by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the no-learning-for-you dept. The Bandwidth Divide is a form of what economists call the Red Queen effect referring to a scene in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass when Alice races the Red Queen. As the Red Queen tells Alice: ‘It takes all the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Once you’ve gone through a few computers, you probably have more than a few old hard drives lying around. You don’t have to let them go to waste, though! Here’s how to combine multiple hard drives into one, huge volume that’ll hold just about...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA
Cloud storage is everywhere, but if you don’t want to mess around with keeping your data on someone else’s computer, or you simply don’t want to pay for it, DIYer Dominic came up with a solution to use his own computer as a DIY remote storage system...
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...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
from the sacred-cows-make-great-brisket dept. William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, writes that although we have been bombarded with tales of woe about the potentially devastating impacts of cutting 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:...
