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Samsung Cleo Photos
11/09/2008, 19:08 | 
Hands down it looks like something for make up. But what it is - the Samsung Cleo. They say women can fit anything into their handbags so Samsung was consistent with this belief and crammed a QWERTY keyboard inside one of these things. Can you believe it, because I can’t!
The device comes with a 1.3MP camera and colored LCD screen. Samsung introduced this phone as part of their sponsorship for Desperately Different Spring/Summer 2009. The Samsung Cleo will be available through Bell in Canada. What, none in Asia?? What gives?!
[photo credit to IntoMobile and Gadgenista]
Tags: Bell, Canada, Cleo, QWERTY, SamsungI'm Protesting Proposition 8 Tomorrow; Please Consider Protesting Too
11/15/2008, 05:30 |Euphoria over Obama's win, followed by disbelief and despair over over Proposition 8's ban on gay marriage passing in California. I'll be out protesting tomorrow at South Coast Plaza in Orange County as part of a nationwide campaign. Please consider going to a location yourself. And if you're against gay marriage, please, some words to consider.
I sat on my patio last weekend listening to my neighbors across the street, in a small party on their roof, discussing Proposition 8. "I don't want them coming to my church to get married," said the most vocal of the bunch. "We don't want to encourage them." And, inevitably as a result of those terrible TV commercials, "We don't want them teaching that in schools."
Ironically, those who voted for Proposition 8 to keep our schools "safe" from the instruction that was never going to happen have now helped guarantee that gay marriage WILL be taught in schools. The struggle won't go away. It's a civil rights movement that will only get stronger, be a part of California history and will be taught to school children from years to come. And years from now, many people will look back on the struggle in the same way they view other civil rights struggles and think, "How could this have been done to a group of people."
Gay marriage is personal to me. "Them" gay people aren't some nebulous group that exists only in San Francisco. They're real people I know, with names like Ken, Jessie, Ted and Greg.
Greg, godfather to my children. One of the best friends you could have. Someone that deserves, if he should want to marry, to have the right to do so.
I simply don't get it. You can fight for your country -- just don't say your gay, and it's OK? And should you die defending your country, sorry -- no folded flag, since you can't have a spouse.
When I heard the news of the loss, one of my first thoughts was that I wanted all the gay people in American to go on strike for a day -- to really illustrate how many there are. Turns out, there's a movement now to make that happen, this Dec. 10, "No Gays For A Day." I hope it happens.
Somewhat related, last weekend, there was a fascinating piece in the Los Angeles Times by Jasmyne Cannick, a Black lesbian, on why she wasn't surprised that Blacks voted so heavily in favor of the proposition. You have to appreciate her honesty, as well as her realism of the challenge:
Even I wasn't inspired to encourage black people to vote against the proposition. Why? Because I don't see why the right to marry should be a priority for me or other black people. Gay marriage? Please. At a time when blacks are still more likely than whites to be pulled over for no reason, more likely to be unemployed than whites, more likely to live at or below the poverty line, I was too busy trying to get black people registered to vote, period; I wasn't about to focus my attention on what couldn't help but feel like a secondary issue.
It's hard. Watching Obama talk about gay marriage as a state issue; watching Biden in the debate with Palin say he was for partnerships but not gay marriage, it was disheartening knowing that was a compromise they had to make, just as Clinton compromised on gays in the military. Obama had challenges enough winning the trust of some in America without having to have support of gay marriage bogging his campaign down, which is almost certainly would have. I understood the compromise. It didn't make the taste less bitter.
So I can understand what Cannick wrote. I can understand, though I can never really feel, the inequalities she describes and has experienced. But if there was a proposition on the ballot that allowed me to deal with those problems? That allowed me to vote for equality? I'd vote for it. I'd hope anyone would vote for it and not think, "No, not until X, Y & Z" are fixed first.
Finally, I'll leave with a video from Keith Olbermann that's been capturing attention, where he speaks succinctly on the issue. Consider that about 1/3 of US states had laws preventing Blacks & Whites from being married as late as 1967 -- and as he notes, Barack Obama's own parents couldn't have been married.
Please consider showing your support at a protest tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then another time, in another way. And please reconsider your position, if you've been against gay marriage. There are real people, with real feelings and desires, who simply want the same rights independent of the fact that they share their love with someone of the same sex.
