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Just look at this guy:

http://www.computerworld.com/comments/comment/view/9113918/250642

Hi,

I registered the following domains:

gustavcharities.org
gustavcharities.com
gustavcharity.org
gustavcharity.com
gustavdonation.com
gustavdonation.org
gustavdonations.org
gustavfund.org
gustavrelieffund.com

I registered these domains (proactively) to keep them OUT of the scammer's hands.

So, he registers domains like Microsoft registers "defensive" patents. With no motive of profit and solely for the public good. Now if we could only manage to register the infinite remaining possible Gustav domains (ex: gustav-donations.org), we should be all set.

The National Hurricane Center did an excellent prediction job, just as they did with Katrina. The storm is almost exactly on the predicted track from the last three days. It's all done on Linux. The forecaster's desktops run Red Hat Linux. The back end systems run Linux. The supercomputing clusters run Linux.

Obviously, there's not a whole lot of independent research out there, but here are some of the claims:

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11408-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=39451&messageID=725468&start=0

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7676844023.html

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007518

I agree. Just throw the discs in there. I mean its not like the people of the future will be unable to do research to determine how to use them. The only limitation is whether the discs will maintain their structural integrity for that long. Most burnable cds only last around two or three years under usage. Link

They could last much longer if you get higher end discs.

Since the main difference between a RDBMS and MapReduce seems to be that the former is most suited for structured data and the latter best suited for unstructured data, it might be a good fit to use them both. And according to studies, it might be that north of 80% of our data is unstructured. This has been a big topic in data warehousing and led to the start of the whole DWH 2.0 thing.

So the fact that MapReduce is used in massive parallel processing machines like the ones from Greenplum (as quoted from the article) is not as bad as Stonbraker and Co. seem to think.

Zaaf

Seems that Yahoo made this claim months ago but for a 2 petabyte database. The article goes on to list a couple of others that have more than 2 petabytes of archived data. So it's safe to say that the petabyte data barrier has been broken for some time.

But but Windows is 'collapsing' says Gartner.

One page version: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9112621

Try THIS link.

90% of users are Joe Sixpacks, and still 35% of them jump through the hurdles to drop Vista.

Actually, TFA says that nearly 35% of users running Devil Mountain's "community-based testing network" (about 3000 PCs) have downgraded from Vista to XP, according to Devil Mountain's estimates. That 35% includes machines downgraded by sellers, and seller's aren't "Joe Sixpacks."

From the community-based testing network's page:

• "Participating persons, business entities or organizations contribute to the repository by downloading and deploying the DMS Clarity Tracker Agent across one or more representative Windows-based systems. The agent then collects system and process metrics data and uploads it to the DMS Clarity Analysis Portal, where it is accessible to the originating contributor and to members of the xpnet research and support staff."

How many of those users are "Joe Sixpacks?"

Now for six months we have to listen to the "VMWare is dead" flamewar because they couldn't lighten up about their preccciousssss.

And so it begins.

Sorry if there any errors, or omissions, I am trying to be accurate. A lot has happend in a little over a week.

The following takes place between July 29th and August 7th:

August 07, 2008:
Judge rejects student visa injunction sought by H-1B opponents
Tech workers don't have standing to fight Bush administration visa move
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111963

August 07, 2008:
Jobless claims surge to highest level in 6 years
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/07/news/economy/jobless_benefits.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

August 06, 2008:
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports big drop in tech jobs
Almost 50,000 IT positions lost in last 12 months
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/07/news/economy/jobless_benefits.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

Aug 06,2008:
Yet another visa, this one allows 5000 Koreans to work in the USA each year
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200808/200808060014.html

August 06, 2008:
Apple sued over treatment of it's tech workers
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/06/apple-gets-sued-indentured

August 05, 2008:
Bogus diploma ring busted
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-diploma-mill-04-aug04,0,2164133.story

August 03, 2008:
July marks seventh consecutive month of job loses
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/46146.html

August 02, 2008:
Sun to cut between 1000 to 2500 jobs
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/08/01/sun-us-tech-market-wont-shine-soon/

