OGG comparison v. other file formats
Basically, why OGG is better, even without considering that it is patent free. The higher the bitrate, the fewer differences exist between the lossy compression algorithms, but OGG still gets my vote.
CNN's breakout comedy hit (Connie Chung)
OK, she's retarded. Now I'm addicted to deadpan sarcastic reviews of TV shows. Great.
FCC To Let Carriers Share Customer Data
Thanks FCC! Once again you have failed in your duty and furthered the Panopticon … all at the same time. You rule!
Hewlett Fires Two, Suspends 150, for E-Mail Abuse
From the “don't view your pr0n from work” file.
Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap
Sweet. Briar patch would be as good a name as honeypot. Better, actually, since everyone knows Pooh's a friggin retard.
Talks Weigh Big Project on Wireless Internet Link
Corporations getting into the community WiFi act? Word, yo.
An interesting tradeoff – ELF pings that can illuminate (yourself and) underwater vessels from hundreds of miles away … and kill/harm/make as deaf as Pete Townshend all marine life within a good number of miles. Save the fishes!
Watching You Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
From the Cato institute, for you libertarians out there
so, the gubment can't look into private homes without a reasonable
suspicion of wrongdoing… but they can *wink* *wink* solicit *nudge*
*nudge* private persons (or even some on gubment payrolls, like the USPS
psychos) to report “suspicious activities”? of *course* they're NOT
*nudge* *wink* SOLICITING *cough* *nudge* SPYING *ahem* ON *wink* *cough*
CITIZENS, especially those brown ones, and certainly not in their homes
through their mostly-closed blinds.
what's next? a picture of someone in a ww2 nazi hat done all in red,
black, and white, with the all-caps slogan at the top “LOOSE LIPS SINK
SHIPS”?
fuck you, ashcroft. fuck you and your minions of fear and prejudice.
An oldie but a goodie. Thought I would link it up anyway.
Peru's Toledo visits Microsoft, signs education pact
MS fights back v. the OSS movement… with money. Eventually, they're going to run out of it, though. I'm all for the governments, particularly in developing markets, saying they'll go to OSS software even if it's only a ploy to get MS to plop $300M down on some computers and software for their schools.
But OSS will win in the end. It's just a matter of time. Well, unless the minions of DRM/Palladium/Intel/RIAA/MPAA get ahold of your computer. Then we're all fucked.
Norway Says No Way to Microsoft
Gubment taint going to re-up the services contract with MS. In other news, MS just put a $300M bounty on the head of Linus Torvalds and $250M on RMS.
Open Source Software Use within UK Government
The official announcement. Man, I hate catching up with all my old to-be-ported-to-cmoore.com news items.
Right on the Money: The George W. Bush Profile
berry berry interesting. That knob was so stupid he got rejected from UT law school. UT! And he was a resident! So, of course, he then gets accepted in Harvard MBA school. I don't know if that's more an indictment upon Harvard (not that they need any encouragement to grovel), or the average intelligence of your MBA peeps out there.