Band decries copy protection on its own CDs
When the music labels rail against the technology that makes it easy to rip music from CDs to a PC, they often argue that artists are the ones who suffer because of the resulting file-sharing and piracy. Copy protection techniques...
Does more tech make us smarter?
A fascinating story at CNet's News.com asks the question: Does the Internet make us smarter or dumber? It's the old fear about calculators causing kids to not develop adequate math skills, taken to the next level: Today, terabytes of easily...
Mission accomplished
I'm at my parents' house and have completed setup and installation of their new PC. It looks like the cavalry arrived just in time -- their older computer has slowed to a crawl. Dwight Silverman / ChronicleNew PC to the...
Price gap between cable, DSL widens
This Associated Press story focuses on a survey saying the price difference between cable modem and DSL service continues to widen: Cable-modem service was, on average, 75.8 percent more expensive than DSL during the month [of August], up from a...
What does this tell you?
Jeff Millar, former Chronicle movie critic/humor columnist and the man behind Tank McNamara, surfaces in my inbox to offer this cogent observation on the virtual human condition: As of Friday, Sept. 16, "New Orleans" produced 30 million more Google hits...
Young geeks in love: Gates meets Dynamite
First there was Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman. Then Godzilla vs. King Kong. Now, brace yourself for the ultimate pairing on film: Bill Gates meets Napoleon Dynamite. This was shown during Gates' keynote at the Professional Developers Conference. As far as...
Should we fear Microsoft's embrace of RSS?
A couple of comments regarding Thursday's item on Microsoft's aggressive RSS push deserve some consideration and retort. Ttyler -- who can be both very enthusiastic and very grumpy, sometimes in the same sentence -- says I should be worried that...
New hardware for the parents
I gave my parents their last PC on their 50th wedding anniversary. Yeah, I know, that's a seriously geeky thing to do, hardly sentimental, but they've gotten a lot of joy out of it over the last 5 years, so...
iTunes offers support for video podcasts
Slashdot's linking to this Ars Technica post saying that iTunes now support video podcasts. Apple surprised a few people in June when they rolled podcasting support into iTunes, giving users the ability to download recorded audio programs automatically through the...
Microsoft spreads the RSS love
In the past I've gigged Microsoft for its RSS cluelessness, contending it's the company that could do the most to spread the joy of RSS to the masses. It's been shirking that duty. But as this ZDNet blog points out,...
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