August 01, 2008:
Gartner's grim IT hiring outlook
http://blogs.zdnet.com/careers/?p=140

August 01, 2008:
Feds charges man for H1-B fraud
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_visa01.47edb3e.html#

Jul 31, 2008:
More than 3.7 million Americans had full-time jobs chopped to part time
the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than half a century ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/business/economy/31jobs.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

July 31, 2008:
Layoffs set for 22,000 California state workers
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10046324

July 30, 2008:
WTO Doha talks collapse
India's backdoor attempt to allow more H-1Bs into the USA failed, for now
http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/why-you-should-be-thrilled-wto-doha-talks-collapsed

July 30, 2008:
NY gov slashes spending; state said in "recession"
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3032764920080730?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

July 30, 2008:
China trade has cost 2.3 million U.S. jobs
http://www.reuters.com/article/politic

Unfortunately, it seems this project is based not on the classic Apple computer, but on Nintendo's 8-bit video game system. Computerworld reports (where Derek Lomas of MIT commented to verify the story's accuracy).

The BSD style licensed projects get more momentum and make forward progress.

I am having a little trouble figuring out if you are sarcastic or serious.

I have great respect for the BSD kernel projects, they do some things a lot better than Linux. But if you compare the pace of kernel development, by source-code line count, Linux tremendously outpaces BSD kernel development.

What you're left with after that is a lot of Java projects. Which are great for enterprise, right now. But building a stack of new Java code is definitely building today's code for today, not tomorrow's code. Java is the conservative choice of enterprise at the moment.

And then there are community issues, like the Spring bug that showed us that this enterprise-critical code wasn't getting the eyes that an Open Source project with more non-company programmers does.

MS has been getting free labor from BSD for decades and lately appears to be trying to create an opposition between complementary projects in order to trouble the GPL. MS has as much or more to lose from the GPL than from anything else. The rest of us, we gain from the GPL. However, it is important to remember that the license chosen, is part of the game and that to play in any given sandbox, you must agree to the rules, whether ISC or GPL, or else find a different sandbox. So keep that in mind when MS trolls or pawns try to play BSD/ISC vs GPL licensing.

One caveat for non-ascetics is that in this day and age, especially when going up against a competitor known for 'embrace, extend, extinguish' breaking of technology, is that it isn't enough to just give away source code like we could back before MS politicized technology at the end of the 1990's. There now has to be something to keep the software free as a public resource while it evolved, sort of a payment-in-kind, rather than letting bad players not just walk away with free labor, but use it to undermine the developers.

To steer towards the technical aspects, the BSDs are interesting in that there is a lot of cross-pollenation between them. An advance in one usually rather quickly propagates to the others. Any of the four are excellent tools and complement Linux-based projects like Debian, Fedora, Busybox or UClinux. Any can be used in conjunction with just about any Free or Open Source Software including the various GNU-project tools we have come to use and rely upon, such as Apache, Perl or GCC.

The weakest one of the lot, strategically mind you, is FreeBSD. That is in part due to the mistake of allowing binary objects in the base. First, blackbox binaries are a security hole in and of themselves. Second, they make you as fully dependent on the vendor providing the binary as you are on the binary itself. That is a double kick in the nads for anyone that plans ahead. Increasingly businesses and governments are realizing that binary-only anything should not be touched even with the shitty end of a barge pole.

• Technically, aside from the above, FreeBSD has good performance on the x86. e.g. streaming video
• DragonflyBSD is interesting in that it aims for clustered and multi-processor computing. e.g. rendering
• OpenBSD prioritizes standards, encryption and pro-active security. PF and OpenSSH start here. It is also famous for its founder's technical genius which is offset by being too direct and occasionally even exhibiting a Gates-like personality. e.g. network packet filter / router, OpenAFS server
• NetBSD focuses on portability and embedded systems. e.g. automation, data acquisition

YMMV

CWmike writes "Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text on everyday mobile devices, then allows the user extract them later on, to help them recall names, faces, conversations and events. IBM's project is akin to one that Gordon Bell and other scientists at Microsoft Research have been working on for the past nine years."

