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Sony: DRM Overkill

Elizabeth — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:48:00 +0000

In 2005, an organization had been covertly installing a program similar to a rootkit onto consumer devices without warning. For those who haven’t heard it before, a rootkit is simply a program that is designed to remain unfindable on a device. They aren’t all bad, but their difficult-to-detect nature and ability to evade even aggressive […]

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FlexPlay: The Worst of All Worlds

Elizabeth — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:50:00 +0000

Once upon a time, there was a growing trend towards making media easy to access. Netflix launched, and allowed subscribers to receive and send back discs through the mail. Blockbuster was still around, and they were big enough to try and buy out Netflix! Gamefly did something similar. Video games, on-demand TV, or special packages […]

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Is it Better to Completely Drain a Battery Before You Recharge it?

Elizabeth — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:44:00 +0000

A piece of old-fashioned advice for old-fashioned rechargeable hardware was to completely drain the battery before recharging it, to ‘stretch’ it, the way you’d stretch socks to fit on bigger feet. Where Did the Myth Come From? While you’re not necessarily stretching the battery by waiting till it’s drained to recharge it, you are saving […]

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Why Didn’t Projection Keyboards Take Off?

Elizabeth — Thu, 12 May 2022 10:39:00 +0000

They’re Not Actually That Convenient While they look cool, and the premise sounds like it’d be more convenient, the reality is that they weren’t. Anything made of light can be interfered with using other light, firstly – all of the coolest demo pics showed the keyboard being used in a low-light situation, primarily so you […]

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Will there Ever be Another Billy Mays?

Elizabeth — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:49:00 +0000

Or are they all doomed to MilkShake Duck, Crash, and Burn? Billy Mays Here I’m sure you’ve seen his ads at least once. Billy Mays was one of the most famous salesmen for everyday household products like the Shamwow and bathtub-ring remover, an amazing salesman famous for both his delivery of his lines and the […]

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Mechanical Keyboards

Elizabeth — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 10:38:00 +0000

If you like to watch streamers, or you’ve ever considered investing in a larger keyboard for gaming, you might have seen mechanical keyboards out in the wild before. They’re big. The keys are heavy. They make a lot of noise. They’re clunky. They can cost quite a bit as a hobby. And yet, they’re growing […]

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The Three-headed Jack Hydra

Elizabeth — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:39:00 +0000

If you had a CRT monitor and had other systems to hook up to it, you might remember the three-headed plug-ins that they used to take. The backs of those giant monitors looked like a Star Trek dashboard, with all sorts of ports for all sorts of cords. Parallel ports, TV direct-line ports, dial up, […]

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Stop Hyping Autopilot

Elizabeth — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:23:51 +0000

It’s not done yet!! Tesla’s autopilot is really impressive. It’s just not done yet. Between failure to detect real objects and detecting ghost objects, the new Auto-pilot has a lot of really terrifying anecdotal cases. A Word of Disclaimer Tesla does tell users not to get in the back seat or otherwise take their eyes […]

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A History of UFO-Spotting

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:13:09 +0000

Eyewitness Accounts and The News – 1940’s on I’ll start when the modern day ‘flying saucer’ story started, although recordings of UFOs go back to BC times. The first UFO to start the ‘flying saucer’ trope in America actually wasn’t a saucer – it was a squad of ships shaped like boomerangs that rotated […]

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Bitcoin’s dip is Affecting GPU Prices

Elizabeth — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:26:47 +0000

Cryptocurrency affects the price of hardware IRL now. There’s an entire legion of computers that spend their whole lives solving hashes and producing rewards for their owners. So when the reward crashes a little, the market reacts strangely. Some people buy, because BitCoins always bounce back, and some people sell, because BitCoins might not this […]

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