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    Jon Hyland

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  1. Review - BlogJet

    1.2 Build 31 Beta (Dec 6, 2004)

    Looks to be a good product, but like someone else said there are free options that do the same (or more) than BlogJet.

  2. Review - Sonique 2

    Alpha (10/31/03) (Nov 1, 2003)

    This thing has been an "Alpha" for well over two years now. I've installed a few releases, and there's nothing that Sonique does that foobar2000, Winamp, or WMP cannot. Don't waste your time on this one.

  3. Comment - Caption Contest: Win Vista and Office!

    Alpha (10/31/03) (Jan 31, 2007 - 11:11 AM)

    Bill Gates: "What about those Mac guys, huh? They've got tigers, panthers, and leopards; we've got a vista. Those animals may walk on a vista. Just sayin'!"
    Steve Ballmer: "Windows Vista just hands down soars over the competition. Like me."

  4. Comment - Wired Publishes AT&T NSA Documents

    Alpha (10/31/03) (May 23, 2006 - 12:05 AM)

    The basic problem here is a slippery-slope argument. What we (and by we I mean people opposed to the collection of numbers) are afraid of is the government mis-using the information they allocate. No, I don't regularly chat with Al-Queda members... but today's reason for this data mining is terrorism. One author in this forum indentified 9/11 as a "probable cause" for the NSA to conduct this data collection. Not really. 9/11 was a tragic event - but it's time for America to move on. We cannot continue to blame terrorism, and use terrorism as an excuse to encroach upon civil liberties.

    What about tomorrow? How about when the issue isn't terrorism, but something else? I think a fair number of us have seen V for Vendetta; a classic example of what happens when the government starts controlling its people. And that's what of myself and others are afraid: President Bush and his supporters using 9/11 and terrorism as an excuse to gather personal information to later exploit people, whether in the name of terrorism or not.

    The solution here isn't to collect tons of IP addresses and phone numbers, and then spend hundreds of thousands of man hours sifting through calls and websites. In fact, I'm not sure what the solution is - or even if there is one. A bit off-topic, but I think this whole terrorism thing is over factors (religion, personal egos and agendas, history, etc) we as individuals, and perhaps individual nations, cannot control.

    Whatever the solution may be, I don't agree with my phone records being provided with the government. When it comes right down to it, I don't like the idea that I have to watch what I say or do every minute of the day.

  5. Comment - Samsung Debuts iPod Nano Competitor

    Alpha (10/31/03) (Jan 3, 2006 - 7:26 PM)

    http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/

    Pretty good iPod manager. It lets you add/delete songs, manage playlists; pretty much everything iTunes does.

  6. Comment - U.S. Army Threatens Game Cheaters

    Alpha (10/31/03) (Jan 13, 2005 - 2:07 PM)

    I agree. Every government employee I know (state, federal, etc.) consistently says how he/she does no work and basically sits on his/her butt doing mostly nothing constructive.

    I think this adequately displays this point. I think Mr. DeLuca has forgotten that the world has bigger problems than a couple crackers exploiting game bugs.

    And seeing as how the Army has as of yet to find Osama bin Laden, something tells me that these crackers have plenty of time to evade capture.

  7. Comment - EU Study: Cell Phones Damage DNA

    Alpha (10/31/03) (Dec 21, 2004 - 5:39 PM)

    I have a bit of skepticism here. The article doesn't mention the duration of cell exposure to the radio waves, the magnitude/power of the waves, nor the degree of mutation in the cells/DNA. If I recall correctly, radio waves are on the same relative frequency as TV waves, etc, so would it follow that waves emitted from those devices damage cells as well?

    There's a lot of unanswered questions, but this all sounds like a lot of silly media hooplah to me. And bourgeoisdude, the mutation of DNA may not be a human health risk because minor mutations (I think) won't do much to a human's systems. But I'm not a Bio Major, so I can't confirm that.