Cary Sherman weasled an op-ed out of the Post-Gazette where he spread the usual BS. CMU Professfor of Computer Science and art Roger Dannenberg told the RIAA where to go: Mr. Sherman, you say that stealing “is not OK,” and yet I have musician friends who cannot get RIAA members to pay them the royalties …
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beware the hacker
wow, this guy is good: <Elch> ok, i'm quiet, hope you don't show us how good a hacker you are ^^<bitchchecker> tell me your network number man then you're dead<Elch> Eh, it's 129.0.0.1<Elch> or maybe 127.0.0.1<Elch> yes exactly that's it: 127.0.0.1 I'm waiting for you great attack<bitchchecker> in five minutes your hard drive is deleted<Elch> …
o2 prepaid mobile GPRS
note for future reference / googlers: access point for O2 prepaid mobile GPRS in the UK: payandgo.o2.co.uk
date sorting code
i was making a birthday-tracking application, and wanted to be able to do year-insensitive date sorts. i couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I wrote this: int personSortByBirthday (NSCalendarDate *d1, NSCalendarDate *d2, void *context) { int day1 = [d1 dayOfMonth]; int day2 = [d2 dayOfMonth]; int month1 = [d1 monthOfYear]; int month2 = …
prius plus plus
while i was out last night, two friends IMd me with news of the CalCars plug-in hybrid initiative and the New York Times coverage. some folks have hacked a prius by adding more batteries, pushing it well over 100 mpg. (Caveat: burning coal to generate electricity isn’t a net win, coseversation wise. Of course, if …
Seattle Wi-Fi explosion
Yesterday, TidBITS reported on an interesting development in Seattle: Seattle’s City Council has passed an emergency measure to ban free Wi-Fi access within city limits, following testimony from experts and fire officials regarding their investigation of last week’s explosion at the popular “Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit” coffeehouse.
DVD CCA, DMCA bite Clay Shirky in the ass
Clay Shirky tries to convert his own DVD to AVI, and the software gives him a bullshit error message: To comply with copyright laws, DVD device input is not allowed. Slight problem here: Except, of course, there are no copyright laws at issue here, since I’M THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
mike lazaridis gets it
Inc. magazine has a piece on 26 most fascinating entrepreneurs. There’s Craig Newmark (for putting the free in free markets) and Mike Lazaridis, who really get it: Mike Lazaridis, whose company launched the BlackBerry in 1998, developed his philosophy of innovation as an intern at Ontario’s Control Data in the early 1980s. He often saw …
film photos are now niche
when computers crash
one guy was not happy when his machine died: “There was one restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer,” Norman said. “That destroyed the laptop … and deep fryer, too.”