Tiger, Longhorn search for desktop answers

Microsoft and Apple Computer are searching for the same thing with their next operating systems: a better way to find stuff on an increasingly cluttered hard drive.
Tiger, Longhorn search for desktop answers - News - ZDNet

New Media's Age of Anxiety

Wired News: New Media's Age of Anxiety. To trust media or not to trust media? That is the question.

Apple - Mac OS X - Tiger Preview

Tiger Preview. This looks like a sweet OS. Now if Microsoft will just get Longhorn into the chute and open the gate so we can take our ride on it.

Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords

Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords | CNET News.com

A malicious program that installs itself through a pop-up can read keystrokes and steal passwords when victims visit any of nearly 50 targeted banking sites, security researchers warned on Tuesday.

Bush vs. Kerry on tech

Bush vs. Kerry on tech - ZDNet

Apple lets young Tiger roar

Apple lets young Tiger roar.
Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Monday showed off Tiger, a new version of Mac OS X that features improved search and will debut next year.

Congress Looks Out for Hollywood

Wired News: Congress Looks Out for Hollywood.

Here is a better link to the latest bill in congress.

Web site virus attack blunted

Web surfers are no longer playing Russian roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been disarmed. - ZDNet

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Tops $8M in First Day

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Tops $8M in First Day - Yahoo! Movies

Yea Ohio breaks the record for...

...number of nude people in a photo?!?! There's something we can be proud of.
Spencer Tunick breaks Montreal's mass nude photo record in Cleveland

JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com

JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com

Great mentality to have. I think?

Senate: Toss Film Pirates in Jail

Wired News: Senate: Toss Film Pirates in Jail.

'Setting, prison mess hall'

Inmate one: What you in for?

Inmate two: I went on a killing spree and killed 10 people. What are you in for?

Inmate one: I committed armed robbery in 5 states and shot and wounded 7 officers.

Inmate three: I got you both beat. I took a vid camera and taped Gigli 2 at it's premier.

Inmate one and two: NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Stay away from this guy he's a mad man!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Senate OKs antipiracy plan

Senate OKs antipiracy plan

'hanging head low wondering wtf is up with our country'

Other countries are legalizing this stuff and we are making it a federal crime.

US senator-

"P2P developers offering free lollipops to induce children to steal." WTF is this guy smoking because I think that I want some.

I am surprised I had not posted on this one.

Citing Oliver Twist and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, late Tuesday. As I reported earlier, the act proposes fines and jail time for any company that produces technology that intentionally helps people violate copyrights. Hatch said that, like Fagin from Oliver Twist, companies like Kazaa were teaching children to steal. He does have a point there. Companies like Verizon and the Consumer Electronics Association are howling, though. CEA president Gary Shapiro said that if the law passes "the VCR would not be a legal product; TiVo would not be a legal product." He does have a point there. (this was take from leoville.com)

Let's hope that this one does not pass.

Git R Done!!!!!!

Blue Collar TV - TV Series - TV Tome
and
Blue Collar TV from the WB site.

Just call me a redneck, high tech redneck, but a redneck nontheless.

Git R Done!!!!!!!

Australia's looking pretty good

Australia may permit 'personal' music copying - ZDNet UK News. Anyone know how much it would cost to move there?

The Laporte Report: Friday Flash

The Laporte Report: Friday Flash. If you have not already heard there is a new virus that is infecting systems just by vistiting a compromised web site. Instead of trying to go into details here I am just going to send everyone to Leo's site and you can read about it there. But I will say one thing, update your Antivirus program now!!!!!

Me...Want...Bad...

The first three more then the rest...

Swiss Memory USB

Laks Memory Music Watch

Acrylic PC Case

Solar Plant

USB Mini Desktop Aquarium

Techie Posters

kevin rose dot com: Fun with Google

kevin rose dot com: Fun with Google. You have got to check this out.

SPIDER-MAN INDIA

Gotham Comics
SPIDER-MAN EXTENDS FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD TO STREETS OF BOMBAY!

New Voyages

New Voyages:
A 5 Year Mission Continues...

