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Archive for January, 2007


Y2k7 – Daylight Savings Time

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Beginning on the second Sunday of March, being this March 11, 2007, Daylight Savings Time (DST) will begin. Yup, that’s right – 3 weeks earlier then what used to be the beginning of DST. And personally, I don’t think this change has gotten nearly the attention is should. While for most people daily life won’t [...]


(non)Trusted Computing

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Trusted Computing (TC) essentially means that “the computer can be trusted by its designers and other software writers not to run unauthorized programs.” Sounds good, doesn’t it? Trusted computing would work to halt virus, worms and other malicious programs from copying or destroying the integrity of your data. But let’s read that definition again, with [...]


RIAA – Cash Cow Coming to a Close?

Monday, January 8th, 2007

The RIAA has sued thousands of individuals for what it terms “illegal downloads”. (Let’s disregard for the moment the fact that even if a person knowingly and willingly downloads an mp3 of a copyrighted song they are in NO WAY performing a criminal act – that in fact they are guilty of simple copyright infringement.) [...]

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