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- JAMA studies push the need for H1N1 flu shot
- Still fighting that war eh, Dana? :)Get over it man.Interesting piece of information:Recent news in Canada:"Four Canadian studies involved about 2,000 people, health officials told CBC News. Researchers found people who had received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to get sick with the H1N1 virus."So......
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- The EULA ... your views
- Every EULA translated in under 15 words:By using this software, you forfeit any right not explicitly protected by law.RE: The EULA ... your viewsSo you just wanted to post to agree with what others agreed with you about? Ok....RE: The EULA ... your viewsOdd how the random sample doesn't...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Falcon Northwest Talon (Intel Core i7)
- Falcon Northwest was first to ship us a PC with Intel's new mainstream Core i7 CPUs, and based on this $2,495 Talon configuration, we can say that Intel has met its goal of enabling system builders to sell fast PCs at lower prices than they could previously. Falcon Northwest has...
- Product reviews 2009-09-08
- Amazon Kindle DX
- Even before the Kindle 2 launched, there was talk of an even newer, larger digital reader from Amazon that would be geared more toward reading textbooks and periodicals. We all assumed it would be bigger, but it was unclear exactly what form it would take. Well, now that it's finally...
- Product reviews 2009-06-10
- Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?
- Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?It's fastI tried and it's damn fast! Too much faster than the dying Live search.Try this query...Enter "Map of New York" or pretty much anywhere.Checkout the sponsored sites ;-)RE: Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?Bing spices up...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft
- The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review
- Amazon's Kindle 2 is sleek, stylish, and has a crisp and easy-on-the eyes "electronic ink" display. But it only does one thing -- read books. After all the relatively hostile things I have said about Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in the past, I...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Commitment to standards
- Commitment to standardsOn the standardsThis point of view emerges from ten plus years in the industry.Standard are very slow to emerge as they are based on the consensus of the actors of a sector. As these actors are never willing give up any competitive leverage they might have over competitors,...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-18
- Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?
- The recent debacle over the Virgin Killer entry on Wikipedia has, unfortunately, lent further evidence to the site's detractors that Wikipedia is a repository for smut and unreferenced information, and otherwise has no educational value. The short answer to my question, though, "Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?",...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Talkback Tuesday: Cheating at UltimateBet
- Several commenters asked why the institutionalized cheating at the UltimateBet Poker site is a security story. alleco writes: Where's the computer security bit of the story? This is a fair question, and it is my fault for not making the link more explicit. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room?
- Like several high tech innovations Zinio began as a digital service aimed at B2B. But it worked, so it's inevitably grown to become a global, consumer-oriented service as well. If it works at work, just think how you can use it at home. And then...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time
- If the "Vista sucks" movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Is OOP a branch to nowhere?
- To continue the discussion about development languages, I want to ask a potentially embarrassing question: has the whole object orientation business been both a functional and a conceptual failure? One of the odd things about the OO movement is that no two proponents understand...
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control
- Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?
- FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?time to open your wallet and pay respectsince the spectrum is sold, you have to bow and pay the usage fee to the MAN.RE: FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?[i]Google didn’t win any licenses.[/i]ROTFLMAO!! I...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Bright Futures for Mobile Devices (Mobile)
- Bright Futures for Mobile Devices Guidelines for Health Supervision, 3e PLUS Pocket Guide Editors: Joseph F. Hagan, Jr, MD, FAAP; Judith S. Shaw, RN, MPH, EdD; Paula M. Duncan, MD, FAAP The Bright Futures initiative is funded by the US Department of Health & Human Services Health Resources and Services...
- Software downloads 2008-03-02
- More Vista SP1 answers
- More Vista SP1 answersA bigger question needed to be answer,Where can I download it now? I have searched microsoft.com and google, but could only find reviews and release notes, but not where I can download it. I do not want to wait until march.Vista Ultimate x64 SP1Ed; I...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Turning 2-D photos into 3-D models
- When you take a picture, you know that the person or the landscape in front of you has three dimensions. But when you watch the result, it's definitively a flat picture. Extracting 3-D information from photos is still in its infancy. Now, Stanford University computer scientists have developed the Make3d...
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone rates
- State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone ratesShow the taxes on the bill!Allowing governmental bodies to squash the explicit listing of taxes on cell phone bills would be like allowing them to forbid gas stations from posting those signs on the pump which break out the various...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Attack journalism: an iPhone example
- Here's a comment from cnet contributor ripragged in response to a Macalope blog entry responding to an article about DRM - but entirely applicable in a different context: the essentially unanimous rejection of the iPhone by the paid IT analyst community: I'm trying...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
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