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RFID Not so Good for Implants

September 11th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Who would have thought it? Injecting RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips underneath the skin of various animals has shown to cause cancer. NO WAY go out of here. Why would a transmitting device do that? Report out of Arstechnica.
Apparently, these are the same devices that are going to be approved for [...]

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Tags: RFID · life

The Sweet Sound of Change

August 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Nothing endures but change.
-Heraclitus
I find myself in my final year of College, at last. This marks yet another year of changing faces, places, and alike. The common thread among all my education has been change. College is about adapting, learning, and changing.
I begun my college career in 2001. Yes I have [...]

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Tags: life · website

Why I use Adblock Plus

August 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Adblock Plus is a great extension for the wonderful and growingly popular browser Firefox. If you don’t have Firefox plus get it and use it! If you don’t like ADs on the pages you view, you have a choice, you can control how you want to experience the Internet. This is much [...]

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Tags: life · rights · technology · website

AT&T in Bush’s Pocket

August 15th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Oh it is all becoming clear.

Recently, AT&T admitted to editing Webcast’s of Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza. What is truly amazing about this story is that “the mistakes of our webcast provider” let the F-bomb drop 20 times, yet they censored negative comments about Bush. Also, in a press release AT&T said this wasn’t [...]

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Tags: life · politics · rights · technology

The DRM Dream is Over

August 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Digital Rights Management, oh yes it was a great scheme, a scheme to rule all schemes, unfortunately everybody hated it.

Well I think some people loved it, wanted to love it, trying to still use it; like big corporations that don’t understand technology. But DRM will come crashing down. You know it’s over when [...]

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Tags: DRM · google · life · technology