For professional reasons, I shouldn't post the details, but I've been encountering a LOT of issues with a Verisign owned technology. Promises of going live "in a couple weeks" have drawn out to three months and we're still not live. At every turn more bureaucracy is introduced, which adds more delays. During all this my employer is paying $500 a ( Read more... )

No, I'm not being overly dramatic. While Facebook has claimed that it's privacy violating "Beacon" will now allow opt-out, the program still tracks the "activities of people who never signed up with Facebook, who deactivated their accounts or who were not signed on to the site."
Meanwhile, user Paulette Altmaier noted on the forum that "It's much ( Read more... )

That's right folks, an enterprising Harry Potter fan has put together a set of Firefox plugins that will automatically block spoilers for the upcoming Harry Potter book.

Don't want to know that UIOYIFGGHJKL:J kills YUIG or thatTHULBJK dies trying to save the life of HJGJKY654GH?? Then the hackers of the world are at your side.

Now, if you're in the ( Read more... )

The American Decency Association says: "when one begins to see what MySpace.com includes, how can one affiliate with this site in any way - with due respect to the many churches, Christian groups, etc. - that have sites on this pornographic site."

You know, I gotta admit they have something of a point.