Posts by David Cassel on TECH.BLORGE.com
August 13, 2007
Dan Rather reports Tuesday that election outcomes may have changed due to technical glitches in touch screen voting machines. His investigation has uncovered election officials who distrust the machines — and workers who admit to building defective machines.
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Posted in Legal, Security | 1 Comment » Posted by: David Cassel
August 10, 2007
Imagine my surprise. I typed “Michelle Malkin” into Google’s web search engine — and their results included a picture. Of Michelle Malkin in a bikini.
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Posted in Adult content, Blogosphere, Google | 37 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
August 10, 2007
Yes, there’s a glitch in NASA’s data about U.S. air temperatures. But the corrected data still shows a warming trend that’s unmistakeable.
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Posted in Science and technology | 16 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
August 7, 2007
The internet isn’t as dangerous as people think, and teachers should let students use social networks at school.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Uncategorized | 27 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
August 4, 2007
According to one report, she “shoved aside” a volunteer working the event “and dashed from the room as the mob called for her to be booted from the premises.” Dateline‘s Michelle Madigan was apparently caught undercover at the Defcon security convention in Las Vegas. Here’s a transcript and video of what happened next.
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Posted in Online video, Security, YouTube | 12 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
August 2, 2007
A man advertising a free iPod on Craigslist asked to meet a woman at the park late Friday night. Police told her later he was wearing a ski mask and waiting with a butcher knife.
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Posted in Apple, Scams, Uncategorized | 1 Comment » Posted by: David Cassel
July 26, 2007
A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers.
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Posted in Security, Storage | 29 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
July 25, 2007
Digg is joining forces with Microsoft for the next three years. Today Digg’s founder Kevin Rose announced that Microsoft has been chosen to serve all of Digg’s ads –and they’ll also be responsible for finding Digg’s advertisers.
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Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
July 22, 2007
Buy an iPhone, get a free phone?
It’s either a good deal or a scam. But it works like this…
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Posted in Apple, Cell phones | No Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
July 17, 2007
They’re the largest ISP in America. And they hate Macs. And the Firefox browser. At least, that’s the impression you get from Comcast’s installation procedure — and clues scattered across their home page.
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Posted in Apple, Internet | 67 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
July 13, 2007
As controversy continues, the iPhone’s exclusive carrier deal with AT&T may fuel a revolt against all exclusive cellphone contracts. And joining the fight is a new web site: Free the iPhone.org.
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Posted in Apple, Cell phones, Legal | 1 Comment » Posted by: David Cassel
July 10, 2007
Congress’s iPhone hearing starts tomorrow.
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Posted in Apple, Internet | 5 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
June 28, 2007
Apple’s iPhone already has its first controversy. Why is AT&T the exclusive wireless carrier for the iPhone? Organized pressure has started from Working Assets — a wireless carrier which also funds progressive causes — and just one day before the iPhone’s launch, Apple CEO Steve Jobs found himself addressing the controversy.
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Posted in Apple | 22 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
June 23, 2007
An Arizona woman buys a cellphone at a Wal-Mart. The next day she discovers her phone has a surprise: porn.
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Posted in Adult content, Uncategorized | 3 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
June 22, 2007
A 20-year-old New Yorker just signed a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube. But it’s a highly symbolic deal — both for 20-year-old Brandon Fletcher, and the future of YouTube.
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Posted in Adult content, YouTube | 15 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
June 20, 2007
A hacker stole the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — and posted the details online just a month before the book’s release.
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Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments » Posted by: David Cassel
June 20, 2007
Yesterday YouTube opened nine different versions of their video-sharing service — one for each of the following countries.
(Click the hyperlinks to check them out!)
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Posted in YouTube | No Comments » Posted by: David Cassel