At this point we all have come across Pirated material since it is so easy to find, however, no one seems to realize what copyright really means.  Some will see it like driving in a stolen car. You might get out of the car before the police catch the criminal or you might be thrown in jail.  We are on that thin gray line that the law of copyrighted material hangs, like the metal thread holding a painting.

So after you get out of the car, the first thing you do is tell all your friends and write about it in a column for a national media company.  This way your telling the world, how you broke the law and how easy this can be done.  While there currently is a gray line for copyright material, I think that this journalist is currently removing frames from his office that use to hang on a metal thread and placing them in box.  You can bend the law, but maybe you shouldn’t write about it to the world.

After all Microsoft is still a global enterprise, despite a huge disaster of Windows Vista.  Hmmm.  The United States is still a world leader despite the huge disaster of the Iraqi war.  That is only the beginning of the similarities. This country has had its share of poor leadership and buggy software as it glides through a stormy economy and a changing world.  If you look at popularity in the world market, both Microsoft and the United States have been declining in popularity.  Now that the president-elect is making the world take a new look at the USA, is Bill Gates trying to do the same for his founding company?

Bill Gates will never be the president of the United States, but he might hold a political position in the government.  This new face of Mr. Gates will help Microsoft, since he will always be the mascot of his founding company. While he helps the world through his foundation, people will respect that and not mind a blue screen or loosing all there documents to a new virus.  The cost of the software will increase and corporations and individuals will purchase the overpriced bugy software knowing that they are helping humanity.

However, few of us will hold tightly to our Unix based computers systems as we watch the average consumer file for bankruptcy. They will wonder why it costs over $400 to fix there system at Best Buy and other retailers but will be quickly reminded that there continue support of the Microsoft empire has allowed the Gates Foundation to help the world and make Bill Gates a political adviser.

All over CNN today is Obama’s campaign saying that McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the time.  What they leave out is from the same data Obama voted for bush 40% of the time.  On top of that he has voted for Democrat party vote 100% of the time, while McCain in the past had crossed party lines and has voted on Democrat party issues as well.  It seems that Obama is taking numbers that don’t mean anything since Republicans seem to vote on Republican policies while Democrats vote on Democrat Policies. If you look at who has crossed the party lines more then that is McCain.   What really gets me is that CNN, which I’ve always read, seems to be supporting Obama 100%; Even to the extreme of having an article about Obama’s view on McCain that sports a pro Obama Advertisement. The article in question is titled “McCain is just part of Washington crowd, Democrats say” and spots an advertisement from Obama’s supporters on the page. (The screenshot of the site is posted above.)  I haven’t seen one McCain advertisement over the entire site and to me this is a sure sign that the Obama campaign is buying its news material.

What is wrong with that?  Here I write things about what is Technically Foreign, those little things that don’t make sense for the majority but for a few it might be perfectly sane. What doesn’t make sense to me is why is the Obama campaign keep on repeating McCain’s voting record and not explaining how Obama is going to be able to do what he says while he voted 100% of the time with his Democrat party?  In all politics are messy and numbers and percents never add up.  Why can’t both sides drop the blaming game and explain to us why they will be the leader that we need during these hard times.

Source for records of percentages: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_it_true_john_McCain_voted_with.html

Picture is a screen shot of CNN page that shows the Ad purchased with the Pro Obama article.

Next time your Internet Service Provider (ISP) stops by to fix your computer connection be very careful what you say to him.  Apparently a new policy from ISP’s is: if we can’t fix the problem we will have you arrested.  A Nova Scotian playwright was arrested for threatening an ISP Technician, telling him that she would keep him hostage until her Internet was up and working.  If the technician felt like a hostage then aren’t we hostages to the Internet Service Provider?  When we are cut off from the Internet that is the equivalent of being placed in a cold white cell and feed bread and water.  Now this story is from our wacky northern friends,  referred by some as Maple Lovers or for the rest of the world just Canadians. But I’m sure the Internet Service Provider’s will love to use this Police State policy to arrest anyone who complains about there Service. Next time your talking to the Customer Care Representative over your Cable, Internet or Phone issues just remember to be nice because if they don’t like your attitude they can send you to Jail!

VIA: CTV.CA

As the Van Halen song says.. “Big Bad Billy is Sweet William now!” Most Internet and monkey wrenched technically non-foreign people have heard that this is the last day on the job for Bill Gates.  Yeah you know him as the richest man in the world, the super-man of Microsoft, the geek-with-the-mostest or just the founder of Microsoft.  In tribute to the last day there are three questions that I will never get to ask Billy, three questions that have been ripping me apart for the past 25 years (Yes I’ve been following the guy since i was 6!).

Question 1:  Why do you still wear those dorky glasses when you can obviously aford laser surgery? (Who do you think you are, Clark Kent?)

Question 2: Do you really use Windows Vista? (yeah we know secretly your still playing World of Warcraft on Windows XP.)

Question 3: Why don’t you make a game show to give your money away?  (‘Who wants Bill Gates Money?’ might not crash as quick as Vista!)

So good-bye Bill Gates and hello Microsoft 2.0, a day without Bill, a day many of us thought would never happened.  We will miss you even though we barely saw you, heard from you or even wonder what you really were doing behind that large oak door in your office. Oh and I wonder if Steve Jobs is having a party today too!

Whatever the future has in store for us, I’m glad that bio-fuel has started to take off but I wonder what this may have in store for my alcoholic preference in the future. Will the switch over to bio-fuel sky rocket the price of my Irish Whiskey or Japanese Sake? Or do I choose to have another shot instead of filling her up!

Sites: Cnet News – Sake May Power Japan Cars

This science fiction meets reality has been picking up a lot of news lately and well it should since we are currently at war with thousands of US soliders dead and thousands of others wounded. First Sci-Fi Tech has a nice blog post about 9 Military Technologies we want – Exoskeleton is number 2 on that list and they point out the recerational uses this could have. On the Scince Fiction tv show Dark Angle the male lead – Logan – was wheel chair bound until he came across some fancy Exoskeleton legs making him able to walk again which leads to another interesting concept of this technology.

However before the medical and recreational use of this technology the military will have the first run. In this article at spiegel.de they talk about Robo-Soldiers and how the Pentagon is developing such a thing. This past October New Scientist posted a similar article on their blog and also reflected the length at which these projects have been worked on which is the reason why exoskeletons are popular in Science Fiction. Science fiction writers tend to use things that are possible but limited with todays technology and knowledge, they ask the “what if” and “why not” questions then answer them.

With the advancement in technology and the how computers and electronics are shrinking in size it is only a matter of time we wear our computers. Wearing a computer may mean an entire exoskeleton suite that maybe called a smart suite as well. The future of this technology is as open as the books, cartoons and movies have showed us. Reading about the development of these suites puts a smile on my face that once again technology is caching up to our imaginations.

Many people will still question if we need internet access in our cars and the answer is still yes. Everything should be connected, the world needs to be connected and this will some day allow us to turn on our lights from our car four miles away. This will also spark on-board computers in our dashboard that will do more then just give us directions. The possibilities are endless but if you have kids in the back seat watching a movie, one day they can be also be online doing their homework. Well, that might of went too far, however, bridging the gap of the Internet in the car will change the meaning of DWI to Driving With Internet and maybe like other technologies the law may catch-up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day