Pentagon Seeks U.S. Spy Powers

Pentagon Seeks U.S. Spy Powers

A Pentagon effort to persuade Congress to allow military intelligence agents to work undercover in the United States met with resistance in the House Wednesday when the provision was left out of the highly secretive intelligence funding bill.

However, the Senate's version of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2005 still includes the provision, which exempts Department of Defense intelligence agents from a portion of the Privacy Act, a 30-year-old law that outlaws secret databases on American citizens and green-card holders.

From Wired News

Skys the limit

Surprise Meteor Shower Possible in June. Special emphasis will be placed on two specific nights: June 22-23 and June 26-27.

An entire week of G4 slams

I love it!!!!!!
UserFriendly Strip 6-18-04
To see that this strip is more then just the truth, go here.

Power out

The power is out here. It went out at 11 o'clock last night and came back on sometime after 7 this morning. It stayed on for around 2 hours and then went back out. The funny thing is it had stopped raining for about half an hour before the power went out. Just crazy.

Atleast this is a step in a good direction

House panel passes spyware permission bill

I do not think so

Antipiracy bill targets technology. This is one bill that should not be allowed to go through. As it states in the article any technology that could be used violate whatever the copyright is on something coulld become illegal. P2P networks, some websites, TiVos/Replay TV, and yes even the VCR. This is not good at all. They say it is to stop the pornography off the P2P networks. Bullshit, you can do a Google search and find more stuff through that then on a P2P client. As soon as The EFF has something up about this I will post it and maybe we can try to stop this stupid bill.

Flood

Flood, round 2,3,4, I lost count.

This is not as bad as it was Sun night/Mon morning, too dark to get any pix of that one. This happen this afternoon with very little rain. I know this is not as bad as some of the other people in the county have it but it is bad. The rain really needs to stop so things can dry out.

These guys are just ripping on G4...

...I love it!!!!!
User friendly
G4 SUCKS!!!!!
TechTV RULES!!!!!!!!!

Yet another great comic

UserFriendly Comic Strip

The F word and its many uses.

F Word - The F word and its many uses. eBaum's World - Flash Animation

Those crazy Austrians

'F*CKING' villagers vote against name change

Web newspaper registration stirs debate

Web newspaper registration stirs debate. Imagine if a trip to the corner newsstand required handing over your name, address, age, and income to the cashier before you could pick up the daily newspaper.
I hate having to register to read an article on in online newspaper. They never have a privacy policy that seems up to par. Besides, you can usually find the same info that I am looking for somewhere else on the web if you just look a little.

Feds Decline to Create 'Do-Not-Spam' List

I understand their reasons but there are ways around it. Read about it here and make your own call.

MOZILLA RELOADS FIREFOX

FIREFOX 0.9 RELEASED!!!!

When Good Discs Go Bad

Have you ever thought about those cds or dvds you burnt? Did you ever think that they might not work in a few years, hell even a few days? Well if you haven't you might want to take a look at this article from PCWorld.com.

Yahoo Increases E-Mail Capacity

Too bad I do not use it, except for when an email address is required and I do not want any mail. Free service hits 100MB, while premium service customers get a price break and more room. Check it out here.

Fast-moving Zafi.B disables firewalls, spreads political message

And we thought that the ads getting around the pop-up blockers was bad. Take a look at this.

Do you think they will blame Ohio

Just like the power blackout last year. Blackout hits major Web sites. A domain name outage Tuesday morning that left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai.

Glad I am not the only one...

...that thinks like this. I have yet to watch any of the G$ shows.
Fake Hollywood people acting like they know shit about video games.

UserFriendly Strip

And I found this to be the truth

Shakedown

Ain't this the truth

My parents found this quite amusing.
Cagle Cartoons
Go to your room

RIAA Radar

How do you stop an out of control organization that does not care about it's customers? Don't buy any of their products. When buying music this can be a problem because how do you know if a label or artist is associated with the RIAA. Here comes the RIAA Radar. All you do is put in the name of the artist, label, or keyword and it will tell you if they are associated with the 'Dark Side' (the RIAA). If they aren't feel free to buy, if they are, go download from a P2P client (I will not be held responsible if the FBI come crashing through your windows and try to show you the error of your ways by showing you how bad some of the artists have it). Go ahead and give it a try, I for one will be using it when I buy/download my music.

