I'm an IT Professional, geek and technology 'edge case'. I enjoy keeping up with the latest devices, technologies and news in the IT world. On this site I post some of those things I find most interesting. I hope you find them interesting as well.
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
Bill criminalizing WiFi leeching shot down, and rightly so If you use someone else's WiFi signal without permission, you're a thief. That's the conclusion of a bill introduced into the Maryland General Assembly last week. Sponsored by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., the legislation would criminalize the unauthorize
The Internet? Bah! HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN'T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA
Robot reports for security duty in Atlanta Bar owner Rufus Terrill has built what he calls the Bum Bot 2000, a remote-controlled device to chase loiterers away. Homeless advocates object.
A Public Official Actually Shows Common Sense in Wireless ‘Piggybacking’ Debate A state legislature has apparently introduced legislation that would make it a crime punishable by up to three years in jail to "steal" a neighbor's open wireless connection (found via Slashdot). The legislator claims that his goal in passing this legisla
Dell Response – SSD Failure Rates Fails to Include the Facts Sometimes we have to react to information that has no basis in reality. That's what we're dealing with here. A recent analyst document from Avian Securities incorrectly stated that Dell is seeing high return rates (20 – 30%) due to performance issues and
Doctors Remove Wrong Kidney A surgical team at Park Nicollet Heath Services in Minnesota removed the healthy kidney from a patient last week, and left behind the possibly cancerous kidney. We were going to make a dumb joke about this is why you should draw a giant X over your good b
Apple offering credit for strike-shortened seasons The Hollywood writers' strike might have shortened the television season, but iTunes customers will get some compensation for their losses. iLounge noticed that Apple has started sending notices to iTunes Store season pass subscribers with good news: they
Consumer Goods Giants Embrace Mobile Coupons Mobile coupons have found powerful allies in the form of consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble, Clorox, Del Monte, General Mills and Kimberly-Clark and retailer Kroger. According to Advertising Age, this is the biggest test of mobile coupons to date.
Cell phone as boarding pass In the future, air travelers across the country will be able to get their boarding passes sent to their cell phones. Continental is testing a new system that allows people checking in via their cell phone to get their boarding pass sent directly to their
20 Percent of SSD Notebooks Failing? The whole reason to pay the obscene premium for a SSD is because it's supposed to be way more reliable than your average spinny hard drive. According to an analyst at Avian Securities, however, an unnamed "large computer manufacturer" is having 10 to 20 p
Recycle Electronics for Free by Mail Recycle your old electronics for free with the US Postal Service's new "Mail Back" program. The program, which allows you to discard your used electronics in an environmentally friendly manner, provides free envelopes in 1,500 post offices to handle every
Facebook Press Event: Our (Almost) Live Notes Facebook held a fairly large press event today around privacy and other new products at 10am PT at their Palo Alto headquarters. There were a number of announcements made, although live blogging of the event was not permitted. These are my raw notes from
Kids More Interested In Cyberspace And MySpace Than Outerspace? Apparently, NASA is getting worried that the kids these days aren't interested in outer space, preferring to do their "travels" through cyberspace. That seems like a somewhat odd conclusion, as there doesn't seem to be anything mutually exclusive about th
Chuck Becomes a Comic Strip Chuck fans who can't get enough of the computer nerd and his antics can start flipping the pages of his adventures this June. The NBC show's comic-book version will follow the unlikely hero in a series of worldwide travels, mishaps, near-death cliff-hange
Video Coming To Flickr Soon. Really. rumors are flying that Yahoo intends to integrate video into Flickr very soon, perhaps in the next three weeks. Part of the delay may have been a long internal debate about how to make Flickr Video special and distinct from what YouTube already offers. Th
How to Stay Healthy While Sitting At Your Desk All Day Americans spend nearly eight hours a day sitting (and another four hours watching TV and playing computer games) according to a Harris poll conducted by the America On the Move Foundation. Now consider your own day. How many hours per day do you spend sit
Check Your Passwords’ Strength at Microsoft’s Password Checker A strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, (eight characters or longer at a minimum). It should include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
Paramount Recognizes That Clips Of Movies Act As Advertising For The Movie Itself It really is amazing how little entertainment industries recognize how clips of their content online promotes the rest of their content. When people talk about scenes in TV shows or movies, it's become quite natural to search for video of those clips to s
Online Video Site Brings TV Shows to Web Hulu.com, a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal, plans to open its online library of ad-supported TV shows and movies to the public on Wednesday, the company announced. Users of the service will be able to view more than 250 full-length epi
TSA can’t believe MacBook Air is a real laptop The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple's thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath the scanner, secu
I’ve known about Twitter for a while now. I’ve heard people, blogs, podcasts and others talk about it… but I never really got it until I saw this video. I’m still not sure that it’s something I’ll get it into or really ever use but this video does make it actually seem attractive.
