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Saturday, 31 July 2010
Friday, 30 July 2010
Recent surveys detailed at TechDirt inform us that the US ranks about 27th in broadband download and upload speeds, behind such technological powerhouses as Kyrgyzstan.I'm calling this the "Borat Effect," so you'll need to pay me if you use that. Real moneys, too.We're falling behind is just about everything due to two factors: greed and cowardice. US broadband providers want to extract as much profit from their business as possible while providing...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Ars Technica reports:At the Black Hat security conference today, Microsoft championed a new approach to addressing security issues. The new emphasis is on collaboration between software vendors and security researchers to ensure that customers are kept as safe as possible.Microsoft likened its approach to Neighborhood Watch schemes—secure computing cannot be achieved with software vendors and researchers all working independently; the landscape is...
Monday, 26 July 2010
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Suicide is painless,It brings on many changes,And I can take or leave it if I please...Such is the refrain from the Johnny Mandel/Mike Altman song best known as the theme used by M*A*S*H. It appears that our response to suicide prevention has proven woefully ineffective since the song was first released in 1970.Brendan Koerner, in his Atlantic essay The Suicide Conundrum, notes thusly:Despite all we've learned about human psychology over the past several decades, we seem unable to make much of a dent in America's overall suicide rate, which has...
Friday, 23 July 2010
Let me see if I understand this correctly. It's ok to have strip clubs within a couple of blocks of NYC's "Ground Zero" as this does not taint the sanctity of hallowed territory, but having a Muslim mosque in the vicinity tarnishes all that we hold sacred and dishonors the souls of the loved and the lost?What a complicated time in which to li...
I'm no Luke Russert fanboy, but for once, the guy is asking the right questions and pressing to get answers.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyRachel is right - Charlie is in deep doo-doo. The fact that he thinks criticizing a news organization like NBC will garner sympathy for his cause says more about traditional media than it does Charlie Rangel, who appears from the allegations to be as crooked as a country ro...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Google has taken an interesting, and in my view overdue stance on what a responsible security flaw disclosure strategy should include. As both an IT security professional and a humanoid, protecting the end user as quickly and effectively as possible should be the shared goal of both security researchers and software makers.Too often we've seen the waters muddied via subjective descriptors such as "responsible" that seem designed more to protect the software vendor's reputation and market share than to keep critical flaws from being exploited, causing...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
A tiny dick, to be sure. Here's what Ben has to say about the unemployed:The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work. They are people who create either...
Monday, 19 July 2010
Columbus DJ and all around good guy John Andrew "Andyman" Davis drowned this past weekend while vacationing in Michigan. Andyman leaves behind a wife and three young children.When I moved to Columbus in '95, local radio was in the midst of the decade's conversion to corporate ownership and musical homogenization. Having relocated from the east coast, I was spoiled by the musical variety that comes with living in the New York metro. There was so much...
Sunday, 18 July 2010
It's hard to admit you're old.I'm not talking about looking into the mirror each morning and seeing a few more gray hairs, or understanding that you have children planning engagements and graduating from college. That seems logical, a normal progression in the circle of life that requires little more from me than acknowledgment. Yep, those things are happening.Such events aren't entirely unfamiliar. They've occurred in my life, too. College - check....
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Kids today, with their newfangled ways to disassociate from the reality that it's really hard to be a kid today, have turned to audio in their latest attempt to make their parents, teachers, and law enforcement say really stupid things on television.Now, I'm on the Board of Directors of a well-known substance abuse prevention organization, so I look at news reports like this much in the way a dog might tilt his head sideways when hearing a sound that doesn't jibe with what he knows to be true.Music and sounds have been used as emotional gateways...
Friday, 16 July 2010
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Sewer workers in London are on a mission to remove walls of solidified fat from underground drains.Where's Mike Rowe when you need him?It's estimated that 1000 tons of fatty deposits are blocking parts of the sewer system, or roughly the lipid count of the weekly visitors to the Ohio State Fair. Why there's not a cross-marketing opportunity with the manufacturers of Crestor is beyond me.It's rumored that Ricky Gervais is working on a development...
Friday, 9 July 2010
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
This exchange during a poker scene exchange filled me with a mixture of serenity and camaraderie as the characters fell into familiar roles. It was compelling when I watched it on the TV box, and I think it's worth sharing.The combination of friendship, human interaction and gentle education was powerful, and true. There are very few things in life that remain scary once we take the time to understand th...
What goes around comes around sometimes. In this case Woot® has advised the AP that since the AP took content from the Woot® website and used it within an AP story, AP owes Woot® payment for said use, given that AP is very aggressive about holding other organizations to the very same standards.You can read the whole there he...
Monday, 5 July 2010
Sunday, 4 July 2010
I last saw George Carlin at the Palace Theater in Columbus, Ohio less than a year before he died. He wasn't at the top of his game, needing to refer to a huge notebook for some of his material, claiming that they had added a bunch of stuff for this tour and he hadn't gotten it all down yet.There wasn't much new material. George was old, and tired, and near the end of the race. But he was still furious.On this Independence Day, you should be furious too. When Alan Simpson, chairman of the Obama Debt Commission, overtly states that changes to Social...
A Marist poll found that 26 percent of Americans surveyed could not correctly identify from which country the 13 original colonies declared independence.Holy crapballs.Those 18-29 polled even worse, with only 60 percent getting the answer correct. A full 33% were unsure.Men scored better than women (81% to 67%), while those age 45 and over were correct more often than younger respondents (78% to 67%).The is one of the first times I've been proud...
Have you ever wondered how modern bloggers might have covered the Declaration of Independence?No? Me either. But this fisking is still pretty hilarious.Jefferson has buried an obviously untrue assertion after a rather longwinded series of unsubstantiated premises. [And what's with the capitalization? Is Course a proper noun now?-ed.] Is it really necessary to dissolve our political bonds? Really? Does the earth have powers? [And why isn't "earth" capitalized? Surely, it's closer to being a proper noun than "course."-e...
Saturday, 3 July 2010
The Cincinnati Pride parade just happens to fall on the July 4th weekend this year. What's the patriotic thing to do?Freak out!Via Think Progress:“We think its not right for them to invade the Fourth of July, and we’re trying to warn people that if they do go downtown they may be exposed to some deviant behavior,” Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values. “Everything from sex in the streets to topless women.”…”It bothers me that they’re going downtown on the Fourth of July, and it has nothing to do with the July celebration. Nothing,”...
Friday, 2 July 2010
Thursday, 1 July 2010
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