Thursday, November 14, 2002|
EMI Promises Downloadable Music If their rates are cheap enough and they adhere to fair use well enough (perhaps by offering MP3, MP4/AAC or ogg files), this could work. And if it succeeds, it may serve as a positive example to other companies. In other words, everybody should heavily support this venture if it turns out the to be good. [Slashdot] 10:06:20 PM  comment []
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Microsoft names homeland security director. Thomas Richey to head business unit focused on federal government. Right now I'm laughing too hard to be scared. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:00:27 PM comment []
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NextCard Files for Chapter 11. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Failed online credit card issuer NextCard Inc. sought bankruptcy protection Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to come back as a financial services consultant. By The Associated Press. I love irony. I wonder if their creditors have shady collection agents call them at dinner and inform them that their credit record will be affected for up to 7 years. [New York Times: Technology] 9:57:44 PM comment []
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William Safire: You are a suspect. [Scripting News] 1:57:47 PM comment []
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You Can Take Your Porn With You. Now playing on a cell phone near you, it's pornography. Also: Mobile payments in California.... Local phone companies losing to wireless providers.... all in Unwired News by Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 1:53:12 PM comment []
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From BoingBoing, Apple laptops kick Windows boxens's asses in price-performace shootout. I don't really see anybody's asses getting kicked. Using an alternative to Microsoft's products is a great idea, and the quality of parts that generally go into the Apple notebooks are pretty good... but they make it sound like the Wintel laptops suck, and they don't. Wintel has faster processors and Apple has a better case design, better video cards, better support and Mac OS X. Pick which of these is important to you and buy appropriately. 1:48:59 PM comment []
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Homeland Security's coming panopticon. William Safire blasts the Homeland Security Act in an editorial in today's NYT.
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend [~] all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
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Mozilla Adding Spam Filters. I checked out the Mail client in Mozilla 1.2 Beta, and it's actually pretty slick. Once you get past the drag when opening the window, it seems pretty fast. But why does Mozilla need to expend so much effort in order to just open a new window? [Slashdot] 11:29:03 AM comment []
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I saw several signs around the Apple campus about a Macromedia Studio MX presentation. I figured since I bought a copy (you never know when you'll want to do a Flash image, and Dreamweaver seems like an OK web site prototyping tool) I'd go and learn more about it. But they aren't covering Studio at all. They focus mostly on the advantages of Flash, as a sales pitch, and then dive into details of ColdFusion, a product that isn't available on the Mac. I felt doubly duped; not only was this supposed to be a Studio presentation but they're at Apple presenting products that compete with WebObjects and don't run on our platform. I walked out halfway through, as did about half the audience. It must have been a canned sales presentation, because they zipped through the PowerPoint slides on Contribute, mentioning that it would be released for the Mac sometime next year. 8:47:44 AM comment []
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