My friend Sonia, who works for a bunch of a libertarian think tank wrote an opinion piece for TechNewsWorld arguing for deregulation in telecom: Companies like SBC and Verizon were forced to share their lines with so-called competitors at below-cost, government-set rates. This type of policy is a disaster, not only because central planning was …
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Apple Store bookmarklet
Remix: this movie + WordPress’ PressIt bookmarklet = Apple Store bookmarklet javascript:if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf(‘Safari’) >=0){ Q=getSelection(); }else{ Q=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();} void(window.open(‘http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore’ + ‘?productLearnMore=’+encodeURIComponent(Q))); (I’d make it draggable, but WordPress auto-curly-quoting is being too clever.) Update: the movie is from Jon Rentzsch.
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simple gethostbyname example
Here’s a simple example using gethostbyname() that emulates the host command. I wrote it to debug a DNS problem. On the network I’m on right now, gethostbyname() returns a different answer than host and dig. It is overaggressively caching other hostnames. i.e. nsloookup shrub.ca is returning 17.250.248.64, which is mail.mac.com (!). #include <netdb.h>#include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h> …
oh, washington, when will you ever learn?
20 congressjerks support the broadcast flag.
TED’s blog
TED, the uber-cook, uber-exclusive Technology/Entertainment/Design conference, now has a blog.
rockstars tell fans (how) to cirumvent DRM
the bands hate the “copy controlled” pseudo-CDs as much as you do: Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot — and even Sony BMG, when the label gets complaints — are telling fans how they can beat the system. … A …
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US broadband sucks
Salon notices many other countries have decent bandwidth for less than we pay for the craptacular SBC service here: Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this: Most Japanese consumers can get an Internet connection that’s 16 times faster than the typical American DSL line for a mere $22 …
apple validates microsoft?
Over on his media center blog, Matt Goyer wrote that Front Row “really validates what we’re doing converging digital entertainment with the PC in the living room.” So you’re saying that a product that “doesn’t even have feature parity with the first version of Media Center” from three years ago validates what you are doing? …
screen real estate is your friend
Merlin and Danny make the New York Times. Cool. But ever more interesting is this excerpt: But did more screen area actually help with cognition? To find out, Czerwinski’s team conducted another experiment. The researchers took 15 volunteers, sat each one in front of a regular-size 15-inch monitor and had them complete a variety of …