Google open sources JPEG assassin
Google has open sourced a new “lossy” image format known as WebP — pronounced “weppy” — claiming it can cut the size of current web images by almost 40 percent.
New Zealand Man makes money off dead children
A New Zealand man has been jailed for 14 months for assuming the identities of dead children to get college loans, and then taking that money and living it up … Continue reading
Bad Google
The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites … Continue reading
Comcast Using Malicious Hacker Technique Against Own Customers, New Report Says
Wired is reporting that Comcast continues on its merry way blocking traffic to and from p2p programs. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, based in San Francisco, has released a study describing … Continue reading
Mac OS 10.5 Leopard: Half-baked
I got Apple’s latest stab at Linux when I installed Leopard on my Mac. Talk about horrors. Apple watered down php5, the Leopard system continuously generates hard-drive link errors and … Continue reading
Comcast: Hand in the cookie jar
The Associated Press is running a story abut Comcast interfering with file sharing, amounting to a kind of “data discrimination,” which places a low priority for file-sharing platforms. It isn’t … Continue reading
China: We don’t care what you think
On Thursday a senior Chinese intellectual property enforcement official made a statement essentially indicating that China’s intellectual property (IP) enforcement problems aren’t really anyone else’s business, and that other countries … Continue reading
Taken to the ‘cleaners’
Amway’s sister is getting her socks in a bunch. You remember Amway — the company known for nutrition, beauty and, oh yeah, cleaning products. Seems like the company, which goes … Continue reading
Does China care about what the world thinks?
It is probably more like a voice crying in a wilderness, but an international media rights group is condeming China’s closure of tens of thousands of Web sites. It’s likely … Continue reading
SimplePie promises new WordPress plug-in
SimplePie has announced on its official blog that a new plug-in is coming for WordPress. New features include a configuration pane, multifeeds support, control over all output, elimination for the … Continue reading
The Great Firewall of China
According to ABC News Oct. 5, China has shut down tens of thousands of Chinese Internet Web sites, including RSS feeds. forums and blogs. ABC puts the number of sites … Continue reading
UK wants to fit everyone into their genes
According to BBC News, Lord Justice Sedley, a senior UK Appeal Court judge, has proposed that everyone in the United Kingdom should have their DNA recorded in the national database … Continue reading
Ancestry.com “apologizes”
A spokesman over at Ancestry.com has formulated a PR response for the company’s selling private info for corporate profit. [Read more about it here]. Stripped down to pertinent points, here … Continue reading
Stolen family history
Remember the “life in a fishbowl” I talked about in my last post? It seems that what we want to keep private, or at least restricted to certain people, is … Continue reading
Complete Geek Boutique 