or just making my life more difficult. We blogspotters have been forced onto an interface that looks more like Wordpress, which as far a...

"Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics . . . . [but said, 't]he more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the ...

More at the links. 1. What Facebook Knows . "[O]n 219 million randomly chosen occasions, Facebook prevented someone from seeing a li...

"The device is essentially a small computer with a powerful wireless antenna and a microphone. Following detonation, the grenade interc...

I've been reading Hackers by Steven Levy (1984, 1994); 25th Anniversary edition here . The book recounts the seminal exploits of a rela...

As reported rather breathlessly by The NYT , you can now make and receive phone calls to/from regular phones from/at your computer for free,...

"Comcast's bandwidth throttling system that slows you down for using too much bandwidth is now fully armed and operational in all...

Sorry to keep pounding this but I can't believe how many people still don't get it. Via Slashdot , "Microsoft's vision of y...

As reported by ipower , "As of yesterday YouTube has replaced its list of 'Most Viewed' videos on the site's 'Videos...

Too impt. not to re-blog. Transcript from starting around 4:30 min.: Lawrence Lessig : "There's going to be an i-911 event . . . I...

commenting on CCTV, right under not just their noses, but their cameras: "The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys ...

According to the U.K.'s Telegraph , all international and domestic passengers leaving Terminal 5 of London's Heathrow Airport will s...

The Washington Post reports that federal agents at U.S. borders have been seizing and copying the contents of some travellers' laptops,...

Mind-bogglingly bizarre: per Slate.com , "last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traff...

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As my three readers know, I'm very concerned that, at least partly through the instigation of right-wing authoritarians but also partly ...

and assuming you're inexplicably desperate to graft yourself into the MS "Borg": Microsoft Offers Free Software in Exchange fo...

Still in beta. I tried it on something obscure; it kinda worked but obviously needs more users to help build up its database. It was fun h...

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein says that, at the U.S. government's request, AT&T has installed numerous, massive facilities t...

Even Starbucks is now required to help them spy on us. Check out the summaries here and here . Note the post in the first thread indicatin...