Tag Archives: Tech
Meet the IT Gigolo
“Systems Engineer “Ray Digerati” enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two.”
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Sony DRM is worse than you might think
By Charlie Demerjian: Thursday 03 November 2005, 09:40
SONY SCREWED UP WITH its rights removal to protect its profit margins philosophy and there is no way the use of rootkits can be justified.
Caught with its pants down, what did it do? Make things right? Heck no, it blamed the user, and doesn’t do anything more than window dressing to deflect what are valid criticisms.
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Man turns entire town into hotspot
Wish we had a few more of this guy. Dissatisfied with the telephone/data networks in the small town he lives in, one man made his entire town a wifi hotspot.
Use bugmenot.com for the login/pass
read more | digg storyAOL hit by IM virus
AOL’s instant messaging service has been hit by a virus which downloads spyware onto computers via a special website.
read more | digg storyRemote Control Device ‘Controls’ Humans
“We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.
But manipulating humans?
Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was.
Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. ”
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‘I use my iPod to store medical images’
DS Goes Wayport
“Nintendo of America on Tuesday will announce a groundbreaking partnership with Wi-Fi provider Wayport to make available free Internet access to DS owners at McDonald’s restaurants across the nation. Nintendo and Wayport will offer complimentary Wi-Fi hotspots at McDonald’s establishments, enabling DS owners to use the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, which launches November 14 in the states, to play online games with or against each other.”
Network feud leads to Net blackout
We’ll isn’t that nice of them.
30gigs.com breaks at 500MB
This figures, the ideas was ridiculous. They bank on you never really using any of the space.
“The newest kid on the email block seems to be littered with lies, false advertisement, no features, oh ya and it your inbox breaks at 500MB..not quite 30GB by my math…to top that off they clearly state you have no privacy on their homepage, sounds good who wants an invite?”
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