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Poll Results: Internet Connection Speed

In this latest poll, I asked people to test their own internet connection speed then vote in the poll based on their result. The speed choices ranged from (what I would consider) blazingly fast, to mediocre, to nearly unusably slow. I would have guessed a bell curve, with most people having mediocre speeds and just a few on the edges of extreme fast/slow. We didn’t get that at all.

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The Red Light Camera Saga In Houston Continues: Court Lets New Parties Enter The Case

We’ve been following the somewhat bizarre legal situation in Houston, involving a legal fight over the red light cameras in that city. The details have been somewhat confusing, but the short summary is that there was a public referendum that voted aga… Continue reading

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Book Review: JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration

I eagerly accepted Packt Publishing’s invitation to review JBoss AS 7: Configuration, Deployment, and Administration because it has been several years since I last used JBoss and I was curious to learn more about JBoss AS 7. I have already written abou… Continue reading

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Twitter Bootstrap 2.0

If your web app doesn’t look or work as well as Bootstrap does out of the box, it’s time to have a pretty serious discussion with your team about why.

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DailyDirt: To The Moon, Alice!

The Earth’s moon seems like a nice place to visit, but there are a surprising number of people who seem to want to go there permanently. Manned spaceflight has seen better days, but is it really time to invest in a moon colony now? The land is pretty c… Continue reading

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How Patents Have Held Back 3D Printing

The purpose of the intellectual property system that we have is to promote the progress. When there is strong evidence that certain elements of it hold back the progress, it seems like something that should be explored. Glyn recently wrote about the … Continue reading

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Why Can’t Europe Just Forget The Ridiculous Idea Of A ‘Right To Be Forgotten’

We’ve talked about what a dumb idea a “right to be forgotten” is in the past, and yet, Europe keeps looking into just such a law. A leaked copy of the EU’s new Data Protect Directive includes a clear “right to be forgotten” initiative:

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Warner Bros. Just Keeps Pushing People To Piracy; New Deal Also Delays Queuing

Sometimes you really have to wonder about some legacy entertainment industry execs and their thought process. Warner Bros. is the most aggressively stupid when it comes to willfully going against what consumers want and pushing them to pirate instead…. Continue reading

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Pro-SOPA Folks Push Fact-Challenged Op-Eds

It seems that, in the wake of the big protests that helped shelve (for now, at least) SOPA and PIPA, the pro-SOPA folks have started pushing people to write op-eds in various publications about how important SOPA/PIPA are — while simultaneously dismis… Continue reading

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Author Jonathan Franzen Thinks That Ebooks Mean The World Will No Longer Work

It’s sometimes entertaining to see people who have lived in a particular world for a long time get totally freaked out by new technologies. Such is the case of famed author Jonathan Franzen who seems absolutely horrified by the concept of ebooks. Why… Continue reading

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