A Scene From A Dream I Had / Gratitude

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Net of Gratitude

Net of Gratitude 06/21/2004 09:19 AM
We spend billions on dad, and even more on mom.

Bush to Show Gratitude at Pope's Funeral
(AP)

Bush to Show Gratitude at Pope's Funeral
(AP) 04/04/2005 12:43 PM
AP - President Bush said Monday he is looking forward to attending Pope John Paul II's funeral and expressing Americans' gratitude for the life of such a courageous, moral and holy man.

A Voice of Inspiration: Unexpected Acts
Of Gratitude

A Voice of Inspiration: Unexpected Acts
Of Gratitude 07/16/2004 08:24 AM
Unexpected Acts Of Gratitude .. Comments

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OpinionJournal - Iraqi Gratitude - The
new government is thanking America and
Bush. Why are the media silent?

OpinionJournal - Iraqi Gratitude - The
new government is thanking America and
Bush. Why are the media silent? 06/09/2004 07:38 AM
An Opinion Journal editorial .. Wall Street Journal

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"On behalf of the great state of
Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land
of Lincoln, let me express my deep
gratitude for the privilege of
addressing this convention. Tonight is a
particular honor for me because, let's
face it, my presence on this stage is
..."

"On behalf of the great state of
Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land
of Lincoln, let me express my deep
gratitude for the privilege of
addressing this convention. Tonight is a
particular honor for me because, let's
face it, my presence on this stage is
..." 07/30/2004 10:26 AM

Scene from Brazil

Scene from Brazil 04/06/2005 05:27 PM

« A full moon hangs over the power tower in Töölö. I've always thought this building has a striking visual effect since the signs are all the same colour, which is unusual, but they converge on adjacent sides of the building. Maybe it's only because I usually see the building when I'm drunk and snarfing food from the Jaskan Grilli across the street. »

Otava kept us up most of the night as his itchy-scratchy condition reached critical mass. The HU Vet Clinic couldn't give him an appointment for two weeks so we had to find someone who would see him ASAP. I spent my afternoon at the vet and dragging my ass to the pet store for a new giant bag of food and to the pharmacy for some medications. First we try a medicated shampoo and topical pesticide in case it is caused by microscopic mites, otherwise we will have to start hunting down the allergen which could be a long, tedious process. But, for now, he's sleeping comfortably without itching and whining which is a major improvement for us all.

While I was waiting in the pharmacy, I was looking at the cute doggie lunchbox that the pet shop gave to me for buying the giant bag of food which opens into two bowls with a water bottle and a food compartment when some nice old guy sat down next to me and started chatting me up about how a metal one would be better and such. I was so tired that I just smiled and nodded since I don't think I could have made conversation even in English. The pharmacy downtown is straight out of a scene from the movie Brazil with the cascades of pneumatic tubes that transport fresh drugs from the basement up to the awaiting customers.

Sean Burke made my evening last night when he pointed out one of the best reads I've had in a while: Dab blers and Blowhards. Even if you're not a geek or one of the incestuous digerati who will find this cutting a little too close to the bone if they read carefully it's a fun read. I remember distinctly when my bullshit-o-meter pegged on 11 when Tim O'Reilly and bunch of others as OSCON one year were starting to go on about how programmers were really artists and could be funded by patrons of the art of programming, etc. I imagine we were drunk, possibly stoned, and still it seemed like an incredibly pretentious way to put a good face on dot.bomb unemployment. The downside of the essay is that we are reminded of ESR's treatise on oral sex for geeks at the end. Hurrr.

Quite a scene last night

Quite a scene last night 09/14/2004 04:57 PM

We're in Paris now - meeting with a new client - Glowria.fr.

More on them later.

For now let me just say thnaks to all the peeps who made it to Lisson Grove last night for expensive Fish & Chips. I should have gotten teh Skate! Lisa loved hers.

Here's a shot of Julian and Ian and a young guy named Edward.

Fleeing from the scene

Fleeing from the scene 03/28/2005 12:58 PM
The president celebrates Easter with the troops, putting some distance between himself and the right-wing culture warriors in Florida.

Scene stealer

Scene stealer 03/24/2005 11:52 AM
He stole "Love Actually" and "Dirty Pretty Things" and is Woody Allen's first black lead. But don't expect Chiwetel Ejiofor to play the race card.