CWmike writes "Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text on everyday mobile devices, then allows the user extract them later on, to help them recall names, faces, conversations and events. IBM's project is akin to one that Gordon Bell and other scientists at Microsoft Research have been working on for the past nine years."

CWmike writes "Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text on everyday mobile devices, then allows the user extract them later on, to help them recall names, faces, conversations and events. IBM's project is akin to one that Gordon Bell and other scientists at Microsoft Research have been working on for the past nine years."

I was going with what Negroponte himself said about XP going to be the main OS of the OLPC. For an example read this article. IMHO Negroponte seems to just be burning way too many bridges between the OLPC and the OSS camps. And here is an article quoting Negroponte saying "The OLPC needs to be run more like Microsoft". Because nothing tells the FLOSS guys that you support them than by saying you want your company run like a convicted monopolist.

I shall show off my "incredible psychic powers" and make a prediction. In five years Negroponte will be sitting at MIT,the OLPC will be deader than dixie, and netbooks will end up not being any cheaper than your average Dell or Acer laptop,just smaller. Which is kinda sad as the OLPC could have been a great tool for ALL the worlds children to learn with,instead I predict it will just do a slow death march to the grave. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV

Bring in a lawyer and ask about Sarbanes Oxley, the changes to federal e discovery requirements and your industry specific requirements. Computerworld had a good article about the changes to federal e-discovery here: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001219 For an example, the FAA has the opinion that copies of all written communications to them should be maintained in the format it was sent. So, a fax would be held on to and an email to them would not be deleted.

"The organization's policy unhelpfully recommends that 'really important' e-mails be saved as Word documents." By that logic, any disgruntled ex-employee can create a Word document with outlandish claims. Then claim it's a copy of an email. Your organization's written policy just opened that avenue of legal attack.

You said large company. Why not capture and archive all e-mail messages -- incoming, outgoing and internal? This approach provides the strongest assurance that all relevant e-mail messages are being captured. It will help increase the confidence of internal and external auditors and regulatory authorities in the integrity of the resulting audit trail. If not, then you do run the risk of a judge impsing a fine because you could not produce evidence.

In a new low for humanity, supposed corrections 'expert' and CIO for the Florida Department of Correction Scott McPherson went on the record in favor of utilizing waterboarding to get the information out of Terry Childs.

He later reacts to the minor discrepancies between what was initially reported and what really seems to have happened with the wonderful Now if this is true, it certainly changes things, eh?

So, evidently if Childs *had* been holding the network for ransom, waterboarding was perfectly fine? I hope I *am* going to far, but considering that the man has evidently been with the Florida department of corrections for years, I find myself wondering just how many times he has found that something that leaves no marks and is incredibly good at getting people to sign confessions whether they did something or not is just incredibly useful to have available.

What a sick mind - Pug

In a new low for humanity, supposed corrections 'expert' and CIO for the Florida Department of Correction Scott McPherson went on the record in favor of utilizing waterboarding to get the information out of Terry Childs.

He later reacts to the minor discrepancies between what was initially reported and what really seems to have happened with the wonderful Now if this is true, it certainly changes things, eh?

So, evidently if Childs *had* been holding the network for ransom, waterboarding was perfectly fine? I hope I *am* going to far, but considering that the man has evidently been with the Florida department of corrections for years, I find myself wondering just how many times he has found that something that leaves no marks and is incredibly good at getting people to sign confessions whether they did something or not is just incredibly useful to have available.

What a sick mind - Pug

In a new low for humanity, supposed corrections 'expert' and CIO for the Florida Department of Correction Scott McPherson went on the record in favor of utilizing waterboarding to get the information out of Terry Childs.

He later reacts to the minor discrepancies between what was initially reported and what really seems to have happened with the wonderful Now if this is true, it certainly changes things, eh?

So, evidently if Childs *had* been holding the network for ransom, waterboarding was perfectly fine? I hope I *am* going to far, but considering that the man has evidently been with the Florida department of corrections for years, I find myself wondering just how many times he has found that something that leaves no marks and is incredibly good at getting people to sign confessions whether they did something or not is just incredibly useful to have available.

