Archive for May, 2004

Yahoo Anti-SPAM Proposal

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

Yahoo! Media Relations - Press Release

bq. When an email message is received from a particular domain, the receiving system verifies the signature with the sender’s public key that is published in the public Domain Name System (”DNS”). If the public key cannot verify the signature, the identity of the sender is not validated and the [...]

iChat TV

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Simon Thornton: A Mutual Misunderstanding

bq. The recent versions of iChat have, of course, brought with them the capability to use a video source (for most people, that would mean an iSight, or a USB webcam using a hack to get it to work in iChat - see my old post about that, or even perhaps [...]

Apple OS Updates Slowing

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Apple to slow pace of Mac OS X tweaks | CNET News.com

bq. However, during a talk at the SIIA Enterprise Software Summit 2004 here, Apple Chief Software Technology Officer Avie Tevanian said, “We’re slowing that (pace) down a little bit…because that’s not a sustainable rate. But you’ll still see us go really fast.” Tevanian had [...]

Search Ads Violate Trademark?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Geico sues Google, Overture over trademarks | CNET News.com

bq. Geico, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company owned by Warren Buffett, filed suit against Google and Yahoo-owned Overture on May 4, in federal court in Alexandria, Va. The insurer charged the two companies with infringing on its trademarks when they sold them as keywords [...]

Gas Prices

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

What the options are for lowering oil prices | csmonitor.com

bq. Some US senators want to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to lower the price of crude oil. OPEC is talking about increasing production. A consumer group wants the Bush administration to open up an investigation into the competitive practices of the oil [...]

Flying Car Demoed at Show

Saturday, May 15th, 2004

Flying Car more economical than SUV | The Register

bq. It’s just a prototype, but judging by the queues of eager children - of all ages - that clustered around his M400 SkyCar, he has the hit of the show. Moller has spent $200 million and many years of his life on this [...]

MT 3.0 Quickpost-Opera Bug

Saturday, May 15th, 2004

The quickpost bookmarklet produced by Movabletype 3.0D inserts %20 in the place of spaces into the bookmarklet code. This causes Opera 7.5 to choke on the javascript. To fix the quickpost, just replace any occurances of %20 with a space.

MPAA and Customers

Friday, May 14th, 2004

Consumers’ digital rights debated

This tape was purchased in Chinatown in Washington, D.C.,” he said, reading from its cover. He told the subcommittee that tools by 321 Studios LLC produced the tape, and he pointed to a warning label indicating that reproduction for commercial use is prohibited — drilling home his point that labels and good [...]

EPA Inflates Hybrid MPG

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

Wired News: Hybrid Mileage Comes Up Short

bq. after a few months of commuting to his job in Cincinnati, Blackshaw’s hybrid euphoria vanished as his car’s odometer revealed that the gas mileage he was hoping for was only a pipe dream. Honda’s Civic Hybrid is rated by the EPA to get 47 miles per gallon in [...]

Mexican Hotel Sex Chair

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

NecatPace.ORG WebLog-PhotoLog: El Miami y su maquina (via “(extlink)Gizmondo”:http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/maxing-out-with-love-bench-016111.php )

bq. n a motel in rustic Guayaquil-Ecuador, love is in the air, but mostly on the ground, thanks to this red and black ‘love bench,’ designed to make love making an even more athletic endeavor. Helpfully (and oh-so-erotically I would add) the hotel management have placed [...]

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