User: Mstrgeek

No winners in the router wars

On: Router Wars

Great write up om the router Wars

http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/062104noll e.html

No winners in the router wars

On: Router Wars

Great write up hope you find it educational

http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/062104noll e.html

OpenPGP set to become global standard

On: New Global Directory of OpenPGP Keys

well done wrtie up on this topic

http://www.itweek.co.uk/news/1118258

Report from KDE World Summit, Day 7:

On: Preview of KDE 3.4

This is good Article dealing wih Kide written by Tom Chance

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/30/2 028209

Hope you find it to educational

Browser History: Netscape Then and now and future

On: Netscape Reborn?

This is a great site on the history of Netscape what has beeen for Netscape and what is to come I think it fits in well with what we are talking about

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/netscape .htm

AMAZING COCKROACH FACTS

On: Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches?

This is a cool site talkng about the OCKROACH and why it would be so hard to kill them

http://www.thaibugs.com/Articles/roach.html

It also deals with the use of robots

Food & Drug Packaging, ( smart packing)

On: RFID Labels On Prescription Drug Bottles

this is a good write up done by Christopher Barry hope you enjoy reading it

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UQX/is _11_65/ai_81221653

good write up

On: UK Gov't EU Software Patents Public Meeting

this is good write up talking more about the issue the write up wa done byBy Matthew Broersma, Techworld http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?news id=2175

Heat Problem Back Ground

On: What Makes Apple's Power Mac G5 Processor So Hot

This is q great write-up dealing with the heat problem

http://homepage.mac.com/techedgeezine/2004-0610_ne w-g5.htm

AAC vs WMA vs MP3

On: MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track?

This is a great write up done on this topic hope you enjoy

http://reilly.typepad.com/cameronreilly/2004/09/aa c_vs_wma_vs_m.html

The History of Software Patents

On: NoSoftwarePatents.com Industry Campaign Launches

This is a great site dealing with The History of Software Patents

http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html

It has some great information hope you enjoy it and find it to be a help in supporting the need for software patents

Information Technology Policy

On: Whopping-Big Data Theft At U.C. Berkeley

This is an outline of the University of California, Berkeley's Campus Plan Implementing the UC Requirements for Protection of Computerized Personal Information

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/protected. data.html

Hope you find it to be as educational on this subject as I did

good bacgrund

On: World Intellectual Wealth Organisation Proposed

this us a great psting on the issue of World Intellectual Wealth Organisation

http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-euc/2004- October/000262.html

enjoy

Bacground information

On: Make Your Own Digital Camera ISO Test Target

This is a great site dealing with Digital Camera ISO Test Targets

http://www.gpsinformation.org/jack/photo-test/pi cs/lens-tests.html

hope you are able to find to find the site a help

endangered species: the hobbyist programmer

On: U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species?

This is write up that was done back in March but I think it is worth your time to read has some good points to be made hope you enjoy

http://www.ashladle.org/archives/000320.html P

- Driving the Development of Powerline Broadband

On: FCC Approves BPL Despite Interference Concerns

This is a well done write-up posted on the United Power Line Council (UPLC) website. Hope you enjoy reading it

http://www.uplc.utc.org/

Fact Sheet: The Terrorist Screening Center

On: EPIC Sues FBI Over Terrorist Screening Database

This is a site that has a well-written write up dealing with Terrorist Screening

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=1598

Olympus MP3 Player Gets Down to Business

On: Olympus Preps MP3 Player With Cam & Color Display

This is good write up from PC world dealing with the Olympus MP3 Player

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,53123,00 .asp

Google groups psoting

On: Foundations of Python Network Programming

this a post that was done based on the book hope you find it to be a help the psot was done by John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)

http://groups.google.com/ groups?q=Foundations+of+Python+Network+Programming &hl=en&lr=&selm=mailman.3337.1095202643.5135.pytho n-announce-list%40python.org&rnum=1

Jokes: The Evolution of Social Software

On: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software

Hope you find the jokes to be funny

http://defaria.com/Jokes/TheEvolutionOfSocialSoftw are.php

Zero Emission Power Plants Using Solid Oxide Fuel

On: Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed

This is a well written PDF that was very educational dealing with Zero Emission Power Plants Using Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Oxygen Transport Membranes

http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings /01/vision21/v211-5.PDF

are we the end user secure

On: Google Launches Desktop Search Tool

Even after reading Google's Google Desktop Search Privacy Policy I am still unsure if we are secure. It says

"By default, Google Desktop Search collects a limited amount of non-personal information from your computer and sends it to Google. This includes summary information, such as the number of searches you do and the time it takes for you to see your results, and application reports we'll use to make the program better. You can opt out of sending this information during the installation process or from the application preferences at any time."

The entire text of the Privacy Policy can be found at http://desktop.google.com/privacypolicy.html

this still leaves the question of

What can be done with the information it is able to gather?

what are loops whole's in the O'Reilly Network?

Criminal Intellectual Property Laws

On: U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft

I have found a great Link to some great information dealing with Intellectual Property Laws

http://www.cybercrime.gov/iplaws.htm

This site brings up some good points hope you find it as informative as I did

Another way to look at it

On: Crackdown On Internet 'Hate' in Canada

There several ways people could look at the idea of hate speech on the internet I have located a write up done by Brooke Stewart that makes some very good points. Your can read Brooke's write up at

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/lawand/papers/su01/stewart/

What is your take on his ideas? Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did

another point of view

On: Rio Karma User Review

This is another review that was done on the same product back in November

http://gear.ign.com/articles/458/458401p1.html

What do we all think of this review how do they compare?