Thursday, February 14, 2008

Vista SP 1

The new service pack for Vista is going to be a 65 MB download. I hope they bring it out on a weekend and that my parents don't end up needing the phone. By my estimates, it will take at least ten hours to download the service pack.

Just to be on the safe side, I'll disable my antivirus and firewall. I don't want anything fucking up during this download.

P2P Companies Join Outcry Against Comcast

File-sharing executives again slammed Comcast's network management practices Thursday, accusing the cable giant of throttling P2P services in an effort to stifle competition.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Windows Update problems seem solved

It turns out that Comodo Firewall Pro 3 was causing the updates to fail. I'm glad I learned of this before the new service pack comes out. I will download the latest version of Comodo, which is supposed to rectify the problem.

UK ISPs may have to ban "illegal downloaders" say government

Looks like the MAFIAA have got to the government in the UK.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

New Law: Parent's Permission Required For Myspace/Facebook

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Under a new proposal in Springfield, kids would have to have a parent's permission to create a profile on popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

You’re 16, You’re Beautiful and You’re a Voter

We should hasten the enfranchisement of the generation born between 1980 and 1995 by lowering the voting age to 16.

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