Google says it will bring an anti-trust lawsuit if the ISPs overstep their boundaries. (Link dead)Hey, that’s actually a good thing. We do need a counterbalance to keep the ISPs from blocking content or degrading its performance until it is unusable. The internet should remain roughly the same as it was before or even better with regards to best-effort traffic. If its degraded then the ISPs aren’t doing their job as ISPs and they deserve to lose their customers and be called on it.

My resurgence of interest in the PSone triggered by news of the official PSP emulator for the system has resulted in my looking for games that I still want to play for the system. Here’s a list of the ones I haven’t yet purchased but could potentially want to buy.Chances are I wouldn’t even be able to finish the ones listed in my Definitely column, but it still shows there’s a good bit of entertainment left in even a 12 year old platform.

There’s been a great deal of crying and screaming about PS3’s rather steep price. To me, though, it makes perfect business sense given the trends over the last several console cycles. It’s a very supply and demand thing to do. With the PS2 and Xbox360 both, people bought them and then resold them for $800+ on Ebay. The supply was very tight, so only those who predicted the release in advance and reserved their system as much as 6 months ahead of time actually were able to purchase one at the list price.

I admit, I haven’t really even taken much of a look at the PSP for quite awhile. The rather high price and the idea of a portable game system with a disc format kind of made it less than attractive to me. This may change soon though.Sony to release downloadable PSone games for PSPDepending on the implementation, this could be just the push I needed to go out and buy one.

I suppose a nearly silent post is in order for this. (Dead link about Baen) (As opposed to a moment of silence which would be hard to do when posting a link.)

The US really needs to figure out a way to assign more spectrum for general public use. There really is a lot of spectrum out there and most of it seems to have been gobbled up by various groups with only tiny scraps left for the public in the form of ISM and UNII bandwidth. A full map showing exactly how tiny the ISM bandwidth is can be found here.Below the various bands are little text saying “ISM blah +/- blah” showing what us in the public have to work with.

I saw this today on a forbes website. It was in one of their screwy slide shows so I won’t link to it.VVT Finnish Walking Bio-Identification PhoneCell phones and laptops are easy marks for thieves, but a group of scientists at the VVT Technical Research Center in Finland has come up with a way to sour the spoils of such high-tech villainy. The VVT scientists would equip mobile phones and notebook computers with sensors and software capable of analyzing and saving their owners’ walking patterns.

With all the controversies around EA and all of the talk of standard business practices in the video game industry, you wouldn’t expect to see any video game company on a list of best places to work. One of them, however, actually made it. Not only did they make it to the list once, but they’ve made it to the list 5 times in a row.Insomniac makes the list of best employers.

Intel has decided to sell its xscale division (Link dead) which produces most of the chips for various PDA and Cell Phone devices and other media players. Xscale has always been somewhat of red-haired stepchild to intel. It’s an ARM chip, so they don’t own the arch. Thus, the Xscale tended to get the short end of the stick on many things. Now it’s being offloaded so Intel can focus on their new x86 CORE arch (which is just the same old Pentium Pro arch stepped up a bit.

Disney enforces it’s trademarks A little too tightly. (Link dead) I bet they’re just mad because they lost another potential customer when the baby died. At least they changed their minds, showing that they’re not entirely mean spirited trolls. ;)