Technology
Mobile Phone Industry Blocking Itunes Phone
Courtesy www.fiercewireless.com If this is true, this is really sad. I know the mobile phone industry would just love to keep charging exhorbitant rates for worse-than-midi ringtones to counteract the …
SPAM filter comparisons
SPAM is a truly egregious problem. This article does some analysis of popular spam filtering software. It is no surprise to me that signature-based programs tend to have slightly higher false positive …
Openldapopenssl Stupidity
Sorry for not keeping up. Been enjoying the summer too much! Anyhow, I thought that my experience in trying to get openLDAP 2.0.x working with TLS would be of interest to someone because the solution …
Wal Mart poised to dominate online DVD rental space
This does not look good for Netflix, which is too bad. They have been a great service. Excite News After a seven-month trial, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has begun full-scale operations in its online DVD …
Museum Of Unworkable Devices
" This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don’t work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the …
'E Mail Wrap' License
Like ‘click-through’ or ‘clickwrap’ licenses before, Lawrence Lessig publishes what may be described as an ’e-mail through’ or ’e-mail wrap’ license: …
Black Box Testing Your Brain
New Scientist “The world’s first brain prosthesis - an artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in California.” This is the result of black-box testing the …
Space Elevators: fact or fiction?
A slashdot article about a book (see below) researching whether the sci-fi Space Elevator could be practically manufactured is out: This is some of the fruits of ongoing NASA-sponsored research. What …
Fuel Cells Coming To A Laptop Near You
Cool! InfoWorld:�Toshiba prototypes methanol fuel cell for laptops:�March 05, 2003:�By�Gillian Law:�End-user Hardware
VoteHere whistleblower lawsuit and other e Voting madness
BlackBox Voting is reporting on a whistleblower lawsuit filed here in Washington state by a software engineer against his former employer VoteHere. He alleges that he was wrongfully terminated to …