A few days ago I wrote about the LG Optimus 7 and the Windows Mobile 7 experience. Basically, it wasn’t. Rather, it was a bad trip. It is every bit the customer lock-in experience that the Apple iPhone is and the Cloud Computing experience is all about parting you from your money through monthly tariffs and data charges. It is no wonder that the ( Read more... )

To be honest, the only say that they could cause cancer, maybe. Yeah right, getting old causes cancer too.

Last year, results of a large study found no clear link between cellphones and cancer.
But some advocacy groups contend the study raised serious concerns because it showed a hint of a possible link between very heavy phone use and a rare but ( Read more... )

Last Friday, amidst other things (which I will discuss in another post), I had to go down to the SwissCom shop to deal with my Piece-of-Shit HTC s740. What I walked away with is this:


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One of the biggest mass violations of the US Constitution is not being set right  but it is moving in that direction.

Charles Fahy, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, deliberately hid from the court a report from the Office of Naval Intelligence that concluded the Japanese Americans on the West Coast did not pose a military threat.

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I often check on news at home and this LA Times article struck me as hilarious. It is the story of a project at Orange County International Airport, known by its modern name of John Wayne Airport 1 . The project is a classic example of how not to run a project. What was supposed to be a 3-4 year 11 million dollar project has now morphed into a 10 ( Read more... )

This guy actually traced the roots of the loan fraud CDOs back to early 1990’s, at least. The GW Bush administration was warned about this by the FBI fraud division. Bush’s Attorney General, in 2008, refused to prosecute.

We are doing everything possible to make the next crisis come more quickly and make it kick us in the teeth far harder - ( Read more... )

For more than a month now, I have been predicting a USD:CFH fall to 85 centimes. This is both a prediction and a dread. This morning the USD dropped below 86 centimes for the first time, ever! I only have to spend 85.9 centimes to buy a USD. That’s 0.859 CHF :1.00 USD. When I arrived here 1 it was the reverse ($0.85:1.0 CHF). This is a direct result ( Read more... )

Apparently, I can no longer edit existing posts due to a number of interacting issues. Worse, I can’t fix it on this server. I am in the process of building a new Web Application Server (WAS) and will fix it during the move to the new machine. My problem currently is that we are on Holiday and away from Nyon and the VPN is not quite good enough to ( Read more... )

The unlawful detainment of known and obvious innocents is one of the first major proofs of a tyranny and the US is guilty as charged, again, and again! Amerika is NOT the land of the free! freedom at the convenience of the government is NOT freedom. It is not just the fact that Guantanamo exists, it is the fact that it can exist without major ( Read more... )

The unlawful detainment of known and obvious innocents is one of the first major proofs of a tyranny and the US is guilty as charged, again, and again! Amerika is NOT the land of the free! freedom at the convenience of the government is NOT freedom. It is not just the fact that Guantanamo exists, it is the fact that it can exist without major ( Read more... )