Archive for November 2005
RSS for Package Tracking
Posted by: kegill on: 26 November 2005
SimpleTracking provides an RSS feed to track your UPS – USPS – FedX – DHL package! No more periodic visits to the UPS site to see where your package lives in realspace. All you need is the tracking number and a working e-mail address (where they will send your RSS feed URL) as well as [...]
Sony Faces Another Challenge
Posted by: kegill on: 19 November 2005
On the heels of claims that Sony’s DRM software is malware comes this news: an allegation that the software is "’infringing the copyright of several open source projects," according to reknowned hacker Jon Lech Johansen. According to Reuters, Thomas Dullien from Sabre Security, concurs: "We can confirm that at least five functions in the XCP [...]
Apple Abandons Firewire?
Posted by: kegill on: 18 November 2005
I was poking around the Apple Store, looking at the new iPod, when I noticed this: "USB 1.1 and 2.0 through integrated USB connector." What? No Firewire? I quickly did a web check — USB v Firewire — to try to refresh my memory as to the differences. Ah, yes, USB 2.0 is supposed to [...]
Clicks + Mortar
Posted by: kegill on: 18 November 2005
I just discovered Circuit City’s "buy-it-online, pick it up in 24 minutes" promo…. just in time for the holidays. From the website: "When you arrive at the store, follow the signs with the 24/24 Pickup Guarantee logo to the in-store pickup area…. Your In-Store Pickup can be picked up anytime during regular Circuit City store [...]
Google Print : Friend or Foe?
Posted by: kegill on: 14 November 2005
- In: Convergence| Legal| Media
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Paul Andrews discusses the pros-and-cons of Google Print — from the point of view of an author — in today’s Seattle Times column. Google "argues that indexing books and displaying excerpts are legal procedures
akin to quotes in reviews and do not require publishers’ permission."
As an author of two books, though, I’m not sure I want [...]
eVoting Flawed : A GAO Review
Posted by: kegill on: 13 November 2005
Despite spending untold millions on new voting equipment, the 2004
election had both real and potential error, according to a recent GAO
report. Moreover, due to January deadlines and little government
guidance for localities, the situation is unlikely to improve for 2006,
because local governments are required to have an electronic voting
machine at every polling place after 1 Jan [...]
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