When will they stop!?!?!?

RIAA Moves In on Digital Radio. This is starting to get out of hand. Not that it already wasn't. Sorry RIAA but we will continue to rip music and share it no matter what you do. If people remember their history there was this thing called 'prohibition' and people made there own alcohol because it was 'illegal'. That is all that is going to happen here. People are going to find other means of trading songs, even if they have to go back to burning to CD's and handing them out to friends, and their friends friends, and so on. We do not live in a Communist country, although it seems that way lately, so lay off assholes.

Microsoft files eight new lawsuits against spammers

Microsoft files eight new lawsuits against spammers, saying that they deceived consumers and used false information to hide their tracks, the world's largest software maker said Thursday."

IE flaws used to spread pop-up toolbar

IE flaws used to spread pop-up toolbar. An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims' computers that triggers pop-up ads, researchers said this week. Just another reason for Windows users to switch to FireFox as their default web browser.

Bar Webcams

Bar and Nightclub Webcams with Live Streaming Video, now watch others get drunk. (how is that fun?)

Wacko?!?!?!

High-tech toilet

A $5,000 toilet, with a remote control. It has deodorizer, a warm-air dryer and water temperature, pressure and massaging options. I can not say what I was thinking when I read 'massaging options'. Mind in gutter.

Audioblogging is great

Congratulations!!!

I would like to congratulate the 2004 8th grade class of Immaculate Conception:

Alisha Armstrong
Patrick Barnhouse
Anna Colaner
Quin Cummings
Betsy Dotto
Calissa Hahn
Joey Hammond
Jacob Hillyer
Kurt Manin
Rayce Smith
Albert Trolio

Way to go guys!!!!!!

Graduation Pix

I will post the pix that I took later. I am awaiting the ones that my mom took so I can put them all together. Until then just enjoy the ones that I took with my phone.

Joey's 'Gadigation'

It is tonight at 7:30. Had to believe that he will be in high school next year. Man time sure has went fast. If I get any good pix I will post them later.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iraqis Paying 5 Cents a Gallon for Gas. Fu** that shit. Why are we footing the damn bill for them to get cheap gas and then paying an average of $2.05 a gallon in the states. This is just another reason that this country sucks.

Hoover's Restructuring To Leave 1,100 Without Jobs

And yet another major company moves out of Northeast Ohio, Hoover's Restructuring To Leave 1,100 Without Jobs.

A Lamentation for TechTV

This is a New York Times article, A Lamentation for TechTV. (free registration required - but it's worth it).

Atwood Lake

Got back from Atwood Lake about an hour ago. Didn't take too many pix, I do not think that I could have remembered how to use my camera last night anyways. I would have taken some on my camera-phone but there was no cell reception anywhere, totally sucked. Other then that it was a great time.

Pop-ups be gone

Can't stop the pop-ups even with many of the mainstream pop-up blockers.

Democrats bringing blogs to the convention floor

This is cool and all, but this is why blogging is slowly becoming not cool. Democrats bringing blogs to the convention floor.

Bigger iPods

Bigger Toshiba minidrive may boost iPod capacity.

Dust from PCs may be toxic

The Silicon Valley Toxics coalition says Dust from PCs may be toxic may be making you sick. Electronic components in computers, TVs, hair dryers and other devices are routinely coated with flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs. The chemicals cause reproductive and neurological damage in animals. Holy cow I am going sterile.

8th Grade Luncheon

Here are some pix from the 8th Grade Luncheon. It is hard to believe he is going to be in high school next year. 3 days left being the top dogs at St. Mary's and then back to the bottom of the food chain guys. Good luck.

Rainbows

Link to all the Rainbow pix on my site.

Rainbows
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I Love The 90s

I Love The 90s. Coming July 12th on VH1.

Daisy Duke

Daisy Duke, ooohhhh.