Netflix sharing will be a crime in TN | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

Seeded on Sat Jun 4, 2011 11:35 PM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

State lawmakers in country music’s capital have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend’s login — even with permission — to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix and Rhapsody. The bill, which has …

technology, riaa, netflix, bad-law

Macs Get More Dangerous, PCs Get Safer | PCWorld

Seeded on Mon May 16, 2011 8:26 PM EDT (PC World)

Bad news for Mac users: the first construction kit for Mac OS X Trojans has appeared. That comes just as Microsoft released a report showing that Windows 7 is far safer than previous versions of Windows

technology, security, apple, windows, pc, malware, trojans

Lastpass Possibly Breached

Seeded on Thu May 5, 2011 10:16 PM EDT ()

We noticed an issue yesterday and wanted to alert you to it. As a precaution, we're also forcing you to change your master password. We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we see.

technology, security, cloud, passwords, lastpass

Net Neutrality is about one thing, & it isn't Free Speech

Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:28 PM EDT

Funny thing about Net Neutrality. It has never been law or regulation. It is a principle basically worked out between Corporations under which they exchanged bits in order to make profits for everyone.

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technology, google, net-neutrality, isps

Great tits also have age-related defects

Seeded on Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:32 PM EDT (Science Daily)

The offspring of older great tit females are much less successful than those of younger mothers. Things mainly go wrong in the later stages of the upbringing, concludes evolutionary biologist Sandra Bouwhuis.

science, genetics, birds, great-tits

pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged

Seeded on Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:49 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Fully patched versions of Safari and Internet Explorer 8 were both successfully hacked today at pwn2own, the annual hacking competition held as part of the CanSecWest security conference.

technology, firefox, safari, chrome, browsers, vulnerability, ie8, pwn2own

Maximum PC | Dude Upgrades DOS 5.0 Setup Through Every Major Version of Windows

Seeded on Fri Mar 4, 2011 12:29 AM EST (maximumpc.com)

Do you remember mucking around with Autoexec.bat, Win.ini, and floppy drives, or typing Win from the Windows directory to load Microsoft Windows? Our apologies if you've tucked these memories away in a place you thought they'd never be resurrected, but if you want feel all nostal …

news, technology, software, windows, os, operating-system, vm, virtual-machine, cant-do-that-with-a-mac, dos-ms-dos

Â» Mac OS X Trojan Gains Ground - Craighton's Logic - Lockergnome

Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:30 PM EST (lockergnome.com)

It is widely known among Mac OS X users that they have a very tiny window of being infected with malware due to the nature of the operating system and how it is developed.

technology, apple, virus, trojan

'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' coming to cable, plus Syfy's spring premiere dates -- EXCLUSIVE | Inside TV | EW.com

Seeded on Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:13 PM EST (EW.com)

Another former Fox sci-fi fan favorite is heading to cable: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been picked up by Syfy.

entertainment, cable, syndication, syfy, irrelevance, terminator-the-sarah-connor-chronicles

Obama to hand Commerce Dept. authority over cybersecurity ID | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

Seeded on Sun Jan 9, 2011 3:54 PM EST (CNET.com)

President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

technology, internet, president-obama, privacy, identity, commerce

Is Google Broken? Is Google poisoned by spam? There are lots of complaints right now are they true?

Seeded on Fri Jan 7, 2011 5:31 PM EST (HowStuffWorks)

There are a fair number of reputable people making a lot of noise right now about the fact that the Google search engine is broken. The main complaint is that Google's search results are "poisoned by spam"

technology, google, spam, problem

Do receipt checks violate your rights?- MSN Money

Seeded on Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:27 PM EST (MSN)

For a few years now, The Consumerist has been documenting skirmishes between customers and employees who refuse to take "no thank you" for an answer.

business, civil-rights, consumer-rights, receipt-check

Net Neutrality Rules: FCC Defies Everyone and Regulates the Web - Seeking Alpha

Seeded on Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:23 AM EST (Energy Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha)

Hopefully this won't stand: U.S. communications regulators adopted Internet traffic rules Tuesday that prevent providers from blocking lawful content but still let them ration access to their networks.

