This picture by alt1040 pretty much sums up what I posted last week about Google. Of course the victory even looks to be shorter lived now that Judge Nordstrom had some serious conflict of interests. Chris Matyszczyk over at CNET has a story with some pretty good quotes from our favorite judge. Judge Nordstrom declared: [...]
![US Cybersecurity Department [CNET]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/137_NpAdvHover.jpg)
CNET has an article over what appears to be a power struggle on the role of cybersecurity efforts for the US. First created in 2002, and incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security, government auditors have decided that the DHS is not living up to its “responsibilities.” The announcement of the review led to speculation [...]
Everyone is pilling on the wiretap debacle in a way that makes it look like the government was killing puppies. There are plenty of examples by NYTimes, The Washington Post, CNN, CNET News. I get it, people don’t like to have someone listening while they talk to their mom. But what strikes me as very [...]
![Cell Phones In Flight [Wired]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/91_NpAdvHover.jpg)
First off this picture cracks me up, being an airline pilot myself, I could completely see someone stowing their phone right there. Wired has this article over US trying to ban cell phone usage in flight. This has been a long discussed article, but I really fail to see the big argument. My case and [...]
![Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music [Gizmodo]](http://www.TheRunningTally.com/wp-content/uploads/cat19_NpAdvInnerSmall.jpg )
Here is a story from Giz that doesn’t surprise me much at all. Turns out the same people that pirate music, also buy more of it. I can relate to this, i am not going to go out and buy a CD for $12-$15 to find out that there is only one decent song on [...]
There is an article on Slate that pretty much sums up what I think we all feel, and what is wrong with the MPAAA. Farhad Manjoo talks about the spectrum of limited availability of movies to stream on Netflix, to the high availability but correlated price on iTunes. So what to do? Torrents. It is [...]
I will join every other blog and newspaper that covers technology and throw in my two cents on The Pirate Bay trial. And I don’t know about you, but I am conflicted on what I want to have happen, and what I know should happen. While the idea of anyone being able to upload content, [...]