Google complicity in DVD key leak exposed

Try googling for just 09-f9

I'd like to think this is Google fighting back.

I don't think this toothpaste is going back into the tube.

Nigel

Subject: IBM to license nano parts to AMD, Toshiba

vacuum as insulator? won't that cause issues when the chip heats up seeing it can expand into those vacuum areas? I wonder.

W

Subject: Intel cans 1,000 jobs

So when Intel deep sixes over 11,500 jobs in less than twelve months, it's no big deal but when AMD axes a few hundred jobs due to the purchase of ATI, the sky is falling.

Like WTF?

Bandy

Subject: GoDaddy retirement payoff.

Hi Charlie,

Make them send you a check for it!

Back when I had an AT&T 800 number, I got a notice that I owed minus 14 cents. This was after I closed my account with them. Every month I got a bill showing I owed them minus 14 cents. After about six months, I called and asked them if they wouldn't really rather send me a check for it, rather than keep sending me notices every month which, given postage, envelope and whatever else time spent, would be cheaper than billing me forever. They said they couldn't do that, without me writing a letter requesting it, which would, I pointed out, require me spending more on postage than I'd get back. They didn't care. Evidently, they wished to lose money every month. I said then I guess they'd continue to bill me for my credit. And they did just that. For about another year. Finally, their machine spit out a check for less than the postage of one bill. This surprised me, as I expected them to bill me minus 14 cents forever.

I had expected them to eventually decide to "write off" their loss of minus 14 cents.

Joe

Subject: Aussie teachers call for Internet censorship

Hahahahahahahaha...my first good laugh of the day. Nice. What else could one possibly say about those loverly teachers? Beautiful.

Joe

Subject: The 09f9 secret...

Mike, er Ed,

I get 559,000 hits on the following search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=09+f9+11+02+9d+74+e3+5b+d8+41+56+c5+63+56+88+ c0

Adding 'site:www.google.com' to the search terms makes it seven (7) hits.

Therefore Google is responsible for about 0.00125% of the 'problem' (sic).

Cheers,
Jeffy

Subject: Silicon on nothing, vacuum disputes

These gentlemen spend their days debating nothing. ~King Charles II on vacuum disputes, some 300+ years before Einstein~

That is badhardware moto. Seems definitely that somehow there is something in nothing.

See the latest at:

http://badhardware.blogspot.com/

Regards
Badinhard

Subject: CS School Model

Hi.

As it happens, my HS "graduation project", such as it were, was a DOOM level (yes, I'm *that* old) based on my school's blue prints. Which (the BPs) I got from the school.

It had a single monster: a Cyber Demon in the principle's office :-)

RasEm Brsiq

Subject: 'blog' Journalism.....

Man here you go again.

Do you have some kind of bet on the go at the moment, a 'im more un-popular than you' kinda thing :D

Not that it would make your points any the less cogent......

Keep it up mate. Any chance of an antagonising article aimed at the Jocksm,'Silicon Glen'perhaps.

'John Bull'

Subject: Taking on the Vole

Actually you are inaccurate in your article. You state that only a few companies have been lucky enough to take on the Vole and win. In reality the vast majority of IP lawsuits, etc have resulted in Microsoft losing. Microsoft, in fact, rarely wins. One notable one is with AT&T but that is only just recently and it was taken to the US Supreme Court. The ruling was wrong and it opened a huge loophole that will allow foreign companies to take advantage of US laws and the US companies to take advantage of other companies. The real winner in it is Linux.

JDB

Subject: I just have to wonder

Does the Olympic Committee have a secret agenda that includes doing any and everything to drive people away from the Olympics ? I understand that, in the words Friendship, Solidarity and Fair Play there is no direct reference to Honor or Doing Things Right, but it seems to me that those latter qualities are somewhat implied nonetheless.

In any case, after the multiple scandals concerning the Olympics Committee, I must admit that this last piece of news will only confirm my opinion that the Olympics Committee has now totally perverted the spirit of the original words. Friendship now concerns Getting a Friend On Board, or Getting a Friend to Send Us Money. Solidarity is obviously We Will Stick Together Against Everybody Else, and Fair Play probably has something to do with MP3 players.

Nowhere do I see any reference to Honor, Honesty, Responsibility and Accountability. Nope, nowhere.

Pascal

Subject: RE: Chinese kid arrested for counterstrike

In our university department, a couple of the bachelors and masters projects involve creating a Far Cry level of our department.

Perhaps we shouldn't inform the authorities eh?

Gethyn

P.S. Am demonstrating my masters project today in a rather daring yellow shirt and orange striped tie combo!! Just in case anyone doesn't feel ill on the day...

Subject: Oldest Canuck radio station

Reader Kevin Moorman is wrong in at least one point. CKUA is not the oldest Canadian radio station. CKAC is older than CKUA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKAC

Pierre

Subject: ITV goes broadband

It's difficult to see who exactly this is aimed at. The majority of broadband users have an ISP contract with a small monthly bandwidth allowance (and exorbitant fees for top-up GB).

In fact finding a broadband package with a decent amount of allowance is becoming increasingly difficult, unless you want to pay business rates.

Szlater

Subject: Half of notebooks will use flash storage by 2009

A good estimate I would say. Solid state is definitely the way to go. I'm actually surprised its taken this long to get a mainstream product out into the market, it truely is about time the 30 year old HDD got the axe, while graphics cards and processors double in performace every few years, we're still left with the dreadfully slow cumbersome HDD drives. Don't get me wrong there have been breakthroughs and speed increases over the years, but never anything that could keep up with other components.