technology, net, neutrality

CALM Act passed, will quiet loud TV commercials within a year

Seeded on Fri Dec 3, 2010 12:02 AM EST (Ars Technica)

Though Congress still bickers over net neutrality, spying on Americans, and universal health care, at least Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing: TV commercials are too damned loud.

technology, tv, commercials, volume

Thankful for Plymouth Rock, warts and all

Thu Nov 25, 2010 4:10 AM EST

So a friend of mine posted the following on her Facebook feed:

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us-news, usa, thanksgiving

The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch - Patently Apple

Seeded on Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:35 AM EDT (patentlyapple.com)

While most of us were getting ready for the iPad's arrival in January and Patently Apple hard at work preparing our major series called the Tablet Prophecies, a major iMac Touch patent was being quietly published in Europe.

technology, apple, mac, osx, ios

Why People Don't Follow the Crowd | Popular Opinions | Wisdom of Crowds | LiveScience

Seeded on Wed Aug 4, 2010 10:15 PM EDT (Live Science)

So much for the wisdom of crowds. People often become more confident in their beliefs when they find out the majority of others disagree with them, a new study finds.

science, pychology

Wave was to Google, as Bob was to Microsoft

Wed Aug 4, 2010 9:47 PM EDT

Today Google announced that they will cease development on Google Wave. Announced and released 14 months ago Wave was touted to revolutionize how we used email. Granted everyone thought we had email down pretty well but this was Google so there was much rejoicing.

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technology, google, microsoft, bob, wave

BP Oil Spill: Where Did All The Crude Go? Mother Nature Breaks Down Slick in Gulf of Mexico - ABC News

Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:58 PM EDT (ABC News)

For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there's one problem -- they're having trouble finding it.

us-news, oil-spill, lost, mother-nature

Droid X eFuse Chip Riles Modding Community, But Should It? | Maximum PC

Seeded on Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:38 PM EDT (maximumpc.com)

Here's how it works. The eFuse chip is tasked with verifying the handset's firmware (ROM), the kernel, and the bootoader version. If it detects that something is awry -- like a third-party ROM -- the eFuse chip "ignites," so to speak, bricking the phone.

technology, android, motorola, droid-x

In Defense of Facebook

Seeded on Mon May 17, 2010 1:59 AM EDT (Mashable!)

All eyes are on Facebook. Ever since Facebook revealed Facebook Open Graph, the world's largest social network has been getting hammered by tech pundits, mainstream media, and its users.

technology, facebook, privacy, social-media, backlash

Why Governor Crist was right to veto Senate Bill 6 (the Teacher Pay Bill)

Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:59 AM EDT

Recently the majority Republican Florida Legislature passed Florida Senate Bill 6. This is a bill that sets aside funds and ties nearly 50% of a teachers pay raise to students performance on standardized tests.

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us-news, florida, teachers, charlie-crist, senate-bill-6

Editorial: iPad app prices are out of control and will kill us all -- Engadget

Seeded on Mon Apr 5, 2010 5:12 PM EDT (Engadget)

Apple trained us well with the iPhone. All those $0.99 apps, $1.99 apps, and the occasional $4.99 (or so) app, padded by plentiful free apps, and we laid down / rolled over every time the App Store whistled.

technology, apple, ipad, pricing, app-store, consumer-psychology

How to Create a Strong Unique Password for Every Site, App, or Device

Thu Apr 1, 2010 12:25 PM EDT

Okay, there are a lot of articles on the importance of creating strong and unique passwords for every site, app, or device that requires a password but if your not using a strong unique password for everything then you need to continue reading this one.. Simply put using the sa …

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technology, computers, passwords, password-stength

Win Phone 7 Ditches Multitasking, Memory Cards - Reviews by PC Magazine

Seeded on Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:27 PM EDT (pcmag.com)

The new Windows Phone 7 platform will avoid multitasking third-party apps, nix support for user-replaceable memory cards, and demand that all apps be installed from Windows Phone Marketplace, a Microsoft executive said Monday.

technology, microsoft, windows-phone-7, wp7

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