BlackBerry Curve 8900 Gets Launch Date, $450 Price Tag in Germany
11/12/2008, 19:15 |
We knew it was coming to Germany first, but there's new info that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will hit the streets there mid-November, and at around $450 (360?) price for a contract-free handset. German T-Mobile subscribers can even get it for as low as $6.20 (5?) with the right kind of 2-year contract monthly plans: lets hope that kind of pricing is echoed when it comes to the US (on AT&T or T-Mobile?) at a still-unspecified date. [Electronista]
Google Voice Search: Worthy of the iPhone's Bottom Row
11/18/2008, 23:22 |
The new voice-actived Google Mobile app for iPhone is now available. For those who missed the news stories that -- somewhat prematurely -- predicted its arrival last Friday, it basically lets you say any search term or phrase into your iPhone and get search results within seconds -- even GPS-aware localized responses. So ... is it any good? Wow. That's right, wow. I mean, yeah, it's that good. I've been an iPhone owner since day one, upgraded to the 3G model, and this is the first application that's inspired me to remove one of the four core bottom applications on my home screen. No Surprise Here: PFF Blasts Jammie Thomas Judge For His Mistrial Call
11/19/2008, 02:33 |We've written plenty of times about the so-called "think tank" the Progress & Freedom Foundation. The group, which has called itself a "free market" think tank appears to be anything but free market when it comes to intellectual property issues. For years, it's been a huge supporter of increasingly strengthening gov't granted monopolies, often resorting to highly questionable arguments, such as suggesting that fair use harms innovation and that the DMCA shouldn't be changed because that would be gov't meddling in the free market -- ignoring, of course, that the DMCA itself is actually meddling in the free market. For years, the face of PFF's twisted claims on copyright was Patrick Ross, who then moved on to become a lobbyist for the entertainment industry (basically cementing what he was already doing at PFF with a more direct relationship). We thought it would be difficult to find someone who could twist arguments quite as much as Ross did, but PFF surprised us and went one step further.
It hired Tom Sydnor, who made quite a splash by writing one of the most ridiculous attack dog papers we've seen, taking a bunch of Larry Lessig comments completely out of context to accuse him of being a communist sympathizer. It was pure McCarthyism. The worst was when a variety of others pointed out Sydnor's out of context comments and put them back in context -- and Sydnor still stood by the paper, refusing to admit he took a single comment out of context. The truth was that it was difficult to find a single comment that was accurately portrayed.
Based on this, I tend to be immediately extra skeptical of anything that comes out of PFF (Adam Thierer's work is usually good, but that seems the exception). Sydnor's latest is an attack on the judge in the Jammie Thomas trial for declaring a mistrial in her case for wrongly instructing the jury that simply making a file available should be considered infringement. As the judge realized (correctly, in our opinion, and the opinion of plenty of legal experts) this was a "manifest error of law." For copyright infringement to occur a copy needs to be made. Simply making something available is not making an infringing copy. In typical Sydnor fashion, not only does he claim that the judge was wrong, he makes the judge out to be totally off the reservation in making such a ruling, claiming that the judge "misread or disobeyed precedents, federal treaties, scholarly reviews and the three branches of government."
Sydnor, of course, conveniently ignores pretty much everything on the other side, including precedents, scholarly reviews and the three branches of government (not international treaties for the most part, since the relevant ones have all been written by the legacy industry -- so indeed, they agree with Sydnor's assessment, but that's hardly compelling). The fact is that there have been folks who have weighed in on both sides, and there have been widespread legal rulings on both sides of the "making available" issue, as well as scholarly reviews. In fact, William Patry, a much more widely recognized and respected copyright expert than Sydnor, has written extensively on the issue, and seems to disagree with what Sydnor repeatedly claims is "inarguable."
More importantly, the recent trend has been quite clear: most of the courts recently taking up the issue have realized how little sense it is to accuse someone of copyright infringement when no copy has been shown to have been made. There are some exceptions, certainly, but most of the cases these days seem to be going against Sydnor's interpretation, which hardly makes it "inarguable" or as crazy as the paper makes out. Sydnor's decision to take some comments out of context, and then ignore the weight of the arguments on the other side, in order to paint the judge in this case as some sort of clueless rogue, is, tragically, fitting with PFF's reputation for throwing truth, reason and logic out the window in order to support the entertainment industry's position at all costs.
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It hired Tom Sydnor, who made quite a splash by writing one of the most ridiculous attack dog papers we've seen, taking a bunch of Larry Lessig comments completely out of context to accuse him of being a communist sympathizer. It was pure McCarthyism. The worst was when a variety of others pointed out Sydnor's out of context comments and put them back in context -- and Sydnor still stood by the paper, refusing to admit he took a single comment out of context. The truth was that it was difficult to find a single comment that was accurately portrayed.
