November 29, 2005 – 2:31 pm
This one affects ten times as many Sony audio CDs than the XPC rootkit. Like XCP, recent versions of MediaMax engage in spyware-style behavior. They install software without meaningful consent or notification, they include either no means of uninstalling the software or an uninstaller that claims to remove the entire program but doesn’t, and they [...]
November 28, 2005 – 9:49 pm
One of the more scary things I have read recently. The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world. The moves have taken place on several fronts. The White [...]
November 17, 2005 – 9:07 pm
If I were a Windows user, I think this story would have been the last straw. On Oct. 31, Mark Russinovich broke the story in his blog: Sony BMG Music Entertainment distributed a copy-protection scheme with music CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on computers. This software tool is run without your knowledge or consent [...]
November 10, 2005 – 11:13 pm
Kansas isn’t the only place where Intelligent Design has taken hold. Over a year ago the school board of Dover, PA also voted to put ID in the science curriculum. Parents have since sued the board, and a trial is currently under way. On Tuesday, in a victory for common sense, the voters of Dover [...]
November 9, 2005 – 10:15 pm
This is my usage of Google for the month of October. There wasn’t a single day where I didn’t do at least one Google search. That’s kinda scary.
November 8, 2005 – 11:41 pm
Six out of ten Kansas school board members think kids should be taught pseudoscience as if it were real science. TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — At the risk of re-igniting the same heated nationwide debate it sparked six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on [...]
November 7, 2005 – 9:21 am
The Arizona Daily Star talks about peak oil. This year or 30 years from now, or sometime in between, the world will have used up half its known oil supply and, depending on whom you believe, one of two things will happen: Finding and extracting oil will get tougher and production won’t meet rising demand. [...]