Sunday, December 22, 2013

The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites

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It fell to the UK Tories to actually implement the Nanny State. Too bad Nanny Tory does not want kinds to read up on tech web sites, or civi...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Three Books You Too Should Read This Year (Or Early 2014)

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For the holiday season, The Grumpy Reader fishes out a selecton of recent books you should read even if you think you're too busy. I...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003

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A late 1980s ASCII table printer test, recently exhumed, reveals the perils and pitfalls of naive belief in document format compatibility. ...
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Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned

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Against ridiculous odds and even after gaining some media focus, the botnet dubbed The Hail Mary Cloud apparently succeeded in staying unde...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

DNSSEC Mastery, Or How To Make Your Name Service Verifiable And Trustworthy

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A DNSSEC book for the working sysadmin, likely to put you ahead of the pack in securing an essential Internet service. I have a confessio...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Term Hackathon Has Been Trademarked In Germany. Now Crawl Back Under That Rock, Please.

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Trademarking somebody else's idea behind their back is both a bad idea and highly immoral. If it wasn't your idea, you don't tr...
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