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. ;)

Media sure does toss these words around a lot. The media says google “pilfered” dataI agree with the stuff on the bottom though. Likely, the server was either misconfigured, or used http based authentication and someone stuck a link on their website with the username and password located in it. They really should have used a robots.txt file.

Venture Brothers Season 2 starts tomorrow…Watch it! Although it may not make sense unless you watched season 1…

Creative Labs has officially lost my sound card business. I know I’ve griped about them before in various contexts but my latest experiences with the two sound cards still in my systems have made me want to completely eliminate them. (I also have an Extigy card that was hooked to my wife’s computer, but it’s no longer in use.)I have an Audigy card in my Linux box and I previously had a Live card in my Windows PC.

A judge says that the PS2 is not a computerHmm. So, a box that runs linux, has a keyboard and a mouse, can support a hard drive, and can display out to a monitor, can run word processors, etc is not a computer.I can see you making this claim for the slimline PS2’s because they don’t support the hard drive and the linux kit, but the PS2 Original form factor is definitely a computer.