by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the robots-suffer-texas’s-shenanigans…-for-now dept. “Organizations like the EFF and ACLU have been raising the alarm over increased government surveillance of U.S. citizens. Legislators haven’t been quick to respond to concerns of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, ENTERTIANMENT
KXCD is one of my favorite comic websites that often relates to the scientific, sarcastic, and even human stupidity. It’s a great website, and it focuses on the social norms. What this KXCD pic made me want to repost to here, is due to the obviousness of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Macs are notoriously hard to upgrade, but it’s possible to eke out a performance boost pretty easily with a few simple upgrades you can do yourself. While you can’t go tossing a high end graphics card into your iMac, you can do a few other things to speed...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the launch-into-orbit,-i-hope dept. “Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl. A source with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, MONEY, TECHNOLOGY
from the because-commuting-sucks dept. Remote working has existed for centuries. And now is the perfect time for its comeback. … Prior to the Industrial Revolution, goods were manufactured by contracting individual craftsmen who worked out of their homes. The...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the watch-out-for-monoliths-this-time dept. Indie Kickstarter-funded short HENRi stars a sci-fi legend in a role very much like HAL-9000 — with a twist. Wired writes: ‘If it sounds a little bit like 2001: The Later Years, then here’s the real twist:...
