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Comcast says it is pleased to announce its Usage Meter

I got this in my inbox today (I’ve been waiting for it too, still not happy):
Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer,
We are pleased to announce the pilot launch of the Comcast Usage Meter in your area. This new feature is available to Comcast High-Speed Internet customers and provides an easy way to check total monthly household [...]

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Why does a USB charger have access to anything at all? Energizer, please explain.

So, TIL [Today I Learned], that a USB charger by Energizer has, for the last two years, had a back door open. According to CERT and this MarketWatch announcement. Which charger? The one below.
These are the reasons why I have no problem with Apple dictating what can and can’t be on its own systems. When [...]

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People Upset Over Fake Core i7 Blame Newegg instead of Counterfeiters

I used to have a sign in my office that read:
Quality
Speed
Low Cost
Pick Two.
It reminded people that although you can get something quickly at a cost, it won’t be cheap. But if you want something cheap and fast, it won’t be the highest quality possible, and if you want something low cost and high quality, it [...]

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Adobe Flash Equals Frustration

Can someone please tell me why every external drive connected to my Mac powers up everytime a FLASH animation appears on a website?
On my MacBook Pro, the fan would kick on, on my PC laptops… same thing. This isn’t limited to Apple products. It drives me nuts. Everything stops for a second or two as [...]

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Dear Apple, your headphones still suck.

I’ve been drinking the Apple kool-aid for the last 6 months or so. Switched completely over to Mac a few months ago. My PC’s are just sitting around my office collecting dust waiting for me to take their drives out and reintegrate the data that I haven’t needed on a daily basis. I might have [...]

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Big Brother Comes Home

An interesting article on BoingBoing yesterday titled “School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home”. What appears to have happened is this; Laptops were given to students of the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. Those laptops had webcams in the bezel as laptops today normally do. But these laptops [...]

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What Just Happened to Competition and Consumer Power

Let me get this straight. The Amazon Kindle allowed consumers to purchase books for, lets say… $10. And they were selling, and the publishers had to take that price point because it was selling, and very well. Maybe they didn’t make as much, I hear it was a 30/70 split with Amazon taking the 70. [...]

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TechCrunch Intern Kerfuffle Highlights Importance of Ethics and Tech

If you read the comments, which come from a surprising amount of people with vanity domains and from people using their real names, you’ll notice that people may be suspecting pretty much every review of a business because one person decided to take more than their wage in compensation for said review. Bias is a [...]

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Facebook, Privacy, and Your Info is No Longer YOURS.

So, apparently Facebook has disallowed/blocked a brilliant application of Web 2.0 interconnectedness. The SuicideMachine is a site that allows you to purge your online identity with the click of a few buttons. And, when this launched, I knew it was going to be a headache, but one easily fixed. Block it.
Here is the key ethical [...]

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So it was undealt with teen angst that made a terrorist?

I can’t believe that this is the case. When failed coping skills allow a person to turn to fundamentalist religions, conspiracy to murder hundreds of people and stoke terror; I think we’ve found a teachable moment here.
Basically, what this article boils down to is that a kid couldn’t cope with his desires, or his inability [...]

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Balloon Boy Family gets $42,000 Bill

I don’t know why this bill reached $42,000 when anyone who has ever seen Mythbusters could have told any observer with authority to initiate this search and tracking fiasco that the balloon was impossible to carry a child unless it was a newborn made of rice crispy treats. Then there are the people who could [...]

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Another reason to appreciate the Federal level of Government.

So, Engadget has an article through Slashdot which got it from a USDOJ posting regarding the fixing of LCD prices. And let me tell you, I had thought there were some shenanigans going on with LCD prices, but then they started dropping like a sack of potatoes. And now we know why… they were caught [...]

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PublicShame has a new post about college students arrested for refusing a tip.

I don’t know about you, but if a group of friends show up where I am and we grab a table together, it doesn’t mean its a group of 6 or more because each is paying separately. A mandatory 18% tip leads to students getting arrested.
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If you have to game the system, you aren’t getting out of Jury Duty ethically.

I was surfing Digg today and because this blog is about the merging of business, technology, and ethics… I found this gem of ethical equivocation. With statements like:
Well, for me, I try to game the system – as ethically as I can.
and what if you run up against an ethical wall? Well, she applies…
Whatever personal [...]

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“Within Months” – Murdoch. Google, feel free to pull “his” content now.

Come on Google. There is being diplomatic and then there is just standing around at the beach having dirt kicked in your face and your girlfriend taken off by a bully. Sure, you can do better if your girlfriend would leave you for a bully, but why take the dirt kicking bully as just a [...]

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