Blogging some links and comments

Freespire? worth thinking about. From what I’ve been told by people who’ve used it it’s a really nice OS. I wouldn’t run any servers with it, but I might give it a good try for an oldish desktop which could use a faster browser 😀 (I dont actually know if linspire browses faster than, say, XP, but it’s a decent bet)

Save the internet I wonder if anyone on the internet besides bloggers are political enough to *do* it?

note to self: read more about google calendar I have a hobby project going on that I’m thinking about using google calendar for… I’ll need to remember to read this…

speaking of politics Since I’m “growing up” (and stuff) I constantly tell myself that I should be more aware than I am about the local and global politics shaping my world… I’ve held off as long as I could, but it feels more and more like it’s time to jump in and get my feet wet… I dont know enough to do anything but make an ass out of myself, but a 3rd (major) party doesnt sound like a bad idea IMHO.

Web 2.0 getting boring? Web 2.0 should never have been *overly* exciting to anyone with a truly analytical head in the first place. It’s the natural progression. However I’m sure we’ll see the same post about this length of time after web 3.0 (which wont be called that i’m sure)… all things fade..

Scott McNealy no longer sun’s CEO I stood in a room of about 12 people once while this guy talked. He was a fairly funny guy.

speaking of getting excited about web 2.0 This is something being done which is fairly cool… It’s not pushing at any new walls, but I think it’s a good push… and I’m glad to see us re-exporing our boundaries as technology evolves. d@rw1n? hah!

no peace for the dead, even the REALLY dead…

This is, hopefully, good news as the people who write the programs that those little bastard script kiddies use are getting more and more intelligent…

Digital images have fingerprints (news to me, didnt know they had fingers, or hands…)

Whoa! Digital photographic fingerprints! Neat!

Who’d have thought that the forces of entropy were *against* the idea of anonymnity 😀 Entropy 1, Privacy 0! I wonder how long it’ll take for them to adapt this to digital video as well. Theoretically you would also see a uniform variation even when the background image was changing. Like having a cobweb on your TV.
A comic take (pun intended):

MOM! Kodak left fingerprints all over my images… and Cannon left the toilet seat up again!

I guess all those young pervs will have to stop taking candid shots of their sisters 😉

DK

Of AOL, Porn, and Piracy

In response to the “big news” about AOL’s IPTV technology, and the small uproar here about Mac users being out of luck… as well as some other recent news about IPTV’s strengths and weaknesses:

Havent the porn guys been doing this for years? And dont they pretty well have it down to a science? I mean… come on…

And hasnt the call for being able to find all your episodes of past oddball tv shows been annswered too? I thought thats what people used bittorrent for?

Oh, wait… so when an “invention” is re-invented by a company with an “Inc.” somewhere in the title its “news”, and when the porn or OSS people do it its… what… criminal?

>sigh< DK