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FCC, Comcast, and Net neutrality

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:10:29 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: Finally, FCC looks at Comcast! Yay net neutrality!
Note: Sections are continuous and not broken.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In January of 2008, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (FCC) stated that the FCC is going to investigate complaints that Comcast "actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online".^[33]

[edit] 4.5 Lobbying efforts

Comcast spends millions of dollars annually on government relationships.^[34]^[35] Regularly Comcast employs the spouses, sons and daughters of influential mayors, councilmen, commissioners, and other officials to assure its continued preferred market allocations.^[36]^[37]^[38]^[39]

Comcast strongly lobbies against "a la carte" bills that would give consumers the option to purchase individual channels rather than a broad tier of programming. These issues continue to garner attention from state governments, Congress and FCC Chairman Martin.^[40]

Tags: internet, law, computers, bittorrent

Editing wikipedia

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:37:22 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: So few people realize that Wikipedia can be edited. Wikipedia is desperately trying to change this.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

How can I help? Don't be afraid to edit — anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to be bold! Find something that can be improved, whether content, grammar or formatting, and make it better.

Make your first edit right now:

Click here to edit the sandbox, a place to make test edits. (If there is already some text there, add to the end of the text.)
Type some text.
Please, remember that while Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, it is not a forum! No profanity, libel, or personal attacks will be tolerated.
Sign your posts on talk pages by entering four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking on the signature icon. This will automatically produce your name and the date.
Click Show preview to test your changes, or Save page when you're happy with the way it looks.

Tags: wikipedia, writing, editing

Human lie detector

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:26:03 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: Could be useful, author emphasizes that it is not definitive. Obviously there's much more text on the page, had to drop it to make clipping limit.

Clip Source: www.blifaloo.com

The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.

Body Language of Lies:

Emotional Gestures & Contradiction

Interactions and Reactions

Verbal Context and Content

Other signs of a lie:

Final Notes:

Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.

Tags: interesting, psychology

Firefox makes PC world top 100

Sun, 27 May 2007 14:01:24 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: Microsoft must be upset (I hope no one else already clipped this?)

Clip Source: www.pcworld.com

The 100 Best Products of 2007

35. Mozilla Firefox 2
(Web browser; free) Sure, Microsoft eventually did some nice things with IE 7, but why even bother with that browser if you don't have to? Firefox is secure, free, and always improving. Download

Tags: firefox, technology

Security Problems in Vista

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:50:52 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: Look! Bill Gates' stupidity strikes again!

Clip Source: slashdot.org

IT: Vista Protected Processes Bypassed

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 07, @12:41PM
from the falling-confidence-levels dept.

Anonymous Hero writes "Security Researcher Alex Ionescu strikes again, this time with a proof of concept program that will arbitrarily enable and foremost disable the protection of so-called 'protected processes' in Windows Vista. Not only threatening Vista DRM and friends, it's also another step towards hardened and even more annoying malware. Normally, only specially signed processes made by special companies (decided by Microsoft) can be protected, but now the bad guys can protect any evil process they want, including the latest version of their own keylogger, spambot, or worm, as well as unprotect any 'good' one."

Tags: microsoft, stupidity, stupid microsoft, vista, slashdot, uh-oh, security

Google notebook

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:05:50 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: Anyone notice a parallel to Clipmarks besides me? You can even publish stuff like here!

Clip Source: www.google.com

Clip and collect information as you browse the web.

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Tags: clipmarks, clip, familiar

Replacement for solar cells

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:46:27 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: This is quite interesting. I may be a conservative, but I can still be interested by new technology!

Clip Source: hardware.slashdot.org

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand have developed synthetic dyes that can be used to generate electricity at one tenth of the cost of current silicon-based solar panels. These photosynthesis-like compounds work in low-light conditions and can be cheaply incorporated into window-panes and building materials, thereby turning them into generators of electricity."

Tags: technology, environment, energy, new ideas

100 person village=world (or not?)

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:15:28 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: You see this thing every day in history classrooms. There are a lot more stupid claims on the page, had to drop them to make popping limit.

Clip Source: www.snopes.com

Claim: If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, that village would resemble one described in this piece.

Not quite.

70 would be unable to read

A 1998 UNICEF study put the world illiteracy rate at 16%, well short of the 70% claimed here.

50 would suffer from malnutrition

The World Health Organization puts the malnutrition figure at about 33%.

1 would be near death
1 would be near birth

This statement is simply too vague to evaluate. At any given time, one person in a hundred is near death? Just how "near"? Is age a factor in this statistic?

80 would live in substandard housing

This statement can't be assessed without knowing the definition of "substandard" being employed here. "Substandard" by whose standards? And if a full 80% of the world's population truly lives in "substandard" housing, doesn't that indicate whatever standard is being used must be too high?

Tags: propaganda, stupid, snopes.com, common

170 resources on Online File Storage..wonderful!

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:02:26 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: for the full list, you need to visit the site.

Clip Source: www.listible.com

Online File Storage

Resources

4 Shared Free File Sharing

Tags: web site, storage, online, file.

Conway's Game of Life and player

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:02:55 GMT

clipped by: thinboy00
clipper's remarks: Conway's Game of Life is quite intriguing and interesting. Life32 is a safe (virus free) program that lets you play with it and other Cellular Automata (see Wikipedia page). It's fun creating your own, and looking at what others made (see Life32 page for other people's projects).

