Posted in Tech, Uncategorized on 12 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you have (or want) an iPhone, you used to be locked into AT&T’s 2 year contract. However, hackers have released a free unlock which allows you to use T-Mobile as a carrier. Actually, you can use any carrier that is using CDMA, but in America, that is only T-Mobile and AT&T.
Verizon is [...]
Posted in Appellate Law, Criminal Law, Education, International, Law, Supreme Court, Tech on 30 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
AltLaw, the newest and one of the more promising internet legal resources to hit the scene, is now up and running and available for free public advanced searches of case law.
It’s a sort of Google for Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions, and clearly holds promise to democratize the availability of relevant [...]
Posted in Science, Tech on 25 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According Ares users computer users from the DoD are very busy editing entries on Wikipedia.
the Department of Defense, whose .mil account holders have been very busy on Wikipedia. The defense agency with the most edits originating from its .mil address is Army’s Network Information Center, with 43,823 edits. The U.S. Air Forces comes in [...]
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Gaming, HD-DVD, PS3, Tech, Television, Xbox 360 on 20 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
Viacom Inc’s Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation SKG–including, inter alia, Paramount Vantage, Nickelodeon Movies, and MTV Films–announced today (Monday Aug 20th 07) that they will release their next-gen DVD titles exclusively on HD-DVD, dropping the Blu-Ray format. Want to watch Transformers, Shrek the Third, and Blades of Glory? Gotta do it in [...]
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Gaming, Tech, Xbox 360 on 7 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Xbox’s Major Nelson confirmed Monday that there will be price drops come August 8th–the 360 “Premium,” as we’ve known it (20 gig) will drop $50 to $349. The Core (without hard drive) will drop $20 to $279, and the Elite will drop $30 to $449.
Official MS Press Release HERE.
Also, ArsTechnica reports that a “source” [...]
Posted in Tech on 7 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not seen it, this is very cool. Street View allows you to go to a location and see it as though you were standing on the street. Street-level view on the Las Vegas Strip in front of Treasure Island and the Mirage Hotel and Casino. Google gives a tour of Street [...]
Posted in Appellate Law, Criminal Law, Law, Military Justice, Military Law, Supreme Court, Tech, Windows Vista on 5 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
If any of you use RSS readers or depend on the internet for news related to your profession (or simply for enjoyment), you should be familiar with Netvibes. Netvibes is perhaps one of the more elegant and streamlined RSS readers out there. It’s been my intention to post a full review of the [...]
Posted in Haditha, Iraq, Law, Military Law, Tech on 31 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wired is reporting on the use of a live two-way video stream during testimony in the Article 32 investigations of Marines charged with murder in Haditha, Iraq. Wired does a good job of explaining the technology, but falls a bit short on the law. The hearings held for the Marines are all Article 32 investigations [...]
Posted in Tech on 27 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The laser is to be mounted on the HEMTT and will be capable of destroying rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds.
Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT)
The initial contract has been awarded to the Boeing Company to develop a control system for a solid-state laser to be mounted on the HEMTT. [...]
Posted in Culture, Environment, International, Politics, Science, Tech on 16 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Steven Mufson of the Washington Post has a grave assessment of Congress’ ability to make even a dent in the dire issue of climate change:
Here’s the good news about climate change: Energy and climate experts say the world already possesses the technological know-how for trimming greenhouse gas emissions enough to slow the perilous rise in [...]
Posted in Business, Gaming, Science Fiction, Tech, Xbox 360 on 15 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
The 360 Chatpad is due out in the U.S. Thursday, September 6th, at the announced $29.99 price. It clips onto the bottom of your 360 controller and allows you to IM and send e-mails without using the on-screen keyboard. I was aware that the package included a wired headset (the original 360 wired [...]
Posted in Humor, Tech on 15 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve never quite seen anything like this.
Nope, this is pretty unique. With the recent news that an unprecedented 33% of all Americans are presently lusting after an iPhone, the relatively small subset of buyers who might actually go for something like this might just fill the back seat of a Yugo:
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Posted in Business, Gaming, Tech, Xbox 360 on 13 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
I post this with a note of caution, I know nothing about the source. Nonetheless, Zero Iscariot over at Destructoid reports news today from
a very good source within a major Canadian retailer that guarantees that despite the lack of a cut at E3 this week, the Xbox 360 will drop $100 across all SKU’s. [...]
Posted in Business, Gaming, Tech, Xbox 360 on 9 July 2007 | 3 Comments »
After the RROD/3 year warranty enhancement news, “other” news has just poured out of Redmond, or at least about the Redmond giant Microsoft.
First off, though, the PS3 news: for those of you in caves, be aware that on July 9th, Sony confirmed rumors of an upcoming new price structure for the glossy box. Effective [...]
Posted in International, Photography, Tech on 9 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These are indeed different times we live in. The digital age means that as never before, information is at our fingertips. At the same time, the quantity of information available online means that protecting privacy is more difficult than ever, even if you are the government of the People’s Republic of China.
Images taken by a [...]
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