If newspapers are relying on paywalls to survive, then they really are the equivalent of walking dead men. Even more so than those of us who have watched this saga from the beginning realized. As this article points out, there’s no point to putting the papers online if only subscribers can see them or link …
I’ve installed a new theme (F2, the successor to the Fluid Blue theme that I’ve been using for a while now), and made a child theme from it so I could include my icon. Let me know if you see any problems with it.
Official censorship is bad, but people censoring what they’ll see on their own systems… I can live with that. I love the name too. 😉
I’ve been pained for several years by the ads in one of my RSS feeds. Mozilla Thunderbird (my program of choice for handling e-mail and RSS feeds) waits until it has all of the images for a message before rendering any of the message, including its text. That’s fine, I don’t mind text or non-animated …
I like snarky-but-true comments. This one is particularly good. The article it leads to is also packed with good advice. I don’t particularly worry about my online privacy. I have my browser set to delete cookies (including Flash super-cookies) whenever I close it, I keep Javascript blocked for most sites, and I absolutely refuse to …
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Malware authors are always trying to trick you into opening their craptastic payloads, often using the latest news headlines. But it seems that they didn’t care for the volcano story a few weeks ago: Eyjafjallajökull, despite being arguably the biggest news story of the year so far, is simply too difficult to spell for most …
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It’s always a good idea to be on the lookout for fraud, of any kind. Where there’s money to be had, there’s incentive to make your product look a lot better than it really is, or to try to cover up flaws. When I look online for a product, I generally look for bad reviews, …
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This is exactly why organizations like the Pirate Party or Wikileaks need to be kept around — because even if they espouse illegal or semilegal behaviors, or provide a safe haven for whistleblowers to air the proverbial dirty laundry, they act as a check to governments and the corporations that essentially run them. If they …
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The first computer virus that can infect humans too? Ah, no, apparently just some people looking for casual sex via Facebook. And presumably finding it. 😉
This is just ludicrous: The [Australian group] insists that the site should follow Australian law because, although the site is hosted in the US, with free speech protection, articles which can be read and downloaded in Australia are considered to have been published in Australia. It doesn’t take a genius to follow this thinking to …