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Friday
19Jun

German parliament passes internet censorship bill "for the children!"

This sickens me. The German parliament has passed a law that requires ISP's and hosts to block websites that host child pornography. Of course, the German government is in charge of creating the list, so the possibility for abuse is enormous. No one likes child porn, but laws like this are just the first step towards a society where free speech online is stifled. Apparently one member of parliament is already seeing if they can also block access to "killer games" like Counterstrike. How about this? Instead of creating a list of sites where child porn is, why not GO AFTER THE PEOPLE POSTING AND CREATING THIS STUFF IN THE FIRST PLACE! DO YOUR DAMN JOB, STOP PANDERING!

I saw a post by Phurge on Slashdot, and thought that the quote he posted was quite hilarious/sad in this context.

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

Guess who said that?

 

This douche bag.

 

Thursday
18Jun

Twitter ported to Commodore 64 - Facebook missing out on large market

Twitter on Commodore 64Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, officially crapped his pants when it was announced that Johan Van den Brande had ported the popular social networking tool Twitter to the widely used Commodore 64 platform. The Commodore 64 is known for being popular with white males between the ages of 30 and 40. This is a demographic that advertisers have been clamoring to target on social networking sites, but they have tended to stay away from sites such as MySpace and Facebook as they do not support their preferred computing platform, the Commodore 64. The reason for the lack of ports is that progamming for the Commodore 64 generally requires knowledge of COBOL or FORTRAN, programming languages that are similar to Old English in that the only people that can understand them died roughly 900 years ago.

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Thursday
18Jun

WorldLeadersTheGame.com Video Overview - BBT Video Episode 2

Click on the image to view BBT Video Episode 2

After hearing from Jay, the creator of World Leaders The Game, on my first post about the site, I decided I'd take a look at the new interface. I have to say, I am very impressed. It is extremely slick and even more user friendly than before. But instead of writing about it, I thought I'd show you the interface in a video, and explain it a bit that way!

Click here to view BBT Video Episode 2, an overview of World Leaders The Game.

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Thursday
18Jun

The State Of Managed Services APIs

Joe over at MSPMentor.net, my favorite blog that talks about the Managed Service Provider market, wrote an article today about what questions a MSP should ask about the APIs their RMM and PSA vendor provides. If you don't know what RMM or PSA stands for, I'll clue you in. RMM stands for Remote Monitoring & Management, and is typified by companies like Zenith Infotech, Kaseya, and N-Able. PSA stands for Professional Service Automation, and in the context of Managed Services, companies like Connectwise and Autotask are the big players.

Recently, there has been competing announcements from these companies about the APIs they provide and the 3rd party software that they hook into. While these announcements are great, I still don't think the APIs are anywhere close to where they could be. Joe is right when he says, "the MSP software provider with the best API strategy could emerge as the Windows of managed services — ubiquitous, and sitting at the center of an emerging software market." While the Remote Management & Automation tools will continue to incrementally improve and adapt, it seems that they are all good enough across the board. There are feature differences, but all of these software packages are pretty much offering the same thing, patching, remote desktop, scripting etc.

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Friday
29May

Analog Modem from 1964 used to access Internet... at 300 baud

I haven't seen something this cool in a long time. This guy that goes by the handle phreakmonkey picked up a Livermore Data Systems "Model A" Accoustic Coupler modem and uses it to browse the web with everyone's favorite text browser, Lynx. Pretty amazing that a modem from 1964 can still be used today. The beauty of open standards!

Take a look:

Thursday
21May

Terminator Fuel Cell Butane Lighter FTW!

Seeing as how I'm just about to head out and see Terminator 4, I figured now would be a good time to let my readers now that you can purchase the Skynet created nuclear powered fuel cell for only $19.99 from Hollywood Collectibles. Okay, so this version is actually powered by butane, but we can't be all that far away from a machine uprising, can we? This nerd is hoping...