That is the conclusion of a recent survey of Clinton, Iowa wireless network access points conducted by Clinton technology consulting firm, Riverfront Technology, Inc. “Almost all of the commercial internet service providers now supply their customers with WiFi enabled routers. Many of these come with instructions for enabling the wireless but the default condition...
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We do NOT in any way advocate pirating software. But what I want to know is does the tiny chair come with a tiny Steve Ballmer? Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party – watch more funny videos
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And it is a pretty happy day. Our experience with Windows 7 at the office has been very positive. I have been running it as my only OS after an in-place upgrade from Vista a week ago. I have almost no complaints. Ryan Voss installed it on his laptop, a lower-end, three year-old HP...
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Since Windows 7 is right around the corner and since people have somehow been given the impression that I know stuff about technology and stuff, I had to go and install Windows 7 on my every-day work computer. Why expose myself to this potential productivity killing activity? I do it for you, my loyal...
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I suppose everyone of a certain age is aware of Napster and the music industry’s crusade to crush it. Every few months over the last decade or so the entertainment industry will explode in a flurry of press releases and talking head appearances regarding the evils of copyright infringement, illegal copying and piracy. But...
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This is the latest in an ongoing series entitled, “Everything You Think You Know (ETYTYK) about ‘X’ is Wrong,” designed to illustrate just how much technology and the internet have changed key industries (the X). It is also about how we as consumers and most especially how the industries themselves are mostly failing in...
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While tout le monde flakes off on their state-subsidized and/or mandates three week vacations, those of us who live in the utopian wonderland that is the USA continue to work away to pay for our bestest-in-the-world health care and stuff. Not a whole lot going on in technology and politics… But I look forward...
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Another post that starts with a book plug. The Transparent Society by David Brin. Brin is a SF writer by trade and an prolific libertarian-leaning writer of nonfiction. The premise of The Transparent Society is that basically privacy as we know it is nonexistent. “The Man” has access to every aspect of our lives...
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Even if you aren’t really into Science Fiction, if you want your mind to be totally blown, try Accelerando, by Charles Stross. It is a collection of nine interconnected short stories telling the tale of three generations of a disfunctional family before during and after a technological singularity. Acelerando won the Locus award and...
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Robert Kramer III performed a great mitzvah for for the world when he ran down and sued into the ground a number of spammers based in the United States. Although it is unlikely that Bob Kramer, owner of CIS Internet Services ever saw even a tenth part of the more than $10 billion (yes,...
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