To display the most relevant entries to you in priority,
vote for the stories you are interested in
()
and reject those that you are not interested in
()
We've seen plenty of cute
flash drivesin
our day, but this one that looks like spare change -- you know, cold, hard, days of yore
currency -- well, let's just say this USB 2.0 drive is like heaven on earth. You can get it in an
8GB silver "dime" size, or the 4GB copper "penny" variation for a starting price of $19.99. Come to
think of it, you might want to stock up just in case our economy utterly fails and we actually
start using these as you know, money.
We recently pointed out yet another telco-funded study warning about how the internet was going to
be a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081121/0242352913.shtml"overwhelmed/a by massive
traffic growth if the government didn't step in and give telcos everything they wished. However,
the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies (MINTS) has responded to the
report noting, yet again, that the data put forth by the telcos is totally overblown. The actual
evidence suggests a
href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/University-Researchers-Putting-Exaflood-Myth-To-Bed-99302"
target="_new"internet growth is not nearly as rapid as the original report stated/a and, in fact,
there's substantial evidence that the rate of internet usage is slowing. Just as we've seen from
various earlier studies, it appears that regular upgrades to equipment, rather than wholesale gov't
handouts to telcos, should be more than enough to keep the internet humming. br /br / But don't be
surprised to start seeing other fear tactics come into play. For example, an anonymous reader sent
in news of a report coming out of Australia, warning that we shouldn't just be worried about
bandwidth running out, but that all the energy it takes to run the internet will now be a
href="http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=08112549-high-speed-broadband-will-create-energy-bottleneck-slow-internet"
target="_new"putting a strain on the electric grid/a. Of course, that seems to assume the same
rapid pace of growth that the original (incorrect) report claimed, so I don't think we need to
worry about our electricity running out due to people downloading too many videos any time soon.
But, still, you should probably expect to see such arguments show up coming out of politicians in
the very near future.br /br /a
href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2015312972.shtml"Permalink/a | a
href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2015312972.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a
href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081130/2015312972op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br
style="clear: both;"/ a
href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=f415466bf679d4d3037b71d291468b86p=1"img alt=""
style="border: 0;" border="0"
src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=f415466bf679d4d3037b71d291468b86p=1"//a img
src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f415466bf679d4d3037b71d291468b86" style="display:
none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a
href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=sML7o"img
src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=sML7o" border="0"/img/a /divimg
src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/472167759" height="1" width="1"/
If you thought Randall Stross’ attack
on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to
say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says:
…if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not
only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of
education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.
That’s just part of a much longer interview in which Wolff goes into detail on exactly why
he thinks MySpace will go the way of AOL. He also makes some blatantly incorrect statements, such
as “All of the growth now in MySpace is international,” which is incorrect.
In the last year MySpace has grown about 10% in the U.S., adding 7.5 million monthly unique users
to a total of 76.4 million. Non-U.S. users have grown from 45 million to 54 million, a 17%
increase. (source: Comscore)
And those comments about MySpace users being poor and uneducated aren’t entirely correct
either. Of MySpace’s U.S. users, 52% make more than $60,000 per year, which is far from
poor. 23% make more than $100,000 per year. Just 11.6% make less than $25k/year.
Facebook’s numbers are 65% and 33%, respectively, which is more impressive. But MySpace has
30 million more U.S. users than Facebook (76 million v. 46 million), so MySpace’s aggregate
numbers are higher. 17.6 million U.S. MySpace users make more than $100,000 per year.
Also true of MySpace users, according to Nielsen: 63% own homes, 86% are registered voters and
28% are college graduates. Facebook has similar numbers.
Oops! Looks like Geri Halliwell showed a bit too much ass at the 13th Annual British Academy
Childrens Awards last night. Im not sure who wears a see-through dress to an award show for kids,
but not only did...
