Month: September 2006

I love this quote from Greenspan: "Any bill that passes both houses almost unanimously, cannot be a good piece of legislation." Words of wisdom :). Rest of article is interesting if you are interested in Sarbanes-Oxley. I’m not very much – other than the effect it seems to be having on the stock market. Link… Continue reading Greenspan quote on legislation

Link to Number of browser vulnerabilities rising Note that Firefox has dramatically increased in number of vulnerabilities discovered. Something I suggested would happen a year or 2 ago after  meeting someone from their team that didn’t understand why a stack overflow was bad. That said, I have to admit I have a copy of FireFox… Continue reading Number of browser vulnerabilities rising

DRM doesn’t prevent copying. There are a number of programs that crack DRM, they are just illegal. So what’s the point of DRM if it only works on people that are honest? Honest people wouldn’t make copies of their CDs for the whole world to listen to anyway. DRM dissuades honest people from moving from… Continue reading DRM and Vendor Lock-in

Pope says Islam is violent, Islamics react with violence, Pope apologizes. 

A new prince is born – Japan’s little prince goes home – Asia-Pacific – MSNBC.com. The article mentions Japan had been considering changing it’s laws to allow succesion through females. Amazing – over a 1000 years of male succesion. Most people don’t realize it, but Japan’s "emperor" is really more of a religious office than… Continue reading Japan’s little prince goes home

If you are running a beta of Windows Vista, upgrade. RC1 is much better. Windows Vista Team Blog : RC1 CPP Now Available to General Public

Amen – my thoughts exactly. I’d be fine renting from Apple if I could do so on Netflix like terms, but buy from a list of 75 movies? Feed: Hacking NetFlix Posted on: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:07 PMAuthor: mikekSubject: BusinessWeek: Don’t Nix Netflix   With all of the buzz around the launch of Amazon… Continue reading FW: BusinessWeek: Don’t Nix Netflix

The British have rebuilt the "bombe", a forerunner of the computer. That would be cool to see someday. Now that’s a piece of history. In the article they hypothesis the war would have lasted longer without the bombe. I think they are being modest – I’m not sure Britain would have survived the war without the bombe.… Continue reading The Bombe

Apple has released a new line-up of iPods, downloadable movies, and promises way to view them on TVs early next year – report at Engadget. Expect to be able to watch the video later today at Apple’s Event site. The new iPods – nice improvements. Especially the Nano. Anyone notice no mention of video on… Continue reading New iPods

Joel did a great job of explaining why, when it comes to actually getting work done, "Windows XP is a better experience". He mentions a few specific things, like the WiFi locking up, fonts being blurry, and feature support. Now I haven’t used a Mac for day to day work, but I have used Vista… Continue reading Why I haven’t bought a Mac…