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Putting the “Inter” back in Internet
Google Talk, Twitter, Facebook: they all offer you the ability to let the world what you’re doing right now. For example, every newb on Facebook has found themselves particularly clever when they change their status message to Rhonda is. I know, I was one of them.
Why General Motors Should Not Be Given a Bail Out
General Motors is one of those companies that I eagerly despise. Like corporate whores such as Walmart and Verizon, they are obsessed with growth and care nothing about this Earth. To many people, this is not an issue at all as our semi-capitalist society has become so obsessed with purchasing and having that if a situation arises where we can’t purchase (such as the current economic recession) or we can’t have (such as the mortgage crisis that lead up to this situation), our entire world falls apart. Think about that, right now we’re considered to be in a recession, not because we’re really losing all that much (compared to how much we’ve gained over the past 50 years), but because we’re not growing as quickly as we were in recent history. Read more on Why General Motors Should Not Be Given a Bail Out…
FCC Approves Television Whitespace for Internet Access
Whitespace is more commonly known as “snow” or “fuzz” – the black and white static between channels on your TV. Now that HD is taking over and they’ll be leaving analog behind, they’re also freeing up a ton of this space on the spectrum. What HD did, aside from simply creating a more vivid picture, was to condense the amount of the spectrum needed to deliver television stations to your home.
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Judge gives away your (yes, YOU) private info, Viacom to blame
According to Wired, a judge ordered that Google must hand over private user data from YouTube to Viacom. All of that data.
So as long as you’ve used YouTube, your private data will be handed over to Viacom. Viacom, which owns CBS, MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, CMT, Spike, VH1, Comedy Central, Logo and Showtime, as well as Paramount and Dreamworks, claims that YouTube has more copyright-infringing materials than user created videos. They’re basically pissed because people are uploading segments of shows (and that’s all you can upload, YouTube uploads cap out at 10 minutes) and they’re not getting paid for them. So they’ve somehow convinced a court to turn over your private data.
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Comcast Fails Local Pittsburgh Family Miserably, Again
I have recently been having issues connecting to FTP servers. I checked with the hosts of these servers to see what advice they might have and after a thorough investigation of the problems, it became obvious that the situation was likely laying in the hands of my ISP: Comcast.
So I sent an email over to Comcast requesting some support. My email was polite and simple, very much to the point. That may have been my first problem.
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Pittsburgh Family Cheated by Comcast
In a blanket effort to further alienate customers today, Comcast in Pittsburgh, PA completely disregarded a Pittsburgh family’s requests for support. The family was attempting to connect to various websites, including the father, Nathan Swartz, 28, a Web designer who needed to connect to a client’s site to work as well as his wife, Olivia Meiring, 30+, who was attempting to access popular time suck, facebook.com.
Dear Apple, Why I’m a Fanboy
To begin with, I’d like to make it clear that I am not the type of person who thinks that everything Apple does is perfect and my true, innate desire is that Steve Jobs was my real father. OS X and the iPhone are full of proprietary hooks where Apple tries to force you to use its iLife or .Mac solutions instead of allowing you to pick your own preferred software. For instance, the iPhone has a feature that allows you to wirelessly upload pictures to a photo gallery – but only if you have .Mac. It’d be swell if you could choose to upload to Flickr or a WordPress account.
But I must say, in a world so full of companies like Walmart, Verizon and McDonalds, clearly evil players in the global consumerism game, it’s a wonderful change of pace to have a company that feels like the good guy rather than just another conduit for taking my money. Surely, I don’t believe that Apple is out there to simply help me and doesn’t have its eyes set on profits. Of course they do. The difference is that Apple has a nearly unique vision, at least among the very large companies, where they can see into the future past next Tuesday, where they can appreciate what the consumer wants vs. what will make them the most cash right off the bat, and a flare for design that people require together with the functionality.
Cases in point, you require? Excellent, for my fingers are in the typing mode and my mind full of coffee and a well balanced breakfast.
Pittsburgh East End Coffee Shop Review
As a freelance Web Designer, I like to work out of various coffee shops – free WiFi, no rental overhead for office space, and someone else always makes sure the coffee pot’s been refilled. After having done this for a couple of years now, I thought it’d be fun to do a little review of some of the places I frequent most. After each location’s write up I’ve rated each on how good their coffee is, what the service is like, the general atmosphere of each place, musical aptitude and how reliable the WiFi connection is. Do enjoy and let me know if there are other East End shops that need reviewed (I’ve admittedly only reviewed a small fraction here.)
Funkstars
A new dawn is beginning, and in its wake it will leave the old days behind!
Such is the unofficial slogan of the funksters, this mixed- and often ill-forgotten half-generation of growing youths determined to live life by a standard unbeknownst previous ages. They stand on Church corners smoking cigarettes, riding their bikes up and down streets defiant of smoggy car thick traffic beeping and screaming dispute, choose neither paper nor plastic, and often get belligerently drunk into the night and speak of anti-Walmart ideals, a world where Verizon and Jesus are mere comic book villains, badly drawn and poorly written.
To you, my funkstar brethren, I tip my tossled hat and spit directly into the street, outlawed or otherwise.
Verizon, the Monster
My holiest of grails, as of late, is Wired Magazine, who’ve released this story regarding why even if local governments wanted to provide free broadband, WiFi all across their governing lands, they couldn’t.
