apple has been far from low risk. Their ditching the floppy, changing ports, switching processor families (more than once), all those iMac form-factors, moving to LCD while they were still quite costly, replacing the…
Above CD quality? With 60's material done with vacuum tubes and magnetic tape, CD sampling rates and bit depth won't limit the distribution quality. Of course there are often cases where there's room for noticeable…
Microsoft is less secretive about new products than a company like Apple, and with such large fairly constant revenue from things like Windows and Office, the shipment or degree of success of their other products…
Indeed. I know of someone quite poor that paid $500 to have his credit repaired. They got around the laws by calling it education. Most of it amounting to having him send out form letters that looked like fraud to me.…
If one looks at historic FCC regulation, it was always okay to listen to communications, but not to divulge the contents to 3rd parties. Even with just those older regulations, using data "heard" would be prohibited…
I've got one for you. Sometimes he'd write about tech that was twisted enough to raise a few eyebrows and bring a chuckle or two. I was surprised to see this on pbs:…
If the reviews are to be believed, Ghostery has been sold to an advertising company and may be functioning as spyware https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609 From the Ghostery/Better Advertising Privacy…
USB Specs are available here: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ USB 2.0 in particular (10.9 MB zip file): http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_20_122909-2.zip
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
While it generally isn't true of computer displays, some LCD televisions do have slightly reduced power consumption on black. It's not from the LCD shuttering the light from the backlight, but from control electronics…
Keep security issues in mind if/when opening those links to .pdf files. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10168266-83.html it looks like there's an unpatched critical vulnerability in Acrobate reader that even fixes of a…
It'll be a bit like those online profiles that show people with a cellphone taking their picture in the bathroom mirror. (It's kinda funny when they're mostly or entirely naked, but the camera blocks the face) Maybe…
Yes, his more detailed piece (in two parts) tells far more. And it isn't only insightful about the blunders of the newspaper industry, much of it applies to the mess that is commercial t.v. broadcasting and the…
A Windows desktop box is kept around mainly for gaming. (all on the road, kitchen, and sofa activity has moved to a MacBook Pro that has Ubuntu in a VM, but no flavor of Windows for now - don't want to pirate it, and…
I too feel the internet is falling short in some ways. My take on the shortfalls is different, but related. The attempts to commercialize every aspect of the net have created this massive amount of noise that too much…
I'd be pissed too. Apple understandably takes product information releases very seriously, and partners in those products (including those whose media may be in negotiations to carry like the WSJ) are under…
The writer certainly didn't show any effort to demonstrate non-viability of fixes, and he also didn't provide any information on performance of newer turbines or those from other vendors. This was a case of 20 year old…
By definition, something that is reasoned is NOT arbitrary. arbitrary adjective based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system With the automatic bug report generation in OS X, Apple has…
The article makes use of straw-man argument by bring up VOIP apps. But the avoiding of mentioning a competing app seems reasonable. If there was a Zune store I don't think any would think it appropriate for apps to…
"Windows XP was highly successful though, although again they really failed to do anything very innovative with that OS other than keep it stable." Just as some seem to look back on Microsoft and portray it as having…
I'd give Microsoft credit for killing IBM's OS/2. What really created the PC-compatible market was the creation of "clone" BIOS. I'd give Phoenix credit for that. Dell gets credit for being a pretty efficient if not…
Perhaps they could offer a small separate sort of "Flash Guard" utility for the blocking function. We consider the possibility of rogue Flash code opening the camera and/or microphone to be a security vulnerability.…
Yesterday they had a brief mention claiming that there was information posted to Wikileaks showing that the U.S. was behind the protesters, but none of their earlier reporting had made any suggestion of a connection.…
Not being for-profit doesn't mean there's a lack of budget concerns. BBC World Service will be cutting around 650 people over the next few years. Let's hope they can still provide high quality service.…
iPads certainly perform well. With hardware acceleration for h.264, the ARM chip may not be seeing the toughest loads it would otherwise. I believe there's an ARM build of VLC. I've been meaning to check it out to see…
Apple has been far from low risk. Their ditching the floppy, changing ports, switching processor families (more than once), all those iMac form-factors, moving to LCD while they were still quite costly, replacing the…
Above CD quality? With 60's material done with vacuum tubes and magnetic tape, CD sampling rates and bit depth won't limit the distribution quality. Of course there are often cases where there's room for noticeable…
Microsoft is less secretive about new products than a company like Apple, and with such large fairly constant revenue from things like Windows and Office, the shipment or degree of success of their other products…
Indeed. I know of someone quite poor that paid $500 to have his credit repaired. They got around the laws by calling it education. Most of it amounting to having him send out form letters that looked like fraud to me.…
If one looks at historic FCC regulation, it was always okay to listen to communications, but not to divulge the contents to 3rd parties. Even with just those older regulations, using data "heard" would be prohibited…
I've got one for you. Sometimes he'd write about tech that was twisted enough to raise a few eyebrows and bring a chuckle or two. I was surprised to see this on pbs:…
If the reviews are to be believed, Ghostery has been sold to an advertising company and may be functioning as spyware https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609 From the Ghostery/Better Advertising Privacy…
USB Specs are available here: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ USB 2.0 in particular (10.9 MB zip file): http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_20_122909-2.zip
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
While it generally isn't true of computer displays, some LCD televisions do have slightly reduced power consumption on black. It's not from the LCD shuttering the light from the backlight, but from control electronics…
Keep security issues in mind if/when opening those links to .pdf files. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10168266-83.html it looks like there's an unpatched critical vulnerability in Acrobate reader that even fixes of a…
It'll be a bit like those online profiles that show people with a cellphone taking their picture in the bathroom mirror. (It's kinda funny when they're mostly or entirely naked, but the camera blocks the face) Maybe…
Yes, his more detailed piece (in two parts) tells far more. And it isn't only insightful about the blunders of the newspaper industry, much of it applies to the mess that is commercial t.v. broadcasting and the…
A Windows desktop box is kept around mainly for gaming. (all on the road, kitchen, and sofa activity has moved to a MacBook Pro that has Ubuntu in a VM, but no flavor of Windows for now - don't want to pirate it, and…
I too feel the internet is falling short in some ways. My take on the shortfalls is different, but related. The attempts to commercialize every aspect of the net have created this massive amount of noise that too much…
I'd be pissed too. Apple understandably takes product information releases very seriously, and partners in those products (including those whose media may be in negotiations to carry like the WSJ) are under…
The writer certainly didn't show any effort to demonstrate non-viability of fixes, and he also didn't provide any information on performance of newer turbines or those from other vendors. This was a case of 20 year old…
By definition, something that is reasoned is NOT arbitrary. arbitrary adjective based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system With the automatic bug report generation in OS X, Apple has…
The article makes use of straw-man argument by bring up VOIP apps. But the avoiding of mentioning a competing app seems reasonable. If there was a Zune store I don't think any would think it appropriate for apps to…
"Windows XP was highly successful though, although again they really failed to do anything very innovative with that OS other than keep it stable." Just as some seem to look back on Microsoft and portray it as having…
I'd give Microsoft credit for killing IBM's OS/2. What really created the PC-compatible market was the creation of "clone" BIOS. I'd give Phoenix credit for that. Dell gets credit for being a pretty efficient if not…