In the interest of Hype 2.0 compliance, I've been going back and tagging previously untagged entries. I'm almost done ( Read more... )

Starting the first Monday after Assumption--August 20--I will be a J.D. candidate at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America..

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Public Service Announcement:

/. reports that a particularly nasty worm has begun propagating itself through AIM. [Direct Link to source story from C|net]. The payload is a rootkit that bypasses security software and takes control of Windows PCs.

Users of Gaimshould be immune, as will any Linux, BSD, or OSX users.

Some of you might be celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. Remember that piracy isn't something that grizzly guys who speak bizarre obsolescent English slang do--Here's a story about somereal pirates.

Piracy is a serious problem in many parts of the world, still.

According to Slashdot, the U.S. Copyright Office is proposing an Internet Explorer-only website for the preregistration of copyright claims ( Read more... )

For those of you running Windows. Do not open any emails purporting to tell you about the suicide of Michael Jackson--this is a trojan--once run, it will install itself onto your computer, insert itself into the system registry, and allow other people to access your computer remotely.

Those of you running *nix can safely ignore this warning.

So I've maxed out photobucket. I'm looking for (preferrably free) image-hosting that I can permalink to, and maybe even organize in directories.

suggestions?

A public service announcement:

My good friend Foxy is running a marathon in England, raising money for cancer research. If you have a job, donate a few quid (that's slang for Pounds Sterling for my Stateside readers). It's for a good cause, and frankly, Foxy is way cooler than those Livestrong bands.


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