Meg Whitman’s hard at work “remaking” Hewlett Packard. Her latest effort: “declaring legal war” on Polish makers of cheap HP printer cartridges for patent infringement. That’s some visionary leadership there, eMeg.

I can only imagine how badly she would have screwed up California had her $150 Million vanity project to become its governor succeeded. I’m not exactly a fan of Brown, but given the alternative? No contest.

Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano says a Cyber 9/11 is looming that could have the same impact as Hurricane Sandy.

So more duct tape, saran wrap and color-coding, then? Nice…

Made mention of the vulnerability of our infrastructure, I have…hummm ..yes.

Well I like my Mac Minis and will likely get the latest updated one in the near future. I have no use for any kind of pad or touch or any other similar tech gadget.

Meg Whitman comes from the High School Shop Class school of remaking. Mess it up, put to grooves in it and call it an ash tray.

•Jay Rockefeller and a handful of Senate wankers reintroduce a bill authorizing the National Academy of Sciences to study the impact of violent video games, movies and television on children. Because god forbid having one gun for every man, woman and child in this country couldn’t be having an impact.

Anyone on Capitol Hill have the guts to point out that Japan and Sweden, to name just two countries, allow manga and movies and videogames that make what’s offered in the US look tame, yet they’re not killing each other in the mass quantities that we kill ourselves?

Oh, that’s right, the movie industry hates the videogame industry and wants it dead, so they’re not gonig to work with people they see as their mortal enemies.

For those of us mourning the death of Fringe, the good news is JJ Abrams will be helming the new Star Wars series, which Disney recently purchased the rights to.

While I think JJ Abrams is a good/great director, I would have a tough time coming up with a worse choice. Star Trek was an enjoyable movie but it showed little respect for the source material. The last thing the next Star Wars movie needs, is to go off in a completely different direction, which i am afraid Abrams will take it.
YMMV.

“Will Apple kill the Mac?”

If so, good riddance. When the digital revolution hit my field of classical philology way back when, for some reason the people who primarily study the ancient Romans mostly bought computers running MS-DOS, but those studying the ancient Greeks went with Mac. Software developed accordingly, and this meant that until quite recently if you wanted to write a paper employing text in Greek characters, and you “only” had a PC, you were out of luck. It was not until 2008 that a decent program for typing Greek in Windows finally became available. I’m sure that other people have similar horror stories.

Meg Whitman comes from the High School Shop Class school of remaking. Mess it up, put to grooves in it and call it an ash tray.

LOL

I like that.

Srsly? A computer’s operating system is more capable than MS-DOS and you say “good riddance”?

> I’m sure that other people have similar horror stories.

Yes, they mainly focus on the lack of MS-DOS/Windows capabilities beyond data entry.

That’s straight from Bill Cosby’s “Shop” routine on his 1966 LP Wonderfulness. Everything he made turned into an ashtray.

Don’t remember what my junior high shop projects became, but I do remember that in my high school ceramics class, our teacher told us flat-out that we could not, repeat, not, make any ashtrays — unless they were either very well done or so cleverly done he couldn’t figure out what they were.