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- On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins
- Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I'm going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out. Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins are some...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web Browser Plug-in, Adobe Acrobat, Web Browser, Plug-in, Flash, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8Once again......late to the game. The "alternate" browsers have had these for a while. Competition breeds improvement, apparently. ;)It will still suckBeing a MS product, it will still suck.RE: Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8Why would...
- Tags: Web browsers, cross-site scripting protection, Anti-malware blocker, Anti-Malware, IE 8, blocker, XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Motorola RAZR vulnerable, what's up with Motorola's update process?
- Motorola RAZR vulnerable, what's up with Motorola's update process?Apparently AT&T Razrs are not affected?When I click on the Motorola link you provideit allows me to use my computer to download theupdate ... BUT ... AT&T is not listed under the"carrier type" selection. Only T-mobile is asimilar network type selection...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Blogging, Motorola Inc., MMS, image, Motorola Razr
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?
- A continuing thread in an Apple discussion board says that Windows running in the Boot Camp utility can sometimes "pervert" certain settings stored in the Intel-Mac's parameter RAM and interfere with video when rebooting into Mac OS X. Here's the description of the problem by Coelacanth64, who...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Computer, PRAM, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Marketing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Hybrid cars becoming ever more political
- Hybrid cars becoming ever more politicalThey have printable solar cells nowShould be easy to cover cars with solar cells.RE: Hybrid cars becoming ever more politicalThe power the corps have over the government should be disconcerting to all of you. As for the alternatives, of course Detroit is hemming and hawing....
- Tags: Engineering, Insurance, Hybrid-car, ever-more
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- Microsoft+courts+open-source+vendors+to+support+Win+Server+2008
- Microsoft+courts+open-source+vendors+to+support+Win+Server+2008I just can NOT stop laughing. Like save all that money on the otherapplications so you can turn it over to MS for a server that does not work as good as Linux????? I mean, like, who is THAT stupid???? Stevie and Billy are dreaming.Of all the open source projects,...
- Tags: Linux, Scripting languages, Operating systems, Programming languages, UNIX, M$FT, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period
- ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace periodPLEASE! DO IT!!!I don't care if the original purpose was for typos. That's a lame excuse. Millions of addresses are locked up by cybersquatters. Many times, they just renew it for another free "trial". Or, another cybersquatter picks them up. They are never freed...
- Tags: Typos, grace period, ICANN, domain-tasting grace period
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Spanish police arrest 63 in Net child porn swoop
- Spanish police arrest 63 in Net child porn swoopChild PornThat is the most disgusting thing there is other then physical sexual abuse.People like that , I'm not sorry to say should be removed from society permently!!!I Personally can think of several things to do to them and each one I...
- Tags: govt, child pornography
- Discussion threads 2007-12-16
- Reader: I need my old SunRocket call logs to prosecute "predatory pervert"
- Reader: I need my old SunRocket call logs to prosecute "predatory pervert"Just when he thought he was out of the woodsThe ents start chasing after him. Sorry for the LoTR reference.
- Tags: SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Reader: I need my old SunRocket call logs to prosecute "predatory pervert"
- A reader whose email address maps back to a document services firm has just written me with a compelling and intriguing question. A former customer of dead-and-being buried SunRocket, he wants to know if there is any way for him to obtain his own SunRocket call logs....
- Tags: SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Ick, old married guys on Facebook
- Ick, old married guys on FacebookFrom: the icky old guyI am a 42 year old computer professional. I have a daughter who is in this age group and I have several things I would like to comment on.1) Surprised at how many teenage girls take the time to read zdnet.2)...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Facebook, teenage girl
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- WI library won't turn over tapes of nonfiction pervert
- WhenWisconsin lawmakers crafted a library privacy law, they probably werent thinking about protecting sex maniacs in the stacks, but that seems to be effect. The Neenah Public Library has a surveillance video of a man who reportedly was masturbating in the nonfiction stacks, but they arent going to release the...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- EMI has just killed DRM
- EMI has just killed DRMCopy Protection has *NEVER* workedBack in the pre-CP/M days they tried copy protection. Everything from malformed tracks on floppy disks, to laser drilled holes in diskettes. Lotus 123 tried it, games tried it, CAD systems and other uber-expensive software tried it, and failed.Now it's RIAA's turn.Those...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, copy protection, Now IT, digital-rights management, DRM-free, EMI Group Plc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- Website, email system pinpoints offenders' locations
- Website, email system pinpoints offenders' locationsTracking Sex OffendersI think when a person is convicted of a sex offence or any Felonythey should loose part of there civil rights and the part of the constitution that protects against invasion of privacy. They offended society and should forever loose the ability to...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Now IT, e-mail, offender, sex offender, Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
- Open Wi-Fi networks leave many places for criminals to hide
- Whats happening over that cafe Wi-Fi - maybe even over the very unsecured network you run in your home? Probably nothing. But on some networks people are downloading child porn, soliting kids for sex, and engaging in criminal conspiracies. The Washington Post points to a typical case: ...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, network, Wi-Fi
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- UW law professors say lifetime GPS law unconstitutional
- UW law professors say lifetime GPS law unconstitutionalHave to agree to the unconstitutionalityEither the person has paid their debt to society, or they have not. Once they've completed their incarceration time, and any parole time, and successfully completed rehabilitation, they should no longer have to register for any thing,...
- Tags: GPS, GPS Law
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Telling kids about sex on the Internet
- Telling kids about sex on the InternetBuy "The Sims"My 10 year old daughter went on about a couple she saw hugging and kissing. She said [i]"Look at them - next they'll be having S-E-X"[/i].I rather cautiously said [i]"What do you know about such things?"[/i].The reply was [i]"Everything Dad! They have...
- Tags: Sims, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'It's a poor legacy that it leavessad Sony had such a hand in it, but politicians do not make such grand artists but better businessmen. Oh well, time to travel to a foreign country so you can perform Happy Birthday in a restaurant...
- Tags: Big Business, useful Art, copyright law, U.S. Senate, Constitution
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Open source issues for 2007 start with the profit motive
- Open source issues for 2007 start with the profit motiveThere's profit, and then there's profitToo many of us have grown up in times where a land-rush market managed to keep competition from doing Adam Smith's work, with the result that "profit" has come to mean Microsoftian margins to them.I can...
- Tags: Linux, open source, Third World, tool
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
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