You are buying 40 individual cases that hold 10 CD DVD discs each.

With the technology paste now a day’s one of the most useful accessory you can get would be CD DVD CASES. You used to have a CD collection, now you have a whole mp3 library and lots of friends asking for you to get a CD DVD duplicator so they can have your music. Now we also have all types of movies available and with that come all the movie maniac friends with: Hi there, could you burn me a copy of that movie you mentioned you had it. Sure why not.

What about digital pictures and all the home made movies made in digital format dyeing to be on a DVD stored on your family library. I’ve noticed that in the past you might have a small collection of DVD’s or cds. Today seems like everybody has a CD DVD duplicator at home and is trying to stock as much music or video as possible so they can tell their friends: Oh, I have that!

With the high demand of CD’s and DVD’s came huge spindles of CD’s and DVD’s, 50 pack, 100 pack, 150 pack and so on. Hey great, I have a lot of media to record and only one problem, where to save and protect your entire media? Individual Slim DVD cases are nice but will get bulky with the amount of DVD’s you may have. Besides that you have box sets, or collections that you would like to keep it separated so can now see how important CD DVD cases became. They do come in all sorts of types, slim DVD cases, bulk CD DVD cases, clear DVD cases, color DVD cases and pretty much any type you can think of. Enough of info what is the deal What do I get !?

The deal today is one purchase that can fit all your media for less than twenty bucks. So how many DVD’s can I fit? What about 400 discs! That is correct. You are buying 40 individual cases that hold 10 CD DVD discs each. You will get 8 of each color 5 different colors for a total of 40 CD DVD cases.

Maybe the move now is to get a CD DVD duplicator and start your own media library. You can look for wholesale DVD cases and you will not find a better price. These are plastic DVD cases holding 10 discs each case. You won’t need any other CD DVD storage and if you don’t have this many discs you don’t need to keep empty DVD cases, you can give some away and make someone else happy with their plastic DVD cases and still hold the Great friend title !

Retails for $12.83 ($6.99 plus 5.84 shipping) for each kit of 20 pieces. THING FLING price for two of those (40 pieces) is only $14.99 and NO charges for shipping.

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The folks at Verizon have offered up a status report on FiOS deployment in a post over at their policy blog. According to the company, FiOS now passes (not serves) 8.5 million homes and businesses — and they hope to pass 18 million homes, or half the homes Verizon serves, by 2010. The company says they’ve installed more than 457 million feet of fiber in parts of 16 states.

During the third quarter, Verizon added 202,000 FiOS customers to bring their FiOS total to 1.3 million. Of course, the flip side of that coin is that Verizon DSL growth is slowing. Gone are the quarters where Verizon added 600,000 DSL subscribers at a pop — last quarter Verizon added just 56,000 DSL customers, which reflects a change in priorities as well as an overall slowdown in the market.
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Consumer advocate groups, including the Consumer Federation of America, the World Privacy Forum and the Center for Democracy and Technology, today collectively called for a “do not track list” intended to protect consumers from having their online activities unknowingly tracked, stored and used by marketers and advertising networks. From their press release:

“If you look back at the Do Not Call list, it was at one time managed by industry. But it didn t gain widespread acceptance until the FTC took it over,” says Pam Dixon, Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum. Dixon says the industry has been allowed to self-regulate for years and has failed, and tougher measures are needed.

In addition to a plethora of marketing and advertising relationships, the majority of ISPs sell your semi-anonymous website visitation records to outfits like Compete. It’s estimated that they make about $5 per user monthly from selling your clickstream data. No ISPs admit to the practice.

A letter (pdf) to the FTC outlines the specifics of how such a list would operate. In addition to taking control of a new list, the groups would like the FTC to force marketers and ISPs to make their activities clear to consumers and avoid burying their privacy practices in fine print. The privacy ball is in the FTC’s court.
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Though Charter wouldn’t comment to us that new tiers are coming (as PR people without authorization are wont to do), Charter phone support keeps informing our users when that the company will be rolling out a suite of new tiers from November through February. Obviously the more competitive markets (usually that means FiOS is deployed) will likely be upgraded first.

