Last night my wife had a bunch of pictures that she had taken from our last vacation that she asked me to print. I have a HP Photosmart 7550. Of course, I told her that it would be no problem. I opened up the pictures she wanted and clicked print and went [...]

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This video is simply amazing to me. Don’t worry, it isn’t gory. In fact it appears to be taken from an OLN cable broadcast.
Have you ever sky-dived? I have a few times and I have to tell you it is the most exhilarating experience I have ever had. There just aren’t [...]

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California computer science researchers have determined that “naive” P2P users who don’t rely on blocklists will inevitably end up connecting to “fake users” who may track their download behavior. Feeling lucky?
Now I don’t personally use these P2P networks, but I know lots of Geeks out there do.
I do know that RIAA won [...]

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The big boss at NBCU knows that the war on piracy is a disaster, but his solution isn’t to try a new tactic. Rather, Jeff Zucker wants to see all ISPs and the government put piracy at the top of their agendas. This includes ISP’s adding filters and helping police activity on the internet. [...]

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I am sure that there are other people out there like myself that like to dig into the internals of what “makes things tick”. Have you ever taken the time to try to figure out MP3 compression? I mean it is something that, dare I say, all of us have at least heard [...]

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As Capitol v. Thomas heads to the jury, the attorneys sparred over the question of whether making a file available over a P2P network was infringement. The judge’s proposed jury instructions say that “an actual transfer must take place” in order for copyright infringement to occur. This instruction could make it near impossible for [...]

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