A recent article from CNet.com outlines potential efforts from Congress to legislate file swapping services, suggesting that the services may need to be completely banned (?!):
A California senator [Sen. Dianne Feinstein] has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. … Pointing to what she called a “rise [...]
Here’s an interesting bit of news. The state of Massachusetts has decided to completely stop using Microsoft Office products for all of its official documents. The story is also available at pcworld.com. From the former forbes article:
The state of Massachusetts is proposing to make all its workers stop using Microsoft’s Word, Excel [...]
It was only a matter of time before Apple’s announcement that they will be switching to Intel processors led to the inevitable leaks and hacks and cracks. For weeks now there have been reports of users installing and running OS X on regular old PC’s. Of course Apple isn’t even selling Intel-based machines [...]
Nobody likes popups. Before Firefox and popup blockers you could say that browsing was a chore. Every other site attacked you with at least a few popups that just ate up your CPU cycles, your memory, your time, and your patience. I can see why perhaps they were used though. Even [...]
Remember the days when upgrading your hardware meant a significant increase in speed when doing everyday tasks such as word processing and web browsing? These days, the speed and capacity of the hardware you buy makes little difference in these tasks and noticeable benefits are largely restricted to communities such as gamers, academic researchers, [...]