Charter’s 3Mbps tier will be bumped to 5Mbps, the 5Mbps service will be upgraded to 10Mbps service, and the company’s 10Mbps tier will be boosted to 16/2Mbps. No official word on pricing — though Texas 16Mbps trial participants say Charter is charging them $69.99 for the service bundled with basic TV, and $79.99 without TV.
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Wired News reports that the University of Alabama is accusing the Ron Paul campaign of using botnets to send political spam. The University’s Spam Data Mining for Law Enforcement Applications project processes 2.5 million spam messages a day, and the researchers noticed that a flood of spam promoting the candidate was being laundered through systems in Brazil, Nigeria and elsewhere. From one e-mail:

“This is clearly a criminal act in support of a campaign, which has been committed with or without their knowledge,” says Gary Warner, the University of Alabama’s director of research in computer forensics. “The question is, will we see more and more of this, or will this bring shame to the campaigns and will they make clear that this is not a form of acceptable behavior by their supporters?”

Paul spokesman Jesse Benton denies the campaign’s involvement. “If it is true, it could be done by a well-intentioned yet misguided supporter or someone with bad intentions trying to embarrass the campaign,” he says. “Either way, this is independent work, and we have no connection.”
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As expected (see previous report), the FCC today ruled to ban cable operators from striking exclusive deals with MDU (multiple dwelling unit) landlords. According to the FCC press release (pdf), 30% of Americans live in MDUs, and cable providers are locking many of them into exclusive deals that prevent consumer choice. In a statement, FCC boss Kevin Martin takes aim at rising cable rates:

However, the new rules aren’t an automatic competitive miracle, as they don’t force landlords to provide tenants with access to any ISP they choose. Landlords can still deny an ISP access, they just can’t use exclusivity clauses as the excuse. The ruling may also not stand up to a legal assault from the cable industry.

The cable industry has previously stated they believe the FCC lacks the legal authority to intervene in such agreements. Comcast, pretending consumers don’t consistently face rising TV rates come hell or high water anyway, tells the Associated Press the decision will result in — you guessed it — rate hikes.

The FCC actually ruled four years ago that such exclusive contracts didn’t stifle competition, but that was before AT&T and Verizon decided they wanted to get into the TV business. With some serious collective lobbying firepower, this is more about appeasing the telcos than pleasing consumers, though hopefully the latter will get something vaguely resembling choice out of the new deal.
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Yesterday the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation authored by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) aimed at providing better broadband penetration data. The bill (H.R. 3919) will create a national, searchable map that’s easily accessible to consumers (in contrast to current FCC data). It will also authorize the issuing of grants to help bring service to under-served regions.

As we’ve mentioned previously, this bill has been watered down as it winds its way through DC. Originally, it was supposed to raise the FCC’s definition of broadband from 256kbps to 2Mbps, a provision that was subsequently stripped to gain bipartisan approval. The bill still, however, would finally do away with the FCC’s inadequate data collection methods. From a statement on Markey’s website:

It’s nearly 2008, and we’ve just discovered (assuming the bill even passes) that actually knowing who has broadband might be a good first step in creating broadband policy.
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That mystery folding VoIP provider referenced by Packet8 in a press release last month appears to be NetZero Voice. The company is sending an e-mail to customers stating that the dial-up VoIP service will be discontinued as of December 15 and that they’ve struck a deal with Packet8 that allows customers to migrate their number to Packet8 Freedom Unlimited Service for $19.95/month.

According to the statement issued by Packet8 last month, the service, which was launched in late 2005, only had about 12,000 subscribers. NetZero has posted a discontinuation FAQ here.
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They may not be the best of pals when it comes to 700Mhz broadband spectrum, but Google and Verizon recently joined forces to oppose broadband access taxes. Reuters now reports that Google and Verizon Wireless are also in talks to put Google applications on Verizon Wireless mobile phones. Google is expected to announce new mobile services and software in several weeks, and Verizon Wireless is obviously interested in gaining some competitive traction against AT&T and Apple’s iPhone.