Art scene and heard

Art scene and heard 07/07/2004 11:11 AM
Located in an historical Long Island elementary school building, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center has been a hub of avant-garde art and culture for nearly three decades. Now, P.S.1. also has an Internet radio station. As you might expect, WPS1 features an eclectic mix of programming. No Clear Channel station is going to give you the voice of Marcel Duchamp, the techno of Todd Sines, and a discussion with Taipei City mayor Ma Yingjiu about public art. From this week's schedule:

11:30 am The Bio-Blurb Show, Edition #3: Bio-Art or Bio-Terror? - In this most provocative program, host Suzanne Anker speaks with former Whitney Museum director David Ross, art journalist Stephen Henry Madoff, and filmmaker Virgil Wong about the federal government's Patriot-Act case against the activist artist Ste ve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble and the criminalization of the American artist in general. Must-hear listening!

12:00 noon Love Crazy, Edition #4 - Whazzup workaholics! For this session of her music series for WPS1, chanteuse Nora York zeroes in on how much we love our labors, especially when they're lost to song.

1:00 pm Curbside Cassette, Edition #3 - Okay, work's covered. How about school? Recent high-school grads Joe Ahearn and Max Kagan celebrate their diplomas with a science-and-math music mix. Indeed, where would we be without "Calculus Man"? Without the Beastie Boys, for one thing, joined here by Mos Def, Sun Ra, Elvis Costello, the Pixies, White Stripes and more.

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Remembering the BBS Scene

Remembering the BBS Scene 04/02/2005 04:07 PM
Ah, those were the days. As now, it was a healthy mix of academics, techies, conspiracy theorists and trolls. Jason Scott has a great website chock full of old BBS textfiles, with no advertising. What does his collection include? Well, it's a lot like K5 if you ask me, but maybe a little more naive. There are some ugly things down in these archives; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits. There are calls for anarchy. There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words. But there's hope, too. There's excitement, there's joy, there's every manner of feeling being crammed down into ASCII and posted for the world to find. It's a spectrum of humanity, and this is what I hope you'll find, buried there, among the text. Enjoy. Jason Scott Proprietor, TEXTFILES.COM

A new social scene

A new social scene 07/05/2004 12:27 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 5 2004 4:31PM GMT

Behind the Scene: The U.K.'s Science
Museum

Behind the Scene: The U.K.'s Science
Museum 03/25/2005 06:27 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 25 2005 10:33AM GMT

The Italian squat scene

The Italian squat scene 03/14/2005 05:53 PM
Yesterday, I had a meeting with some of the Italian Indymedia community at a squat. In most countries squatters are considered criminals and local law has very little tolerance for them. In Italy, the squat scene is the center of a lot of the sub-culture and alternative media. After years of resistance, many of the squats on property which was owned by the local government have been officially recognized by the municipalities in various degrees. The squats have events including debates and parties. They have kitchens, living quarters, and in the case of the squat I went to last night, a computer lab (called "hacks" this one named "bugs") that teaches people how to switch from Microsoft to Linux and allows free Internet access to anyone who wants to drop by.

After the chat in the bugs hack, we went to dinner at a centro sociale called Casale Podere Rosa. It was similar to a squat except the people don't live there. The place we went to was on the upscale end. The food was excellent and they had lots of posters and pamphlets describing the organic farming methods they used to grow their produce.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. On the other hand, the left wing are fighting hand and fist (literally) with the right wing radicals. Free speech was something that people were fighting for, in many cases outside of the law. At a tactical level, my discussion about freedom of expression and our "Infrastructure of Democracy" idea of fighting bad speech with more good speech sounded a bit idealistic. What was interesting to me was the power and the energy of the alternative media movement. It reminds me of my theory on good alternative music. When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

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Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org 04/07/2005 03:22 AM
Remembering the BBS Scene .. I remember it well .. Article on kuro5hin

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CSI: Crime Scene Investi

CSI: Crime Scene Investi 09/11/2004 01:11 PM
Techzonez Sep 11 2004 5:25PM GMT

A Great Scene From iCommons

A Great Scene From iCommons 02/01/2005 08:39 PM

We just got this great photo of the Wissenscha ftskolleg conference from Christiane, our International Commons Project Coordinator, whom you can see there in the background. Featured in the foreground is Professor Ricolfi, Creative Commons Legal Project Lead from Italy, and to the right of him is Professor Jürgen Renn, Director of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science. On the very right, is Professor Lessig. Photo by Olivier Menanteau.

