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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Univ. of Miami boots blogger
Long story short… – 2003 – Miami Football players make the brilliant decision to record a rap song (Streaming, MP3) glamorizing gang bangin’ bizzatches, or as one member of the 7th Floor Crew so delicately put it, “We ’bout to … Continue reading
Movie Review: Crash
These blog entries of mine, they are really just things that I am thinking about throughout the day, or things I find interesting while perusing the web. Typically, when I post about a movie I just finished watching, it happens … Continue reading
Kansas City to host Superbowl
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – NFL owners voted Wednesday to tentatively award Kansas City a Super Bowl, largely as a tribute to owner Lamar Hunt, who gave the game its name. It comes with one giant string attached: improvements to Arrowhead … Continue reading
TiVo begins downloading movies. IPTV next?
Linky This, on top of announcing a partnership with Yahoo gives clear indication where TiVo is going. No longer will living room IPTV be confined to MythTV & savvy Windows users, but now it is being delivered to the masses. … Continue reading
How Sony made me love Microsoft & Bush
Two announcements today…. – Microsoft will treat & remove the Sony/XCP rootkit like the malware that it is. – Bush Administration to Sony: It’s your intellectual property — it’s not your computer. When you have both the Bush administration & … Continue reading
More Sony fun
Yahoo has an article about how three trojan horse viruses have been found that exploit the massive serurity hole left by Sony’s rootkit. It also reports a class action lawsuit has already been filed, and the EFF is looking into … Continue reading
Microsoft ‘Concerned’ by Sony DRM
Paul Roberts reports on EWeek that Microsoft is considering ‘taking action’ against Sony with regards to its rootkit that has been all over the news recently. This comes on top of Microsoft claiming Sony’s next-gen DVD format (Blu-Ray) is “Anti-Consumer.” … Continue reading
“This is the week that Sony declared war on the consumer”
In a scathing attack on Sony, CNet editor Molly Wood calls this last week as the beginning of a war the media content companies have waged on its own consumers. How did that happen? In one of the dumbest ideas … Continue reading
NerdTV
Ever ask yourself questions about the birth of RSS, XML, online advertising, O’Rielly Publishing, Archive.org, or even the internet in general? Well, I just recently discovered NerdTV, an IPTV show (meaning… internet only TV show) done by tech writer Robert … Continue reading
A review of Sony’s EULA
One top of all the other bad decisions and the PR nightmare Sony has created for themselves… the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a great write-up of the more unbelievable terms in the 3,000 word UELA you agree to when … Continue reading