I Love The Register’s Take on the US
The Register has a story about the Walmart employee who was recently fired for answering an email about the fact that Walmart changed their greeting from “...
Author: Timothy Foreman
Bruce Schneier on Sony’s Rootkit
Bruce Schneier has a very good column in Wired about the Sony Rootkit. It’s a tale of extreme hubris. Sony rolled out this incredibly invasive copy-protec...
Enigma Machine Up For Auction!
Wow. A WWII German Enigma Cipher machine is up for auction. That’s a rare and cool piece of WWII history. Here’s a good page all about the Enigma Ma...
Boing Boing’s Sony DRM Roundups
Boing Boing has just posted their second Sony DRM Roundup. It’s a list of links to all kinds of stories about the Sony DRM ‘rootkit’. Their fi...
Stupid Rookie Mistake
I made a totally stupid rookie mistake this evening. Yesterday Nate, a co-worker, gave me one of his old servers. It’s a pretty nice box, a 3U case with a...
Sony issues non-apology apology
Over on Boing Boing, they have a letter from Sony about their DRMed CDs. It’s really a non-apology and they really downplay the issues. Big surprise. To O...
Today’s Dilbert
Good one today. There is a Dilbert Blog now too. I have not read any of it yet.
Tin Foil Beanie Rebuttal
Of course it was only a matter of time before there was a rebuttal to the Tin Foil Beanie research at MIT… A recent MIT study [1] calls into question the ...
C’était un Rendezvous
C’était un Rendezvous: On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB a...
Attention Tin Foil Hat Wearers
MIT researchers discover that Tin Foil Hats may amplify the government’s thought control radio waves! From the Abstract: Among a fringe community of paran...