SGL: A Scene Graph Library

SGL: A Scene Graph Library 05/13/2004 09:39 AM
SGL (and fltlib) v0.7.0 Released

Cantina Scene #1 Boxed

Cantina Scene #1 Boxed 08/12/2004 01:00 AM
As reported yesterday, K-Marts’ exclusive Mos Eisley Cantina scenes are beginning to hit the shelf. Since our original post, reports are starting to trickle in from other areas as well, including Phoenix, AZ. and San Diego, CA. With many K-Mart stores resetting for the Fall, now's the perfect time to add the big "K" to your morning run.

No lifeguards at scene of tragedy

No lifeguards at scene of tragedy 08/09/2004 09:23 AM
No lifeguards were on duty where a 10-year-old boy died after getting into difficulties in the sea off Cumbria.

Lisa makes the scene

Lisa makes the scene 06/17/2005 04:39 PM

Have I told you how cool it is to bring your family to a conference? Assuming you get a god babysitter - your sife gets to join you and we can have quality time together AND get worlk done.

So here's Lisa rapping to Richard Erickson of Bryght at VIDfest.

Meanwhile Mimi and Lucy are up in the hotel room with a sitter.

So for all of you road warriors who spend half their time schmoozing at conferences around the world - I highly recommend you take your families with you (Doc?)

[via Roland, Kris Krug and Bryght]

Random scene from my life

Random scene from my life 06/06/2005 12:09 AM
I took my car into the shop for its regular servicing this morning, and I got comfortable in their waiting room while repairs occurred. The service guy sees me on my PowerBook, and said, "Hey, it's too bad that you're...

OpenRM Scene Graph

OpenRM Scene Graph 11/03/2003 10:33 PM
OpenRM 1.5.0 Programming Guide

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12/17/2004 06:27 PM

Replay ability is a serious factor. By Jonathan Lowrie, Inside Mac Games

Protestors, Bush on scene

Protestors, Bush on scene 06/08/2004 07:29 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:56AM GMT

Harold is missing the scene!

Harold is missing the scene! 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
It's party time!!.

It's party time!!

It's actually funny that us East Coast guys never get invited to any of these West Coast social events (not that we would go - but an invitation once in awhile would just be nice).  We're not even a smart enough group to throw our own events.  Events like these makes an East Coast guy wish sometimes he lived on the West Coast.  Anyway...

If I was at the Laszlo Systems party, sipping their wine and eating their cheese, I'd be talking up the new Audioblogging player I been hinting and talking about lately and trying to get built "maybe" using Laszlo.  My agenda would be to find someone from Laszlo willing to host the Laszlo SAM radio player, similiar to what they are doing with SoundBlox.  As the wine really begins to flow, maybe Marc can drop this permalink or some hints to some player there.  After all, isn't that what they are after with the party, branding and finding new opportunities for their product.  I really need a West Coast agent!!

It's official - Party Tues night at Etech.

Laszlo Systems will be sponsoring a party at O'Reilly's Emerging technology Conference Tuesday night at the Emer3g1ng L0ft scene.

It'll start up at 10 PM - after the day's sessions are over.  Music, beer, booze and great conversation.

The next night - will also be a party there - as well.

This year's Etech is looking to be quite a scene - what with the Emergent Democracy day long pre-sessions, etc.

[Marc's Voice]

[Audio/Mobile Blogging News]

YUP - Harold you're gonna have ot move out here.  That reminds of teh time we got our VC funding (at MacroMind.) Part of the deal was that we had to be right off of 101 or 280 (the two major arteries out here.)  We choose SOMA (South of Market) and we became the first software company down there.

The rest if history.

And now the ashes are rising from the Phoenix. Orkut is throwing a big party tonight. 

But we ARE part of a global virtual world now. It's not like Joi is throwing parties in Chiba.  No he's in Helsinki, NYC, Davos, out here and all sorts of secret hiding places.

BTW The party location has been changed.  Stay tuned for details.

It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible
(washingtonpost.com)

It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible
(washingtonpost.com) 12/28/2004 04:57 AM

Add scene selections to non-iMovie
movies

Add scene selections to non-iMovie
movies 02/12/2004 11:33 AM
I had movie I made and rendered to disk from a while ago that I wanted to burn to DVD. I also wanted to add those neat scene selection screens that iDVD4 has. I did some research and found out that if a movie has a chapter tr...

