By duran | Published:
April 11, 2009
http://www.tweenbots.com/
Technology as a feature in our lives.
What are the lines between us, and them, and what do we do when a object asks for help?
Some of us spend a lot of time working with computers, and when something goes wrong, we fix it. Not because we should, but because we need it to work.
But [...]
By duran | Published:
March 30, 2009
When you hear via twitter how workers at an unnamed large corporation in my home town are bitching about their office network being slow…
And you remember how this unnamed large corproate entity was part of the resistance to Philadelphia having their own public wireless network…
To think, if your network went down in your office, you [...]
By duran | Published:
October 2, 2008
I don’t know who said that. Part of me wants to say William Gibson. But I’m not sure.
This evening I’m headed up to NYC to visit my brother for a few days. I decided to take Bolt Bus. They say it has wifi, and the price is very good.
So what the [...]
Also posted in ELECTION, being, obama, sci-fi, things that beep | Tagged beta, communication, cyberpunk, gibson, matrix, network, Technology, wireless |
By duran | Published:
September 3, 2008
Well, Google got it through their thick heads that maybe the boiler plate EULA/TOS wasn’t such a good idea to use on the browser.
Arstechnica reports …
Google’s Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company tries to reuse these licenses as much as possible, “in order to keep things [...]
By duran | Published:
September 3, 2008
Apparently, it installs “GoogleUpdater.exe” and “GoogleDesktopServices.exe” as processes that always run as well.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=952157&cid=24858835
“Do no evil” means… what? blindly force people to install your quasi-spy ware with out warning them?
*sigh*
By duran | Published:
September 2, 2008
Check this out
cnet.com on the Chrome TOS
“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole [...]
Also posted in being | Tagged eula, privacy, tos |
By duran | Published:
June 30, 2008
… even though it looks like the house that was torn off the side of a hill in Lethal Weapon 2 or what ever…
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/29/casa-11-mujeres-by-mathias-klotz/
The house is called “Casa 11 Mujeres” (Eleven Women House), a cliff-top house near Santiago in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz.
(there are more photos on the site I got these from …)
By duran | Published:
June 28, 2008
Tell Senator Obama: Hang up on Big Telecom
This week, Senators Dodd and Feingold won a battle in the fight to stop the FISA capitulation. In an attempt to stop retroactive telecom immunity, they delayed a vote on the bill until after the July 4th recess. This buys us more time to shore up the votes [...]
By duran | Published:
February 19, 2008
Report: Alberta Oil Sands Most Destructive Project on Earth
I love it when profit is more important then practicality.
By duran | Published:
February 3, 2008
well, that was an interesting experience.
just a few hours ago, I took the time to comment on an article posted at http://grouchygeek.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/02/01/yahoo-needs-microsofts-help/ on the effects of the MS purchase of Yahoo.
I took my time to comment not on the effects of the advertising world, or on the many millions of users who have @yahoo.com [...]