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Bobby Bowden should be fired

You can see what type of football program that Bobby Bowden is running at Florida State. One that is full of selfish players who only care about themselves and not the team or the game.
First of all, there is the cheating scandal and 36 players not traveling to the Music City Bowl in Nashville. Most of those players not traveling were from the cheating scandal.

Then during the first-half tonight, FSU intercepted a ball and ran it back for a touchdown. But instead of running it in for a touchdown, he decided to flip into the endzone. This is just plain stupid and dangerous.

And it is an automatic 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty. To make matters worse, a Florida State player threw the flag back at the official. Another 15-yard penalty. So instead of kicking-off from the 30-yard line, they kicked off from the 7.5 yard line.

This has been indicative of Florida State Football for quite some time. It has finally caught up with Florida State.

I hope they get killed by Kentucky in the second half and their long-term decline continues.

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Pownce releases mobile version, maybe it will stem the downward turn

For those of you out there who have a mobile device and use Pownce has a mobile version. Just go to m.pownce.com.
It is still in Beta, so report any bugs. It still needs some work, but at least the folks at Pownce are developing one.

Thanks to my friend Chris who ran a trend on Google comparing Twitter vs Pownce. It is pretty interesting.

I had asked a question on Twitter asking about if anyone used Pownce anymore. What I was finding that in following the same people on Pownce and Twitter, they made more posts on Twitter than on Pownce.

According to Google Trends, Twitter is steady or rising, while Pownce is slowly declining.

I would be interested in your take on things. Let me know through a comment here.

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In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy

In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy – New York Times
The University of Oregon with the backing of the State Attorney General has appealed a subpoena from the RIAA on grounds that it is seeking to violate the students privacy. It is an interesting read and justification on not responding to the subpoena. Other Universities have responded, including another state university in Oregon.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Of course, the RIAA is dismayed that a University didn’t bow and kiss their ring and pass along their letters or abide by the subpoena.

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Update: RIAA not suing for ripping cds

Engadget is now reporting that the RIAA is not suing the Scottsdale, Ariz., gentleman for ripping cds, they are suing him for plain old downloading.
This was reported widely that he was being sued in the Washington Post and several other outlets. I spoke about it yesterday in a post.

The RIAA is getting quite aggressive, as was pointed out in the engadget article, and is treading on thin ground. Especially if they want to get a ruling on the ripping of legally owned cds.

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RIAA suing for copying legally bought CD’s to computer

The RIAA is suing a Scottsdale, Ariz., man because he had about 2,000 songs on his computer that he copied from CD’s that he legally bought and still owned.
The RIAA contends in a brief that they filed with the court “that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are ‘unauthorized copies’ of copyrighted recordings.”

This is ridiculous. The music industry is suing their fans and creating such a bad reputation for themselves, the people are not buying music from the big labels, making it worse for the music industry. Instead of looking for ways to survive in the digital age, they are trying to preserve an antiquated business model that is falling apart. Continue reading “RIAA suing for copying legally bought CD’s to computer”

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WordPress 2.3.2

There is a security update for WordPress, version 2.3.2.
According to their post today, it fixes some urgent security problems.

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.

Download 2.3.2 here.

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Apple to unveil rentals from even more studios at Macworld?

Apple to unveil rentals from even more studios at Macworld? – Engadget
The Apple rumors are starting to fly as MacWorld gets closer and the New York Times is getting involved also.

Everyone had been hearing that Apple was going to announce a movie rental business with Fox, but the New York Times is reporting that they will have movie deals with other studios.

I have an Apple TV and love it. If they add movie rentals to it, then it will only enhance what I have. I may have to consider canceling my Netflix description. Who knows.

It will be interesting to see what happens at MacWorld.