This thing has a 300MHz processor and has been hacked to run Linux with mouse and sound support.
$38 Zipit Wireless Messenger receives Linux injection, becomes $38 netbook.
$38 Linux netbook
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Daily Archives: September 28, 2009
Children in the UK – WTF?
What the fuck is going on in the UK?! It turns out that under new legislation if you leave your kids at another person’s house to mind the child, that other person will have to be vetted by the government. If you want to take care of other people’s children (either as a babysitter or as a reciprocal favour) then you will need to be vetted by government. If you drive kids to sports activities… you guessed it… you need to be vetted!
Vetting not only entails an intrusion to your privacy, but you will receive training and need to make modifications to the area the child(ren) will be staying in.
Which basically means you have no right to decide how to bring up your own child!
Nation’s parents prepare to be vetted • The Register.
Hospital marks up medicine 3495%
St. Anthony’s Central hospital charged a man $730,- for a couple of tablets he takes regularly at home. The cost for him at home? Around $30,-. After a complaint he got a 40% discount. Still ridiculous.
Patient Disputes Mark Up In Medication – cbs4denver.com.
Google nukes gmail account
Another reason to not trust gmail: a court orderd an account deactivated and the users personal information turned over after the Rocky Mountain Bank fucked up and sent personal information on 1300 customers to that account.
It beggars belief that your email can be destroyed that easily!
MediaPost Publications Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User’s Gmail Account 09/25/2009.
ILiad owners must hate DRM
This is one of the problems with DRM – because different parties are using different DRM systems (ePub and MobiPocket), e-book readers are forced to handle them with 2 different firmwares. IREX, builder of the iLiad e-book reader, only support MobiPocket if you have a Dutch iLiad e-book reader. There will be a firmware update to handle ePub, but not for the Dutch.
ILiad-bezitters door drm-vete in de kou | Webwereld.