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- Google Earth to license new satellite imagery
- Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Empower your people
- It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're still not exactly overstaffed on tech here in the district. I'm supposed to be handling curriculum and designing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time
- Guns n Roses leaker faces prison timeI think it should be a civil matter, myself......but if Congress made it a felony, then we can't blame the US Attorney if he takes prompt action. No sympathy for the leaker.BTW: I really didn't want or need to see the cover photo....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggeratedNormal operating procedureAll major news organizations have prewritten obits for prominent people, with those notes about who to contact for comment in the event of that person's death.This is done so as to avoid inaccuracies that often pop up when the news media has...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seatgood for him - stop patent pirates! and "patent" deformdoes this not seem like an appropriate action for an inventor to take? if i copy your article without your permission, do I get a pass? probably not because you...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- Much has been made of NBC's Olympic numbers, which had the rights for online video in the US, and what that means for Silverlight. I thought the app was solid, the video quality was good, and all in all it was a win for Microsoft and RIAs. In that vein,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLinux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLOL! And the hits to linux just keep coming! So thats 4 different incidents within a week's time of how badly linux sucks. Poor linus must be hiding under his bed trying...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XP
- Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XPDo it right......kill WGA altogether!! Time to start listening to your customers, M$!!WGA, friend or foe?Somebody at my work brought to me his laptop that had XP pro. A friend of his had sold it to him and when he tried to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?
- Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?Wow, we are breaking down the barriers to web application adoption for allof our every day applications. The speed here will be so close to natively compiled code that it will not matter any more. But, we still need some kind of a sandboxed...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?
- Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?Tech Policy should be highest priority.No one in congress or the presidential race has a clue about technology, which is the basis of our entire economy. And everyone wonders why we are falling behind in the world. Energy technology...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Compromise on the drinking age debate
- Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and Ubuntu
- Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and UbuntuIt's also interesting that......[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112885]A third of new PCs are being downgraded from Vista to XP[/url].Why do you suppose that is? ;)At this price point, I just might buy my first small computer. Though, Imight wait for them to offer a little...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate 10 gov't databases
- If you needed a university certificate in China during the last couple of months, there's a big chance that a group of ten people could have supplied with you such, going a step further and adding your details in more than ten government databases across different provinces in the country,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy
- Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-PrivacyUntil???"until and unless a mobile phone service provider ... starts collecting data from its GPS-enabled phones and fails to tell its customers that it is collecting information on their whereabouts without their knowledge"Law enforcement is already getting this data for many people just...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?My boss likes to look at IT as a cost...center. I asked him the other day to turn off all computers then try to do business. He said he couldn't. Well then it looks like your IT is responsible for 100% of your revenue....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- A walk through the two new student tools for Office 2007
- Zack Whittaker was on compassionate leave when this was posted; posted offline and scheduled to release during this week. Late last month I wrote about the five newly released tools designed for students and academics. I was on the phone last week to an old colleague of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the InternetWe agree about content providers...But in my fantasy world you would not necessarily need a DVR you could pay extra for a download and you could get a stream anywhere with net access.It didn't melt but I think it got hot. ntntRE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-17
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