Article submitted by Joel Davies. After a decline in entries, there has been much discussion on the
BlenderArtists forums on how to improve the Animation Challenges to encourage more people to...br/
br/ [read the full article on blendernation.com]img
src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Blendernation/~4/472157407" height="1" width="1"/
Article submitted by Joel Davies. After a decline in entries, there has been much discussion on the
BlenderArtists forums on how to improve the Animation Challenges to encourage more people to
participate. Finally we can see the results of those discussions in the first improved Blender
Animation Challenge. Organiser, musk writes: This is the first round of [...]
The problem with bleeding edge devices is that they quickly become old and irrelevant. Replaced
with the latest gizmo, old smart phones and PDAs tend to find their way to a drawer or a landfill
after about 2 or 3 years.
It's not that most of us want a throwaway society. It's that most of the gadgets we buy are
designed to expire, with hardware that cannot be user serviced, batteries that cannot be easily
replaced, and with firmware and software stacks that cannot be modified to accommodate the
future. Proprietary. Closed. User subjugating. Stupid.
One half of the solution is to choose open hardware and open source whenever you have the choice.
The other part of the solution is to hack your closed devices to do your bidding. Thankfully,
there are a lot of people working hard to make the latter possible, and you can run Free Software
on everything from Palms to iPhones.
We caught this note from Hans-Christoph Steiner on the dorkbot nyc mailng list. He's currently working on a project
called Reware, which is attempting to bring a common hacker-friendly Linux distro to a variety of
PDAs:
We've been working at Eyebeam since July on making it easy to hack old devices and run new
software on them. We now have our first Reware HOWTO video, showing the basics of how to use a
Reware image yourself, then it illustrates some of the Pd patches we've made.
Coming soon, a image for running Pd, Python, and Lua programs on PDAs, as well as a HOWTO for
making Pd patches for 1-5G iPods. The key idea is to turn old PDAs, mobile phones, etc. into
something like an Arduino, where you can easily upload your own code to the device.
Currently Reware supports several Palm devices, but with iPods on the radar and a number of
Pocket PCs that can run Linux, there's a lot of potential here. Just think about all those
200-400MHz ARM processors just waiting for something interesting to do.
a
href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/reware_hack_your_old_pda.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890"
/Read more/a | a
href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/reware_hack_your_old_pda.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890"
/ Permalink/a | a
href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/reware_hack_your_old_pda.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890#comments"
/Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/hacks/?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more
articles in hacks/a | a
href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F12%2Freware_hack_your_old_pda.htmltitle=Reware%20-%20hack%20your%20old%20PDAbodytext=%20The%20problem%20with%20bleeding%20edge%20devices%20is%20that%20they%20quickly%20become%20old%20and%20irrelevant.%20Replaced%20with%20the%20latest%20gizmo%2C%20old%20smart%20phones%20and%20PDAs%20tend%20to%20find%20their%20way%20to%20a%20drawer%20or%20a%20landfill%20after%20about%202%20or...topic=tech_news"
/Digg this!/a
Thailand's Constitutional Court ordered the ruling People Power Party dissolved Tuesday and banned
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for five years.
Frank James / The
Swamp: Obama
rebukes Bush years with Clinton — What message should we take away
from President-elect Barack Obama's choices for his national-security team? —
One is that his presidency will be far different than the past eight years. By his choices,
he's rebuking the presidential management style …
Ken sez, Indymedia UK has info on an update to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This amendment
will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit
information about any police constable "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or
preparing an act of terrorism". Given the overreach of basically all legislation having to do with
the Global War on Nouns, there's fear in blogging, independent journalism, and activist communities
that this could make publishing information that the police finds disconcerting, embarrassing, or
troublesome problematic (to say the least). The amendment also apparently applies to internet
service providers and web hosting services...no safe harbor there. Hopefully enough of an outcry
will be heard to get some realistic analysis brought to bear! We will not be intimidated
– Mass resistance to new offence of publishing inform (Thanks, Ken!)...br
style="clear: both;"/ a
href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=062a98e41af88512acb9170a8157e967amp;p=1"img
style="border:0;"
src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=062a98e41af88512acb9170a8157e967amp;p=1"
border="0" //a
BUY 3 PHONES AND GET 1 FREE WITH,+1 COMPANY T-SHIRT
We specializes in the distributions of Mobile phones , Laptops , Games , Mobile accessories
e.t.c.
