Everybody has been talking about the HP “internal investigation”, which the Attorney General of California, Bill Lockyer said violates two statutes, one protecting data and the other protecting privacy…and they will be prosecuted by his office.
Said illegal actions can be prosecuted as misdemeanors, which carry a maximum of one year in jail, or as a [...]
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- Wordpress & iPhone
- Iron Maiden in Monterrey, the concert for the ages.
- Freakonomics interviews Bruce Schneier
- Know thy nerd (or geek?).
- Music + geekness = good stuff
- Malware as business
- Microsoft’s Stealth Update comes back to bite them
- 10 myths about Open Source Software debunked
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- DMCA abuse by Science Fiction Writers of America
- Sony's new rootkit
- Daleks invade Manchester, England!
- Computer ergonomics, or how to avoid having my back problems...
- Randy Couture does it again!!!
- Windows Genuine (dis)Advantage authentication is down...lots of fun ensues (UPDATED)
- Falsehood of the risk perception (UPDATED)
- CNET Reporters sue Hewlett-Packard over last year's pretexting scandal
- The whole SCO saga explained in short...and easy to understand :)
- Tags, tags, tags
- Social phishing, an interesting study that'll make you hate humanity
- For my one or two australian readers
- SCO is toast!!!
- Petition for Apple to support ODF on iWork
- New look! :)
- Naomi Novik's Temeraire series
- ►July (12)
- S.M. Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time Series
- Service Contracts on a website
- Microsoft and its cheating ways, this time in Andalucia, Spain, regarding OOXML
- JP's favorite fiction genre, and also mine :)
- Catching up with Bruce :)
- The New Home! :)
- Happy bday, Chris!
- Google desktop for linux, first impression
- To those about to hack, a tale of two approaches
- Make OpenOffice.org Writer go faster!
- New plugin added
- Interesting study on the efficacy of terrorism
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- Yes! At last! :) Google Desktop for Linux! :)
- Call SCO! Somebody found the truth about PJ! :)
- A quick and fun update on the SCO saga
- Graham Sleight on Isaac Asimov
- John Lambshead’s Lucy’s Blade
- Favorite song in the soundtrack of my life…
- Be viral? :)
- Now, this laptop rocks :)
- Influence of non-security considerations in your security decisions.
- That moth may be watching you :)
- New emacs release! yay! :)
- Great chairs for book lovers
- ►May (15)
- The importance of Open Source Software’s economics
- Spoofing that evades anti-phishing filters
- We are back…ugh!
- Cory Doctorow talking about FanFic
- Security fun :) Three interesting articles
- Wordpress 2.2 is out…and installed :)
- Heinlein’s Centennial coming closer
- Tool for the 21st Century Journalist
- Faster and better eInk displays coming
- Google Analytics’ new face
- Windows Vista, Arrogance and Stupidity?
- Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files Series.
- Eric Flint’s 1632/Assiti Shards Universe, books 4, 5 and 6: 1634: The Ram Rebellion; 1635: The Cannon Law; 1634: The Baltic War
- Sony Reader Review
- Dell to offer pre-installed Ubuntu linux
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- Interesting elevator tech
- Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006
- First reading of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 1970
- Lots of places to get free ebooks! :)
- Chris’ faulty logic :P
- Kurt Vonnegut, RIP :(
- To follow or not?
- From D-minus to C-minus in a year…I guess Uncle Sam can learn
- Upgrade your Firefox to 2.0.x now.
- IGNORE ME, this is a test, trying to figure out a problem
- Yes, I’ve been walking through the blogosphere, so here’s another meme I found :)
- Changes! :)
- 30 Days with Windows Vista and 30 Days with Ubuntu Linux
- Star Wars Postal Stamps showing up in the US soon! :)
- Book Meme :)
- New Google service, TiSP, free in-home wireless broadband
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- First “Open Source” car?
- What Vista really means :)
- Ian Murdock, 8 days at Sun’s Chief Operating Platforms Officer
- sociological archeology…the birth of the smiley :)
- DRM/C.R.A.P. causes 75% of support calls when it comes to digital music
- According to Cory Doctorow, you *do* like reading off a computer screen
- Poor Handy, he has delusions of nerdom/geekdom ;)
- New federal anti-pretexting law in the US
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
- Raymond E. Feist’s Legends of the Riftwar series
- HP pretexting “trial” bullshit.
- Ok, this may not be pretty, hold on to your hats
- Riding on the Tech Link Train
- Clockpunk, a new science fiction genre (updated)
- Totally off topic, but can’t resist :)
- ►February (7)
- Scariest thing ever: Windows for Warships
- Germans and Dutchs may lose anonymity online
- Various interesting posts on security
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8 comic, an early look
- John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Five, A Deeper Blue
- The Internet is depressing, according to study.
