From Scott M. Fulton, III’s “Allchin Suggests Vista Won’t Need Antivirus” (BetaNews: 9 November 2006):
During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Mark Sableman’s “Copyright reformers pose tough questions” (St. Louis Journalism Review: June 2005):
Kembrew McLeod of the University of Iowa explained how as a graduate student he applied for a federal trademark registration on the phrase “freedom of expression” as a joke, not really expecting that even a green-eye-shaded trademark examiner would approve it. The [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Alex Mindlin’s “Seems Somebody Is Clicking on That Spam” (The New York Times: 3 July 2006):
Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam.
The third most successful variety is spam advertising Rolex watches, [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Annalee Newitz’s Cracking the Code to Romance (Wired: June 2004):
Moore’s buddy Matt Chisholm chimes in to tell me about a similar hack, a JavaScript app he wrote with Moore that works on Friendster. It mines for information about anyone who looks at his profile and clicks through to his Web site. “I get their [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Sol Terra’s [IP] Use the Dots, Go to Jail - that’s the law (Interesting People: 24 October 2005):
Today, Daniel Cuthbert was found guilty.
Daniel Cuthbert saw the devastating images of the Tsunami disaster and decided to donate £30 via the website that was hastily set up to be able to process payments. He is a [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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