Archive for the Category ‘Politics’

Cell Phones In Flight [Wired]

Cell Phones In Flight [Wired]

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]

Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music [Gizmodo]

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 [...]

My Mythical Online Rental Service for Movies (Slate)

My Mythical Online Rental Service for Movies (Slate)

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 [...]

Jumping on the Pirate boat

Jumping on the Pirate boat

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, [...]

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