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Typewriters, Computers, and Creating?

Yes, there is something different. A typewriter is a durable device that lasts many years. It will build character as it wears. On the other hand, a computer grows viruses as it ages. In addition, they aren't very durable at all (I've had 7 computers/laptops. Only one of them still works... the one I'm using now) and they don't last very many years at all.

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience

Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense

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Second point: I had my first hands-on with Windows 7 today. I'm somewhat bewildered. In what way is this not Vista 1.1? Sure, okay, there are some cosmetic changes to the taskbar but really, I fail to find anything revolutionary. Certainly nothing that justifies the same folks who've said all along that Vista was "bad" to say that 7 is "awesome". Is a slight reduction in UAC prompts really enough?

What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For

A year from now, a lot of Chromium's appeal could be riding on what users can do with one when they aren't connected to the Internet or want to save content locally. There are occasions, after all, where 'the cloud' is the very last place you want certain information to reside.

Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking

At 12, he was “deemed finished with schooling” and Golden Era Productions, an unincorporated division of Church of Scientology International (CSI) hired him as a messenger and errand boy.

But in 1997, at the age of 15, he was demoted to the post of dishwasher. “He worked 16-hour days cleaning pots, pans and the dining facilities,” says the lawsuit.

And soon afterwards, he was assigned to do construction at the base near Hemet, California.

SarBox Lawsuit Could Rewrite IT Compliance Rules

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Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times

The true 1984 will come, when all your health records will be known to the Federal Government so that it can monitor both the health care you are getting and whether you are complying with the mandate to carry health insurance.

It sure is "Orwellian" and it is true [csmonitor.com]... Republicans may have skirted some laws (although no more than Democrat Roosevelt did, when arresting thousands of Americans of Japanese, German, or Italian origin) in their "war on terror", but to establish a true Big Brother, a nation needs an Illiberal in office...

Recycling Excess Heat From the Data Center

Is pumping boiling water through pipes the most efficient way to heat houses? Isn't there a pretty massive heat loss in the pipes?

Having said that, if they are already using this system for heat, the introduction of waste heat from a datacenter seems to make a lot of sense. Acts as a heat sink for the data center, reduces the amount of energy needed to heat the water.

Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic

(b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information, or engage in other similar activities, including without limitation, "spamming", "flaming" or denial of service attacks;

Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death"

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Spammer Lance Atkinson Fined $16 Million

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Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser

If I've got Javascript on the front end, and say Java working the back end... How much more Java can I get? I'm a developer and I can't think of anything MORE front then the front end...

If you're talking about Taking Javascript and making it more integrated with the actual web page display, AJAX already handles most of that. We don't need Javascript to become like PHP, where you're using PHP to write your HTML inside of your PHP script tag inside of an HTML body.

MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose

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The Cloud Ate My Homework

Cloud computing as its being used in the tech rags, as in handing all of your data to an external provider who puts it on their "cloud", is basically the same as shared hosting

Cool-Tether Links Phones' Bandwidth To Make High-Speed Hotspots

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