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Game On!

It’s time for the playoffs, baby! http://www.nhl.com/onthefly/standings/conf_stand.html Conference standings reflect the order in which teams would qualify for the playoffs. Division leaders (marked with a *) are automatically seeded first through third. EASTERN...

Re: Spying on China..

While the Satellite photo is revealing, the Chinese released some other photos a couple of days ago, of their own: http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/misc/aries010404_1_n.shtml Note that these are not complete. We can’t see the other side, and there is...

Re: Gay

I’m not a big fan of terms like “GAY” and “FAG” being used as derogatory (though like many of us I probably was when I was 12). This list aims to ride on a slightly higher plane of existence. Look, I don’t want to have to approve...

Spying on China..

Since the Russians blinked, I guess it’s no secret that the US has viewed China as its major potential world adversary, especially with high-tech’s dependence on Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers. So amid the doom and gloom of the economy, you...

[Ian Rambles:] DSL Service Providers Killed By RBOCs

Through their own ineptitude (poor provisioning methods, not enough line crews and installers, poor network maintenance) RBOCs have killed the DSL industry. All of the major DSL Service Providers are now toast. >From now on, DSL will be a product sold exclusively by...

Microsoft Hailstorm Warning..

——– http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/03/28/hailstorm/index.html Microsoft storm warning The HailStorm program will put all your data in one convenient place — and leave Bill Gates with the keys. – – – – –...

Quantum Exits Hard Drive Business..

Sunday April 01 02:00 PM EDT Quantum exits hard drive business By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com After 21 years of selling hard drives, Quantum on Friday formally left the business to turn its full attention to higher-level storage products and services. Shareholders...

Just to prove to us that even after reality has dealt a smack down to Silicon Valley, there remains an entire substrata of morons who somehow believe that the internet itself is “the next big thing” and that the web is a place in time worthy of...

Gathering Steam..

The next “Mahir” craze appears to be gathering steam. I wasn’t going to post this on FOIB ’cause it’s kind of crass (so I just shared it with my crass friends and giggle in the corner) but it was mentioned on “The View” this...

Napster: Million Fan March

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/napstermarch.html apster Fans to Go to Washington April 3rd. By R Menta- 3/27/01 One can make a very good argument that the trading of digital music over the Internet is the biggest grassroots effort in the history of the world....