Update: a user points to a Wall Street Journal article that says Sprint and Google are also in negotiations.
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Local men pursue Vt. broadband solution Reformer.com
Hundreds for chop as Tiscali launches Pipex jobs purge The Register
Aussie telcos ‘looking into powerline broadband’ ZDNet Australia
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FTC demands bigger spyware penalties The Register
Opinion: The real meaning behind Cisco’s WiMax play Computerworld.com
US tech industry backs Buffalo in Wi-Fi patent spat The Register

* For those interested, DSLReports.com now hosts some blogs for your reading pleasure. Please be sure to check out the “About DSLReports.com” Site Blog by DSLR owner Justin; keep up with MS related news in DSLR resident Microsoft MVP MSeng’s blog “Microsoft Watch“; read about various interesting computer related tidbits in “The Burnfolder” blog from DSLR moderator rjackson, and you can also catch industry news and commentary in the “Broadband Bytes” blog. The blogs can be found by opening the “News” tab on your DSLR control panel and clicking on the blog you are interested in.

S-Video. HDMI. DVI. Audio. AudioVideo. Phone. Direct subwoofer. Etc. Etc.

S-Video. HDMI. DVI. Audio. AudioVideo. Phone. Etc. Etc.

We will pull 5 Assorted Cables, ship them to you. There is no guarantee what cable you will get. You won’t get cellular or PDA. They will be general cables for audio vido, phone, computer, etc.. Some of the cables will be bulk, some will be raw, some will be in broken packaging. Some will be in new packaging.

All we guarantee you is 5 cables in good working order from Monster, amongst others. Value, who knows. But for sure much more than the THING FLING price of $14.49 including shipping.

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The No Man’s Land Fort first grabbed our attention in July and it has yet to be sold.  I guess there are not that many people that want to live a mile away from humanity out in the ocean. If you have a lazy eight or so million sitting in the bank collecting dust and you really hate people, then you might want to consider making the buy. It is an impressive giant donut-like structure that rises sixty feet from the ocean and is protected by massive armored walls. The man-made island sits off the coast of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, where it was built to defend against the French navy. It could originally accommodate up to eighty soldiers.  It has some serious geek status as it was featured in an episode of Dr. Who.

Since its military days, the No Man’s Land Fort has been renovated, substantially. It was a private residence for a time and later reborn as a luxury hotel, complete with a heated swimming pool, Jacuzzis, 21 themed rooms, two helipads and two restaurants. A bore will supply you with fresh water from the sea bed.  Generators will take care of your electricity. There is also a rooftop garden that must feature some pretty hardy plants and a gym to keep you in shape. It is on the market courtesy of a failed company owner who managed to score himself an eighteen month sentence. It begs the question, why didn’t he hide out in his fort.

Price on Asking, but it was going in July for about $8.2 Million.

Source: Knight Frank via The Independent

I stopped watching television about two years ago. That is not to say that I don’t watch TV shows, I watch them on my computer all the time, but the fact of it is that I hate my programs being interrupted by commercials. I hate having to hold my remote to drop the sound down every time it cuts to a commercial break. A lot of stations will raise the volume for commercials in an attempt to give them more impact. Dolby Volume is a technology that aims to level the volume of the TV at all times.

When this technology will be released and how much it will cost is anyone’s guess. One would hope that it will come quickly and be cheap.

Source: Slash Gear

You will certainly be a hero on the golf course with the Star Trek Enterprise putter.  It is kinda cool looking if you are Trekkie.  From a distance it might resemble a regular putter, even a somewhat upmarket putter, but take a close look.  You are putting with the Enterprise, baby.  If that’s not cool then I don’t know what cool is.  While it is doubtful that it will take any shots off your game your geek credibility will go through the roof.

There are only 1,701 units available at a price of $130 each.

Source: Ubergizmo

Think Geek has brought out a T-shirt so monstrous in its geekiness that it is ever so slightly appealing. The signal bars on the T-Shirt light up as signal strength increases. Obviously this thing takes batteries, three AAAs in fact. Apparently it will run for hours, displaying the strength of wireless b and g connections in your vicinity. Unfortunately, washing this thing sucks. The animated decal must be removed before washing, so it is not really a Wi-Fi detecting T-shirt. Rather, it is a flat Wi-Fi detector stuck to a T-shirt, but is a cool idea nevertheless.

Price: $29.99

Source: Think Geek