Actually, I don’t. But I have to ask: if they can make it illegal to circumvent copy protection to do something you could legally do without the copy protection, then why can’t it be illegal to circumvent pop-up blockers?
Hmmm… considering that pop-up blockers are arguably a security feature, could the US DMCA be used here?
I was listening to the audio presentation by Woz at ITConversations.com recently. I was really interested in his stories about how he got interested in hardware hacking, and it made me reflect on my early experiences with computers.
Continue reading “Reflections on how I got started in this biz…”
Did you know that there are places in the world with timezone offsets in quarter-hour increments
The timezone for Nepal is UTC+5:45. Chatham Island (a territory of New Zealand) uses UTC+12:45. Interesting…
Bush is proposing a 2.5 trillion dollar budget. Supposedly, this manages the following:
Continue reading “I must be missing something”
Apparently, next Monday will be the worst day of the year. Naturally, that’s the day I start at Wotif
Fortunately, the formula is based on such variables as the weather, and thus it is only the worst day in the Northern hemisphere. *phew*.
Some changes to how this blog is set up:
Continue reading “Administrivia”
Interesting article in the New York Times on how GW Bush is looking to reshape the American tax break.
Continue reading “There’s more to managing an economy than lowering taxest”
Danny Ayers writes about a global internet tsunami warning system He missed the point; the SE-Asian Tsunami was detected in minutes by research centers in Hawaii. But there was no way to get the message out.
Continue reading “Warning systems aren’t enough”
About two weeks ago, the server company I go through (iwebserv.com.au) had an “incident”… one of the hard disks on the main server died. This caused an extended outage (almost a week), and a total loss of data. For one reason or another, iwebserv have not been able to resurrect the data on the server yet.
Continue reading “Well, I’m back up… shame the server wasn’t.”
As this video makes abundantly clear, e-voting is simple… as long as you want to vote for Dubya.
On a more serious note, Slashdot covered some real problems with the e-voting machines in Florida recently.
Software is too expensive to build cheaply.... 