The survey of 3000 UK parents, carried out by website TheBabyWebsite.com, happily blamed television for children’s bad dreams: All children suffer from nightmares at some point during childhood. But there is no doubt that viewing unnecessary violence and hostility on television contributes to this. Doctor Who, in particular, was singled out for being ‘too dark […]
I finally got annoyed enough at Snopes.com to find out why I can’t highlight anything on the site. Â I use the site quite often to debunk emailed chain-letters from family and friends… But, I can’t reliably cut & paste from the site. Â All I can do is Select All & Copy… Â Which typically meant alot […]
I just was re-reading Irregular Webcomic again….And they had a fantastic idea that I can’t believe that no spammers have yet considered. Â Sponsorship Spam. Â Yes, Spam that has a sponsor… “We reach tens of millions of verified e-mail addresses, every day!! Take advantage of our huge market penetration and high consumer awareness! Place your message […]
Dan Baigent is senior director of corporate development with Sun Microsystems. He’s also one of the most candid inside observers on the failures that brought Sun to the point that it had to be bailed out by Oracle in a $7.4 billion acquisition, down from Sun’s bubble-era peak of a $200 billion-plus valuation. In a […]
Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC: “At an earnings conference on Wednesday, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable provider will begin using the newer, multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard to provide Internet and data access to homes and businesses this summer, although it will be limited to New York […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to so many large heads. Heads that need nurturing. Heads that needs feeding. Heads that need, just occasionally, to sweat and play and bang. Now, some of MIT’s finest brains will be denied these sources of release. Yes, in a swathing, thoughtless massacre of all that is good […]
Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users – Ars Technica: “Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users Time Warner Cable’s data cap plan might be history (for now), but unpublished data caps live on thanks to the ‘acceptable use policy.’ ISPs that continue to rely on ambiguous metrics for […]
Man, Time Warner Cable — you are some shady players. Hot on the heels of the ISP’s decision to withdraw DOCSIS 3.0 trials from areas that have rejected its tiered billing plan, we’re hearing that TWC’s teamed up with Embarq to persuade the North Carolina state government into banning community-owned broadband services. via Engadget. Â Read […]