Category Archives: Technology

The End of the Incandescents

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Liberty

GE the original incandescent lightbulb manufacturer is shutting down its factory in  Winchester Virginia. WINCHESTER, VA. – The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product … Continue reading →

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Court rule against Sugar Beets.

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Liberty

90% of sugar beets are genitically modified by a process from Monsanto. The modification is to cause resistance to their proprietery product the herbicide/weedkiller  Roundup™. Makes it easy for the farmers and sells a lot of Roundup™. The Environmental groups … Continue reading →

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Malware

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Liberty

Is it me or is malware striking more often and harder these days. Intel sees a future virus protection and is buying McAfee, There is a  security flaw in 40 or more windows programs, and I’ve seen a couple cases … Continue reading →

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Ray Bradbury has some thoughts.

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Liberty

Ray Bradbury reaches 90 years on the 22nd of this month,  He still has a lot to say about the world around him. He speaks out against Large government and not being accountable to the citizens. I find it interesting … Continue reading →

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Oracle Sues Google

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Liberty

The only certainty on this one is that some lawyers are sure to make money. Lets see if I explain what this is all about. Sun Systems created Java, and released it to the world under the GPL license, GPL … Continue reading →

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Virus in Siemens SCADA/HMI Systems

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Liberty

Its hard to believe that anyone would put faith in a Industrial Process system running on Microsoft Windows. Eyecurrent, explains: Microsoft has posted an advisory about a new virus that seems to be specifically targeting Siemens WinCC through a Windows … Continue reading →

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