Really, really Creepy, “Aaron’s Rent to Own” Computer Policies

“PITTSBURGH — A major furniture rental chain provides its customers with computers that allow the company to track keystrokes, take screenshots and even snap webcam pictures of renters using the devices at home, a Wyoming couple said in a lawsuit Tuesday……the PC Rental Agent product includes components soldered into the computer’s motherboard or otherwise physically [...]

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Windows 7 Family Pack Returns October 3

Beginning October 3 you will once again be able to acquire the 3 upgrade (XP and Vista) license family pack for Windows 7. At $149 for the bundle it’s a sweet deal for the average American home which now has, on average, 2.1 computers. But what the heck do you do with the 0.9 license [...]

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NASA and GM Team up to make R2 Robonaut

NASA and GM Take a Giant Leap Forward in Robotics

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One Trillion Devices Connected to Internet

  According to the online dictionary a trillion is: the number represented as one followed by twelve zeros (1012); a million million.  Now Cisco Systems, the guys that make the machines that make the internet run, is saying that in the year 2013 there will be 1 trillion devices connected to the global internet.  Hmmmn, [...]

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Bombproof Wallpaper

I don’t know about bombproof, but to me, this idea has added to brick walls what was always needed, just a tiny bit of elasticity.  A structure fortified with some of this stuff would surely fare better in an earthquake or tornado. Here’s the jump: Via Vimeo Best Of What’s New 2009: Bombproof Wallpaper Test

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