Category Archives: Technology

Social Networking At Work

There shouldn’t be any whining about this. If you are at work, you should be working. End of story. Well, okay, there’ve been studies that say that people who take short breaks every hour or so end up being more productive. So, let me rephrase: If you are whining about this, you should find a [...]
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Phone Idiot Light

So, someone who’s ignoring common sense by driving while talking on a cell phone is going to care whether his car tells him or her that they are on a cell phone? “Oh, hold on Fred, my car is telling me something… oh it’s telling me that I’m on the phone. OH SHIT I JUST [...]
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IT Behind F1

Slashdot has a cool article about the computers behind the cars in F1. Maybe there’s a future for me there….
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OpenSSL 1.0 Released

Well, just in time. It was recently revealed the that good old government has compromised SSL by getting fake SSL certs from Verisign so it can spy on you. So, create your own too by using the newly released OpenSSL 1.0.
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Dubai Opens Tallest Building Ever

Cool Video. I’m glad they put forth the effort to construct great engineering feats. Too bad the rest of their culture is 500 years behind.
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I Want This

I can forgive the label, “Smartbook”, since it’s reportedly so cheap. A $200 tablet? I’ve been waiting for something like this before I ever bought a mobile PC again. From PCWorld: Next to the 512MB of RAM, up to 64GB of internal storage (microSD expansion) and a 1GHz processor, Freescale’s smartbook tablet features a potentially [...]
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Republican Rep. Peter King To Make Another Stupid Move

There are too many mosques. There are too many Wikileaks. There are too many idiots. King is wondering why unencrypted pager traffic was captured and the released. He plans on wasting taxpayer money for months to do a Google search. For the same reason that someone can take a picture of you in public and release it. [...]
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PETI

These poor insects! Cyborg beetles. Awesome! Now I have this song stuck in my head:
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Microsoft’s New “Tablet”

Microsoft has a new product coming out, and unlike … every other product they’ve made, I’m actually interested in giving them money for it. It’s called, Courier, and it isn’t really a tablet, it’s a booklet! From what I’ve seen, it looks awesome. However, since it has two touch screens, I’m assuming the OS is [...]
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FCC to Force Internet to Be Free

The FCC is finally rolling out some guidelines for Net Neutrality. It’s about time. Google, Microsoft, and other major companies are on the bandwagon to implement these “changes”, which really aren’t changing much of anything. They are just to prevent service providers from throttling down whatever content they deem deserves throttling down. The complaints are [...]
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