Archive for July, 2002

Monday, 29 July 2002

OGG comparison v. other file formats

Posted in Games, Music by Chris at 00:00

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.

The HiStory of Michael Jackson's face

Posted in Eye Rollers by Chris at 00:00

The HiStory of Michael Jackson's face

Ye gods

CNN's breakout comedy hit (Connie Chung)

Posted in Eye Rollers by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in Eye Rollers by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in Eye Rollers by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in Uncategorized by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in Uncategorized by Chris at 00:00

Talks Weigh Big Project on Wireless Internet Link

Corporations getting into the community WiFi act? Word, yo.

Sonar OK'd for U.S. Navy

Posted in Uncategorized by Chris at 00:00

Sonar OK'd for U.S. Navy

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

Posted in Freedom by Chris at 00:00

Watching You Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans

From the Cato institute, for you libertarians out there

Operation TIPS

Posted in Freedom by Chris at 00:00

Operation TIPS

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.

Cathedral and the Bazaar

Posted in Open Source by Chris at 00:00

Cathedral and the Bazaar

An oldie but a goodie. Thought I would link it up anyway.

Peru's Toledo visits Microsoft, signs education pact

Posted in Open Source by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in Open Source by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in Open Source by Chris at 00:00

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

Posted in News by Chris at 00:00

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.

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