Monthly Archives: November 2004

Windows Mobile passes Palm in PDA sales

This may not be news to some of you but hey, it’s early and I wanted to let you folks know I was still out here. With PDA sales essentially flat, we’re practically at the point where they’re squabbling over … Continue reading

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Averatec C3500 Windows XP Tablet Edition Notebook Review

This one is for my buddy Noggin who was just asking me about which TabletPC to get….  I haven’t used it myself, but it looks good.. “While other second generation convertible Windows XP Tablet PCs are priced at or over … Continue reading

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Electric Monday

To keep the “current” thread going for today, I figured I would turn you on to the shock jacket.   This would be kind of cool. Basically reinventing the No Contact Jacket that came out a couple of years ago, … Continue reading

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Electric Shock Treatment?!?

You can darn sure bet I would show marked improvement in verbal skills if you even *thought* about getting near me with electrodes!!! Volunteers show marked improvement in verbal skills after a research team runs a weak current through their … Continue reading

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Burn a DVD in Two Seconds

2 seconds?!? Just saw this little tidbit from yesterday and thought it was worth mentioning, although there’s very little in the way of details. The gist (actually, the whole of the information available) is that Pioneer and TDK are collectively … Continue reading

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Keep tabs on your car via cellphone with Directed Electronic’s Viper auto tracking system

This was just too cool to not post. Using GPS and the already-in-place cellphone network, Direct Electronic’s Viper car tracking system allows users to “call” their car to do anything from warm up the engine to see if it has … Continue reading

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A story about malware

Wow, this is a crazy read. See the original here as a person at the SANS Internet Storm Center maps out the path of a single users visit to one website on an unpatched workstation. Please, if you like having … Continue reading

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vig

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Fat People Cost Airlines Big Time

Wow.  I can remember when people used to cringe when I got on the plane.  You could almost see them saying “please don’t sit next to me, please don’t sit next to me, please don’t sit next to me” as … Continue reading

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New Jersey Smart Guns Move Forward

This looks neat.  I would want to make sure that it was 100% full proof.  They could even have something that tests the blood-alcohol levels. New Jersey Institute of Technology just got another $1.1 million to continue testing their ‘smart gun,’ … Continue reading

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