KrayzieKyd - Slashdot User

Comment Sensationalism and ignorance regarding the embargo (Score 5, Interesting) 1116

by KrayzieKyd on Sunday June 24, 2012 @05:33PM (#40432079) Attached to: Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen

1. This is old 2. This has nothing to do with race, ethnicity, or 9/11 3. This has nothing to do with Apple 4. This has to do with the US embargo on Iran, which includes selling goods to anyone in the US that could take them back to Iran. This is law. This is not Apple acting out of nowhere. It's in their legal terms that states they follow US embargo laws. If you don't like them, tell your congressman to change US embargo law or to lift the embargo against Iran. Good luck with that.

Comment video game violence (Score 2, Interesting) 421

by KrayzieKyd on Monday January 12, 2009 @08:35PM (#26425507) Attached to: Congressman Wants Health Warnings On Video Games

I just wrote an exhaustive essay on the so-called effects of video game violence. I'm really looking forward to any feedback you may have about it. For the record, I'm on the side of video games. http://www.digital-us.org/video-games/2008/11/27/violent-video-games.html

Comment My Chrome Review (Score 2, Interesting) 489

by KrayzieKyd on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:48PM (#25358123) Attached to: Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity

I wrote an early review of Chrome when it was released http://www.digital-us.org/tech/2008/9/6/google-chrome.html

Small Webcasters Offered a Rate Break, Reject It 123

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @10:05PM from the hoping-for-a-better-deal-from-Congress dept.

Pontifex minimus writes "Music royalty collection group SoundExchange has offered an olive branch to small webcasters. They are willing to delay the exorbitant new rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board until 2010 for small webcasters in hopes that they can keep Congress from passing the Internet Radio Equality Act. Larger outfits, like Live365 and Pandora would not be affected and would have to pay the new rates. '"Although the rates revised by the CRB are fair and based on the value of music in the marketplace, there's a sense in the music community and in Congress that small webcasters need more time to develop their businesses," said John Simson, executive director of SoundExchange.' SaveNetRadio rejected SoundExchange's offer, saying that it 'throws large webcasters under the bus.'"

Municipal Wi-Fi Networks In Trouble 294

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @04:33PM from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.

imamac writes "According to an AP story, municipal Wi-Fi is going nowhere fast. A think tank research director quipped, 'They are the monorails of this decade: the wrong technology, totally overpromised and completely undelivered.' Subscriptions to the services are much lower than expected and lawmakers are concerned that millions of dollars will have gone to waste that could have been better spent on roads or crime-fighting. Satisfaction with the quality of service has also been low, which give some insight into the low adoption rate. Is municipal Wi-Fi just a bad idea, has it been poorly implemented, or is the technology just not there to support such an endeavor?"

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