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Archive for March, 2006

Understanding Gilmores Law

Posted in Technology on March 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

An interesting discussion on the futility of internet censorship.
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This is without a doubt the most important and interesting thing I’ve posted in this blog’s (admittedly brief) history. Excellent discussion on Gilmore’s Law.

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Starforce now found out to be a worm.

Posted in Technology on March 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Right after the recent findings that Starforce will reboot your computer when it find “suspicious” activity, it has now been found it also travels across networks. This means Starforce has FULL access to the internet as it is a ring0 driver, so it could potentially be sending information back to their servers and wont show [...]

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Arkansas Teacher Can’t Say ‘Evolution’ in Class

Posted in Bad Science, Politics on March 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Not only is this Arkansas science teacher prohibited from saying the “e-word” in class, but he can only say that 300 million year old rocks are “very, very old”.
More nonsense. I’ll say it again: this is going to compromise these students’ education and these attitudes are going to cost the US its world dominance in [...]

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On Starforce

Posted in Technology on March 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Having had an extended discussion with my brother over the Christmas holidays regarding the merits of Starforce copy protection (included on a large number of games) we now learn (possibly, this is mostly from forum postings) that Starforce appears to reboot your machine when it suspects you are doing something ‘inappropriate’ (nowhere is it mentioned [...]

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St. Paddy’s Day rambling

Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

We had a potluck last Saturday in honour of St. Patrick’s Day (no it wasn’t technically St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday but never mind) at Kelly’s. Nice time, first time really I’ve seen the new kids outside of Stirling. I brought a pasta salad whose only connection to Ireland is that the colours of the [...]

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Google Wins!

Posted in Politics, Technology on March 18, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Google will not have to hand over any user’s search queries to the government. That’s what a federal judge ruled today when he decided to drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the Department of Justice. (You can read the entire ruling here and the government’s original subpoena here.)
Nice. I wonder if the DOJ [...]

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Canadian ISP fined for hate speech

Posted in Politics, Technology on March 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

According to several reports a London-based ISP has been fined by a Human Rights Tribunal for allowing the posting of hate material on a hosted website. There are two problems with this.
First, it sets a dangerous precedent to fine an ISP for content that it hosts but is not responsible for posting. In this case, [...]

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Three intelligent design polls agree: Most Americans are idiots

Posted in Bad Science, Religion on March 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

In every poll, a majority of Americans believe that the Biblical creation story is the literal truth about how humans came into existence. And according to the Harris poll, 55% of Americans think that evolution, creationism and intelligent design should all be taught in science classes.
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The flaming (but accurate) title notwithstanding, [...]

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