Boeing, going, gone: America’s Dreamliner a nightmare
December 8, 2007
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the latest casualty of the global outsourcing trend that has left the project in a lurch.
Posts by Ken Hess on TECH.BLORGE.com
Revival of the N-Word
October 28, 2007
I don’t really know anyone who likes to be referred to in a derogatory way but the N-word seems to evoke the most emotion of all the derogatory and defamatory words that one’s imagination can conjure.
Sign-Up for Filtered Content–No Thanks Comcast
October 27, 2007
On Comcast’s front web page, they have the Top Five Questions Customers Ask but strangely none of them include: Are you going to filter out my content? The answer is probably yes. People who sign-up for broadband access most likely never ask that question.
Is Linux Bashing a New Olympic Sport?
October 26, 2007
Our little Penguin is getting dissed from a very unlikely source, InfoWorld. Randall Kennedy (InfoWorld) casts his pearls of misguided wisdom in his 5-part series "Why Ubuntu (Still) Sucks." Frankly, I am shocked that anyone can honestly and professionally write about something that they are so uninformed about. Whatever happened to "write what you know?"
RIAA Launches Ninth Wave Against Music Sharing Criminals
October 21, 2007
Strike up the band for the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in its latest initiative against the students of 19 Universities to stop illegal downloading and sharing of copyrighted music.
Redhat and Novell targeted by last resort law suit
October 21, 2007
IP Innovation, LLC. and Technology Licensing Corporation filed a lawsuit naming RedHat and Novell as infringing on their patents described as “U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects issued Dec. 10, 1991 along with two other similar patents.” Are these kind of lawsuits launched from a perspective of financial desperation on the part of the Plaintiffs? I believe they are.
