MrCopilot

I want to say thank you. I want to say thank you to all the people of the world who contributed to the following efforts, without ever having even met me. My Employment: Tools that make my job not only easier and more productive but honestly, possible at all. My Entertainment: Continuing to make it accessible and affordable. My Curiosity and Education: The ever expanding index of knowledge accessible at my fingertips. My Creative Outlet: Tools and infrastructure to give any human the ability to broadcast to the world whatever they want. To list them individually by name, this post would quickly be the focus of the entire blog. Although not a bad idea, (mental note....) So keep in mind, if I leave you out. Thanks. Richard, Lawrence, Linus, Bruce and Eric, Sergey, Larry, and Eric, Mathias, Aaron. TO all of you who use, develop, report bugs for, write articles, criticize and praise open source projects like KDE, Debian, Linux, Busybox, Ant, Apache, Ruby, GNU anything; T...

Legend of Rock and Roll, Inventor and father of the sweetest sounds of Rock, Les Paul died on Wednesday at the age of 94. Rolling Stone Coverage Thank You sir. Clapton, In Your Honor, on your instrument in 64....

Quote of the day goes to LeetLuXX0rz a commment on the contuing saga of twitdown 2009. by L33tLuXX0rz August 6, 2009 5:16 PM PDT That is quite intense to just target one person. But I guess we can say that although millions of people experience discomfort Im quite sure these were some of the most productive hours some people experienced since joining the social media revolution. Actually, theres quite a few choice quotes in the actual article particularly the one from google. A Google spokesman offered this statement: "We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DOS attack this morning, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack. Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services."

After lagging behind the rest of the automotive industry for the last few years, Nissan has finally jumped on the bandwagon , and turned over a new L eaf . Capitalizing on it's partnership with Renault, Nissan announced their Zero Emission all electric production vehicle dubbed the Leaf scheduled to hit selected U.S. markets in 2010. Although no pricing is yet available, Nissan claims the MSRP will be in the range of the average V6. While most manufacturers are charging a premium for their electric vehicles, Nissan is considering a leasing arrangement for the expensive battery technology. While the consumer owns the car, Nissan would lease the battery components, effectively rendering the normal economic advantage of not having to pay at the pump a moot point. The added benefit being, when the battery has reached end of life (typically around 10yrs), Nissan would still be responsible as long as the lease is still in effect. I imagine this would give them maximum flexibilty to take ...

Mr Jobs, As you must no doubt be aware, Google has submitted their Google Voice application for inclusion in your beloved App store , with hopes of taking up a small square of real estate on the most popular tech toy since the invention of the mouse. Word on the street is that, in your infinite wisdom, you have chosen to reject this application, and I'm sure you have your reasons. Competing functions, network bandwidth considerations, I'm sure they are very similar to the reasons not given for the initial rejection of Skype on the iPhone . It is well known that you were out of office for extended periods over the last 18 months. I wonder if you had time to watch any of the political coverage as you were recovering. It would seem impossible, that you were unaware that one of the lead technical advisers to the current administration was one Eric Schmidt, Google Chief Executive and Apple Board Member. Given this fact, one would think that Apple would think twice before tweaking...

To the Office of President Barack H. Obama: Submitted through the White House Office of Public Liason I have been researching the development of transportation transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy for some time now. As I am sure the administration is aware, governmental incentives do spurn consumer interest and capital investments. Given the problems facing the American auto industry and the massive amount of on the road "dirty" vehicles, has the administration considered any policy to incentivize conversion of existing vehicles to electric or hybrid technology? It would seem logical to assume the new energy economy development costs to the auto industry could be reduced by creating and offering to the public "engine" technology that mates with standard proven drive train, braking and chassis designs. This development would help ensure the jobs of many of the American auto workers and suppliers. As dealerships are cut, so are jobs cut in the aut...

True to his nature, Microsoft founder unleashed an untold number of Bugs on the giants of technology during his talk at the TED conference . This time he could confidently assure conference attendees that the bugs carried no virus. Yes Malaria, these bugs were a swarm of mosquitoes. That's about all I want to contribute to besmirching Mr Gates in regards to raising awareness of the problems of Malaria. But feel free to add your own captions to the picture in my head of Bill releasing bugs. Here are the first few that came immediately to mind. "I know, Bugs, Bill Gates, who'd a thunk it?" "Relax, they're features." "We'll take care of these with the next service pack" -MrCopilot