Bill S.773 Threatens Access To The Internet.

There is a current bill passing though congress that might affect your rights to the internet. This bill would give the President the right to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat.” This bill would give the president the power to cut all internet traffic to and from the US. That means no access to information for as long as the president sees fit. This to me is over kill. I can understand regulating or shutting down networks to government facilities or utilities like power and telecommunications systems. These are the backbone of our nation and should not be open to the outside world. Any threat to these systems would be a danger to us and our country but cutting all internet access in the nation is going to far.

Links to information about this bill.

I found opencongress.org by googling for the bill, and it seems to be a vary nice site for following congress.

Politicsdaily.com has an article about the bill.

Finally Snowing, 10.6 Released.

I normally post a shot part of the article and a link back to the original. in this post i am just posting links due to all the news coming out about the new apple OS. these links cover topics ranging from Key features to OS comparisons. I hope you enjoy reading these articles.

Will 10.6 Have AntiMalware built in?

MacWorld Review.

MacRumors 10.6 Incompatibility

Snow Leopard VS Windows 7

Brit’s Up Set At Pricing

QuickTime X

10.6 Accessibility

BTGI Files Suit Against Apple, Rim, Dell And Others.

The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate flash storage chips used by Apple, Research In Motion, Dell, Asus, Sony, Lenovo and other vendors after a company claiming five patents on flash technology sought to ban the importation of the chips and devices that use them. BTG International went to the ITC on July 27 after filing a suit against the manufacturers on July 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. RIM was added later in an amended complaint. BTG sued Samsung, which made the chips, in the same court in December.

Read the article in its entirety Here.

10.6 Makes More Changes Then just Under The Hood Changes.

As Friday’s public launch of Mac OS X Snow Leopard approaches, many users are considering whether to upgrade and wondering what new features they can expect in Apple’s updated operating system. While many consider Snow Leopard to be focused on “under the hood” changes to improve and streamline performance, Apple’s Enhancements and Refinements page also covers a wide variety of visual and functional changes, many of which had previously been reported by Apple or sources using developer builds of Snow Leopard, but we highlight here a few of those of interest.

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Apple Takes Top two Sale’s Slots on Amazon.com

Pre-orders for Apple Inc.’s Snow Leopard regained the top positions on Amazon.com’s software bestseller list today after Apple announced that it would start selling the operating system upgrade at the end of this week.

As of 3:30 p.m. Eastern time today, the $29 Snow Leopard and the $49 Snow Leopard Family Pack were ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on Amazon’s software sales chart. The $49 Family Pack provides licenses for five Macs.

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Mac/Windows Programmed For Better Netbook Battery Life?

I recently purchased a Lenovo W500 notebook, and after ‘downgrading’ to XP and creating a dual partition, I found that I had a battery life of nearly three hours using the long-life battery, at this point I was a happy camper because it means that I can watch a DVD during a flight. I then tried various Linux distributions and found the battery life under FOS to be very disappointing, with an average of 45 minutes before a warning message. After settling on Ubuntu I then spent three days trying various hardware tweaks but I only managed to increase the battery life to one and a half hours. Unwanted services have been disabled, laptop mode has been enabled, the dual core CPU reduces speed when idle and the hard drive spins down when not needed. Obviously Apple with their X86 hardware and BSD based OS have got it right because the MacBooks last for hours, and a stock install of MS Windows XP gives me three hours of life.

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Google Announces 64-Bit Chrome Browser.

“The Google Chrome developers announced on August 19th the immediate availability of a new version of the Google Chrome web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Google Chrome 4.0.202.2 is here to fix a lot of annoying bugs (see below for details) and it also adds a couple of features only for the Mac platform. However, the good news is that Dean McNamee, one of the Google Chrome engineers, announced yesterday on their mailing list that a working port of the Chrome browser for 64-bit platforms is now available: ‘The v8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port. After a handful of changes on the Chromium side, I’ve had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few weeks. I believe mmoss or tony is going to get a buildbot running, and working on packaging.’ Until today, Google Chrome was available on both 32- and 64-bit architectures, but it appears that the latter was running based on the 32-bit libraries. Therefore, starting with Google Chrome 4.0.202.2, 64-bit users can enjoy a true x64 version!”

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Is OSX 10.6 Shippong Soon?

The Japanese version of Engadget reports [Google translation] that a Mac mini purchaser appears to have received a Mac OS X Snow Leopard restore disc along with the computer. The source has provided a photo of the DVD, as well as several screenshots showing the Snow Leopard installer.

(Screenshots can be found at the link below. )

Meanwhile, several readers report that the status of their OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date pre-orders have changed to “Prepared for Shipment” and continue to indicate a shipping date of “By August 28th”, adding yet another indication that the launch of Apple’s new operating system is quickly approaching despite the lack of an official announcement from the company so far.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/22/mac-mini-purchaser-receives-snow-leopard-restore-disc-up-to-date-orders-prepared-for-shipment/