This one is interesting because it’s what a lot of people are thinking, in one form or another: […] Everywhere we look, citizens are chipping away at the power of government. And behind much of it is the Internet. […] The basic idea is that politicians play politics, at the expense of those they’re supposed …
When we tell kids that they have to be careful what they share on FaceBook, that it can affect them in the future, it seems that even we don’t realize all the possible implications.
I doubt this sort of thing will become the preferred way to attend a wedding any time soon, but until recently it wouldn’t have been possible for the home-bound bridesmaid to attend at all. Telepresence will only get better — easier to use, more reliable, with more control for the remote user — over time. …
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This fellow (warning, PDF file) claims that all computer science graduates should take a course in writing Trojans, viruses, worms, and the like — “malware” — or at least that it should be offered as a regular part of an elective security course. At first, I was taken aback by the suggestion. You don’t want …
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(If you’re reading this, then you’re on the new site. Congratulations. 😉 ) After hosting my websites with Total Choice Hosting (TCH from here on) for more than eight years, I’ve been forced to move them. The issue: lost e-mails. A few months ago, a friend of mine called to ask if I’d gotten his …
Finally we discover the reason that the Internet was created.
This is getting ridiculous… in the last three days I’ve gotten two more of those computer scam calls. One woman, one man. Both with strong India accents, but both far more understandable than the first two. Far more annoying too. The novelty has worn off, people, go screw with someone else. For the first one …
While researching a programming problem yesterday, I found a wonderful signature block on a message from someone named Alf P. Steinbach: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in …
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I recently stumbled across a very funny parody site called The Content Farm. Extra funny if you’ve run across real content farms (they constantly steal Geek Drivel entries, so I see more than my fair share), but good even without that. (An as-yet-unidentified content farm, stealing and mangling one of Geek Drivel’s articles, has apparently …
Wow, newspapers are really getting desperate. I just got another call from a newspaper telemarketer (yes, yet again). When I said that I still wasn’t interested in a newspaper, he asked where I got my news, so I told him from the Internet. So far, no different than every other time these guys have called. …