Category Archives: Web/Tech

Fairness Doctrine To Extend To The Internet?

Such is reported by the Business and Media Institute There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content […]

New Plugin Time – TTC Security Tool Plus Many Others

Yes, new plugins, yea, yea! The first one is TTC WordPress Security Tool. This one “blocks cross-site script attempts, ip numbers of ill behaved people and bots and bans bad user agents.” You can also manually blacklist IP address. I installed this because neither Akismet nor Bad Behavior can really manually block. Spam Karma 2 […]

What About When The Credentialed Media Uses Photos Wrongly?

Many of you remember what happened to snapped shot: the AP sent him a cease and desist order, and demanded that he removed all AP photos from his site. This began a long discussion, with Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee contacting the AP, and coming to the conclusion According to the AP’s response posted above, […]

HD Or Blue Ray?

But, is that really the question? I have previously looked at purchasing a high def DVD, oh, I guess, back in September or so. That was a more serious look, as, as far back as 2006, there was no way I was going to spend that much on a DVD player. I like movies, but, […]

Best Website For PDA’s

Do you have a Microsoft enabled PDA with Internet access through your wireless carrier? Well, check out The Mobile Stream Center, which is a pda version of its parent page. If the radio station is on the ‘net, you can probably listen to it. During the day, I am able to tune in to WABC […]

Let’s Ban India!

Or at least the India Times Visitors to IndiaTimes.com, a major English-language Indian news site, risk infecting their computers with a deluge of malware, according to Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe. “It’s an entire cocktail of downloader Trojans and dropper Trojans,” Landesman said Friday, putting the number of malicious files involved at 434. […]

My Meeting Became A Comment Thread

Hat tip Good Lt. at The Jawa Report Interruption-posted to Outside the Beltway, Stop the ACLU, Perri Nelson’s Website, Rosemary’s Thoughts, AZAMATTEROFACT, 123beta, guerrilla radio, Adam’s Blog, Stix Blog, Big Dog’s Weblog, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, Stuck On Stupid, The Bullwinkle Blog, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, Conservative Cat, Adeline and Hazel, Diary of […]

iMorons

This is simply unbelievable (NY Times) AT&T is paying millions to be the exclusive United States provider of Apple’s much-hyped and glowingly reviewed gadget, the iPhone. It took 17-year-old George Hotz two months of work to undermine AT&T’s investment. Mr. Hotz, a resident of Glen Rock, N.J., published detailed instructions online this week that he […]

iPlayboy

Seems as if Playboy wants to get into the iPhone arena. (Hey, stop looking at me like that. The story came from al Reuters, found while searching the Huffington Post to see if they would say anything about the foiled London bombing.) Apple’s upcoming iPhone is being hailed by many as the sexiest new gadget […]

iPhone To Feature Youtube

Now this is a pretty interesting use for the iPhone (yeah, I know, associating like that) Apple’s made it official: the iPhone will have full-blown YouTube integration. According to the iPhone Web site, the much-anticipated handset will include "a special YouTube player that you can launch right from the home screen." iPhone owners can now load […]

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