To resucitate a tired meme, Verisign has decided it’s going to keep all expiring domain names for private re-sale and that it owns, in perpetuity, the .com domain.  No more of that nasty re-licensing for them, no-sir!
Basically, we’re getting screwed by the US Defense department on this one.  ICANN doesn’t even hold any sway over […]

I thought I’d give these guys a plug because, hey, it’s cooking.  For engineers!  While that in and of itself isn’t overly exciting (I mean. C’mon. Re-divisioning the directions will not aid you in cooking.  If you suck, you suck.) the actual recipes and content look pretty kick ass.
The biscotti look especially tempting.  Love that […]

Okay, so I’m browsing through articles over on Digg and I run across yet another “technician” wining about not being able to configure a router to do something.  While that’s great, this is the third such article I’ve read wanging about how horrible “consumer grade” networking hardware is by someone that I suspect simply over-rates […]

It appears that NASA is silencing there people from speaking at will.  Not in an effort to stiffle the information they wish to disseminate, no!  In an effort to “coordinate the orderly flow of information”.  Riiiggghtt…
What we have here is an attempt to keep everyone on “one page”, that page being “whatever we tell you […]

Massachussets is leading the nation in government shakedowns on non-conformity.  Peter Quinn, former CIO of the state of Mass. decided that OpenDocument made the most sense for state users as a standard document format.  After all, it’s a well defined standard with many available editing programs to choose from, all well supported.
The fine state government […]

It seems that if your upstream providers isn’t willing to defend your position in court, they’ll just summarily yank your website over in Britain.  This kind of thing where an ISP is slammed with a few questionable legal notices and can’t defend itself probably happens more often than we think.
So, if you’ve got some hosting […]

For those of you who don’t follow the gaming “scene” (which includes me, more on that later) 1up interviewed Peter Moore who heads up the XBox 360 effort over at Microsoft. What transpired was a pretty hard nosed interview which finally shows the XBox as something other than the one and only console of the […]

This guy has hacked together a direct-from-phone wireless access point.  No need to go and plug the phone into the computer.. everyone can share a single connection over it.
Even if it isn’t all that technically useful, I think he deserves some sort of NEGeek award for truely geeky inventivness.
The Mobile Wi-fi Access Point: Do-it-yourself cheap, […]

In a recent Information Week article HP India was shown working on printers that don’t require a computer.  You can print things encoded in a TV broadcast.
Aren’t we supposed to be moving away from printing everything?  That’s what displays are for, after all.
I’m assuming this addresses the situation where India doesn’t feel the population is […]

From the “Facts, What Facts?  We don’t need no FACTS!” department, the AP wire has painted gaming forum members that attempted to save the life of a man committing suicide as evil, spiteful monsters that aided his demise.
There’s not really any excuse for that one.
US man kills himself live on gamers’ forum | The Register