This is a long overdue post about Apple and what exactly they mean for the future of computing freedom. I’ve touched on several of Apple’s dubious stances on computing freedom in the past, but this recent Fast Company article has provided new inspiration (and to be fair, it is not the only such article of [...]
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ESPN reports on a tennis match at Wimbledon that will be remembered for ages. Not necessarily for its players, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, and not necessarily for the eventual winner (the former). No, this match will probably be remembered for its length and final score: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68. No, that [...] I’ve got a backlog of stuff here, so some of these might be a bit short. First up, revisiting video codec patents, which I originally wrote about in February. A recent post on librevideo.org was also written after Ben Schwartz’s post “No, you can’t do that with H.264″ as mine was. From the article: In [...] It’s been a while since I’ve ripped on Microsoft, which I was reminded of after seeing Matt Mullenweg’s recent blog entry about Windows and it’s horrid habit of rebooting to install updates, without specifically being told to do so. This wouldn’t be nearly as bad, if Matt didn’t link to a blog entry he wrote [...] A recent Gizmodo post discusses videos depicting police abuse and what is a dubious at best reaction from law enforcement. Specifically, some states are now making it illegal to record or photograph an on-duty law enforcement officer. From the article: In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a [...] Mashable recently reported on a Google Maps user that was injured while following walking directions from the site, and later sued Google and both the driver of the vehicle that hit her. Lauren Rosenberg used her Blackberry to get this set of directions in Park City, UT which include an 0.6 mile stretch on Deer [...] |
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