Based on this, I tend to be immediately extra skeptical of anything that comes out of PFF (Adam Thierer's work is usually good, but that seems the exception). Sydnor's latest is an attack on the judge in the Jammie Thomas trial for declaring a mistrial in her case for wrongly instructing the jury that simply making a file available should be considered infringement. As the judge realized (correctly, in our opinion, and the opinion of plenty of legal experts) this was a "manifest error of law." For copyright infringement to occur a copy needs to be made. Simply making something available is not making an infringing copy. In typical Sydnor fashion, not only does he claim that the judge was wrong, he makes the judge out to be totally off the reservation in making such a ruling, claiming that the judge "misread or disobeyed precedents, federal treaties, scholarly reviews and the three branches of government."
Sydnor, of course, conveniently ignores pretty much everything on the other side, including precedents, scholarly reviews and the three branches of government (not international treaties for the most part, since the relevant ones have all been written by the legacy industry -- so indeed, they agree with Sydnor's assessment, but that's hardly compelling). The fact is that there have been folks who have weighed in on both sides, and there have been widespread legal rulings on both sides of the "making available" issue, as well as scholarly reviews. In fact, William Patry, a much more widely recognized and respected copyright expert than Sydnor, has written extensively on the issue, and seems to disagree with what Sydnor repeatedly claims is "inarguable."
More importantly, the recent trend has been quite clear: most of the courts recently taking up the issue have realized how little sense it is to accuse someone of copyright infringement when no copy has been shown to have been made. There are some exceptions, certainly, but most of the cases these days seem to be going against Sydnor's interpretation, which hardly makes it "inarguable" or as crazy as the paper makes out. Sydnor's decision to take some comments out of context, and then ignore the weight of the arguments on the other side, in order to paint the judge in this case as some sort of clueless rogue, is, tragically, fitting with PFF's reputation for throwing truth, reason and logic out the window in order to support the entertainment industry's position at all costs.
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Price confusion over Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mercifully ends (maybe)
11/19/2008, 17:11 |
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsHalloween Pumpkins, Barack Obama Style
11/01/2008, 03:32 |
Did something different for Halloween -- Obama pumpkins, since I was never able to get an Obama sign. Want to do your own? Stencil here, more pics below:
Mobile Music A $7.3 Billion Industry By 2011
07/03/2008, 22:46 |Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.
Australia is target number one
02/04/2008, 19:40 |… for Brits to emigrate to. Amazing how many Brits move there.
NVIDIA?s new GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer
11/19/2008, 15:47 |Looks like NVIDIA’s going down the same path as AMD to get more power of its GPU?s, well in fact NVIDEA are going to take it to a whole new level. NVIDEA has just announced its all new GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer.
So what is this all new GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer all about then? Well they say it will give you power of the traditional supercomputer cluster at 1/100th of the price and if that is not enough how about a platform based on the company?s new Tesla C1060 GPU Computing Processor which in itself is based on NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing architecture.
These supercomputers will come with many new host manufacturers that have already partnered with NVIDIA and those include Dell, Lenovo, ASUS and many more. The details are still pretty secret at the moment but we will definitely let you know more soon as we hear more. They will be of similar prices of a conventional PC workstation.
Source ? Press Release via Engadget
Glad you waited? Apple confirms iPhone 3G; 8GB costs US 199
01/01/1970, 01:00 |
Zounds! It seems Apple has picked today to be a big day for iPhone news. Apple has finally announced the release of iPhone 3G, and it looks to be a big upgrade over the previous iterations of the iPhone.
Steve Jobs' keynote speech was inundated with applause from the crowd as he made the announcement. Notes Jobs,
We've learned so much with the first iPhone. We've taken everything we've learned and more and created the iPhone 3G. It's beautiful. This is what it looks like. Black back! Thinner at the edges. Full plastic back, it's really nice.
The keynote is currently ongoing, so expect a fuller update later in the day. For now, here's what you can expect from iPhone 3G:
- Solid metal buttons
- Flush headphone jack
- 3.5 inch display
- Camera
- Improved audio
- Improved battery life
- Faster data downloads via 3G
- Launch in 70 countries
- US 199 price tag for the 8 GB model, US 299 for the 16 GB model
- To be out on July 11
Snes9x GX 007: support for SDHC, Qoob modchip, more
01/01/1970, 01:00 |
Wiibrew developers michniewski and Tantric have released the latest version of Snes9X GX, the SNES emu for the Wii.It's quite an impressive update. The emu now has SDHC support, SWC and SFC file support, and even Qoob modchip support. Here's the full list of changes:
- added: SDHC support
- added: SD/USB hot-swapping
- added: zoom saving
- added: IPS/UPS/PPF patch support
- added: Qoob modchip support (thanks emukidid!)
