From the article: The once beloved and suddenly beleaguered tech-review site CNET will no longer select the official Best in Show awards at the Consumer Electronics Show because of its ethically questionable situation with parent company CBS, which censored CNET's top award at CES and subsequently invented a conflict-of-interest policy based solely on the interests of CBS.
Jan 30, 2013
Comic: Penny Arcade 1/30/13
Vine, the newest internet short-life-publication thing, has an actually interesting overseer.
Jan 27, 2013
News: Retailers start passing credit card surcharge to consumers
Not sure why I care so much about the credit card process. But, I do.
Credit card retailers charge merchants a percentage of the transaction (plus a flat cent fee). Starting today, merchants can now pass this percentage fee on to the customers who use credit cards.
This is rather unfortunate, though somewhat inevitable. Maybe this will discourage some people from using credit cards and get them back to debt-free cash? Which is bad for me, since I would REALLY like to get to the cashless system.
When will the government start its own credit card processor, one that's fee-less? You decide to regulate everything else based on the commerce clause...how about you regulate ACTUAL commerce?
Jan 25, 2013
Jan 24, 2013
News: JJ Abrams, new Star Trek director, to direct new Star Wars
Yeah. WTF.
I mean, it wasn't that good to begin with.
Having not seen the newest Star Trek (or, really, any of them), I can only go on what I've heard. And, I've heard that JJ is all about flashy action with no heart. That doesn't sound like Star Wars. The whole franchise is built on the story and personal relationships and fault lines between characters. Unless you count the Star Wars prequels I guess...which were bad. But, I guess if you want to repeat that 'success', he's the right guy.
News: Cisco sells Linksys, home networking unit to Belkin
Hmmm. Don't have confidence in the Belkin brand. This will be interesting.
Jan 18, 2013
Jan 16, 2013
Jan 15, 2013
USDCNY: Twitter pics cannot be used by commercial entities
Even if a picture is posted on Twitter (and possibly re-tweeted by others), it CANNOT be used for commercial means. A ruling on technology use I can FINALLY agree with.
Jan 13, 2013
Sad: Computer activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide
He was indicted for mass-downloading documents from JSTOR, a massive online journal of academic papers. He fought against the system of hiding intellectual knowledge behind a paywall, despite the research being paid for with public monies.
He also happens to have created the RSS 1.0 specification and was an early co-owner of Reddit, a popular online community news site. He truly stood for letting the world be smarter than it was...and left it dumber without his presence in it.
Jan 11, 2013
Sports: 0 of 37 eligible voted into MLB Hall of Fame for 2013
With the wave of steroid-marred candidates for the Hall of Fame getting their first chance to be voted in, the voters decided to send a message. No one was voted into the Hall of Fame for 2013.
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