Our objective is to develop long-term relationships with our customers. To do so, we continuously
provide our existing customers new products, advanced designs, and patented innovations so that
they can stay on the top of their markets. We offer a 10days return policy , and offer a secure
payment method . We shipout worldwide through Professional and reliable courier company e.g FEDEX
EXPRESS , DHL and UPS within 48hrs of contract sealed . Customers never experience what is called
Breach of contract since our operation. Fidelity guarantee our service , our product are 100%
international waranty and guarantee .
Contact us today for your order at our marketing email:
sdepartmentltd@gmail.com sdepartment23@rocketmail.com sdepartment23@live.com
+447031899419
CHECKOUT FOR OUR LATEST AND HOSTEST PRODUCT IN MARKET.
Apple I-phone 3G 16GB $300usd
Nokia N98 16GB $400usd
HTC Touch Diamond $300usd
HTC Touch Pro $330usd
Samsung i900 Omnia $380usd
Sony Ericsson Xperial X1 $360usd
Apple Macbook Air (LAPTOP) $600usd
THERE ARE STILL LOTS OF PRODUCT IN STORE, FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT,
Send a message with your full Shipping details, which are your name, address and your conatact
Phone number..
BUY 3 PHONES AND GET 1 FREE WITH,+1 COMPANY T-SHIRT
We specializes in the distributions of Mobile phones , Laptops , Games , Mobile accessories
e.t.c.
Our objective is to develop long-term relationships with our customers. To do so, we continuously
provide our existing customers new products, advanced designs, and patented innovations so that
they can stay on the top of their markets. We offer a 10days return policy , and offer a secure
payment method . We shipout worldwide through Professional and reliable courier company e.g FEDEX
EXPRESS , DHL and UPS within 48hrs of contract sealed . Customers never experience what is called
Breach of contract since our operation. Fidelity guarantee our service , our product are 100%
international waranty and guarantee .
Contact us today for your order at our marketing email:
sdepartmentltd@gmail.com sdepartment23@rocketmail.com sdepartment23@live.com
+447031899419
CHECKOUT FOR OUR LATEST AND HOSTEST PRODUCT IN MARKET.
Apple I-phone 3G 16GB $300usd
Nokia N98 16GB $400usd
HTC Touch Diamond $300usd
HTC Touch Pro $330usd
Samsung i900 Omnia $380usd
Sony Ericsson Xperial X1 $360usd
Apple Macbook Air (LAPTOP) $600usd
THERE ARE STILL LOTS OF PRODUCT IN STORE, FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT,
Send a message with your full Shipping details, which are your name, address and your conatact
Phone number..
Talks are in progress that could mean Google-owned YouTube will begin offering full-length
Hollywood feature films for online viewing by Christmas. It depends if arguments about advertising
formats can be resolved and Google can get enough ads into streaming movies to make them
profitable. nbsp;
My girlfriend's macbook pro (late 2007) recently developed a symptom where when we do video chat,
it hogs 80% of her CPU resource. I tried to isolate the issue by seeing if it hogs in photo booth,
turns out it also does!
Does that mean something is wrong with the iSight driver? Anything else I can try to isolate the
problem further? The only change happened was the recent update she performed. I just brought my
24" iMac up to date yesterday, everything runs smooth and therefore I suspect it has nothing to do
with the update.
Microsoft has claimed a three-to-one Black Friday weekend victory for Xbox 360 over PlayStation 3.
If the figures prove to be correct, Sony's expensive console could be in for a...
Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announce plans to jointly develop and deliver
solid-state drives for servers, workstations, and storage systems.
)
and reject those that you are not interested in
(
)
If you thought Randall Stross’ 