What a sick mind - Pug

In a new low for humanity, supposed corrections 'expert' and CIO for the Florida Department of Correction Scott McPherson went on the record in favor of utilizing waterboarding to get the information out of Terry Childs.

He later reacts to the minor discrepancies between what was initially reported and what really seems to have happened with the wonderful Now if this is true, it certainly changes things, eh?

So, evidently if Childs *had* been holding the network for ransom, waterboarding was perfectly fine? I hope I *am* going to far, but considering that the man has evidently been with the Florida department of corrections for years, I find myself wondering just how many times he has found that something that leaves no marks and is incredibly good at getting people to sign confessions whether they did something or not is just incredibly useful to have available.

What a sick mind - Pug

There was a story the other day about Linux's ambitions to create desktop hardware to compete with the Mac.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110548&intsrc=news_ts_head

Oh please. Everyone knows it's the standard practice to store sensitive data unencrypted, on a single backup tape in your car. See here:

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/26/0115227
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/0412230&from=rss
http://cyberinsecure.com/backup-tape-with-private-details-stolen-from-greensboro-gynecology-associates/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/citigroup_lost_tape/
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=319327
http://www.cio.com/article/16133/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060208-lost-backup-tape-prompts-it.htm

Yes, all are different cases (and there are scores more)

From what I have been reading, it looks to me like the situation may be even worse in the UK and Australia than in the USA. Although I don't know if the UK and Australia have anything like the USA work visa scam.

These are all recent articles:

Barclays to cut 1,800 U.K. IT staffers in offshoring move
> "London-based Barclays PLC today disclosed plans to offshore 1,800 of the 2,800 IT jobs at its U.K. operations to locations in Singapore, Hungary and India over the next three years."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=outsourcing&articleId=9110183&taxonomyId=60

Oz bank to offshore 400 IT jobs to India
> "National Australia Bank is expected to send another 400 information technology jobs to India by the end of the year."
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=41867

Aviva sells offshoring operations to WNS for 115 mln pounds
> "LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Aviva Plc. said it has sold its offshoring operations to India-based outsourcing services provider WNS Holdings Ltd. for 115 million pounds in cash."
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=41867

More bank jobs move to India
> "THE National Australia Bank could more than halve its local technology workforce over the next five years, as it sends jobs offshore as part of its massive technology transformation program, codenamed Neos."
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24020156-15306,00.html

Make the most of IT
> "US versus UK"
> "Bank of America or Citigroup have done a significant amount of offshoring. But three insurance companies, including Aviva in the UK, have offshored 15 per cent each or more of their work."
> "In the US, no company has offshored over 7 per cent of their work. Headcount-wise, US companies may have a lead, but in terms of the quantum of work, the UK companies have demonstrated far greater amount of offshoring."
http://sify.com/finance/it-bpo/fullstory.php?id=14715010

Seems that the UK and Australia also get the same BS hype:

Offshoring to India creates jobs in U.K.
> "Outsourcing work by British companies to India does not cause job losses but boosts employment, according to a research by economists at the University of Nottingham."
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/11/stories/2008071156181700.htm

Was worried by that survey myself. So I went hunting for the actual survey article. Sounds like they were picking one of several "most important" skills. I would guess(hope) the other 43% chose other options because either they already have a steady supply of developers with problem-solving skills, or they're respondents who are proficient in those other skills hoping for a job.

Meanwhile I can always send users a picture by email with confidence that picture is not anywhere on the web.

That's pretty funny.

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....How many Vista botnets zombies have you heard about?....

Since I am primarily a Mac user, although I also use Windows XP, I do not keep track of how many or the latest viruses, Trojans, spyware and other such crap available for all versions of Windows. I assume you know how to use Google. As outlined in one article, VISTA had malware out in the wilds of the Internet on the very day it was launched.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005542

I have loaded VISTA onto one of my PCs, just to see what it was all about. He even after SP1 it is still slow and the UAC is most annoying. It does look cool though. I will definitely stay with XP until the day comes when I need to use a program that is not available for the Mac which will also not run on XP. From what I've been reading on the web and in various blogs, that day will be a long time in coming.