- added: Added console/remote power button support (Wii only)
- added: Added reset button support - resets game (Wii only)
- changed: Settings file is now named settings.xml and is stored in the same folder as the DOL - eg: apps/vbagx/settings.xml (Wii only)
- fixed: swc, sfc file support
- fixed: inverted sound channels
- fixed: some game crashes
- fixed: snapshot saving for games with SPC7110, BS, DSP, or CX4
- fixed: justifier support
- fixed: superscope turbo button
- fixed: widescreen support
- fixed: ActRaiser 2 issues
- fixed: Invalid memory accesses in C4 and OBC1. MMX3 Toxic Seahorse stage now can be emulated with HDMA. (zones)
- fixed: Updated snapshot to prevent desync. Added some variables related to APU and HDMA. (gocha)
- fixed: zoom issues (thanks eke-eke!)
- fixed: original modes (thanks eke-eke!)
- fixed: vertical scaling for filtered/unfiltered modes (thanks eke-eke!)
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Facebook to Give Apps Seal of Approval - For a Price
11/19/2008, 18:04 |
Facebook plans to start charging for verifying applications built for the social network -- an optional process that has upset some developers despite the company's assurances it will bring plenty of positive benefits. Platform program manager Sandra Liu Huang said Tuesday that Facebook opened the verification process to developers on Monday. The process is meant to increase users' trust of applications that are posted on the site and to help developers wanting to build a serious business get more visibility with users, she said. Google Life: Search millions of historic photos
11/19/2008, 16:31 |What is Google Life? Here is a little information about Google Life, Google has just launched an improved version of its Image Search where you will get availability of never-before-seen images or pictures or photos called LIFE an ?Image Archive of Historic photos?.
It is called ?Google LIFE - Search millions of historic photos?, you can now find pictures dating right back to the 1750s to present day. Many of you are always looking for historic pictures and could never really find them with ease, even within Google Image Search; well now you can with Google Life.
What we like is the fact that most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Here is a search tip for you to get you started - Search tip Add “source:life” to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. For example: computer source:life
Check out Google Life Now.
Marketing Salaries Guide
01/01/1970, 01:00 |Crandall Associates, a company that does executive recruitment for the direct marketing and telesales industries, has released its "2008 National Salary Guide, Direct and Interactive Marketing."
The guide keeps tracks of salaries (high and low ranges, sub-divided by years of experience) nationwide for job titles such as:
Internet Marketing Manager
Market Research Director
Media Planner/Analyst
VP of Marketing
Customer Service Managers and Directors
The full report can be ordered online at www.crandallassociates.com.
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The guide keeps tracks of salaries (high and low ranges, sub-divided by years of experience) nationwide for job titles such as:
Internet Marketing Manager
Market Research Director
Media Planner/Analyst
VP of Marketing
Customer Service Managers and Directors
The full report can be ordered online at www.crandallassociates.com.
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Nokia to Launch First 3G Handset for China
11/18/2008, 13:27 |Nokia plans to launch a mobile phone based on China's home grown 3G technology standard, TD-SCDMA, in tandem with service provider China Mobile .
Linux boots in 3 seconds
11/11/2008, 20:52 |
The Japanese Linux company Lineo has announced a pretty cool technology that is supposed to fire up a Linux machine in less than 3 seconds. The system uses a clever compression technology and a fast flash memory to store the hibernated data.
Linux boots in 2.97 seconds [linuxdevices.com]
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Economic Downturn Impacting Podcasting
11/02/2008, 22:55 |It appears that the building economic troubles are starting to impact the business and content side of podcasting. The most recent sign of this is the cutbacks to we have seen this past week by Revision3. Revision3 has been a great example of a successful independent new media content producer that has rivaled the success of major media podcasters. I have also started to see cracks in some of the success of major media podcasters as well. Many of these major media podcasters are in it for the long-term, but many are still still struggling to build solid revenue around their podcasting content. Many are bullish on the future of downloadable distribution, but are having a hard time selling the platform to advertisers for two primary reasons;
1) No actual playback data from the existing major podcast distribution platforms at Apple, Creative and Microsoft Zune.
