It brings a tear to my eye that after so many years of dragging behind, Linux has finally hit a major milestone and got some real malware! I hope Microsoft is shaking in their boots! People actually bothering to write malware for Ubuntu is a clear indication of Linux's massive…
We all know what a pain in the ass it is to find Christmas Presents that are "different" and don't suck. Year after year, this tradition continues taxing our imaginations and pocketbooks. One of the funky cool oddities that I will be gifting this year is the Swann Flashlight DVR.…
Clearly ignoring Senator Ted Stevens’ axiom that “the Internet is not something that you just dump something on”, Netgear announced their new “Open Source” WNR3500L Router. Backed by mucho hype and astroturfing, Netgear’s spokesperson claimed that, “The debut of our Open Source RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router is significant as it…
Yet again, scratching an itch we didn’t know we had, Japan offers a bolder alternative to Segway. Well technically it’s just a smaller, slower and much fruitier alternative. Apparently the Honda U3-X was built on the “huge success” of the robotic technology used in the ASIMO (the robot famous for…
As many of you know, I like picking on the Segway as the epitome of technological “mas puto” and the sign of the impending Apocalypse. Well, this morning a question was answered that plagued me for years (not really but please go with it). What would happen if an old…
A clothing company Slavianka in Belarus (once Soviet Russia) is busy cranking out business style school uniforms that protect the kids from electromagnetic radiation beaming from the kids cell phones! Specifically, these uniforms include a special shielded pocket, and for the pocket-challenged girls there is a special shielded purse. Not…
That’s right, Sony is taking two cheap shots at the Amazon Kindle – a $199 shot and a $299 shot. Sony announced plans to launch two new, El-Cheapo (by Sony’s standards), electronic readers aiming directly at the Amazon Kindle. The Marketing Jedis at Sony even came up with wickedly…
A friend of mine bought a pretty fresh SONY laptop (Vista 64bit OS), and without consulting with me, purchased Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare antivirus, backup, firewall, spyware removal “software solution”. Read on for the details of why you want to avoid using Microsoft OneCare!
Last year, in anticipation of my Euro Trip, I bought the Samsung NC10-14GW notebook and was excited enough about it to write a semi glowing review. This year I decided to upgrade to the new Samsung NC20-21BK, feeling emboldened by the Obama administration, brimming with Hope and Change over the…
Some say you can’t put a price on principles, those people are left eating crow time and time again. Welcome to the real world! The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, undoubtedly the world’s largest distributor of bootlegged copyrighted material, the guys who talked a Big Game about values…