Battleship Chess Steams onto the Scene

Battleship Chess Steams onto the Scene 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Announcing ApeZone's Battleship Chess, a Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP naval strategy game. [PRWEB May 12, 2004]

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene 02/16/2004 01:25 PM
This writer seems to enjoy writing as though he's an authority when it's clear he's not: He's read all the hype about Wi-Fi but gets enough wrong that he obviously hasn't done his own research. His general point is that Canada is behind the United States in deploying hotspots. But he hasn't got very good research to back that up. His strongest piece of evidence seems to be a conversation he had recently with one computer programmer who had never heard of Wi-Fi. He goes on to say that the market is primed to change dramatically because Canada's largest carriers said they'd create a unified standard to let customers roam between their networks. This so-called standard was developed without any of the major existing Canadian Wi-Fi operators, such as FatPort, and none of the four carriers involved had deployed hotspots when they set the roaming standard. It's also just a "standard" (how they'll handle billing, etc.), not a roaming deal. So the carriers could deploy networks and still not roam. (Meanwhile, FatPort has built hundreds of locations and secured roaming with several international networks.) He also pointed to a recent study that said no hotspots' business model could succeed if the only revenue source was connection fees. That study is bad news for cafes in the U.S., he says, because many of them offer access for free. But the two aren't related. Free hotspot operators have a totally different business model than those that charge. He closes by pointing out "guerilla Wi-Fi warriors" in Canada who warchalk. Warchalking is a great idea and testament to the community behind Wi-Fi, but who has actually seen a symbol? If this writer's point is that Wi-Fi hasn't taken off in Canada, then it's doubtful that people there are actually warchalking....

MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New
Desktop Search

MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New
Desktop Search 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
Microsoft has announced the new MSN(R) Toolbar Suite, and I had no idea there was so much pent up demand to search the desktop, for crying out loud. The new...

OTC Jedi Council Screen Scene

OTC Jedi Council Screen Scene 05/23/2004 01:56 AM
Head over to POTF2. com for an early glimpse of the Jedi Council I screen scene in Original Trilogy Collection packaging, which will be available from Hasbro stockists in July. Thanks for pointing us to the picture Aaron.

Yahoo moves in on music scene

Yahoo moves in on music scene 09/15/2004 09:54 AM
News24.com Sep 15 2004 2:07PM GMT

Computer Crime Scene Investigation

Computer Crime Scene Investigation 09/17/2004 01:00 AM
eWeek Sep 17 2004 4:20AM GMT

Photoshopped crime scene photos

Photoshopped crime scene photos 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: "Toronto Crime Stoppers" posts crime scene photos in which victim(s) and perpetrator(s) have been digitally removed. The batch of images linked in this post once depicted acts of violent sexual abuse of a nine-year-old girl, but now contain only inanimate objects -- a sofa, a bed, a wall, a water fountain. They're published online with a public request that anyone who recognizes the site contact authorities.
Link (Thanks, Chad Oakenfold)

EastEnders rapped over rape scene

EastEnders rapped over rape scene 04/27/2004 12:59 PM
Complaints about an episode of EastEnders dealing with the aftermath of rape are upheld by the BBC.

Police patrol murder scene

Police patrol murder scene 09/13/2004 01:06 AM
Police in Swansea patrol the city centre to gather more information on the murder of an Iraqi Kurdish man a week ago.

Create a 3D Scene with Maya and
Photoshop. Pt. 1

Create a 3D Scene with Maya and
Photoshop. Pt. 1 09/02/2004 03:39 PM
In Maya, one can choose from a multitude of scene generation options, but even the best 3D applications can benefit from the use of Photoshop. Here, you'll model a flying saucer in Maya, a Nebula in Photoshop and bring the two together in Maya to complete the scene. By Nathan Segal. 0902

New Mos Eisley Cantina Screen Scene

New Mos Eisley Cantina Screen Scene 07/21/2004 11:02 AM
Hasbro announces the second Original Trilogy Collection screen scene of Chalmun's Cantina from A New Hope. This K-Mart exclusive set will feature Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (POTF2's Flashback figure), Ponda Baba (Walrusman) (SAGA's Cantina Set figure), and Zutton (Snaggletooth) (based on POTJ's figure). As a nod to the Vintage Kenner figure, Zutton will feature a few changes....new limbs, a blue jumpsuit, and silver boots! Click on the thumbnail above for more info. Word has it a third set is also in the works, which will include a rounded center bar section, completing the scene.
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Cingular's Samsung SGH-P777

Cingular's Samsung SGH-P777 01/03/2005 12:31 PM

There is just a teensy bit of information floating up about the Samsung SGH-P777, an EDGE-capable phone that should show up on Cingular sometime in Q1 of '05. MobileTracker has the basics, including this tiny picture we ripped off. I would expect to hear more from Samsung real soon, as references to the SGH-P777 are starting to appear in marketing literature for other products.

