What ever happened to impartiality in Supreme Court trials? In the past few days, the supreme court has demonstrated an undying allegiance to business. I will outline two of the more egregious cases here:

1. In a continuing violation of fair use, the Supreme Court ruled against Grokster in the case of MGM v. Grokster. What a stunning surprise ( Read more... )

Today in my philosophy class, we had a.. discussion.. on the existence of God. I was in the "maybe" group, mainly because I have no proof one way or the other. However, what I was more than willing to say is that I do not believe the Bible. It flies in the face of physics, of logic, and of evolution: three things I heavily believe in ( Read more... )

Well, today was/is the first day of my summer semester classes. Professor Hundewale let us go... oh, about an hour and a half early. And my philosophy class of about 20 students has four of us with our laptops out. Yay for David sitting by an outlet ( Read more... )

My computer has frozen (hard locked) 4 times today. I have never seen it happen before on this machine. Prior to the lockup, the system was at 5 days of uptime, which I realize is not stellar, but it shows it had been working. The downtime was just an opportunity for me to dust off the inside of things and remove a failed cd burner. The cd burner ( Read more... )

My home network is a bit of a confusing bit of work ( Read more... )

Can't hear the person on the other end? "I don't care" is the apparent answer of Verizon Wireless CEO Ivan Seidenberg. This sfgate.com article illustrates the CEO's attitude towards dropped calls, crappy reception, and yes, municipal wifi. Hopefully he can get enough bad press from this article (recently /.ed) to make sure T-Mobile and Cingular ( Read more... )

http://www.gsumun.com

Let me know what you all think. :)

This is the funniest thing I have *EVER* seen from a company not in the entertainment industry.

So, I'm sitting here at work and a professor comes out and wanders down the hall... wearing no shoes, just socks. And his class is only half over. I have no idea what is going on, but the guy always struck me as a tad odd.

Most people who know me would probably be shocked to see me trumpeting Microsoft's horn. But, as this ZDnet blog shows, they've actually done good!