Archive for January, 2006

The 20 minute brain workout.

Not to sound like an overused line from an old Wendy’s comercial but… Where is the beef?

Hamachi, looks like a sweet little bit of NAT traversing VPN pipe encryption for the masses. It claims to have no Homeland Security Government backdoors. Additional perk is that it is multiplatform (currently PC and Linux with a Mac version on the way).

Sweet!

Steve Gibson, noted PC hardware and network security expert, claims Microsoft made the WMF security hole intentionally.

So Steve Jobs was responsible for the platform that started the World Wide Web.

I wonder how long it will take him to capitalize on that press?

Just in case you are a geek and were Looking for art ideas.

Plants responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gasses. So to prevent global warming we could just kill the rainforest?

Review Mozart’s writings among other suave audio/video items.

Although we have no carpool lanes in Knoxville the ability to drive in a carpool lane because you have a child is a pet peeve. If we are suppose to encourage “carpooling” that would seem to suggest that both occupants of the vehicle should be licensed drivers or at least able to get a license.

Now this women took it one step further and claimed that her fetus was the second person. Glad to see this didn’t fly with the Court, although I wouldn’t have been suprised if it went the other way either.

BREITBART.COM – Judge: Don’t Count Fetus for Carpool Quota

Oh sorry, it’s create an e-annoyance and go to jail. Apparently the government hasn’t usurped the power to apply eternal damnation yet…

Let me sum up… Eric Bauman has a site called Ebaums world. It looks like he is notorious for ripping off other sites content. This made many people angry… They launched a DOS (denial of service) attack against his website.

Here is a very special version of the plagiarized content from YTMND.com.

Oooh, I’m so excited…
TiVo shows Series3 HDTV Cable Card unit at CES

For me this one has been a soap box issue for years. Other than the politicians do not want to loose their funding sources, does anyone have any ideas why we do not have effective controls to prevent the lobbyists from having more access to our government than the citizens?

Maybe they need better gun control laws… Wait they have those already… ;-)

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Are you a nerd or computer geek. If so this custom tailored workout program is aimed directly at your special needs.

Don’t the terrorists win when Americans give up their constitutional rights to achieve the illusion of security?

Maybe instead of $11.2 Billion, they should have fined him 1 million dollars…

Or maybe a zillion, zillion dollars. I never can keep them straight.

The great/free open office product has been made portable enough to put on your favorite thumb drive. Now you can take your office suite and documents with you and run them on any windows machine you are near (I’m waiting for the windows/mac/linux version)…

download here.

Virtual-Browser.com – Browse the Internet Safely & Anonymously!

I believe people were flayed for speaking of this in the middle ages. But now you can freely share a HowTo on the math behind subnetting