First, security expert Bruce Schneier asks why the Department of Homeland Stupidity is enforcing copyright? Shouldn’t they be tracking down terrorists instead of teenagers, or have they run out of terrorists? Or maybe it’s because people who download movies off the Internet are terrorists? Second, Sony is rolling out new copy-protected music CDs. The discs [...]
Stop what you’re doing right now, and go ensure that you have a working backup and recovery process in place for your important files. Make sure that both backing up the files and restoring the files work! It’s useless to take backups if you can’t restore them. Now, if you’re a Windows user, go and [...]
Yesterday the New York Times posted an op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof about Li Xinde, a Chinese blogger who travels around the country investigating abuses of power and publishing them on his blog. (Unless you can read Chinese, I wouldn’t suggest bothering to click on the link.) All well and good. These sorts of things [...]
Now that nofollow is everywhere, it's time to take a good hard look at it. Google's nofollow initiative has not resulted in a reduction of link spam, but instead has had much more insidious effects on the Internet.
Last month I told you about some MIT students who wrote an automatic CS paper generator. We all had a good laugh. But Roland Piquepaille (via Smart Mobs) asks the question: what happens when 100,000 people generate fake papers and put them online? He’s concerned that some gullible person might think one of these fake [...]
A lot of people have been fired for blogging lately. It all started with Delta Air Lines fired Ellen Simonetti. OK, well, it didn’t start there, but hers was the first widely publicized story. The fact is, right now there is almost no legal protection against losing your job if you blog. If you intend [...]
Looks like my new Homeland Stupidity category is going to fill up fast. In a very quiet, unilateral decision last February, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration decided that private registrations for .us domain names must end. According to Bob Parsons of GoDaddy, the NTIA strong-armed registrars into signing a new agreement forbidding the use [...]
The following dropped into my email today. If you aren’t particularly technically inclined, this is essentially a security problem with Blogger whereby anyone can run malicious code on the Web server hosting your blog. This is quite the serious security issue, and although Blogger has been notified of the issue, they haven’t corrected it yet. [...]
As an occasional reader of Slashdot I recently noticed some links on their pages in red-on-black and blinking. This is a little bit I threw in my Firefox userChrome.css to expose any hyperlink which has been tagged with rel=”nofollow”. If you somehow haven’t heard of nofollow, this is how it works: You add it in [...]
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