Excellent write-up by Robert Cringely on future of iTV amongst other digital video market giants. From Swimming With Sharks
So for the moment Apple tells Wal-Mart that movies sold through the iTunes Store won’t be a threat because of their lower than DVD resolution. When that fails, Apple will point out that HD-DVD and Blu-ray are coming and Wal-Mart should stop worrying. But eventually Apple will succumb to its need to sell yet more iPods and will point out that its little gizmo is a fine substitute for an optical disc. Take your iPod to Target and fill it with movies. Or, better still, buy an iPod at Target and THEN fill it with movies. Remember that in the end this is all about selling more razors, not more blades, so movie sales don’t really matter much to Apple as long as iPods are flying off the shelves.
(via DF)
What is being seen as one of the most important observations in Israel-Hezbollah war, the radio communication used by Israel’s army was severly compromised. Israel uses Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System designed by US, based on frequency hopping principle. Although it is believed to be an operational error on Israel army’s behalf, interceptions were enough for Hezbollah to find out Israel tank movements. Details here.
Until I did a summer research on Anonymity and Privacy on public networks, I was never a strong advocate of the concept of anonymity. For those of you who think anonymity is only required by the whistleblowers and miscreants, read no further. There is enough literature on the Internet to convince you morons.
Coming back to the concept of anonymity, there have never been too many tools available for non-geeks to play around with anonymous browsing. The TOR project was the only surviving anonymity product, but it required considerable tweaking on the system. Recently I came across a complete package from the guys at TOR for single click install on Windows, Linux and Mac machines. I thought this is the best it can get until few days back when I discovered Torpark - a portable anonymous surfing browser based on Mozilla framework. Nothing needs to be installed and you can just run it off a USB drive. Very cool !
From Clark Sorensen’s site:
Clark Sorensen has created some of the most amazing and beautiful urinals one is likely to ever see. Each is meticulously hand built and one of a kind - formed from high fire porcelain and fired to cone 10 (2300° F). These pieces are magnificent works of art but they are also fully functioning vitreous porcelain fixtures that can be plumbed and used in a bathroom.
I am interested to know who is going to invest $7000 on a fscking urinal.
