Activity for June 17

Review - MediaMonkey
3.1.0.1232 Beta (Apr 7, 2009)

Unless you pay for the gold version your hardware functionality is reduced to 4x writing capability? Nope.
Comment - Top 10 Windows 7 features #1: Action Center
3.1.0.1232 Beta (Jun 17, 2009 - 7:24 AM)

WiFi connectivity is becoming a huge problem with 7. The TechNet forums are filling up with people having problems with old Vista drivers that don't work with 7. Atheros and Broadcom, HP/Compaq, Dell, the two largest WiFi card makers and computer sellers have yet to release a 7 compatible driver for their WiFi cards. The only drivers that are out there are at least a year old now.
Comment - Recording artists claim their music is being boycotted over royalties
3.1.0.1232 Beta (Jun 11, 2009 - 7:39 AM)

Well, I guess this will be the end of free commercial radio in this country. Better grab that wallet and prepare to pay for it, just like you do for over the air television. It's a shame in that since the RIAA put on their Gestapo costumes everyone is going to have to start paying through the nose for everything. It's amazing how greedy EVERYONE has become. It's killing everything and everyone. We're getting closer and closer to a fascist society every day, pitiful.
Comment - New Google Toolbar wants to be your next 'Start' button
3.1.0.1232 Beta (Jun 11, 2009 - 7:24 AM)

What scares me the most about this is how Google plants the toolbar install option with some downloadable programs and if you don't pay attention, like ALOT of people don't, Google is now going to be able to reach their prying eyes into things they shouldn't be able to. With their ability to hide tracking and spyware in the toolbar beyond the means of almost every spyware program, who's to say they won't eventually reach a highly sensitive document within a network, either home or work, that they have absolutely no business being able to reach? I live with a person who was one of the people who helped write the improved FEMA response to a disaster after hurricane Katrina. If that document had been compromised by Google's prying eyes before it was signed into law he could have been fired and the entire project could have imploded. Google has no need to be extending itself onto personal desktops beyond the browser, PERIOD!
Comment - 'Deep packet inspection' could become the target of legislation
3.1.0.1232 Beta (Apr 26, 2009 - 8:43 AM)

When a friend of mine, a federal agent, showed me how much of my internet use was so easily tracked, intercepted and read, it floored me. There is nothing that can not be intercepted and read, no matter what you have in the way of encryption or any other kind of protection software. It can all be cracked, period. So, any belief that what you send electronically to anyone anywhere can't or won't be read by someone else is one of the biggest falasies to ever be perpetuated on the public. There is so little that isn't read by a third party it isn't funny. The more draconian your local law enforcement agency is, like here in Broward county where all it takes is two or three days for the sheriff's department to tap your cell phone calls to make sure you aren't dealing the drugs they don't want on the streets and are dealing the one's they do want, the worse it gets. "Ongoing investigation", is all it takes for a judge to cave in on a search warrant for all things in your life.
Comment - Apple counts 1 billion app store downloads
3.1.0.1232 Beta (Apr 24, 2009 - 7:57 AM)

Well, it looks like apple's at it still. Less functionality at a higher price. Make the sheeple pay through the nose for inadequate hardware, then make them spend even more money just to catch up. Lifestyle choice, my ass. It's more like join the sheeple or get left behind, in which case, I'm never going to make it to the starting line to begin with, where's my donuts?