Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, FCC, Republicans charge ahead
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | February 5th at 02:00 AM |
Forgive me if I’m not as engaging as usual tonight. Firefox robbed me of a good 20 minutes of time tonight. Firefox 3, what was supposed to be faster and better than ever, had taken up so much memory it was slowing my whole system, and then it took forever to restart. Of course, now they’re saying Firefox 4 will be better this time. Really. | Read More »
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The Rise of A New Right in Europe
By: Nick Ottens (Diary) | December 11th at 09:30 AM |
From the diaries by Leon. Although in America we would not want to identify with many of the “right” leaning movements identified in this piece, there is no doubt political winds are shifting in Europe. Old school socialists may allege that the credit crunch once and for all proved that free market capitalism and globalization had failed yet across Europe, a new generation of liberal | Read More »
Tech at Night: Google, Daily Kos, Australia, Nuclear Power, Fraud, DRM
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 19th at 02:00 AM |
Previously we covered Chris Bowers working over at Daily Kos on a linking scheme to manipulate Google’s search service. Now we come across a new attack on the company, a plan to manipulate click tracking the firm does to figure out what links are most interesting to its users. Of course, the Daily Kos folk want to smear Republicans using Google. Again, we look to | Read More »
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