Everyone has heard of the classic defense of every violation of our privacy, of every move towards a police state:
“If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”
I hate that line, but there isn’t a comeback to it that is quite as cutting and apt. So here are many ideas from Bruce Schneier and, as an article, it is the perfect sledgehammer for that depressing slogan of the security over privacy brigade. Read the rest of this entry »
In a strange development in the aftermath of my “article on lack of Firefox support in MSN adcenter”:http://www.scienceaddiction.com/2006/05/12/how-internet-explorer-stifles-microsoft/ Windows Live Beta Email has started supporting Firefox as of a few days ago. This is good news and a positive step from Microsoft. Lack of Firefox support when it came out of Beta would have been a horrible move.
*UPDATE* : It seems like I spoke too soon! They actually took the support away; apparently their last update- the one that brought Firefox support- broke some integral things and now they have gone back to fixing it. Fix it fast, guys. Everyone else (including Yahoo! mail’s new beta) supports Firefox without any problems.
*UPDATE* _(5/31/06)_: And Firefox support is back. Thanks Microsoft (sincerely)- now can we have Safari support?
“Linus Torvalds is on CNN this weekend”:http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/ and though the interview is largely unsurprising, he is always charming and self-deprecating- taking as little credit for the “revolution” as possible.
Timings for the interview on CNN International:
You can watch the Linus Torvalds interview on Global Office on CNN International at these times:
*Saturday*
03:30 ET/08:30 BST/1530 HKT/1300 New Delhi
09:30 ET/14:30 BST/2130 HKT/1900 New Delhi
*Sunday*
07:30 ET/12:30 BST/1930 HKT/1700 New Delhi
13:30 ET/18:30 BST/0130 (Monday) HKT/2300 New Delhi
The US population will hit 300 million in October of this year. The census bureau has a “population clock”:http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html and so does “Gerber”:http://www.gerber300.com/. Gerber, in fact, also says: Read the rest of this entry »
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