Don't blame Facebook for your Incompetence

Yes, its my blog, but everyone needs to stop complaning about this. If only people spent as much time finding a solution as they did @!$%#ing and moaning. Please spread the word about how easy it is to fix this problem.

Editorial: RIAA, DRM and other evil acronyms

The laws that are being discussed in these articles will only anger the digerati and confuse the average consumer with the prompts and options. People don't care what fair use is, most users couldn't even explain what it is.

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Editorial: Irritating problems that could ruin newsvine, that already plague digg and slashdot

First off, newsvine is awesome. It has defiantly revolutionized the way that I read news and the way I learn about things. I love the way it combines the automatic feeds with user articles like this one into one seamless interface.

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Government again states fears about a BlackBerry shutdown

This is really sad that it had to come to this i think, though it is looking like the battle is shifting slightly in RIM's favor. This article talks about the rejection of the NTP patents as well as the JD's concerns.

Wired News: How to Code a Constitution

This is an interesting take on how to write a governing legal doccument (constitution) to govern a country. It is true how it paralells a good security policy at any major corperation.

AT&T Sued Over NSA Eavesdropping

I am glad that the EFF took action against this. I had heard about this in passing a little while ago and I was outraged. Because they did this I will never purchase product from at&t and I will suggest anyone that I know to do the same. This is absolutely un-forgivable.

Google denies plans to distribute OS based on Ubuntu

Well, that was quick. I guess that rumors will be rumors, maybe the ubuntu people are trying to gain some support. One never knows though, the big G could sneak up behind us and drop a big surprise. I guess we have to continue the waiting game....

Goobuntu: coming soon to a desktop near you?

Wouldnt this pose an interesiting twist. I dont know that i would use it though. All of the things that google has you can do on a windows computer. What would the advantave be then to have this over strait up ubuntu, i guess we will have to wait to see

iTunes-enabled SLVR V7 comes to Cingular - infoSync World

Its about time that awful looking rokr was replaced. Maybe this one will have the functionality that the rokr was missing. It looks much better than the rokr does too, more styling of the razr.

Wired News: Lofting Balloons for Cell Service

I have been saying this for a long time. Having lived in rural Colorado for a while the random blackout aread are very annoying. I hope to see this technology become more prominant in the future.

Editorial: MSFT tightens the Trusted Computing screws in Vista

In a recient article on boingboing: - Vista, the new version of Windows, has tightened the Trusted Computing screws, putting hardware companies on notice that they will have to get their drivers approved by Microsoft before shipping them.

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I live in wisconsin and i am going to school for IT Networking. This was after a year off working in the real world.

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