Samsung SGH-P777 details surface [MobileTracker]

Samsung P777 Released On Cingular

Samsung P777 Released On Cingular 03/17/2005 03:51 AM

Cingular is now exclusively offering the new Samsung P777 (formerly the SGH-P777, I think) as the first in Samsung's new line of high-speed (EDGE) multimedia phones. The phone features an integrated MP3 player as well as a camcorder which allows the user to send up to 30 second video clips and to record up to one hour of video onto its 100MB of internal memory. It's a slider design with a 262k color display and includes an AIM client. The camera features a 4x digital zoom and an image brightness feature to correct bad shots. Available now through Cingular for $300 (with a two-year contract).

Press Release [Cingular]
First Seen: Cingular's Samsung SGH-P777 [Gizmodo]

hi dear i have a Samsung SGH-C100 and i
also have data cable but i don't know
hove i can downlode the software

hi dear i have a Samsung SGH-C100 and i
also have data cable but i don't know
hove i can downlode the software 07/11/2004 01:48 AM
TechTree Jul 11 2004 5:47AM GMT

Samsung And Verizon Wireless Announce
The Samsung SCH-a790 Global Phone

Samsung And Verizon Wireless Announce
The Samsung SCH-a790 Global Phone 09/02/2004 03:45 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Sep 2 2004 7:44PM GMT

"How to unlock your phone"

"How to unlock your phone" 05/26/2004 09:00 AM

Unlock your GSM Cellphone

Unlock your GSM Cellphone 05/27/2004 01:58 PM

I was recently overseas and had my GSM T-Mobile phone with me. I figured I would run out get a pre-paid sim card and have local cell service while in the country I was in. To my surprise I could not get the SIM card to work in the phone. I was a bit pissed. But to my surprise a friend of mine sent me a link to this article and now I have the unlock code to my cell phone and when I am overseas again I will get a local pre-paid SIM card and be in business. [Popular Science]

How to unlock your phone

How to unlock your phone 05/24/2004 09:01 AM
On Popular Science, an article on getting your mobile phone unlocked. Here in London, there're shops that advertise phone unlocking on practically every block, but it's almost unheard-of in the USA:

While number portability may have freed your cell digits, your phone is still a ball and chain, locked into one carrier's service. These subsidy locks keep you from walking away before the provider can recover that big discount you got when you bought the phone.

But it doesn't have to be so. If you have a GSM phone, you can unlock it and switch to any GSM network carrier (the big three are AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile). You can also take an unlocked phone overseas (most of the world uses GSM) and use it on a local network to avoid paying for international roaming, or even buy a European phone (they tend to be ahead of us in cell tech) and use it here. Have an old phone lying around? Unlock it and keep it as a spare.

Link

Unlock doors with your cellphone

Unlock doors with your cellphone 12/15/2003 04:30 PM
Not sure how old this is (looks like it surfaced last year), but Euro Electronics has a door lock that can be locked and unlocked...

How to unlock your cut down video card

How to unlock your cut down video card 12/22/2004 01:17 AM

Man who helped unlock DNA dies

Man who helped unlock DNA dies 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, dies aged 88.

Unlock Motorola A920

Unlock Motorola A920 02/05/2005 09:10 PM
All About Symbian Feb 2 2005 10:37PM GMT

Unlock hidden features within Stickies

Unlock hidden features within Stickies 06/15/2004 11:57 AM
Ok, here is something else cool about the stickies application. Go to the finder and navigate to Applications -> Stickies. Control click on Stickies and click Show Package Contents. Another Finder window will open up with ...

Ice cores unlock climate secrets

Ice cores unlock climate secrets 06/09/2004 03:34 PM
A three-kilometre long column of ice drilled from the Antarctic has revealed climate patterns for last 740,000 years of Earth's history, Nature reports.

Yoxos to Help Unlock Eclipse's Potential

Yoxos to Help Unlock Eclipse's Potential 07/06/2004 03:12 PM
Innoopract's open-source Eclipse distribution eliminates developers' need to spend time finding and downloading plug-ins.

Unlock hidden OS X features with Mac
Pilot 1.1

Unlock hidden OS X features with Mac
Pilot 1.1 12/22/2003 06:47 AM
Koingo Software has released Mac Pilot 1.1, the latest version of the company's utility for changing hidden features in Mac OS X...

