Google’s recent announcement that it will comply with China’s demand for Google’s search results to be censored for users within China was only the beginning. Now, Wikipdedia is blocking edits to its pages from the entire range of IP addresses that belong to the U.S. Congress. Wikipedia editing has been in the news lately, ever…
Month: January 2006
Blawg Review #42
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blawgosphere Welcome to Blawg Review #42, the answer to life, the universe and everything! In his memory, the theme for Blawg Review #42 revolves around the most famous work of the sorely missed Douglas Adams. [1952-2001]. About Douglas Douglas Adams loved computers. He once said that they completely changed the…
A sad day in the neighborhood
Joel on Software, written by Joel Spolsky, is a great resource for software developers. He’s in my aggregator because you don’t have to be one to get something good from Joel’s writing. Ryan Park reports on the posting there in an off-topic discussion board of a suicide note, along with one on the personal blog,…
Blawg Review #41 is up!
Jonathan B. Wilson is the host of Blawg Review #41, please be sure to check it out here. FYI, I’m hosting next week’s Review, so if you’re a legal blogger please be sure to submit your post (written during this week) for consideration. The deadline is Saturday at 11:59PM PST. For submission guidelines, see here….
Reviewing the FBI Computer Crime Survey 2005
The FBI’s Computer Crime Survey 2005 has been released. Thanks to BeSpacific for the link. At the time of this writing the survey itself is not accessible, but the summary of the findings can be found from the above link. In relevant part, the important findings are as follows: Frequency of attacks. Nearly nine out…
Top Ten Sources and RSS®
The concern over the copyright a website/blog owner has in the RSS feed she publishes isn’t new, but the debate lately has focused on one particular RSS aggregator, called Top Ten Sources. Top Ten Sources is an editor-selected list of ten feeds on a particular topic. When the editor revises the list, he sends an…
Truly Anonymous Web Surfing: Realized on a CD?
In Wired News, Quinn Norton has an interesting article on an open source CD that contains a self-contained operating system. The purpose is to never actually use the hard drive of the machine while still allowing internet access, thereby leaving no fingerprints that the machine was used. The CD runs OpenBSD, but it disguises the…
Review of One Week with the Travelmate C200
My tablet arrived last Friday, and ever since then my computing life has not been the same. Out of the box the experience was good. For you true geeks, the specific model I chose is the C203etci. The C200 is a convertible tablet, the screen slides up to discover a nice sized keyboard underneath. It’s…
Backups? Choose something other than CD’s
While you can get a bulk package of CD-R’s really cheap at local stores or online, they are not the best for backup purposes. The physical material degrades over time, and some types degrade faster than others. An IBM expert indicates that a 2-5 year lifespan is typical for most self-recorded CD’s. (Link courtesy of…
Participatory Panopticon
Jamais Cascio’s talk from Mesh Forum 2005 entitled “participatory panopticon” is very interesting, it regards the societal changes that come from mobile phones with digital cameras and other always on mobile networked tools. The Panopticon was Jeremy Bentham’s proposed prison where the inmates could be watched all the time. Mr. Cascio’s idea is that we…