Amazing – if you have an SBCGLOBAL email account – now AT&T and run by Yahoo – there’s no way to change your email password online. Un believable!!!!

How do these people stay in business?

For what it’s worth I have created an alternative to SOPA and PIPA where what we now call piracy become free advertising and distribution. Here’s how it works.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released today so I went to my local Verizon store to check it out. Unlike some cell phone users I actually use it for a phone and I like a phone with high speaker volume. Don’t bother with this phone. The Galaxy Nexus has really low volume. It’s so low in fact that it has to be some sort of bug. So it might be fixable. But I wouldn’t bother to look until it’s fixed.

Phone had 4.02 on it so it is today’s release of the OS.

I was also interested in the bigger screen. The screen is longer but not wider than my Droid X. The extra length however is mostly used to draw buttons on the screen. Some apps make the buttons go away using the extra space. I was expecting the screen to seem bigger than my droid X but it seemed the same size. It was a pretty screen.

Android 4 seems a little awkward to use. I think it needs to mature, say 2 more releases to get it right.

I did however get to play with the droid Razr which had the loudest volume of any of the phones. I like being hands free without bluetooth. Just using the speaker phone.

Of course the government wants to take that away too now.

I remember when computers used to actually work. Now, like everything else it seems things are getting worse. Adobe flash used to just work. Now it crashes several times a day. When it first started I thought it was a temporary thing and Adobe will fix it. But months later it’s not getting any better.

It seems like dysfunctional is the new functional and standards are dropping. I remember back when Yahoo Messenger used to work. It was a little app that just did chat and no problems. Now it’s bloatware and barely works.

It’s not just limited to the Windows world. the Linux KDE interface has yet to catch up to where it was 10 years ago. In some ways when it comes to text mode editors Linux has yet to catch up with where DOS was 25 years ago and Linux file permission are way behind where Netware was 20 years ago.

We all love Google but I just bought one of their “Google TV” operating systems built into my new Sony TV and to say it sucks is implying that it works at all and comes up to the level of sucks. When they said it was Android 3.1 I had an expectation is was as good or better than my Android 2.3 cell phone. It’s like it’s not even the same operating system. It’s totally incompatible with every other Android app I run. It’s like it’s a completely different operating system. Nothing I’m used to works. Shame on you Google!

I don’t know what others think but I’m getting really tired of things going down hill and that becoming the new standard. It’s like technology is reflecting the deteriorating state of society. Everything is going to hell.

My 2 cents …

Wonder why the internet is as free as it is? A lot has to do with this senator who was awarded the Pioneers Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is responsible for section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which protect ISPs from liability for what users post.

Whether you are a devout Christian Evangelist or an Atheist this guy, Michael Dowd, will impress you.

In this time of mourning over the passing of Steve Jobs it is important to understand what made him such and outstanding individual. And although it is an inconvenient truth to some people, his success was due to using LSD. That is what Apple’s trademark phrase “Think Differently” is referring to.

In his own words, Jobs said that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” This is what Steve Jobs himself believed was his advantage over Microsoft Windows, saying of Bill Gates, “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”

Although it is generally good to teach our children to “say no to drugs” not all drugs are the same. Kids should definitely say no to drugs like cigarettes, excessive alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine. But when it come to the psychedelic drugs like marijuana, mescalin, and LSD one has to appreciate that when used properly these drugs can have a profound and permanent positive effect transforming the individual in a way that allows someone to “Think Differently” and be the forefront of computer development like Steve Jobs was.

So when you sit down in front of your Mac computer, your iPod, iPad, iPhone, and listen to you music on iTunes, think of Steve Jobs and wonder where the world would be today if not for the people who “Think Differently” that create all this wonderful technology we enjoy.

Let the flame wars begin!

I’ve been seeing a number of web sites that seem to make it clear that plastic bags are actually greener than paper bags. But I’m wondering if there is an advantage to plastic that no one has mentioned, carbon sequestration.

Critics say that one of the disadvantages of plastic bags is that they will last “1000 years”. Plastic bags that biodegrade faster however end up releasing carbon dioxide back into the environment contributing to global warming. It seems to me that if they buried plastic bags in places where they won’t degrade they could take carbon permanently out of the environment. 2 birds – 1 stone.

What am I missing?

Yeah – I’d do her. I think we can get bipartisan agreement on that issue.

Is the “Great Communicator” turning over in his grave because of his daughter’s most recent — and highly publicized — nude photo shoot?

Actually, maybe not. Patti Davis, long identified as the “black sheep” of former President Ronald Reagan’s children, didn’t bare all in More magazine in a spirit of defiant protest. She’s not trying to shock her conservative parents — or conservatives anywhere, for that matter.

If anything, Davis’ nude image and accompanying essay advance a thesis about the virtues of staying physically fit. She’s 58 years old now, but looks — oh — maybe 28.

Five and a half minuter of my squirrel munching down on a corn cob. The day before I had taken away a cookie that a kid in the neighborhood gave him and he’s still pissed off at me. He thinks I’m going to steal his food.