Monthly Archives: September 2011

You Can Turn it Off But You Can’t Hide…

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

You’ve heard the commercials, of live action calls of folks caught between a rock and a hard place only to reach up to press the “blue” button much like a “medic alert” of  “I’ve fallen and cant get up” fame … Continue reading →

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326,000 Gallons of Fuel…

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

This is the amount of fuel United/Continental Airlines claims it will save from replacing the 12,000 or so pages of paper maps which it has to fly with each pilot.  No question an interesting number not only in the direct … Continue reading →

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Providing the Dream…

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

It’s come to my attention that after many years on this earth that “capitalism” is the “dream” and anything which drives the “dream” also drives “capitalism” as the two are locked in a romanticized tango to the end.    As this … Continue reading →

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Broken Down Alongside the Information Super Highway…

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

If you’ve read these pages for a while, my telling the story of patent trolls has become known where  a small no name company which has no products of its own pay the $35 dollar filing fee and  threatens lawsuits … Continue reading →

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A Curated Timeline of your Very Own…

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

This is something you woke up this morning and just decided you had to have isn’t it, yes your very own curated timeline as what did you do before?  Yea spent time with the family, watch a little TV and … Continue reading →

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And They Say Playing Video Games Is Bad For You…

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

As here is a working example of what we’ve waxed about here before as the players of an online protein-folding game named appropriately “Foldit” have outperformed the white jacketed scientists by discovering the structure of a protein involved in the … Continue reading →

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30,000 Cores Anyone…

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

The game is changing and fast it is, as at 30,000 cores pointed at one problem it doesn’t take long to solve at all as that’s what  a company called Cycle Computing  demonstrate recently.  As they took  the potential of … Continue reading →

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German Pirates Ahoy…

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

Here is an interesting one as it seem the German arm of the International Pirate Party  won a momentous victory in last  week’s Berlin state elections,  taking 15 seats the Internet activist group did in a  regional parliament.  Internet and … Continue reading →

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IP by Any Other Name is a Copyright…

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

An interesting quote from Californian Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren caught my attention as she retorted to those who argue copyright laws must be further strengthened by saying: “I think if we were to do nothing on copyright law, we would … Continue reading →

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Free Speech, Well Sort Of…

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Joseph Campbell

His Honor Richard A. Posner is not known for his friendly treatment of folks whose arguments he doesn’t agree with.  So when an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) started to make his opening statement at an oral … Continue reading →

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