Silly Internet
July 1st, 2009Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed | June 29, 2009 | ColbertNation.com.
The above correctly shows the stupidity of people’s internet trust, and the lazyness of todays media which doesn’t do their own research.
The Future
June 16th, 2009The Riversimple car can go 80km/hr 50mph and travels 322km 200mi per re-fuelling, with an efficiency equivalent to 300 miles to the gallon.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hydrogen car to be ‘open source’.
What’s great about this story is that they’re trying to bring a complete solution to get past the usual naysaying about infrastructure, but also that they’re adopting an open and distributed development idea. This means that little companies can get in on the action and help build the infrastructure.
This is exactly how the internet works. Someone in their bedroom can build a server (I did) and get skills and work with the internet. In the same way there is a much lower barrier to entry for this. Maybe not hydrogen fueling in bedrooms, but possibly people making hydrogen available from their house from surplus electricity from their solar panels or wind turbines, solving the whole too much energy being generated problem.
Open-ness is the only way the future can get here sooner..
PC Pro: News: BT wants BBC to pay-up for iPlayer
June 12th, 2009PC Pro: News: BT wants BBC to pay-up for iPlayer.
So. BT at it again. Your stupid adverts go on about how your broadband is a more “complete” broadband because you hand out a nice wireless router. So you’ll have a strong connection to your wireless router, but that’s pretty useless if the actual internet you get is throttled and can’t be used for, you know, the internet.
A super great connection to a box in your living room is crap compared to a great connection to the rest of the world, being able to view whatever you want.
Too Right, Net Neutratily Is Paramount
May 20th, 2009The internet only took off in the UK when people were able to use it as a tool that was simply there, without concerns for costs. Always on, always available, and the same experience for all.
BT held the internet back for years, and they’re still a major pain for anyone wanting something other than cable or mobile broadband, as their lines and exchanges are still involved. If all our ISPs go this way and start partitioning off internet sites and giving them lesser status because they decide, not because I give a site higher value, then the net is going to be set back and we’re going to be in this recession for a lot longer..
Disaster Waiting to Happen
May 18th, 2009BBC NEWS | Education | Database of all children launched.
In the naive view that a massive database with all our children’s details on will help prevent another “Baby P”.
More knee jerk reaction from our government. How long until this information is compromised like the Child Benefit Data or a similar government mistake, and then those it’s aiming to protect actually end up just that little bit more in danger?
Proprietory Pitfalls
May 8th, 2009George Mason University Sued by Thomson Reuters over Zotero | Disruptive Library Technology Jester.
This is an example of some of the problems with closed formats. This article shows that a user who wrote some software which can convert the files from one type of software (endnote) to another format so that the owner of the files (ie. “former” endnote users) can continue to access their data using an alternative.
However the original software says essentially “all your data belong to us”.. Not good. Imagine if you used MS Word, and all your word docs were owned by MS, and you could not use any software other than MS Word to read them.. It’s criminal. Software is owned by the companies who create it, fine, but if I use software to make something, that something is mine and I should be able to do whatever I want with it..
Wearable PC starting to become less geeky
April 14th, 2009BBC NEWS | Technology | SixthSense blurs digital and the real.
Ok. So it’s still quite geeky, but this really starts to look a little like the way wearable PC’s will work. I can see this being built into a coat maybe, a little back-to-the-future 2 style..
Don’t Buy Microsoft.
January 23rd, 2009Now I know that’s quite a blanket statement, so let me clarify. You may hear me harping on about the problems with DRM. People have cottoned on to this fact quite well in recent years, and now people are looking for music without drm (i.e. plain mp3) from amazon, play.com and even itunes. This PC Pro interview with Microsoft head of MSN Music shows how microsoft rip their customers off with lock in making you buy the same stuff repeatedly. Read the questions, see how it totally fails to answer direct questions, and how some of the answers he give range from wrong, totally clueless to possible the need for a restful stay somewhere in a wheel chair in a dressing gown with a blanket over his legs.
Fail Fail Fail
January 21st, 2009Saw this on failblog….. oh dear….
How dumb can you get?
January 16th, 2009Seriously this guys gullability goes for bad to worse. We really need to come up with an internet license which you can’t have if you daft, that should keep people who fill in friends emails to “see something really cool”, and the nigerian spammers at bay..
How can I be pretty clever and have no money, and this guy really really dumb and have £130,000??