Tomorrow will mark 20 years ago to the day when the space shuttle Challenger rocketed skyward for just 73 seconds before disaster struck. I was one of those who just happened to watch this live (yes, live…not the immediate replays shortly after that came on all over the news). I was a junior […]
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, a day set aside by the United States government to honor a man for his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and his promotion of racial equality without violence. He was the man who gave one our country’s most famous speeches, the “I Have A Dream” speech, which […]
Here’s an interesting article that questions many security issues around DRM and how it could impact other computer services, decrease security and trump reliability. While some of it may seem a bit far-fetched (such as causing disruption to a nuclear reactor when an employee puts a protected CD into a computer) it definitely brings […]
Sign a pledge to boycott any CDs that contain any form of DRM. Interesting idea to draw attention to the issue. After it was linked on Boing Boing, it generated a couple thousand signatures in three days. Way to go!
Now only if we can get the attention of those recording label executives […]
Show all your friends, co-workers and other drivers just what kind of geek you are! No 6-sided fuzzy dice for me, no siree. Come get your 20-sided dice! As Alice says at Wonderland, “+10 coolness, -5 visibility, +35 nerd cred.”
Jinx, you rock!
Well, it’s been a busy time for me personally the past several days and I haven’t taken the extra time to post anything. But here I am, back at it!
In the aftermath of the WMF vuln, what’s happened? Well, let’s recap briefly:
