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Comment: Supplier in USA (Score 3, Informative) 240

by athloi on Monday May 19 2008, @11:34PM (#23471016) Attached to: Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available

http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GCLF-Mini-ITX-Motherboard

$80

I think this box would be an ideal computing appliance for the average user. Of course, I would recommend CentOS and a carefully configured set of applications and GUI.

Think, like, your mom and dad checking their email and looking for bargains on Craigslist. At 4 watts.

Income lost to piracy a dubious claim-> 1

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Technical Writing Geek

on Tuesday January 22 2008, @01:34PM

Technical Writing Geek writes "If sales were indeed lost to piracy, then why hasn't this become a line item on the books and therefore tax deductible? Seriously, if all this intellectual property theft is theft in any conceivable way, then take the IRS deduction based on the press announcements and see how far you get.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2251579,00.asp"
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Connecticut enacts opt-out personal info law-> 0

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Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27 2007, @01:42PM

Technical Writing Geek writes "The State of Connecticut wants to bring the consumer-pleasing goodness of the federal Do Not Call registry to other forms of data. Governor Jodi Rell announced this week that she plans to offer a state-wide opt-out service that Connecticut residents can use to keep personal information from being aggregated and acted upon by online data brokers.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-connecticut-governor-plans-opt-out-system-for-personal-info.html"
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2007 was a crappy year for technology-> 1

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Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27 2007, @10:14AM

Technical Writing Geek writes "It was another crappy year for tech — and Microsoft, Apple, and Google (to name but a few) were to blame. by John C. Dvorak

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2240650,00.asp"
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Fox and Apple team up for video rentals-> 0

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Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27 2007, @10:07AM

Technical Writing Geek writes "Apple and News Corp's 20th Century Fox have gon in together on a new video on demand deal allowing users to rent digital copies of Fox DVD new releases with the Apple iTunes platform, according to rumors being reported in the Financial Times. (Hip Apple and the stodgy put-Christ-back-in-Christmas people, paired up? Whisky Tango Foxtrot)

http://mashable.com/2007/12/26/rumor-fox-and-apple-team-up-for-movie-rentals/"
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Ars challenges Amazon drag-n-drop patent-> 0

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Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27 2007, @10:00AM

Technical Writing Geek writes "Another example of potential prior art for Yahoo's patent application would be the drag-and-pop interaction mechanism that was described in a 2003 report by by interaction design researchers. The report describes a user interface paradigm that involves displaying drop points near the selected object when the user begins to drag. The researchers created several implementations of the functionality described in the report, including one in Flash that can be tested on the Internet.

Since none of the other participants had submitted the drag-and-pop study as prior art, I decided to do so myself. I registered a user account at the peer-to-patent web site and filed the submission using the provided web form.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-yahoo-to-patent-smart-drag-and-drop-ars-submits-prior-art.html"
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Generation gap in view of intellectual property-> 1

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Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27 2007, @09:53AM

Technical Writing Geek writes "Finally, with mock exasperation, I said, "O.K., let's try one that's a little less complicated: You want a movie or an album. You don't want to pay for it. So you download it."

There it was: the bald-faced, worst-case example, without any nuance or mitigating factors whatsoever.

"Who thinks that might be wrong?"

Two hands out of 500.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/technology/personaltech/20pogue-email.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin"
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Court hands Google patent setback-> 0

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Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27 2007, @09:43AM

Technical Writing Geek writes "Google's browser toolbar is back in court on patent infringement charges, after a U.S. court of appeals overturned part of a lower court decision. Google's AdSense contextual advertising service, though, is in the clear.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071227/tc_pcworld/140857"
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Real estate remade by internet-> 0

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athloi

on Wednesday December 26 2007, @01:45PM

athloi writes "Their experiences shed light on the power and potential of the Internet to change how real estate buyers and sellers connect, gather information and communicate in both real and virtual worlds.

Be careful what you wish for.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071221/tc_usatoday/internetrenovateshowhomesgetsold"
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Pro-blogging drives 27% jump in Net advertising-> 0

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Technical Writing Geek

on Wednesday December 26 2007, @12:39PM

Technical Writing Geek writes "It's no longer unusual for blogs with just a couple thousand daily readers to earn nearly as many dollars a month. Helping fill the pockets of such bloggers are programs like Google's AdSense and many others that let individuals — not just major publications — tap into the rapidly growing pot of advertising dollars with a click of the mouse.

In 2006, advertisers spent $16.9 billion online, up steadily each year from $6 billion in 2002, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. In the first half of 2007, online advertising reached nearly $10 billion, a nearly 27 percent increase over the first half of 2006.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_on_hi_te/business_of_life"
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