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Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, March 8, 2008 @ 04:40 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Wow, this is a really nasty account of malicious programming that one of Jeff Atwood’s readers sent to him. Apparently, G-Archiver has been emailing its creator all the Gmail login credentials of his users.
Not good at all.
Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, February 7, 2008 @ 15:37 CST by Daniel Andrlik
The title of this Washington Post article fails to do the material justice. This has to do with U.S. customs officials that have been requiring travelers to turn over laptop passwords (booting their laptops to verify it is correct), copying web history information and occasionally confiscating laptops.
I wish I could say that I didn’t believe this was happening, but this is becoming an all too familiar sort of story in our country.
Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, December 10, 2007 @ 10:08 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Via Warren Ellis
People have developed a way to broadcast ads on the street so that “the sound is contained within your cranium.”
That’s just wonderful, I was just thinking to myself, “You know, I don’t think I’m harassed by advertising enough in my daily life, how can this be rectified?”
Microsoft Advertising Services Architechture
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, July 14, 2007 @ 04:39 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Ads as part of the OS, scanning computer documents and settings to deliver targeted ads and block ads from competitors. Wow, Microsoft goes evil in a big way on this one.
Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 @ 09:32 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Very sad news. It doesn’t mention it in this particular article but the royalty increases are also retroactive back to the beginning of 2006.
Listening Post
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 17:22 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
In a roundabout way, Apple claims that using the word “pod” infringes on their trademark for the “iPod”. This could be bad for podcasting.