That also means that there will be plenty of Windows computers to become botnet slaves for the foreseeable future. The biggest security feature of the Mac is that it is hard to write viable malware compared to Windows. The malware contests of the future will be won not by the most numerous computers, but are the ones for which it is easiest to get such garbage to execute and if possible propagate easily.

From what I have read, all flavors of Windows are easier to get into, including VISTA than a Mac. One reason for this is that Microsoft has not been able to convince ALL developers to only write programs that do not require administrator privileges. If there is even one program that a user wishes to run, which will not do so unless that user runs as an administrator, makes such a computer significantly less secure. I do not know of a single program for the Mac, which requires a user to be administrator in order for that program to run. Until that changes, VISTA will bear the brunt of malware attacks in the future.

Also covered at ComputerWorld

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110207

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9104619

Toshiba does it. Cell is a secondary processor.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top

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You appear to be ignorant of the principle of implied consent

It is not "Stealing" nor "Theft of services" nor "Unauthorized use of a computer" nor "Computer trespass" according to New York Law, for one example.

Perhaps you'd like a scholarly article on why we should not make your assumptions (and get indignant about it, I might add) from George Washington University - Law School

In fact, I had already given you examples of use which are not stealing, and you are choosing to ignore them so you can't redundantly say stealing is stealing. On the off chance that you blacked out, the examples were anonymous FTP and a web server sharing files. P2P is another situation where you could be sharing files by mistake, but it's reasonable to assume that it is not by mistake - and downloaders use more of your computer resources than someone sending data through your router.

It takes all of one minute to turn on security. You do *not* have to be a hacker - what a canard that is. I won't claim that there isn't anyone who wouldn't be able to do it, but society cannot always limit itself to what the least of us can do. There is no victim in this scenario, just someone who has shared their network, so deserve has nothing to do with it. I was merely suggesting that being lazy and ignorant usually means you are to blame when you do something you did not intend.

Enough of your feeble attempts to claim I will take other people's physical property if it's not bolted down. You are obviously having trouble recognizing the difference between a car parked in your garage and a service that you are broadcasting onto my property which advertises itself as non-private and explicitly authorizes me to join the network.

Is it possible that reasonable people can reach this conclusion? Or am I the only asocial moron with a toddler's mentality?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060227-6272.html
http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/02/26/20060226-H2-03.html
http://blogs.computerworld.com/why_its_ok_to_steal_wi_fi
http://zovirl.com/2006/07/27/you-cant-steal-wifi/
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1179938755.shtml

You may not agree, but you should not continue to pretend that all people who hold this view think it's OK to steal. Try to learn that much.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070218&source=rss_news10

"June 26, 2008 (Computerworld) Security researchers are warning users about an unpatched cross-site scripting bug in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) that could be used by hackers to capture keystrokes and steal other information." from http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9103859 I guess that M$ prefer not to fix bugs and vuns in current releases but rather make a new IE version for hotter vulns... I guess by this time next year we'll have Internet Explorer v.932***...

A restriction on using something you bought has nothing in common with making a copy of something and redistributing it against the will of the author.

The people using the hacked firmware are just breaking a restriction on what they own. However, there's a case to be made that the people releasing hacked firmware are making unauthorized derivative works of Sony's firmware. Depending on how they developed their versions, that might even be true. However, reverse engineering and rewriting from scratch for sake of compatibility has been accepted as a valid, non-infringing activity by US courts and even by the DMCA.

Can a EULA you never signed, and for which you never received any consideration for accepting the terms, really preclude you from doing what is otherwise perfectly allowable? I guess we'll see if there's ever a solid court case that falls one way or another. So far, I think companies like Sony and Apple are content to call this phenomenon a nuisance.

