The Pirate Bay Loses in Court, Pays Fine and Jailtime

Popular Bittorrent agrigating site ThePirateBay.org has been caught up in a legal battle over the status of their web site. Millions and millions of software, music, movies, TV shows, ebooks, and more have been downloaded through torrents listed on the site. Though the Pirate Bay hosts none of the copyrighted materials, Hollywood and Sweden’s officials … Read more

Work Frustrations

So, on the bright side of things, the last round of password expirations is done. Those were some hellish three weeks, I’ll tell you what. My job decided that we needed to come into compliance with state regulations on password security. This is a good thing. They did this by force-expiring everyone’s passwords in batches, … Read more

Got an Itch for HDTV? Scratch it With Charter

If you’re only recently aware that the 21st century has brought people into current technologies like HDTV, high-speed internet and internet-based phone service (VOIP, or voice-over-internet-protocol), you probably have been wondering what all the fuss is about. Perhaps you’ve just been confused, and not really been sure what you want, but you know that you … Read more