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If this isn’t enough to make you technophobic, it should be!! Free TV Show from Ustream Ustream did have a disclaimer on their page about the feed not always being available. It is nearly a mile under water after all. If it’s gone more often than visible, I’ll remove it. linkscolor = “000000″; [...] Iceland’s volcanos are alive and well. If you haven’t read the news, just ask any number of stranded passengers in many major airports in Europe.Travelers from all over the world have been impacted by cancellations due to the volcanic cloud drifting over Europe. Fortunately, as a result of learning the hardway, we as a [...] Apparently, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant has fixed it’s leak. [OMG! They leak?] There have been more than 20 leaks at nuclear power plants around the country. Vermomt Yankee, after drilling a monitoring well, found tritium in the soil and ground water. Tritium is a low-level radioactive by-product of nuclear plants. Fortunately, none of the material was found in drinking water supplies or the nearby Connecticut River.
Continue reading Nuclear Plant Leak Fixed…  During my daily commute I see more and more people driving like they’re “drunk”. I’ve come to scrutinize them when I notice them. I’d estimate that 90% are talking on their phones while driving and not paying attention. Drifting over lines, using more than one lane and not keeping-up with the pace of traffic are the outward signs of not focusing on the road.
Continue reading Technology Abused by Drivers… Trying to figure-out what all the hype is about over iPhones and other Smart phones lately. Like many, I reached my own conclusion before even touching one. Touch screens have to be a PITA to keep clean. Finger prints on my cellphone screen drive me nuts as it is, I couldn’t imagine using it for the interface. It would be a real mess, all that touching.
Continue reading Touch Screen Tech… Technology has been chewing-on businesses and governments alike over the past month or so. Google, recently bitten by a zero-day exploit in China, has been very vocal about this exploit and is threatening to pull out of China. This, in turn, has the U.S. government requesting a response from China on cyber security. Can’t blame the U.S. government for making a case, as IP’s from China have been traced as the source of several attacks over the past year or so. Needless-to-say, China is not happy about the bad press. In fact, they’ve been quite vocal in their denials and have basically told the U.S. “Don’t mess with our business”.
Continue reading A Triple Bite from Technology… Having a propular product can mean boon or bust for a software company. According to security firm McAfee (see report), Adobe will become the top target for hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsof Office products. Hackers tend to attack the most popular products to achieve maximum impact. That usually makes Microsoft the primary target for exploit. But, Microsoft’s dominance in some areas is dwindling. As other products reach levels that compare or surpass Microsoft’s, they become exploit tools for hackers.
Continue reading Adobe to Become Target for Hackers in 2010…
Whether or not you agree with the above comment isn’t the point. It’s how we express ourselves while on the Internet that displays our humanity, or rather our in-humanity. We see this well displayed in recent commercials targeted at our children. Ya know the cyber-bullying commercials. “If you wouldn’t say it in person…”. I think we can all agree that if we have commercials on this topic, a problem must exist. 10 years ago, when the Internet was still young, many of us joked that WWW didn’t stand for “World-Wide Web”, it stood for “Wild, Wild West”. Anonymity seems to bring-out the worst in people. Back then, being “flamed” by another user was insulting, but common. The fear of reprisal was non-existent. Many people “shot from the hip”.
Continue reading Internet Kills: Social Grace… The great irony of technology is it’s ability to benefit one group while at the very same time hindering another. China and Iran have recently discovered the power of technology might exceed their ability to censor their citizen’s Internet activity. All this is very evident in the myriad of news articles released in the past 2 weeks.
Continue reading Censorship Bitten by Technology… On June 12th, the United States makes the switch from analog to digital broadcast signals for television transmission. This has been in-the-works since the late 1990′s. The switch was origianlly scheduled for February 2009. It was rescheduled to June because our government didn’t think everyone was ready. This is something that has been thoroughly advertised, even over digital TV signals, for more than a year. If you live here, how could you not know?
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