| Backspin: An IT Christmas carol Try resting merry IT men
Let nothing you dismay
Remember data centers
Still run on Christmas Day
To let the punters get their mail
and keep bidding on eBay
O tidings of commerce and cash,
Sold in a flash
O tidings of commerce and cash… Read full story. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days The Comcast Packet Forgery Scandal: Some time around May 2007, Comcast installed new software or equipment on its networks that began selectively interfering with some of Comcast's customers' TCP/IP connections.1 The most widely discussed interference was with certain BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing communications, but other protocols have also been affected. This white paper is intended to set forth the current state of public knowledge about Comcast's interference activities. SAFE but Stupid: The US House of Representatives voted yesterday [December 5th] to approve the `Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online (SAFE) Act of 2007.' The resolution requires "electronic communication and remote computing service providers" to report and forward any obscene images related to children to the government. In addition to providers of public wifi, that could include social networks and email providers. The Resolution will now face a vote by the Senate. I didn't know that was illegal!: Perhaps it was naive of me but I always thought that when you purchased a CD you were purchasing the right to use the music on it for personal purposes without limitation as to the playback mechanism used. Apparently I'm wrong ... at least according to the RIAA. Why KDE Makes Windows Look Bad: I just read an interesting post on Slashdot about KDE 4. The next release due out in January will consume 40% less memory than its predecessor and will run happily and effectively on a 256MB PC with a 1GHz processor! Wiretapping comment made me shudder: Reading Mr. Harris' comments in the fourth paragraph made me shudder. (I'll offer my own analogy to compliment your metaphors.) RE: Could malware cause DPC problems? I had a similarly hard-to-find malware problem. Not DPC but constant attempts to use IE to connect to various internet sites that Zone Alarm (my firewall) blocked. RE: A resource for compulsive readers: Any thoughts on how this compares to goodreads? The Internet Archive and Others: A cold and rainy day, and not much moving -- I went hunting Donna the Buffalo and stumbled into this site: The Internet Archive. | 
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