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I like it.

Have you ever noticed that in the technology world, product being "agnostic" is considered a good thing?

It's just a matter of time now for Technorati, unless somebody with deep pockets wants to buy them.

Wishing for high speed access to the Internet be available everywhere in Pennsylvania won't get it done. Neither will goofy legislation mandating that cable companies provide it.

This whole legislative idea seems to me to be some sort of cross between pandering to voters complaining about access and finding additional revenue sources through a statewide cable television franchise law.

Here's an idea - how about wireless?

Anyone else think that Comcast is doing a crappy job of spamfiltering - by blocking legitimate emails?

Look for an underground economy in anti-emetics to hurl itself against this technology.

And in the latest dose of news that seems to have leaped out of a comic book and landed on the pages of USA Today, that paper reports on the Homeland Security department’s newest toy, a “powerful beam of light that temporarily blinds anyone who looks on it.”

Officially known as an LED Incapacitator, the light saber-like device has been dubbed a “puke ray” by one online publication.

“It’s like someone shooting off a flashbulb in your face every few seconds,” said Bob Lieberman, president of Intelligent Optical, which is developing the devices. “Because of the wavelengths and frequencies we use, there are psychophysical effects – a real disorientation. The reaction can range through vertigo to nausea.”

Which sounds fine, except that the Homeland Security department wants it to be “in the hands of thousands of policemen, border agents and National Guardsmen” by 2010, hinting that it planned to solve the immigration problem by blinding the Mexicans into staying on their side of the border. Who needs a wall when you’ve got a thousands points of nausea-inducing light?

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I think it is absolute BS that ISPs are creating roadblocks for legitimate email to be delivered and then charging those legitimate emailers for a way around those roadblocks. This is a bad precedent to accept, and the captive marketplace really can't afford to let it get entrenched as a business practice without some public consideration (read governmental hearings) of alternatives.

Yeah, I agree with the tone of this post, and it's interesting to see a breakdown of receiving ISPs for an email list: Spamfilters have become a big problem for those who have legitimate one-to-many email communications responsibilities. And I really don't appreciate the "tough noogies" attitude that many ISPs seem to harbor towards legitimate emailers.

How Did I Get This When I Don't Even Have Text Messaging?!?!?!

Organizers of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Austria next month are offering the faithful a foretaste: daily cell phone text messages with quotes from the pontiff.

The Archdiocese of Vienna said the service, which began Sunday and will continue through the pope's Sept. 7-9 visit, will provide free excerpts of his sermons, blessings and writings.

Some of the quotations will date to the pope's days as a cardinal in Germany, church leaders said.

"Right through the summer vacation period, there will be carefully selected quotations for thinking about God, the Christian faith, human nature and the meaning of life," organizers said Monday in a statement.

The archdiocese said people can sign up for the text messages and there's no extra charge apart from the usual costs to send messages.

I must admit, I'm a little curious as to how many people would actually sign up for this. Of course, I see it as a combination of two things I really don't want much part of, so I'm not going to get the appeal, I'm sure.