Archive for September, 2006

Bill Clinton fires Back

Video clips of Bill Clinton’s interview with Fox News as presented by The Daily Show.

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ConsumerFury.com: Time Warner Cable blocking customers from using upcoming Tivo Series 3!

An article on ConsumerFury tells how at one point Time Warner cable stated that they would not provide CableCards to customers with Tivo Series 3 PVRs. This caused much outrage, and Time Warner has appologized. Read more after the jump.

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PC World: CableCard Technology in Trouble

PC World: CableCard Technology in Trouble I set out at the CEDIA trade show to find out how–and if–manufacturers are implementing CableCard technology. Based on what I heard today, the technology is in big trouble, and you can blame cable television companies.

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MSNBC.com: Media ownership study ordered destroyed – Politics

MSNBC.com: Media ownership study ordered destroyed – Politics WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says. The report, written in 2004, came to light during...

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Medialoper: Zune’s Big Innovation: Viral DRM

Microsoft has recently released its Zune DAP. One exciting feature is the ability to share all of your songs via wireless to your friends. There is a problem.

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YouTube Video: Venezuela’s Chavez says Bush planned 9/11 attacks

YouTube Video: Venezuela’s Chavez says Bush planned 9/11 attacks Let me just say that I highly doubt this. The video is embedded after the jump.

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Happily impressed with Myth 0.20

I’m not going to spend too much time on this post. Maybe in the near future. I just spent a lot of time trying to analyze the National Surveillance Act of 2006. I am impressed so far. After switching MythTV over to using OpenGL I am greeted with a nice fade-in and fade-out on...

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BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film – 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV…

From BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film – 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV…: Dave Burstein crunches the numbers behind offering video via broadband and concludes that it costs a quarter to stream a DVD quality movie, 80 cents for an HD film, or a nickel for iPod...

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National Surveillance Act of 2006: Comparison

I had downloaded the Discussion Draft of the National Surveillance Act of 2006 from a link in an article in Wired. The link pointed to one of Wired’s servers. I trust Wired as a news source; however, wished to get my hands on the primary document directly from the government.

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Wired News: NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act

Wired News: NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act A bill radically redefining and expanding the government’s ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week. By a 10-8 vote, the...

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