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Category: Social issues

  • 10 reasons it doesn’t pay to be “The Computer Guy”

    Shaun Boyd is too clairvoyant about being “The Computer Guy”. Yes! This is more than often a bad idea. And he gives the 10 reasons why. Aren’t we all staying hooked on the phone to help repair a computer we’d just like to see blown to pieces? Some would add: “Don’t tell my mother that…

  • 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number

    Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…

  • Test Chinese censorship

    As you certainly know, continental/communist China is one of those countries that have an institutionalized censorship system to protect its citizens. It starts with a very strong management of Internet cafés, but it is also based upon a stringent filtering of many web sites out of the country and judged as undesirable. Very efficient, but…

  • Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    For the Science Fiction fans that stop by this site, here is a new monthly online web site whose #2 is just published. Very good reading material, interesting authors and you can even have your own work published (and be paid for it). Very nice, very pro: Darker Matter.

  • Dumb hunters kill one out of seven last females of Amur Leopards

    The WWF announced that hunters in Eastern Russia recently killed one female of the critically endangered species of Amur Leopard. The animal was shot and them beaten to death with one blunt object apparently. She was one of the last seven (7) female animals still living of that species. The end is approaching fast for…

  • LightZone, a Linux kind of shareware

    LightZone, a Linux kind of shareware

    Lightzone is a RAW manipulation tool (“Your personal digital darkroom“) that some people like a lot for its specific set of qualities (clean neat interface, support for a lot of RAW file formats, ability to handle batch jobs, end-to-end color management) despite its hefty price tag ($150 for the Basic version and $250 for the…

  • DirectX 10 on WinXP

    Microsoft promised that the new graphics standard for Windows (DirectX 10) will not be applied to anything older than Windows Vista. This was enough to push some people in looking for ways to make it work on Windows XP (WinXP), or on Mac, or on Linux. A guy, named Cody Brocious from San Diego, California,…

  • Genius in the subway

    The Washington Post recently asked Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed violonist, to go play his Stradivarius in the Washington subway at rush hour. What did you think happened? Nearly nothing, of course. A few bucks of pocket change for a violonist more used to big checks, a few passers-by stopping for a short time, one admirer…

  • Google finds MP3 (legal or not)

    A neat trick that was hanging around the Internet but that I found in Transnets. How to search with Google for the MP3 files of your artist of choice. Use the following search phrase (replacing Roumazeilles with the artist name): {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Roumazeilles”}