Topics on my particular interests.
I’m very security- and privacy-conscious, so it came as something of a shock to read (on LifeHacker) about a kind of cookie file that I didn’t know existed. I picked up the Objection extension and took a look… there were files from all sorts of places, going back years. 🙁 I am not happy about …
Lovely. Okay developers, time to get moving — add public-key code-signing stuff, so that your programs can tell whether they’re getting a legitimate update or not. Don’t know how, and don’t have time to learn? Try the GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) library. I’m happy to say that Ubuntu Linux isn’t affected by this, because it …
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It’s “stressed magnetic field lines that suddenly snap to a new shape, like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far.” Hm… any way to duplicate it in small-scale experiments? Probably not, but it’s an interesting proposition.
As I’m not an MS geek, I couldn’t refute the headline any better than the article does.
GoddessJ and I finally managed to see The Dark Knight last night, on our third try (the previous two tries were all sold out by the time we got there, for the entire evening). It’s good — damn good! After watching the scene where Batman wrecks the Batmobile, and then suddenly takes off in its …
I thought the whole point to science was questioning assumptions to find the truth? I hate to be classed as a Global Warming denialist (there seems to be some decent evidence that it’s happening), but there’s a distinctly over-ripe odor around the subject.
For those uber-geeks who are still following the ridiculous SCO-versus-Novell lawsuit, it looks like the end is (finally!) near: in a stunningly apropos reversal, SCO (which instigated the lawsuit) has been ordered to pay Novell for violating their rights. They probably won’t have the money, but it’s a moral victory, at least.
It seems that the replacement motherboard that I got last month, for my Dell XPS m1210 laptop, had some problems… the system just died tonight, and Dell’s support line says that it looks like the motherboard again, with a different problem. I was an electronics technician for the USPS for many years before I turned …
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
I’ve been saying since April or so that Apple really wanted to avoid going to court over Psystar (the Hackintosh maker) because it would open up a huge can of legal worms for Apple, but apparently most legal people think that Apple will win the case without even trying. This post gives some good reasons …
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