Phoenix, AMD, and many other companies have made major businesses out of reverse-engineering products and offering alternative versions. The developers of StarOffice/Open Office, Pidgin, Samba, and Novell's Evolution reverse engineered data formats for other software, and nobodys sued them out of existence. They're not using code from those other products, but are largely (or in some cases completely) compatible with them.

Intel even offers its own version of extensions AMD made to Intel's CPU instruction set. There's probably no stronger support for the legitimacy of reverse engineering for the sake of compatibility than that, and you cna be pretty sure that Intel and AMD are both careful not to steal each other's actual designs and redistribute them. Who's to say these firmware writers are doing anything different without proof of their processes?

1) The summary of the article was so incomplete that no conclusion can be drawn from the summary. Forget about even repeating the experiment. What does "mean distance" actually mean. Does that mean devices were tried at various distances and the average was 30cm? Were the results repeatable? I think the FCC requires 8" clearance from antenna.
2) Its a logical fallacy to state that because so-and-so says its bad, it must be bad.
3) Passive RFID uses open frequencies the same ones your wireless phone uses (or used to use). To say RFID is dangerous is to say wireless phones are dangerous.

And yes, I know hospitals and airplanes make you turn your cell phones (different frequencies) off - but the real risk even there is small.
Computer World

As for those afraid of being spied on. A microwave oven will toast a chip in about 2 seconds. A chip buried in your body won't work at all (you are after all "ugly bags of mostly salt water" wikipedia

As for Schneier's comments. Passive RFID is not by itself secure. It was never intended to be. There is not enough computational horsepower to do any real encryption. The tags must get their power over the air - beamed to them...
However, RFID is still subject to laws of physics. You can easily prevent someone, even with an over-powered RFID reader from reading your passport - or even knowing your passport has an RFID chip in it. A thin piece of aluminum foil would do it.

The real tough part is that with RFID + facial recognition there is no need for the customs official anymore. Who is going to tell them they are out of a job. Their lives would be reduced to random spot checks. I could just walk straight in to the country. Once inside, cover the passport in foil and back to anonymous.

First I will add a plug for https://www.bloglines.com/ â" RSS feeds where ever I can log in, via HTTPS. Great for those feeds I read whenever & everywhere; and for those I only check when waiting to board the airplane. In my bloglines collection I have around 400 feeds, which will grow after looking through these threads. :) Some selections that hopefully no one else has mentioned:

Amusement:
http://failblog.wordpress.com/feed/
All about the Fail

http://lolbots.com/?feed=rss2
Robots making the LOLz, though not updated often.

http://lolgeeks.com/?feed=rss2
Geeks making the LOLz, though not updated often.

The latest limerick database entries - http://peeron.com/tickers/limerickdb.xml

The Triumph of Bullshit - http://bullshit.tumblr.com/rss

Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ds-unifeed.xml

PHD Comics - http://www.phdcomics.com/gradfeed.php
Ever spent time in academia? You will relate to this web comic.

Unshelved - http://www.unshelved.com/rss.aspx
A web comic about a library. Ssssshhhuusshh!

Indexed - http://indexed.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Take two (or more) topics and compare them using graphs & charts â" full of insight & lolz.

Computerworld Shark Tank News - http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Shark/Tank
Many stories, full of humor and face palm

Overheard in the Office - http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/atom.xml
Instead of what was overheard in New York, now worldwide and from your office.

Common geek topics (those blogs that seem to hit all the topics days or weeks before you see them on Slashdot):
Didnt You Hear... http://www.didntyouhear.com/feed/

The Daily WTF - http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx

Global Nerdy - http://globalnerdy.com/feed/

Shopping:
http://content.dealnews.com/dealnews/rss/todays-edition.xml
Many of those geek toys you need

Newegg.com daily deals: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=DailyDeals&nm_mc=OTC-RSS
Need I say more?

Slickdeals: http://www.slickdeals.net/rss.php
Need I say more?

Woot! http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx

Dumb political stuff:
Homeland Stupidity: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomelandStupidity
Government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence

Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf

Declan McCullagh's Politech http://www.politechbot.com/info/rss/politech.xml
Also not updated often, but on target when it is.

Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/cryptome.xml
You can get lost here for hours

Music:
House of Blues: http://hob.com/venues/clubvenues/lasvegas/
The RSS feed for the local House of B

My Feeds: Select: All 95 subscriptions, None, Unassigned A to Z Kids Stuff children http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/atoz.xml ABC News: Top Stories news http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/fp_rss20.xml About Computing Center technology http://z.about.com/6/g/pcworld/b/rss2.xml About.com Archaeology Archaeology http://z.about.com/6/g/archaeology/b/rss2.xml All Things Digital technology http://feeds.allthingsd.com/atd-feed/ Archaeology News Archaeology news http://www.topix.net/rss/science/archaeology.xml Ars Technica tech news http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/BAaf ArsTechnica: Security Content Security technology http://feeds.feedburner.com/arstechnica/security BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition U.K. http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition Science/Nature http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml Boing Boing odd http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag Breaking News: CBSNews.com news http://www.cbsnews.com/feeds/rss/main.rss Breitbart.tv varied news topics http://www.breitbart.com/xml/recentvideo.xml ChannelWeb Complete Feed Computer news http://www.crn.com/cwb/globalcontent/cweball/index.xml;jsessionid=L0I1HBDQISHBCQSNDLQSKH0CJUNN2JVN Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories news http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/top.rss CNN.com - Offbeat odd http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_offbeat.rss CNN.com - Politics politics http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_allpolitics.rss CNN.com - U.S. U.S. news http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss Computerworld Breaking News technology http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News Cool Tools technology http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoolTools Courant.com - Connecticut News Ct. news http://feeds.courant.com/Courant/ConnecticutNews Defense Tech U.S. defense news http://www.defensetech.org/index.rdf Discovery News - Technology technology http://dsc.discovery.com/news/subjects/technology/xdb/topstories.xml Drudge Report news http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeedPalooza/lwDu Dvorak Uncensored news http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?feed=rss2 Engadget robots & gadgets http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml Extremetech technology http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/extreme.xml Fark.com news http://www.pluck.com/rss/fark.rss FileForum software http://fileforum.b

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
-

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
-

I've been working on and in PC's for years and have never seen THAT bad a clog. Big dust bunnies are the worst I've seen...

Where the hell did this laptop go? It looks like it sucked up a ferret (look at the page 5 gallery).
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9096720&pageNumber=5

This year the top 500 also tracks how much power is used by each system. Systems under development at Oak Ridge National Lab will reportedly have annual power bills of more than $30 million when they debut in 2012. See ComputerWorld and Data Center Knowledge for more.

Not likely, unless twitter's name is Mike Barton and he works for ComputerWorld. As far as the cut-and-paste, it seems both twitter and CWMike cut-and-psted from the same original story, which, big surprise here, comes from ComputerWorld. Imagine that: two different people could possibly have cut-and-pasted from the same article on a website they both read! Amazing!

CWMike -- aka Mike Barton, who works for ComputerWorld -- has been submitting ComputerWorld articles to Slashdot for years.

Get over yourself and give the twitter sock-puppet conspiracy theories a rest, m'kay?

Not likely, unless twitter's name is Mike Barton and he works for ComputerWorld. As far as the cut-and-paste, it seems both twitter and CWMike cut-and-psted from the same original story, which, big surprise here, comes from ComputerWorld. Imagine that: two different people could possibly have cut-and-pasted from the same article on a website they both read! Amazing!

CWMike -- aka Mike Barton, who works for ComputerWorld -- has been submitting ComputerWorld articles to Slashdot for years.

Get over yourself and give the twitter sock-puppet conspiracy theories a rest, m'kay?

Three of the world's top four OEMs -- Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. -- confirmed last week that they will sell XP-equipped machines up to and including June 30.

Only Dell Inc., ranked second in sales last quarter by Gartner Inc. and IDC, plans to put an end to XP PC sales earlier than that; Dell's deadline is June 18, this Wednesday.

Before the only computer that could do this at even medium graphics was Link