I'm hoping flash will develop quickly in capacity and performance to replace HDD's with something that I consider to be a far supperior technology.

As ever, keep up the good work fellas.

CS

Subject: Vista Compatibility

Hey, I just found a way to play Real/Quicktime formats!

http://www.free-codecs.com/

I downloaded Real Alternative & Quicktime Alternative, and they installed Media Player Classic, and so far I've been able to listen to Real streams & watch Quicktime trailers on webpages. I noticed the Quicktime HD wasn't as smooth as with Quicktime; but hey it's better than using nothing or an unstable product.

Hopefully this will help others as well.

Shaun

Subject: Windows Server 2007

hey my friend at MS said that this wasn't going to be shipping until AT LEAST Q4.. I assume he was takling about calendar Q4 not fiscal Q4 (which would be this quarter).. I was talknig to him about November / December.. and that is what he was thinking..

supposedly if it ships before end of june, it should be 2007-- if it ships past june it should be called 2008. I think that MS has only broken this tradition for SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005

btw; I just went and did a usability test on the next version of SQL Server-- and I can tell you that it sure ain't going to be called SQL 2007--

I just thought that it made sense for SQL Server and Windows Server to have the same year.. especially since SQL Server WINFS is supposed to be included in the longhorn server component right?

that would point to a OS called 'Windows Server 2008'

Aaron Kempf

Subject: Scurryless

It's not just kids. You should have seen the uproar my book caused www.lulu.com/pilot_dotson - just because I had the nerve to tell the truth (and write it down) about my experience as a teacher in the public school. If you want a fun read, I'll excerpt the bit about the public school's internet filtering system here:

The rest of the morning and most of the afternoon went by very quickly. No one bothered to check on me or even see if I was still alive trapped in my little room. I spent my time playing on the computer, traveling around the Internet at the speed of an electron.

I realized very quickly why the teachers had such a reluctance to recommend the Internet to their students. The school district was using some type of Internet filtering system that returned only results that were computed to be ‘safe'. This meant that the computer refused to let me have access to any website that happened to have the word ‘game' or ‘store' in its title. It even prohibited me from reaching some search engines. Ironically, it made no effort to screen out advertisements nor did it make an effort to stop web pages from loading that said ‘hot lesbian action' or ‘sex-kittens a-go-go'.

I tried to do a search for current events and news articles for the local area to see if there had been any mention of the alleged bomb threat. However, all efforts to reach the news media resulted in a web page that said: “The website you have attempted to visit has been deemed unacceptable. This session has been logged.” I wondered why current events would be considered unacceptable, but I didn't bother to try and find out.

I went back to the main search page and typed in ‘lesbian' and hit the ‘search' button. Forty-four thousand results were returned, some with flashing, animated images depicting lesbians in action. I returned to the main search page and typed in ‘school district' and hit the ‘search' button. I was sent to a page that said: “the website you have attempted to visit has been deemed unacceptable. This session has been logged.”

I was amused. I was intrigued. I went back to the search page and typed in another sexual search. Again, my results were listed in flagrante-delicto. I went back and typed in ‘Dante's Inferno'. “The website you have attempted to visit has been deemed unacceptable…”

The laughter was entirely too loud in the tight confines of the narrow office. I did another search, this time for information on World War II. I didn't type in the word ‘NAZI' because I figured it would return an error. I chose ‘Hitler' for my search and found that he had been deemed unacceptable. I tried ‘Himmler' and ‘Hess' and they too had been deemed unacceptable. Oddly enough, ‘nuclear bomb' was not only deemed acceptable, I was sent to a web page that showed me how to build a nuclear bomb. It also included instructions on how to procure weapons-grade uranium or plutonium.

Suddenly I felt that I had unraveled the mystery of why the students were so poorly educated. It seemed that all the relevant facts had been deemed unacceptable. I went back to searching, this time for ‘evolution'. Somehow, I expected this to be unacceptable too, but I was taken to nearly thirty thousand web pages covering this topic. Evolution was obviously acceptable, it just wasn't being taught.

By the time I had wasted the entire afternoon searching for things that were acceptable or unacceptable, I had cataloged so much stupidity that I could do nothing but laugh at the absurdity of it all. Nearly all government websites were deemed unacceptable, as was the military and websites originating in foreign countries. All information on war was prohibited as well as information on things associated with the war - unless there had been a major motion picture made about it.

A search for ‘horoscopes' returned results for ‘black whores', which included animations that were highly disturbing. I did some investigating to determine why ‘horoscope' was linked to ‘black whores' and learned that stupidity wasn't something limited to the school district's filtering system. It was literally: ‘horoscope' pertains to ‘astrology', ‘astrology' pertains to ‘astronomy', ‘astronomy' pertains to ‘space', ‘space' pertains to ‘stars', ‘stars' pertains to ‘black holes', and ‘black holes' pertains to ‘black whores'. The linear progression was logical if not rational.

I could visit websites that were overtly sexual, sexually themed, or even websites that were primarily designed to sell goods of a sexual nature. I could not, however, visit websites where auctions were being held, where email was being stored, or that pertained in any way to computers and gaming…unless it was a pornographic video game, for which there were nearly five thousand web pages with animated pictures.

I did find it possible to visit web pages that were associated with libraries. I could request books from the library catalogue, and even view web pages about the author or subject of the book. I could not, however, go to any website where the book was being sold. I gave up playing the searching game and tabbed back to the screen that continued to tell me that the selected records had been deleted. I left it there so that Mrs. Dennis could remedy it when she returned to work.

My book was unpopular with local school districts, of course. ;-)

Sincerely,
P. Dotson