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When Flexstyle.com and Plastideco.com decided to transfer their domains to a small independent provider from Canadian behemoth Bell they didn’t realize the can of worms they were opening. A registrar maintains the records of a domain and the domain name server (DNS) information which tells every computer on the Internet on which computer the domain can be found. The process is automated for most Internet service providers because domains come into existence and change servers fairly regularly. It is rare for a DNS entry to go unupdated for more than a few hours in the real world. Network ... MoreBoneheaded Patent Office
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rose to new heights of idocylast week (January 22, 2008) issuing a patent for "a mobile entertainment and communication device" that is "cellular or satellite telephone" which has memory card sockets and can play music. The patent also includes that the device has a camera and microphone for "recording images and sound". That sounds like about half the telephones on the market at the moment. Not surprisingly the company awarded the patent made some interesting use of the patent almost immediately. The patent troll known as Minerva Industries (www.gigatec.com) filed suits against 33 cell ... MoreGoogle Is The Standard - So Much For Standards
Launched in October 2004 as Comedy-Gags-Jokes.com - TheSeriousComedySite.com changed its name in December of 2005. In the brief time that they have been doing comedy reviews they have grown from an incidental collection of reviews to the largest collection of comedy only reviews on the Internet. On average a new review is posted to the site on a daily basis. This is in addition to reviews on two sister sites that review other genres of entertainment (themysterysite.com and thereviewspage.com). It is perhaps not surprising that in this day and age of automated everything the arbiter of what constitutes quality information ... MoreCopyright Tax Rejected By Canadian Court
Declaring war on the consumer is the main preoccupation of the music and copyright industry these days. The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal dealt a blow to the Canadian Copyright Board by rejecting taxes proposed of two dollars on one gigabyte memory cards, five dollars on all digital audio players of one gigabyte or less and seventy five dollars on all mp3 players with more than a thirty gigabyte capacity. The Appeals court ruled that "The Copyright Board erred in law when it concluded that it has the legal authority to certify the tariff that CPCC (Canadian Private Copying Collective) ... More
Toshiba Launches Ultrafast Charge Battery
Computer industry giant Toshiba has launched a breakthrough in battery technology that might change the way the world does everything. The ultrafast charging SCiB technology batteries are targeted at the manufacturing industry where the 5 minutes to full charge time could save industry money. The estimated life span of the battery is ten years under constant charge and depletion. Toshiba plans to target the automotive sector which is increasingly under pressure to find clean alternatives to the use of hydrocarbons (gasoline and oil). The plans for hybrid automotives are still in the future as Toshiba advances the technology. Currently the ... MoreDreamLinux - Part One The Install
Debian based DreamLinux 2.2 has generally been a good experience so far. Running on a AMD 64 Athlon 3000 with 1 gigabyte of RAM, 1 CDRW, ... More