Afternoon Digg Roundup
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Yep it's that time again, a quiet, snowy afternoon in Brooklyn and no class until the evening, leaving me to surf the net and post my favorite news from around. There's a good variety of articles on Digg, from Ubuntu to STD vaccine's, so I'll post my 2 favorite pieces for the afternoon.
The first is from Time.com, and it speaks about 10 states making it mandatory for girls to take an STD Vaccine against HPV. Pretty interesting debate being sprung up, is it worth to force all the girls to take it, or make it a choice and worry about the consequences if they contract it somehow still. Personally I'm all for the vaccine being mandatory, but I understand how some people could object.
The second is for gamers via 1up.com, which is a large gaming portal, and it asks the question, How Would You Fix Xbox Live?". I'm not on Xbox Live due to the connection at my dorm, but I don't think there's that much to fix, it's pretty much the best online multiplayer network amoung the 3 consoles, and they're always updating it and bringing more content so I don't have much to bitch about. Anyone have any gripes?
Then here's a little add-on for Firefox users. IF you have to access an FTP, why not have better management through Firefox? There's a nice Add-on called FireFTP, and it could make life simpler for those webmasters. I'll give it a run through tonight and post some thoughts,
Alright enough for now, post your comments and thoughts as always,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 2:34 PM 0 comments
Labels: Firefox, Health, Microsoft, News
Wednesday News roundup
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
I'm stuck at the library tonight as my great part-time job of being a student assistant librarian so I might as well go over the news that I find interesting this early evening. Most of it comes from Digg, since you can't beat the power of the masses, but I've a big fan of Ars Technica and one of the articles comes from one of their blogs.
The first is Popular Science's Predictions for 2007, which by the way, is a great read even if you're not a "nerd" or into science that much. They have some great predictions and stories about stem cell research, drinking water and the increased release of methane, which is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than Carbon Dixode. Really interesting stuff
The second is from the Opposable Thumbs blog, where they examine the viability of using Blu-Ray as a storage medium on the PS3. Everyone knows Blu-Ray holds 25gb on a single disc, but the drive is only rated for 2x, which means it only transfers at 9mb/sec, whereas the "slow" 12x DVD drive on the Xbox360 reads at 16mb/sec. Makes you wonder why they chose to do this, basically forces you to preload a game. Check it out for more, don't wanna rewrite the article :)
The last is from an interview of the Firefox creator Blake Ross at Operawatch.com. Pretty interesting article if you're into software and/or web browsers. I currently use all 3 depending on what I feel like or what I want to do. It's always nice to see 2 rival camps play nice.
Alright time to get back to work,
-Steve
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Posted bySteve at 6:23 PM 0 comments
Labels: News, Science, Tech, Video Games
News service for casinos, gamblers and online betters
Friday, January 05, 2007
I'm not that big of a gambler but I got roomates who are pretty active in the betting world, both online and with a bookie or lottery type bets so I'm letting everyone know about a good news services for all you gambling types. It's called OG Paper, and it's got all the casino and gambling news, reviews, guides and everything you could need. It's a nicely done site and the quality of the content is great, they got news from all over the world and even review Casions from all over as well. Pretty nice site to check out, even if you're not the type to gamble often.
Enjoy,
-Steve 
Posted bySteve at 12:38 PM 0 comments
Labels: News
Random 1am Post : Saddam, HDTV's and Fifa'06
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Yep just got finished playing a marathon of Fifa'06 with my friend Carter, man that's a great game, and we're nearly the same skill wise now so it's pretty interesting who can pull it off and etc. It sure beats spending money doing nothing on a Friday night, lol.
By now everyone's heard that Saddam will be executed and there's been confirmation that the deed had indeed been done a few hours ago. There's various news reports but I was pointed out on Digg to the Wikipedia Page on Saddam's death, it's really interesting to see it changing every 5-10 mins. I have my personal views on the whole war but Saddam was a bad man and probably got what was coming to him.
Lastly before I head out here's a nice comparison of 1080i to 1080p, which may confuse some people. I won't spill the beans of the article but if you're looking into HDTV it's worth a look. Check out the link HERE
Alright I'm off to relax,
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 1:15 AM 0 comments
Labels: News, Random, TV, Video Games
Yahoo takes down their news message boards
Friday, December 29, 2006
Just saw this on Slashdot.org and I just had to post this as it immediately made me think, WTF? Yahoo, the great internet news and searching portal, just shut down their message boards to "fix them". Ok why take them down as you fix them instead of fixing them a) While the old ones are still up? or b) Or intergrating the fixes with the old message board?
Seems like yahoo didn't really think this quite through, makes you wonder if you have sympathy for them losing marketshare and ad-revenue to google. Anyways the original post is on Slashdot HERE and the link to the shut down boards is HERE.
Post your thoughts.
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 10:20 AM 2 comments
Random thoughts about News on the web
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Just got back in real late from covering a Hockey game for my Athletic Training hours and I'm kinda beat. But instead of going to bed I turn on the comp to get some news from the rest of the day. Immediately I turn to Digg, since it is my favorite all around tech news source, but I always turn to News.Google.Com for my daily fix of all the world's news. I think it's probably the best aggregator of news sites, since it takes sites in English from ACROSS the globe, not just from the US or your region. I don't like CNN much, and FoxNews is horrible.
What site you guys use for News? Anything else worth visiting?
Post your thoughts
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 11:57 PM 17 comments
Stealing Wifi Gets you in Jail!
Monday, November 13, 2006
Pretty crazy thing out of Singapore where someone's been charged with stealing someone's unsecured wireless network with a possibility of spending 3 years in jail. A 17 yr old teen has been charged with stealing his neighbor's wireless connection as he was warned to get off the connection and didn't do it. I don't know more of the specifics but there's got to be more to the story then this. (Full Link HERE)
What you think about jailing the teen? Is he right for using something that's freely up in the air (like Radio Waves) that's unsecured is he an intruder for going on someone's network and stealing their connection?
Post your thoughts
-Steve
Posted bySteve at 10:46 PM 0 comments