2) Content redistribution concerns.
The major media companies are also becoming more concerned about the costs of making and distributing longer form video podcasts as the costs for bandwidth and staff labor are the major concerns. They all like podcasts because it enables the networks to reach their audience when it is easier for them, especially with cable tv shows that air during the day or work time hours.
I do think that comedy shows that air late in the evening like "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Conan O'Brien Show and all the other late night talk shows should become advertiser supported podcasts so those shows would be seen more.
I am also seeing more serialized scripted dramas and comedies come to video podcasting lately. See series like the Casanovas, We need a Girlfriend and shows from the Independent Comedy Network.
Video podcasting is becoming like TIVO without the DVR and may be a sign of an important shift that is happening to broadcast TV. Video Podcasts are becoming the Future of TV.
1) No actual playback data from the existing major podcast distribution platforms at Apple, Creative and Microsoft Zune.
2) Content redistribution concerns.
The major media companies are also becoming more concerned about the costs of making and distributing longer form video podcasts as the costs for bandwidth and staff labor are the major concerns. They all like podcasts because it enables the networks to reach their audience when it is easier for them, especially with cable tv shows that air during the day or work time hours.
I do think that comedy shows that air late in the evening like "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Conan O'Brien Show and all the other late night talk shows should become advertiser supported podcasts so those shows would be seen more.
I am also seeing more serialized scripted dramas and comedies come to video podcasting lately. See series like the Casanovas, We need a Girlfriend and shows from the Independent Comedy Network.
Video podcasting is becoming like TIVO without the DVR and may be a sign of an important shift that is happening to broadcast TV. Video Podcasts are becoming the Future of TV.
Portland Family Gets $20,000 Cell Phone Bill
09/07/2008, 16:31 |A family in Portland got a whopper of a phone bill from AT&T. All told, they owed nearly $20,000.
The Terry family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their 200-page bill in the mail for $19,370.
In July, their son headed north to Vancouver, Canada, and used a laptop with an AirCard to send photos and e-mails back home. The bill showed he used the service 21 times, but because he was out of the country, the activity added up to thousands of dollars in charges.
The AirCard allows users to connect to e-mail, the Internet and business applications while traveling, according to AT&T’s Web site. On the Terry family’s bill, they were charged international fees for the service.
The family says they don’t want to pay the bill because an AT&T rep told them they wouldn’t be charged for the calls.
Samsung Gravity hits T-Mo today
11/17/2008, 20:11 |
T-Mobile said the Samsung Gravity would show up on Nov. 17th and, sure enough, it has arrived.
While the Gravity might not have the same pull as some of the bigger, less wallet-friendly QWERTY handsets on the market, at $49.99 (on a 2-year contract) it’s a decent pick for anyone looking to wear down their thumbs without wearing down their savings. It’s available beginning today in Aqua/White or Lime/Gray at the nearest T-Mo spot.
While the main draw would probably be the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Samsung has also packed in a 1.3-megapixel shooter (with video capture and 4x zoom, though we’re guessing that’s not optical zoom), IM support for AOL/ICQ/Windows Live/Yahoo, T-Mobile myFaves, stereo bluetooth (A2DP), and quad-band radio. For 50 bucks, that’s actually pretty impressive.
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Price Controversy Explained
11/19/2008, 13:20 |There?s been some controversy regarding the unbelievably low price of Nokia?s first full touchscreen phone, the Nokia 5800 XPressMusic. We reported a while back that it?s debuting in Russia and Spain with a significantly higher price tag than what was previously announced, but it turns out that this price includes some added perks.
Original reports pegged the 5800 XpressMusic phone for ?429 or roughly $550 in Spain. However, we?ve now learned that this price includes a 100 Euro voucher for music downloads and a 3 month subscription to Nokia Maps Voice Navigation service. It?s still a ?279 phone, but in fairness, that price does include some additional services and goodies. It?s a nice bundle although I would have preferred to have been given the option of just getting the phone as opposed to strictly limiting my purchase powers to the bundled package.
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Philips Xenium 9@9r Clamshell Cell Phone
04/28/2007, 15:53 | Philips again was present enlivening the cellular phone market with launching the new clamshell cell phone, the Xenium 9@9r. The flip cellular phone have elegant nuances this indeed did not serve some features just that was special but the existence of available features also did not disappoint and lose to the other cellular phone. For [...]
