Schneier on Security: Choosing Secure PasswordsEver since I wrote about the 34,000 MySpace passwords I analyzed, people have been asking how to choose secure passwords ( Read more... )

Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans - Boing BoingHey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of ( Read more... )

At the museum yesterday we spotted a man on a nice little folding scooter: almost certainly this one. Either folds up or comes apart; the combination of small ( Read more... )

Before you get all worried, no, I am not contemplating suicide these days. I don't need this right now, though there have been times in my life when it might have helped a little, and there may be times ahead when I will need it. But I know that depression is pretty common among my readers, and this might help someone out there ( Read more... )

Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel: Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. It is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or ( Read more... )

The most recent items in this this collection are The Social Network Operating System and Using Open Standards to Free the Social Graph, both at O'Reilly.

They refer to XFN - XHTML Friends Network, and to Six Apart's claim to be Opening the Social Graph, though I'll believe that when I see it.

From a much earlier post by technoshaman (which I'm ( Read more... )

A New Old Idea - Economist.com WHEN most people switch on a desk lamp, they usually want a little extra illumination. But not John Goodey, an engineering student at Oxford University. When he flicks the switch and turns on his lamp, a sensor on his desk downloads music tracks digitally encoded within tiny flickers in the lamp's light. The music is ( Read more... )

Lenovo announces the ultrasmall, low-energy Blue Sky desktop PCSeptember 12, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced the Blue Sky desktop computer, its smallest, quietest and most energy-efficient desktop ( Read more... )

Portable Devices Pose Growing IT Security ThreatJeff Moss, organizer of the DefCon hacking convention, said the lack of an industry standard for encrypting data on portable drives is hampering efforts to boost the security of such devices ( Read more... )

Tangent Article - Rant Fantastic - Dave WolvertonI recently read in Tangent #17 James Gunn's response to a question by Cynthia Ward, who asked about the dichotomy between mainstream literary standards and those of science fiction and fantasy, and asked someone to "Name names ( Read more... )