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POPSBritish try to ban 'extreme' porn Extreme porn as defined by the British: is grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays in any way an act which threatens a person's life, or which results or appears likely to result in serious injury to someone's genitals or breasts.
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POPSApple Working on 3D OS No one is saying that this is going to be the final OS X desktop of a future OS from Apple but the details show that Apple is aggressively trying to 'Think Different'. Apple is a Hardware company as well as a Software company, and making the desktop unusual is great. But on the other hand, it has to be functional and easier to use, otherwise Apple would have spent a lot of time and money just to get egg on their face.
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POPSGreat End the Fed Posters These are really good posters. Precise and to the point. The Federal Reserve is not more 'Federal' than Federal Express. It is a private institution run by a private organization that congress or the senate have no direct control.
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POPSFederal Bailout under a Blanet of Secrecy Without knowing the value and the kind of assets the Fed received from troubled banks, taxpayers can’t determine the effectiveness of the bailout or whether the money is being used properly.
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POPSGod Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule God said in a press conference near the Twin Towers, 'Look, I don't know, maybe I haven't made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again. Somehow people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their neighbor. Well, I don't. And to be honest, I'm really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to kill anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple terms that anybody ought to be able to understand."
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POPSSteve Jobs - 61st out of the 400 Riches Americans Quote: Jobs dismisses health worries, but shareholders fret his pancreatic cancer has returned after gaunt pictures of the King of the iGeeks surfaced in June. Stock up more than 100% between January 2007 and January 2008; now down 16% as the market reacts to health concerns. Launched new iPhone 3G in July. Sleeker, faster gadget sells for $300, half the price of the original; sold one million units on first weekend. Original iPhone took 74 days to reach millionth sale. Founded Apple in garage. Created Macintosh 1976, fired 9 years later after power struggle with chief exec John Sculley. Bought Pixar for $10 million, transformed firm into animation darling with hits Toy Story, Finding Nemo. Sold to Disney 2006 for 7.3% stake in the company—now worth $4.3 billion. Returned to Apple 1996. A third of Apple's $24 billion annual revenues are from iPod. Tweaked iterations introduced last month.
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POPSAnother Google First This camera can easily distinguish objects 16 inches long, with 11-bits per pixel color. It's orbit is one day so that the images are not blurred.
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POPSAcclaimed Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested This is a clear violation of the first amendment. Amy and her crew had clearly visible Press badges and the camera's were in plain view. Amy and her crew were filming and reporting on the protester's at the RNC.
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POPSComcast to cap online use The cap will be set at 250gb. If you go over that, you get a courtesy call from Comcast as a first warning. The second time that you go over, your account will be immediately suspended for an entire calendar year. People that watch movies or video's online are going to be hit hard because you can go over your daily limit in minutes. And don't forget that companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and others are offering online (cloud) storage. Some applications such as Google's http://docs.google.com/ are online and would be completely inaccessible to small business's or home offices. Plus there are X-box, Playstation, Nintendo and many other consumer boxes that require the internet to access online games, calenders, address books, and even clocks.
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POPSHow does it feel to die? This article takes the guess work out of death. How does it feel to drown? How long does it take? Is Lethal Injection painless? Do you die from strangulation or from a broken neck? This article explains the most common ways to die, what it likely feels like and how long it takes in most cases.
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POPSSpammers are hiring firms to defeat CAPTCHA's You send the firm the CAPTCHA's and a real person solves it and send it back to the customer. Apparently the employee solving the puzzle only gets paid if the puzzle is: Solved correctly Solved within 60 seconds (even though the rule is under 20 seconds) The firm charges $1 for every 1,000 CAPTCHA's that you send. They also sell Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts in bulk
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POPSThe iPhone is Apple's solution to the Enterprise Even though most every one agrees when it comes to Apple and Enterprise, the iPhone is helping Apple reach into Enterprise. Apple had only had 1% in Oct. 2006 and jumped to 4.5 just 9 months later. It is no coincidence that the iPhone was announced in Jan. 2007 and started shipping that summer. This is significant because Enterprise adoption of Mac's had been at a stand still.
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POPSThe World's Largest Particle Accelerator No one really knows what the machine will give birth to. But the equations suggest that some weird stuff could be just around the corner — maybe "dark matter," the invisible stuff that seems to hang around galaxies. "It's kind of an embarrassment that we don't know what 95 percent of the universe is made of by weight," Green says. "We hope — it's possible — we may be making dark matter." Some theories say it is possible the collider will cause miniature black holes to momentarily appear. But for now, what has appeared is a table of croissants, an urn of coffee, and more people. Everyone stands around in blue hard hats. They don't talk about black holes or dark matter. A few say things like "I hope the magnet doesn't fall."
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POPSThe future is going to be better than you think
The future is not all doom and gloom, there is hope after all. This UN "State of the Future" report says, "The future continues to get better for most of the world, but a series of tipping points could drastically alter global prospects." Despite Global Warming, racial tensions, war, famine and other real problem's we face, things are getting better for humanity as a whole and can continue to do so. Dinosaurs were not seriously studied until just little over 100 years ago. Just 50 years ago, blacks and white were still segregated. Women still had very little in the way of rights in business, courts, and even their homes. We have global communications on such a massive scale that anyone anywhere can practically talk to any one of 8 billion people. The microchip, microbiology, space travel, flight, automobiles, home computers, satellites... all of these things (and more) have been available for a hundred years or less. We have a bright and prosperous future... if we
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