humanz

As if Congress has not gotten the US in enough trouble by kissing Bush’s ass for so long, they are now debating ceding control  of the Internet to the ISPs! Of course you must first start from the preposterous premise that the US owns the Internet in the first place. This site is a blog set up to help people do something about it.

Now any site that uses rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles will need a licence.

The United Kingdom could get 20% of its energy from the power of the sea around it and eliminate the need for nuclear plants.

While I consider myself a geek, I am generally not what you would call a first adopter of new things. I generally like to let things mellow a bit and work the bugs out before I jump on board. This week, I have jumped on board with several new things at once: Flock, Flickr, and Del.icio.us.

I know what your thinking. So what, everyone else has done that already and now are moving on to other Web 2.0 technologies. You are right, but for me it’s new and workable stuff and I am enjoying playing around with them.

I’ll keep you posted about how it goes.

technorati tags: Flock, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Web 2.0

Kuro5hin.org has an interesting discussion of the pro’s and con’s of creating an open source project to develop the software to run our voting booths. As I see it, the main advantage would be the ability to examine the source code and verify that there is no, shall we say, “alternative agenda” embedded therein. Good stuff.

There is some good news and some bad news… If you are online these days, you are open to a full on assault from the Internet. The good news is that the latest version of the popular OSes held up pretty well.