This
is stupid for so many reasons. The biggest is that it’s flat out
unreasonable to expect a service provider to be liable for any use of that
service in which they’re not directly involved. If this bill passes, I’d
have to ask, who’s making sure people don’t send copyrighted material
through the postal service? The act is exactly the [...]
If you’ve got a Treo 650, check
this out. I helped a client hack a Treo 650 over the weekend to install
the sound quality fix, and it’s not only really easy to do, it takes about
five minues to reflash the device. It’s nice to know that if PalmOne won’t
give people what they want, the user community [...]
And people wonder why I’ve completely written off television. From Jeff
Jarvis’s blog…
http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_01_18.html#008906
Feeling the chill… in more ways than one
: This is what the FCC’s censorship has brought: Rampant stupidity
necessitated by stupid government. From the AP:
Fox says it covered up the naked rear end of a cartoon character recently
because of nervousness over what the Federal [...]
This is yet another reason why I don’t have or want WiFi in my apartment. I
just isn’t secure, no matter what you do with it. I worked in data security
in the Pentagon years ago and the only really secure PC is locked in a safe
with no power and no one knows the combination. But wired [...]
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with
great force.”
This is amazing stuff. For anyone that’s used Plucker with anti-aliased phones, this brings the same capability to the entire system. Beautiful, clear fonts that rival the printed page.
There’s just one problem. It doesn’t work on the Zodiac because it’s a hack and requires YAHM to run. YAHM uses some ARM-native code, and thus requires [...]