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, live or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are the cells that are directly horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:

Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.

Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.

Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.

Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

Clip Source: www.xs4all.nl

Life32 is the fastest life player in the world, it is very powerfull and extremely easy to use.

... from an FTP site in Atlanta: zip file or self-installing exe

Download Life32 version 2.16

Tags: technology, science, unique

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:39:32 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: www.techsupportalert.com

Listed below are 46 different freeware categories with my selection of the best products in each category. The list is ordered by program function rather than merit so you'll get the most out of it by browsing down this page at leisure. The pathologically impatient can consult the index below.


1 Best Free Web Browser	Sponsored links:	31 Best Free Screen Capture Utility
2 Best Free Anti-Virus Software	Best Backup Program	32 Best Free Search Toolbar
3 Best Free Adware/Spyware/Scumware Remover	Best Spyware Detector	33 Best Free Download Manager
4 Best Free Browser Protection Utility	Best Remote Access Software	34 Best Free Web Site Ripper
5 Best Free Firewall	Best Spam Blocker for Dummies	35 Best Free Download/Upload Meter
6 Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover	Best Anti-trojan Scanner	36 Best Free TCP Settings Tweaker
7 Best Free Rootkit Scanner/Remover	19 Best Free Desktop Search Utility	37 Best Free File Cleaner
8 Best Free Intrusion Detection Utility	20 Best Free Digital Image Viewer	38 Best Free Resource Meter
9 Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service	21 Best Free Digital Image Editor	39 Best Free Sticky Notes Utility
10 Best Free Software Suite	22 Best Free Digital Photo Organizer	40 Best Free Secure Erase Utility
11 Best Free File Manager	23 Best Free Notepad Replacement	41 Best Free Registry Editor
12 Best Free Email Client	24 Best File Archiver/Zip Utility	42 Best Free Process Viewer
13 Best Free Web Mail Accessory	25 Best Free Hotkey Utility	43 Best Free System Information Utility
14 Best Free Clipboard Replacement Utility	26 Best Free Registry Cleaner	44 Best Free Search and Replace Utility
15 Best Free HTML Editor	27 Best Free BitTorrent Client	45 Best Free Outliner
16 Best Free Spam Filter for the Average User	28 Best Free FTP Client	46 Best Free Rename Utility
17 Best Free Spam Filter for Experienced Users	29 Best Free Bookmark Cleaner
18 Best Free Popup Stopper	30 Best Free Folder Synchronization Utility	47-103 latest additions to the list

Tags: software, computer, freeware, technology, science, utilities

Gmail Tips: the complete collection

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:55:55 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: most useful tips on Gmail. highly recommended for a Gmail user.

Clip Source: g04.com

Gmail Tips Table of Contents

Tags: gmail, tips, useful.

100 Keyboard shortcuts (Windows)

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:41:53 GMT

clipped by: mingkymomo

Clip Source: www.hongkiat.com

100 Keyboard shortcuts (Windows)

CTRL+C (Copy)

CTRL+X (Cut)

CTRL+V (Paste)

CTRL+Z (Undo)

DELETE (Delete)

SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)

CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)

CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)

F2 key (Rename the selected item)

CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)

CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)

CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)

CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)

CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)

SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)

CTRL+A (Select all)

ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)

F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)

ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)

ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)

ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)

CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)

ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)

ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)

F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)

F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)

SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)

ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)

CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)

ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu)

Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)

F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)

RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)

LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)

Tags: cheatsheet, command, computer, computers, computing, geek, hacks, howto, key, keyboard, list, lists, microsoft, reference, shortcut, shortcuts, tech, technology, tips, tools, toread, typing, useful, windo

Repair Windows XP in 8 Commands

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:06:17 GMT

clipped by: destino
clipper's remarks: A simple guide to using the dreaded MS repair console.

Clip Source: www.short-media.com

Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

Most of us have seen it at one time or another; perhaps on our own PC, the PC of a loved one, or perhaps a PC at your place of employment. The system spends weeks or months operating in a smooth fashion, taking you to the far reaches of the wide, wibbly web, and after one particularly late evening of browsing and gaming, you shut your PC off and go to bed. Millions of people across the globe do just this every night, but a few of us have turned our PCs on the next day not to the standard Windows XP loading screen, but instead this dreaded error:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup
using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'R' at the first screen to start repair.

Allow me to build tension by prefacing the end-all/be-all solution with my background: Having worked for the now-incorporated Geek Squad branch of Best Buy Corporation for the better part of eight months, I have seen dozens upon dozens of systems come through our department with any one of these errors, brought in by customers who are afraid they did something, have a virus, or are in jeopardy of losing their data. Prior to my discovery of an invaluable sequence of commands, our standard procedure was to hook the afflicted drive to an external enclosure, back up a customer’s data and then restore the PC with the customer’s restore discs or an identical copy of Windows with the customer’s OEM license key. If the customer wasn’t keen on the applicable charges for the data backup, we informed them of the potential risks for a Windows repair installation (Let’s face it, they don’t always work right), had them sign a waiver, and we did our best.

Tags: windows xp, technology, troubleshooting, problems

Hidden Program In Windows XP

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:40:09 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: www.metacafe.com

Hidden Program In Windows XP

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor - allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

MS Microsoft Word Font Character Hidden Secret Program Windows XP

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Tags: windows