My East Ky

In an effort to stop child pornography At&t and AOL have dropped access to alt.binary groups in Usenet. If you don’t know what I am talking about then you will not miss it, or if you did use Usenet you noticed the first day they blocked access. The only way to access alt.binary groups now is threw a pay service.

Now we are all gun ho about getting rid of kiddie porn and stuff but blocking the entire alt.binary groups is a little to far IMO. This is just another attempt to cut cost’s on At&t’s end. Sadly I don’t think this will stop the kiddie porn traders at all, this was just political junk by Andrew Cuomo. Hey vote for me I got rid of kiddie porn on the Internet. While ISP’s are loving the fact that they get to block access to a very resource heavy service & get to join the fight kiddie porn crusade. Does not any think about actually catching the pedophiles instead of blocking a service? For example guns, when a criminal act is committed with a firearm do we take away firearms from everybody in the USA, stop selling them, or do we go after the criminal?

This is just the beginning of more things to come by ISP’s, usage caps are coming. Are you going to pay more on your ISP bill to watch videos on you tube? I just love how ISP’s boost there available network speeds like AT&T’s 3MB or 6MB plan but now that people are starting to utilize them they are worried about network performance and bandwidth issues.

I always thought Dawahares was a little pricey but I never imagined that they were in financial trouble. So I was surprised when I read that they were closing the doors in Pikeville & Paintsville. Where am I going to buy some good UK gear now? I guess the economy is really starting to affect the retailers in our area harder now. Who knows how many, or which ones are next? September 30th is reportedly the closing date, so maybe we will be able to get some good deals on some clothing items?

I remember going school shopping with my mom for many years and Dawahares was always one of the shopping stops that we made, and that’s been about 20 years ago more or less. I for one will miss shopping there, but maybe this will open up an opportunity for somebody else.

As if we thought the new Blu-ray movies were not large enough, most are 25GB. Pioneer is reportedly developing a blu-ray disc that can hold 400GB of data! Plus it’s supposed to be compatible with existing blu-ray players on the market now so you won’t have to run out and buy a new blu-ray player. Can you imagine 16 High definition movies on 1 blu-ray disc? I wonder what the price for 1 disc would cost? A blank blu-ray disc (and a cheap one from newegg) will set you back $9.99, so is it too farfetched to say that 1 blu-ray 400GB disc will easily go over $100?

Maybe this will bring down the price of hard drives even further? I don’t know about you but I feel much more secure with my data in a raid setup over multiple hard drives then having 1 blu-ray disc to fall back on.

Pioneer press release

Tversity has recently released a new version of there great, free media server software. Version 1.0 RC1 has been out a couple of weeks and I recently updated the version I was currently using and have noticed a improvement of stability when streaming videos to a HR 21-700 HD reciever. Plus there is a new sleek looking interface.

Here is a video of comedian Jeff Dunham that is coming to the East Kentucky Exposition Center on Saturday September 27th.