Scientists Unlock One More of Sleep's
Secrets

Scientists Unlock One More of Sleep's
Secrets 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
The findings of a new study could lead to new treatments for sleep disorders and drugs that enhance wakefulness.

i can unlock ur phone just send me a
mail and i will tell u

i can unlock ur phone just send me a
mail and i will tell u 08/22/2004 02:26 AM
TechTree Aug 22 2004 5:41AM GMT

How to unlock an XP! T'Bred UPDATE! Feb
12th '03

How to unlock an XP! T'Bred UPDATE! Feb
12th '03 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Red Hat may unlock public sector for
Linux

Red Hat may unlock public sector for
Linux 12/03/2003 12:15 PM
ZDNet Dec 3 2003 11:22AM ET

Partnership tries to unlock corn's genes

Partnership tries to unlock corn's genes 07/17/2004 01:19 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Thu Jul 15, 09:19 am GMT

"Ice cores unlock climate secrets"

"Ice cores unlock climate secrets" 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

can someone plz tell me how to unlock my
dwnloaded ringtones coz i cnt send them
out im MMS

can someone plz tell me how to unlock my
dwnloaded ringtones coz i cnt send them
out im MMS 09/12/2004 10:01 PM
TechTree Sep 13 2004 2:52AM GMT

Virus arrests could unlock cybercrime
world

Virus arrests could unlock cybercrime
world 05/10/2004 06:04 AM
ZDNet UK May 10 2004 9:35AM GMT

Suit Filed to Unlock Mobile Phones

Suit Filed to Unlock Mobile Phones 06/09/2004 12:08 PM

One of the mobile phone industry's sleaziest tricks is to put a software lock on new phones that use the GSM system. The lock prevents customers from using the phone with another carrier's service. This mostly affects people who want to use their phones in other countries, or who want to put a stored-value SIM card into their current phone for specific uses, during the initial contract period. It also affects those who want to switch carriers after they've paid for their year of service (or have paid the extra fee for leaving early). A consumer group has file d suit to force the carriers to stop this practice, which is flagrantly anti-consumer. Good luck on this one. The companies will tell you that they lock the phone so you'll pay for the subsidies they give you when you sign up for their service. This is a total red herring -- a blatant deception -- by the industry. You sign up for a year's service (sometimes more) when you get a subsidized phone. As noted, if you quit early you have to pay an extra charge. Either way, you've covered the subsidy. I have a T-Mobile phone, and T-Mobile is one of the carriers being sued. When I bought it I was told I could get the unlock code three months after starting my service. That's coming up soon, and I intend to avail myself of this feature. AT&T, the carrier I left, told me it might never give me an unlock code. Three months is still unreasonable. I hope the suit succeeds, but what we really need is legislation prohibiting this conduct from the industry.

The Panther Report: Why Do We Have To
Unlock Secret Features?

The Panther Report: Why Do We Have To
Unlock Secret Features? 12/04/2003 07:10 PM
In fact, if you pour through many of these utilities, you'll find that all they do is access features that are normally available only via a Terminal command. By Gene Steinberg (Mac Night Owl via MyAppleMenu)

Unlock password protected word files

Unlock password protected word files 01/08/2004 08:22 PM
Microsoft is going to take another spanking seems there is a hack out to remove passwords from word documents. I...

Tom's Hardware and Asus unlock Pentium 4

Tom's Hardware and Asus unlock Pentium 4 09/17/2004 10:42 AM

A Tool to Unlock the Secrets of Strong
Computer Security

A Tool to Unlock the Secrets of Strong
Computer Security 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
Think Computer Security is complex? At last a system hardening tool that puts Computer Security in the hands of the user. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

How to unlock your crippled Computer
Shop modem for free

How to unlock your crippled Computer
Shop modem for free 07/20/2004 08:09 AM
The Computer Shop UK has a deal on a PC that comes with a firmware-locked modem that can only dial one ISP, Supanet. In order to get unlocked, you need to pay a pound a minute to call their support line and then fork over £60 so they can post you a CD that will restore your modem to good working order.

Yoz has the deal, and a link to a utility that can unlock your modem without paying Computer Shop's ransom. Link

Yoxos to Help Unlock Eclipse's Potential
(Ziff Davis)

Yoxos to Help Unlock Eclipse's Potential
(Ziff Davis) 07/06/2004 03:30 PM
Ziff Davis - Innoopract's open-source Eclipse distribution eliminates developers' need to spend time finding and downloading plug-ins.

A Scene From A Dream I Had / Gratitude

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