http://geekfun.com You can do anything, but you can't do everything. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Obama has released a "refinement" of his position on FISA in response to the outcry among his supporters. Glen Greenwald explains how Obama is still full of crap. http://geekfun.com/2008/07/04/ut-documents-obamas-new-statement-on-fisa/ I'm too realistic (or is it cynical) to invest too much hope in any politician, including Barak Obama. Even so, Obama has managed to disappoint me hugely by indicating that he'll support a version of the FISA intelligence bill that grants immunity from prosecution to the big telecom companies ... http://geekfun.com/2008/07/04/already-dissappointed-in-obama/ Yahoo's troubles and a recent Microsoft acquisition could be bad news for open source software that enables "internet-scale" computing. Hadoop is a project to build an open source version of the infrastruture that Google uses to process data. It provides a huge filesystem that can be distributed over dozens ... http://geekfun.com/2008/07/01/goodtimes-for-powerset-hard-times-for-hadoop/ Another grey summer day in Seattle. Bleh. http://geekfun.com/2008/06/26/blah-2/ Like everyone else on Netflix, I got e-mail yesterday letting me know that they'll be discontinuing their profiles feature. This feature allowed customers to set up separate DVD rental queues for other members of their household under one account, and let the owners of those queues rate movies and ... http://geekfun.com/2008/06/19/netflix-discontinues-profiles-wtf/ Last month I tried out Netflix's streaming video service. I thought the price was right (free with most Netflix subscription plans), but the video quality was poor, like an old VHS tape recorded from TV. The selection was so so as well, but the all-you-can-eat price is right, ... http://geekfun.com/2008/05/20/roku-netflix-player/