Is this familiar to anyone? “Given the fact that I am usually a scab picker, the five-year-old inside wants to rip the gauze off and watch what happens. The white shirt wearing adult is just smacking her down” — Hilary
Palladium Ross Anderson has an informative FAQ on this new security architecture for PCs designed to maintain the Wintel duopoly, among others. The point is well made that these developments are there to ensure the software/hardware vendor is able to exert more control than the actual user. Microsoft as root? well, we’re heading that way. [...]
in love with her writing…* I don’t know Alison and I imagine we don’t have a lot in common, except that we both blog. But I love her writing. I read about 10 different blog a day mostly because I want to keep up with a particular subject or technology. But bluishorange is just for [...]
Phew! That was close. BBC News are reporting that a 120m wide asteroid travelling at 10km/sec passed within 120,000km of earth. To put this in perspective, that is a third of the distance from earth to the moon. What is worrying is that we noticed this asteroid a few day after it passed earth. What [...]
One of my old lecturers is in the news again… Apparently, one of his robots has gone walk-about (from Slashdot)
A Rabbit on your Mouse http://www.koor.org/stuff/fun/movies/swf/go.swf (from Metafilter I think)
am I too late? I just discovered the excellent Kuro5hin blog today only to find out they’ve run out of money! It looks as if they’re going to be ok as the donation bar is already moving. Maybe I’ll buy a few text ads and actually promote this site. Does anyone read this? Go on [...]
When Passwords Die As reported on Slashdot last week, hackers were invited to unlock a database held at a museum in a Norway. The BBC is now reporting that after only 5 hours the password was cracked by a 25 year old Swede. The result was “ladepujd”, the name of the dead researcher, Reidar Djupedal, [...]
Transformers – Robots in Disguise Great animation
An(other) API for Blogs I’ve just discovered the MetaWeblog API for various blogs. It supports most of the attributes found in recent RSS specs which is a considerable improvement over treating a blog entry as a string. Personally, I can think of many other useful attributes to describe an entries but that will probably have [...]
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