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How to prevent being manipulated by evil advertising types (like me).
Submitted by thecroz on October 28, 2011 - 6:34pm
Working in the advertising business, I’m privy to a lot of online “services” which are dedicated to tracking your every move on the Internet. Their hope is to figure out who you are, learn all about your interests and activities, tie all that information to your public records and finally sell a frighteningly detailed and accurate personal profile to anyone with literally $39. So, as a public service, here are a few things you can do to thwart these nosy bastards. | Read more »
Why the world needs more musicians and fewer 'recording artists.'
Submitted by thecroz on March 9, 2009 - 3:09pm
The talented singer, Stephanie Nilles, makes a point in her liner notes that bears repeating in this modern world of Copyright and Digital Rights Management issues. She reminds us that, at one point in time, musicians had to actually work for a living instead of recording one hit song and then living the life of a drug-addled jack-ass. | Read more »
ATT, Verizon, and Qwest have balls the size of Stonehenge.
Submitted by thecroz on January 15, 2009 - 1:16pm
UPDATE: According to Akamai's State Of The Internet report, the richest country in the world—that's still us, right?—did not qualify in the Top 10 list of countries with the fastest Internet speeds (even though we invented the damn thing). "The United States actually ranked 18 out of the 203 nations tested in terms of average connection speeds, falling behind speed leaders like South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong." Thanks for making us proud, U.S. Broadband providers! We're Number 18! We're Number 18! | Read more »
It's the unholy marriage of TV and the Internet (Fundamentalists, start your complaining).
Submitted by thecroz on December 30, 2008 - 10:41am
Tired of watching Hulu.com on your stupid, tiny, computer screen? Or Netflix streaming movies on your laptop? Wish you could watch that stuff on your big-screen TV? The way “God” intended? Well, now you can. Just go to Boxee.tv, signup and download their free app for your Intel-based Mac (or PC). | Read more »
How to screw your satellite or cable company out of $10 a month.
Submitted by thecroz on May 29, 2008 - 12:18am
As long-time readers know (are there any of those?), I hate paying AT&T any more than I absolutely have to. (Especially now that the company jacked up my DSL bill just "because it can...") Still, I wanted to get High-Definition programming somehow without paying them another $10/mo. for the privilege... | Read more »
What the flock?
Submitted by thecroz on October 24, 2007 - 7:28pm
One of the great things about the open-source movement—besides giving us free software, like a full-fledged operating system for PCs, an Office Suite of productivity applications and an email client that syncs with Exchange servers—is that other programmers can use the code for free themselves to splinter off new and interesting side-projects. | Read more »
What's so polarizing about Net Neutrality.
Submitted by thecroz on July 9, 2007 - 10:07am
“Traffic Shaping” sounds innocuous enough, right? It's just an Internet Service Provider's attempt ...to control computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, low latency, and/or bandwidth by delaying data packets. | Read more »