- Bruce Schneier: The Psychology of Security
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- Public key crypto, 30 years old…happy bday! :)
- Oracle gets into the linux game (UPDATED)
- Firefox 2.0 is out
- John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Four, Unto The Breach
- Eudora Mail to become Open Source!
- The Wicked Witch (formerly) of the Board under criminal charges (Updated)
- ►September (10)
- The Wicked Witch of the Board resigns, effective immediately.
- Hewlett-Packard and the PatriciaGate; worst than even I could think it would be
- I Forgot! Happy 50th bday, Hard Disk!
- Ok, HP’s illegal investigation was worst than I thought
- HP’s illegal games, updates - Updated
- HP’s illegal privacy violations, the story continues…Dunn won’t be fired
- HP’s illegal actions, privacy violation.
- Are job interviews a waste of time?
- Sixteen months of Data Breaches
- Privacy International’s Stupid Security Awards 2006
- ►August (13)
- Places to find DRM-free science fiction and fantasy ebooks
- Happy birthday, Linux! :)
- Educating users about security
- Who can do it again?
- Yet another of my rare vices :)
- Bruce Schneier Facts :)
- And one more bday gift! :)
- John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Three, Choosers of the Slain
- Happy bday, PC! :)
- The Time Fountain…it rocks :)
- Help Desk done easy…welcome to captorials.com
- As my bday comes closer, I find more stuff I want! :)
- Updating the Traditional Security Model…is it doable?
- ►July (12)
- Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day! :)
- Bruce Schneier’s essay about Bot Networks
- Trojan disguised as Firefox Extension
- Microsoft’s security meeting causes unease
- Darth Linus vs the Microsoft Republic???
- Scotty will go to space, at last
- AMD buys ATI, at last
- Andy Updegrove’s ODF report VI
- HOPE Speaker arrested by FBI (updated again)
- Microsoft’s 12 tenets to promote competition…if you believe them (updated)
- Changes in CoComment
- For the book manic among us :)
- ►June (10)
- Jim Baen passed away :(
- A little belated, Jim Baen’s Status Report, 27-06-06
- Jim Baen’s Status Report: 25-06-06
- Jim Baen’s Status Report, 2006-06-23
- Jim Baen’s status report, June 20th ‘06
- Jim Baen had a stroke :(
- ODF Alliance Newsletter
- New jobs are overrated
- All Party Parliamentary Internet Grup (APIG) in the UK releases report on their C.R.A.P/DRM study
- Two fun articles about security
- ►May (29)
- John Ringo’s Paladin of Shadows, aka Ghost, series: Book Two, Kildar
- Life sucks, then your HD dies
- California’s Appeal Court: Bloggers are journalists!
- European Comission: Software is not patentable
- May 25th, Douglas Adams’ Day, aka Towel Day
- Very smart idea…out with RSS, in with textcasting
- In the US, government’s “right” to prosecute journalists trumps First Amendment rights.
- Looking into the future?
- Humour: Crazy penguin, aka your laptop on linux :)
- Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department..dumbass mistakes pushed by politics, but it’ll help Linux
- DRM/C.R.A.P, the RIAA and piracy
- The end of Unix? Probably
- A last one about ODF, reader beware
- The Chapultepec Agreement
- Lots of ODF stuff today! :)
- Oh! Yet one more great Bday present for geeks!
- Happy anniversary, Groklaw!
- That was the right decision, Rachel
- ODF vs MS XML, the war of the standards
- Takashi Matsuoka’s Cloud of Sparrows
- Andy Updegrove, about Microsoft’s Big Lie
- Signs you are a crappy programmer and don’t know it :)
- ODF and MSOffice
- SGI files for Chapter 11 bankrupcy :(
- Ok, my birthday is less months away…and this is a cheaper gift ;)
- A year to make Open Source secure?
- OpenDocument format officially known now as ISO/IEC 26300
- The new Mac advertising campaign is hilarious!
- Stephen Colbert (makes) fun at the White House
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- Eric Flint’s 1632 Universe, aka, Assiti Shards Series
- David Weber’s and John Ringo’s March Upcountry series
- Interview with Mandriva’s CEO about Gael’s departure
- My birthday is still months away, but…
- David Drake & S.M. Stirling’s Raj Whitehall Series
- A sad day for Mandriva :(
- My other geeky hobby :)
- David Weber’s Honor Harrington Series
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