YouTube – Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD I have seen and heard a lot more about police doing infuriating and unlawful shit like this a lot since around 2005. It seems that it just happens more often. What the hell is wrong with police officers these days? You can’t just knock someone off their [...]

Slashdot | Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity Yup, I did. It was Little Brother. Haven’t read it yet? Go, read it, I’m not kidding.

Back when the IBM PC and IBM PC compatible machines were created, there was nothing but a single defacto standard for interacting with the system. The BIOS—which was little more than a piece of hardware containing software routines that helped an operating system interact with hardware present on the system—provided routines that could be called [...]

An article over at “Works With U” has an interesting thing that I have run into a few times before: And here’s another ironic twist: Consumers may actually prefer to pay for Ubuntu — rather than get it for free. No joke: Many consumers don’t like free software. They fear it. My brother in law [...]

I was going to post this last night, but I wanted some time to think about what I’d just finished reading before I decided to write about it here. Yesterday, I read Little Brother. It was an awesome, amazing read. It is also the only book that I have ever read entirely on my computer [...]

Wonder why I hate airports? It’s because they’re full of total, utter shit. Airports are some of the most stupid and ignorant places a person can go. Very new technology? Not permitted, because it’s not understood. Why, even when it is, if the TSA breaks it, they can threaten to arrest you when you get [...]

It seems that Nelson over at the OSI’s Web site is confused about how “fundamentalist” can be applied to an Open Source advocate. It can be done; one just has to remember that a “fundie” (the variant of the word which makes the malicious connotation clear) is someone that exists at a special place called [...]

Here is an interesting short article on ExtJS and the GNU GPL. First off, if you are a developer (open source, closed source, doesn’t matter), you need to know the area of licensing. You should actually have read, studied, and understood at least the most popular licenses out there, so that you know what you [...]

Jon wrote “For Me, It’s Linux, Not GNU/Linux” today. I notice that every so often, this issue crops up again in some circles. Many people feel that saying “GNU/Linux” is confusing and shouldn’t be said at all… and, I would even agree with them—but not in the usual “let’s just call it Linux” way. See, [...]

I am aware that telemarketers are not permitted to call cell phones. I am aware that one can submit a complaint to the FCC (FTC?) for such violations (and I have submitted complaints to both), though I am not entirely certain whose domain this falls under. However, what does one do when a company repeatedly [...]