LG Display Q2 seen surging but LCD outlook dimmer
07/04/2008, 21:00 |SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean flat screen maker LG Display Co and two smaller Taiwanese rivals are set to post profits for the second quarter that more than trebled thanks to strong demand for TVs and tight supplies of PC panels. 
Is Podcasting on the "Net Sidelines"?
04/06/2008, 22:16 |Slashdot has a post drawing the conclusion that podcasting is now on the "Net Sidelines". I must say that from everything I am seeing here on the Zune team; working on podcast content and its distribution; it is alive and doing very well.
Sure podcasting may have declined in the hype of it and the techno-elite have moved on to Twittering areas now, but podcasts or downloadable portable media is still growing and doing very well. I do believe though that the technology of podcasting will eventually disappear from user view as better user interfaces make it easier to find and connect with this media on many always connected data platforms.
I am also hoping that this xml based revolution will transform and bring efficiency to the music, television and film industries around digital download distribution.
Sure podcasting may have declined in the hype of it and the techno-elite have moved on to Twittering areas now, but podcasts or downloadable portable media is still growing and doing very well. I do believe though that the technology of podcasting will eventually disappear from user view as better user interfaces make it easier to find and connect with this media on many always connected data platforms.
I am also hoping that this xml based revolution will transform and bring efficiency to the music, television and film industries around digital download distribution.
Reader iSync Plugin for Motorola ic402, Need help for ic502
01/01/1970, 01:00 |A while back, I posted a call for help on the Motorola ic502. James sent me an email, letting me know that he's taken it upon himself to hack together an iSync plugin for the unsupported Motorola ic402 iDEN/CDMA, and may be able to get things to work for the ic502, with your help...
Kodak EasyShare C875 Digital Camera
01/01/1970, 01:00 |
Every Thursday night is Bingo Night at my local dive bar. The prize for hitting five in a row? Free drink tickets. And a good round can mean endless photo ops for me and my crew. As excited as I was to start capturing the, uh, memories, I was a little disappointed by this camera's bulk. At just over 6 ounces and 1.4 inches thick, there's no squeezing it into a back pocket. But 8-megapixel resolution, combined with a sharp 5X optical zoom, guaranteed that every celebratory shot of Jameson was captured. Reliving the hilarity the morning (or afternoon) after was a snap. I just hooked the cam to my computer via the included USB cable and transferred the images with the push of a button. Next Thursday, I'll probably opt to leave this beefy cam at home, but I'll cherish those intoxicating images forever.
[RATING: 7/10] [RETAIL: $200] [ kodak.com ]
MySpace suicide court case begins
01/01/1970, 01:00 |
This story has all the makings of a tragic soap: a vulnerable love sick teenager, a sick vengeful adult and death. Unfortunately this story is not confined to the pages of a book, but is a reality that took place in October 2006 and resulted in Megan Meier, aged 13 at the time, taking her own life. But why did she do it? What had happened before? Who caused it? And what does this have to do with technology?
It all started when Megan fell out with the daughter of her neighbor Ms Drew in St Louis, prompting Ms Drew to take it upon herself to spite Megan. She did this by creating a fictitious 16 year old boy, Josh Evans, who lived in the local area which she did by creating a fake MySpace account. This was then used to contact the unassuming Megan, and create a friendship, although the implication is that Megan believed it to be more serious than that.
But why would she do this? The idea was to get back at Megan by then breaking up the virtual relationship, which of course would cause harm to Megan—the aim of the whole scheme. However the comments were incredibly harsh, including one that said the world would be better of without her and a distraught Megan took her own life. Now, Ms. Drew is on trial under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, something only previously used against computer hackers but the only law in Missouri that the prosecutors could take her to court for.
Although she is not being directly charged with the death of Megan (the judge had considered this, but later dismissed the idea of excluding suicide evidence) she could still end up with a 5 year prison sentence. However this will end up being a very gray area, as Dean Steward the defense lawyer believes “The jury is going to end up thinking that Lori Drew is being tried for the death of Megan Meier. . .“ Nevertheless, there is still a chance that the jury will take this into account regardless, which although is not ideal, it could result in a full 5 year sentence.
So what can we learn? Firstly that there are bad people out there, and that we are in danger of becoming immune to this threat because of the amount that it is publicized. Perhaps the teens of today don’t care what adults say and will go out of their way do to the opposite, but we must remember that they are still vulnerable and that social networking can be dangerous. So if you are considering getting back at an ex, a hated enemy or an irritating boss, remember that it is not hard to track this kind of thing.
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